My little piece of peace

[masalai]

I count 18 in image 2532 - that is the only one I used a flash - another image I took of the same area had around a hundred.... zoom in and have a look at this one I used a flash here too...

[masalai]

Boston, the computers are mainly for images and video I take, movies to watch and music - all on HDD... trip-planning and communications will also use the machines... - I do not have sufficient faith in general purpose computers yet, as they still have to dissipate far too much heat... Daily nav will use a chart-plotter-gps thingy, a separate autopilot with gyro & flux-gate compass, a separate radar, a separate "nasa-ais" receiver, a standard mag compass, hand held GPS, paper charts and dead reckoning... plus some other stuff... I like redundancy, but there is only so much that one can justify before it falls back to the very basics.... and some of that I have mentioned may be left out in the final decision...

[masalai]

Images taken today (Sunday)

[Fanie]

Well done so far Mas. Keep going.

I'm a bit worried though, I have not received my invitation for the launch and maiden voyage yet You're going to need someone to break out the drinks eh

Manie, glad to see you're still around.

Little tri is gone. Someone wanted it and fetched it today. Sniff... sniff... I'm boatless

[Spiv]

G'day Masalai,
just followed your link from the new babatteries technology thread and read the last 50~80 post (most of the afternoon...).
Well done mate, you are living the dream.
My boat has grown a little in length as it is now 17m, but it is still just a 14m cat with long hulls.
We start build in Nov in Pattaya, and I already found suppliers for good quality glass at less than half the Oz cost, the foam is also cheaper, even if not that much. My builder charges the same for his time, but the rest of the labour force is about 1/5 of Oz, so even if they don't work as fast I will be saving a fair bit.
As you'd recall from my other threads, I too hate mainsails, so I am having three furling sails too.
I am also very keen in 'diesel assisted' solar/ wind energy and I have read with interest about the Torqeedo system (as well as all the others...).

I once hired a FP Bahia (48') cat in Phuket, we wanted to spend the night in a beautiful marina a few miles up a shallow creek. As we turned towards the shore, the wind also turned and freshened to 20~25kn on the nose, while the tide was going out. We powered at full speed, but were making slooooow progress. We arrived as it was getting dark, not before touching the ground twice!
My point here is that a sailing boat doesn't need an engine, untill it does need it. And when you do if you don't have enough grunt you might get nowere.
I read that the 48V Torqeedo is equeevalent to a 9.9HP outboard, if that is true, you night have a struggle to go against a fresh breeze.
Am I mistaken somewhere?

[Fanie]

Hi Stefano,

You're 100% on the electric motor. Keep in mind Mas is only going to use it to fiddle around in the marina where there's power to run the beeeg fridges, same as Frosty May drift it out a bit once a year then power it back in

Start a thread and put some pictures up, will you ? It's nice to follow the progress.

Mas, how much to keep a boat in a .AU marina ? I'm not sure I want a boat in SA any more. It may be cheaper and less abusive to go holiday in another country than here. Everything here is turning into a ripoff.

[Frosty]

Fannie I think your right, get the fk out of there.

We don't normally like Safis here, they are too big and drink too much beer, but I could put some posters up and have a word with immigration. It will of course make no difference what so ever.

Can you speeky EEnglish?

[Fanie]

We don't normally like Safis here, they are too big and drink too much beer, but I could put some posters up and have a word with immigration. It will of course make no difference what so ever.

Thanks Frosty, you will do all that for me ? You're much too kind sir.

Can you speeky EEnglish?

No, not really, i rely on the internet translator a lot you see

[Boston]

so Brian
you going to throw any wood into that build

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the first skirt being fitted up for styles and rails
Ill trace in the raised panels once I get a perfect fit on all the pieces
while I was daydreaming about one of the girly pictures Maney put up recently
I accidentally cut off the tenon on the left side of the arch
spline time
oh well its the first one

[sabahcat]

Great pics and thread masalai, but I have to ask.

Why are the pic file sizes so large?

Most I have looked at are over 1000 kb, robs you and me of bandwidth.

150kb will still give great results and fill the screen, like above.

Just a thought

Dave

[masalai]

Bedding in my two new computers and somehow there are glitches playing and causing unknown problems (probably those alien entities I photographed) - Has it been very peaceful without my persistent presence? - don't answer that, it was a rhetorical question....

Straight off my little pocket camera (Nikon zoom nikkor ed 5.8 -17.4mm bloody nice and convenient and usually produces stuff under the 2mp limit except when there is lots of green/grass etc) - - be happy with the thumbnails and enlarge if you cannot get a good enough view then it is a 6mp shot compressed in jpeg format... Other camera is a cannon and does hdmi in 12mp... do you want that size???

Boston, I like your gravity clamps - mine are not that sophisticated (usually dead batteries) - - WTF?... what do you think balsa is? best machismo wood from central America....

Spiv, Yes I am aware of the weakness - shall just have to brush up on short sharp tacking duels... or wait outside - - cruise somewhere else, until the weather abates - - - land breeze - you beauty, chance of some good inshore beam reaches in slight seas

Marinas over here are bloody expensive, and the "poo police" and other problems not nice so I will be parking up creeks during the storm season, using windows of opportunity to find/get to a more pleasant anchorage...

[downunder]

A good free tool for managing and resizing photos is Google Picasa which can be downloaded from google free. A poor man's Photoshop which is the professional tool commonly used by web designers . Picasa automatically resizes for emailing or by using Export function to prepare for web display. Photo from digital camera's will often be well over 2000 pixals wide, too large for computer screens. Around 800 pixals and 75 to 150 kb is a good size for web photos.

I have attached a extract fom google Picasa's help to explain how it is done with Picasa.

"Editing Overview: Resizing photos Print
When you resize a photo in Picasa, you're creating a new copy with an adjusted image resolution (pixel count) and with all photo edits applied. The original photo on your hard drive will never be altered.

You can resize your photos by exporting, emailing, or uploading your photos to Picasa Web Albums.

Resize by exporting
Exporting lets you resize your photos while controlling the JPEG compression (image quality) introduced by your applied photo edits. The result is newly resized copies of your photos, saved to any location on your hard drive. During the export process, you can adjust both the 'Image Size Options' and the 'Image Quality' settings in the 'Export to Folder' screen.

When selecting image size, choose the 'Resize to' option and adjust the size slider. The number of pixels you select with this slider determines the length or height of your photo (whichever is longer). The other dimension is determined automatically to maintain the aspect ratio of the photo.
Select the desired image quality for your photo using the 'Image Quality' drop-down menu:
Automatic: Preserves the original image quality
Normal: Balances quality and size
Maximum: Preserves fine detail for large file sizes
Minimum: Yields some quality loss for small file sizes
Custom: Enables you to select your own value
Resize by emailing
If you're sending photos by email, you may want to resize them in order to get under the attachment size limitation. To change the size of the photos you email from Picasa, please follow these steps:

In Picasa, click Tools > Options (Windows) or Picasa > Preferences (Mac).
Select the Email tab.
Use the slider to set your desired pixel size when emailing multiple photos. Use the radio buttons to set the desired pixel size for emailing single photos.
Click OK.
Resize by uploading to Picasa Web Albums
If you're sharing a large number of photos, you may not want to upload all of the photos at their original size. When you upload images from Picasa, you can choose the upload size using the 'Size to upload' drop-down menu or else you can set your preferred default size for photo uploads
"

[sabahcat]

Image resizer powertoy for XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/D...powertoys.mspx

(Scroll down right hand side) is great as well

just right click on image and select small medium or large

Piss easy and I miss it, but doesnt work on windows 7 (Damn you windows 7)

[judy]

Please, please masalai, if you give into the requests of the bandwidth-challenged - it would be great if you continue to post links to the original sizes. Yours are the best boatbuilding photos anywhere on the web, and size really DOES matter. I am learning so much from being able to examine the detail.

[judy]

Originally Posted by masalai

Bedding in my two new computers and somehow there are glitches playing and causing unknown problems

You probably already know about searching on the Ubuntu Forums for help.

Most reports I've seen about AMD Phenom running Ubuntu are very favourable, although most had problems to iron out first.