My little piece of peace

Boston, The meat makes an EXCELLENT curry

WestVanHan, the dunny or is that where you keep The Gimp - - - - Yes...

Thats Kiwi **** that is, a goat is like a top model compared to a sheep. - She's got lovely eyes!! - - - - Posted so you have a poster to remember a loved one..:?:

 

When I was a little kid(sic) we had goats. I remember my dad bent over a lawn mower he was fixing when 2 of the little grass munchers bounded off his sun-burned back onto a '49 Plymouth, leaving 8 little hoofprints(white on pink) and immediately jumping back onto his back on the return trip to the ground, leaving 16 hoofprints in total. I laughed 'til I cried. My dad thought it slightly less funny, however.

 

I had one jump up on a friends car and just about wreck the paint job
week later I paid him the estimated damages and served him a plate of car stompin goat in a lovely wine sauce with all the trimmings.
shoulda seen the smile on his face
poor guy had worked I don't even know how many years restoring that car and that f ing goat demolished the finish in about five seconds

 

Revenge is not always best served cold, is it?
Send recipe. For goat, not revenge.

 

Have a look at some pictures that will appeal to a boatie, but not a 'poser' looking to see skin and human type eye-candy... The BOSS allows me 10 seconds to "ogle" that stuff, beyond that is dangerous to my health and future well being...

 

10 seconds? thats way beyond the time needed for scientific examination.

Looks like it would float now. I put rollers on my kitchen drawers thinking a cat would'nt move about much with no heeling thing. I had to put thumb locks on them. Well at least they had stops on them.


Geeeeezuz I wish I could get away from this bloody forum, I have so much to do.

 

Mas,
The boat is starting to look veerrry nice.

 

The drawers are on "roller like assemblies" with a self close and magnetic system to hold it closed... quite effective... the runners are visible on the drawers and the unfinished positions at the space for the bottom set of drawers...

 

Starts looking "maritime" quite nice Mas!

 

Now comes the hard part "coach house shape" possibly after the "lagoon style" with near vertical flat tempered-glass windows on sides and on the front a similar look with small opening hatches just under the roofline for ventilation and maybe one or two large opening hatches for egress - but not sure on that yet...

The big issue is deck hardware and positioning of the primary winches for the 35M2 of each of the genoa pair... and what size? I am looking at light air sailing ability and to be able to ghost along nicely in 5Kn true wind....

According to John Hitch, X-IT gets up to 35 degrees apparent, - - I will be happy with about 45deg... Dead beam on to apparent does not work well, so it is either point higher or run a bit lower... Also dead downwind is not efficient (vmg terms) and time and experience with the "hitch-hiker" sail configuration will let me sort out the best response to various situations...

I am feeling that light weight genoa's will best suit my cruising region as I need that "ghosting capability" of early morning starts, and expect to have the windward sail reefed by around 13Kn apparent, and the other will be minimal at 20Kn apparent, - and above - motoring...

Most sailing will be "island hopping" day-runs, hopefully anchored and secured before the seasonal diurnal-thunder-storms (15:00 to 18:00) which mostly seem to pass quickly... I have plotted and marked hundreds of sheltered anchorages, up-mangrove-creeks and other sheltered spots to meet various climatic interruptions... Cyclones are the unpredictable element, and having been through a few, (the worst being "tracey" that ravaged Darwin), I am aware of the some of the risks... I know I need to get to know the ways and limitations of the boat... That will be a big learning curve as it is lighter, and in some ways, potentially more responsive than others in my experience...

 

Mas it works well
on my mate's motor cat and the other sailcat you can feel the difference at noon, when that midday sun comes screaming down, the vertical windows are MUCH better, even with a HUGE size difference
anyway you are cruising
my 2 cents - go near vertical

 

Thats a good point, if your not in the tropics it seems to get forgotten about just how uncomfortable the heat and sun can be, especially if your building in cold climes. Plus the flat sided windows would be easy to make a cover and it may just stay on better in storms.

It looks a bit like a Brass band stand but hey.

You would get more head room too.

 

Tempered and tinted Mas. Except for the one in front of the helm, that has to be clear for good night vision.

And nice to notice that at least one of the serious guys is listening to my advice...

Regards
Richard

 

"Salter" is an Oram 44C which has vertical front windows on the coachouse, with a "brow" over them. IMO it's been done well, it looks a lot nicer than the Lagoon boats.

"Xtra Chilli" is a bit closer to the FP style, near vertical windows, and again much nicer looking than Lagoons. (IMO)

You could ask Bob to e-mail you some pics of them.

I'll be sailing "Xtra Chilli" down from Mackay tomorrow, so I'll take some pics.

Alternately, my windows are quite heavily raked, and made from clear acrylic but are tinted with a reflective film made for polycarbonate and acrylics. It is very effective at keeping heat out.

(The boat is no longer in the shed)

You can see there are hatches next to the windows, and they are much more darkly tinted, but even so they allow far more heat in. (When closed)

I have a chart table under them which is a light brown colour, and under the windows it stays quite cool even on hot days, whereas under the hatches it gets much hotter.

 

Eh Mas, I got a beam glassed tonight !
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/multihulls/boxy-fisher-catamaran-26429-3.html

Regarding slanted windows. The slanted ones in the front, won't they impair visibility more when it rains than when they are less slanted ? Apart from being hotter in the sun I can imagine a slanted window keeps more water on it, especially when sailing to wind.

How about little awnings on the windows to keep the sun out some more ?