You need to be a bit careful I think, most of water goes down the exhaust route, and if you hijack too much of it, could end up with hot exhaust...
Stepped planing hulls are not a new idea, but really only come into their own at break-neck sort of speeds, flying boats are one application where...
I thought polystyrene foam was the material for stage props, this could be the one and only time good old polystyrene could come to the fore as a...
well painted steel, some sheets of polyethylene foam held on with spots of blu-tack here and there, what could go wrong ?
The compressed air drive sounds novel, but not likely effective.
Why do you want to start with something you say "sucks" ?
Are you up the Noosa River ? Do you know how it got down there from Sandy Straits ? Two bar crossings if on the water, too much excitement I would...
An episode that should never have happened, just crazy that the captain of the Sydney put his ship in that situation, or at least the situation as...
Just reading a little bit of background, it appears that he was killed in the actual action, if this newspaper report is correct. I have seem...
Only washed up months later in that lifeboat, I dare say in an advanced state of decomposition, but I'm not aware if that aspect has ever been...
That name is interesting, this sailor now identified ...... "Thomas Welsby Clark was born in the Brisbane suburb of New Farm, Queensland on 28...
I'd say that it would need something like a drill press to accurately "core" around the bolt, with the improvised hole saw, it would otherwise...
Years ago an old fella told me of the terrors of crossing a notorious bar in such boats, Going out was rather less problematical than returning,...
I'm not sure the "Moreton Bay sharpie" was strictly a sharpie in the sense of the simple boat with a flat bottom, some may have been, others not,...
Might have been made earlier than the 50's even, certainly looks like the old pre-war boats. They used to have details chiseled into some heavier...
So planked cross-wise on the bottom ? Do you know the history of it ?
That is full carvel ?
The other thing about clear finishes, is that all defects are revealed to the cruel light of day, whereas paint is renowned as being able to hide...
Do you think a heavy grounding may have caused it ?
Clear finishes may have better UV resistance these days, but the expectation in the harsh Queensland sun is they won't last like pigmented...
