What have you done this weekend...?

Mission accomplished... Here she is resting in her new temporary anchorage... She may be minding an anchorage buoy soon, elsewhere...

DSCN4530, 3/4ths of the way there (middle of Deception Bay) a view of the Glasshouse Mountains, So named by Captain Cook in his secret voyage to claim "Terra Australis" for the British Crown, - A place to house the criminals "offshore" - A practice still firmly in the minds of the convict progeny - well the Politicians anyway...

DSCN2533, Anchored in the incoming tide

 

My buddy Peter launched his Bolger Windemere yesterday.



7+ yrs of work and it all came down to this day. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

There's more pics here.....

http://s237.photobucket.com/albums/ff166/KnottyBuoyz/Windemere/?start=all

 

She's a beaut, to be sure.

 

What a great looking boat!
looks classy.

 

Safety Notice: Five Gallon Plastic Buckets are no substitute for a step ladder!

 

That looks pretty bad. No loss of function, I hope. I'm glad you didn't break a hip.

 

2 buckets and a board...much better.

 

....emmm, bet that you never had the buckets tied to your feet.....guess you learn the hard way eh.

I reckon lewisboats idea with the board is OK, but not as versatile as being able to walk with the buckets tied on.

 

Hmm... not tied on, but for sale in Oz for only $ 99.95 - - (Alexandra Hills - Redland City)

Better then boating business eh

Cheers,
Angel

Can they really sell them for that . .

 

Tide is out and the boat is OK, Now where to do the propeller changeover? bring her closer in to sit on the sea-grass?

Commercial fishing/prawning - so I am told, - is not allowed on weekends, The wind has died after a good stirring the previous couple of days... I am hopeful of being able to get some excellent fresh-cooked prawns of the boats on Monday...

 

This weekend is Power boat racing, good viewing along the NE of Redcliffe in SE Queensland, - - -
Bill Barry-Cotter's 'maratimo racing', and a host of others...
The big race is on Sunday.................
- - - Full throat roar of up to 150mph...
- - - More horizontal G's than the "red-bull-air-races"
- - - More spray and rooster tails than in a poultry and duck farm
- - - More noise than the roar of a Malley Bull in great pain... - - - "Crocodile Dundee" gave the fingers to a young undernourished baby Malley Bull...

 

Thanks, masalai. Those 5 photos are an education in themselves.

 

Wow fixed drives,-- well trimable but a bloody great rudder in the middle --don't let the surface know it alls see that one.

They don't work ---apparantly

 

Somehow I don't think that's gonna work too well either!

 

2 buckets and a board is a well know contraception method in some parts of the world.

When his eyes glaze over she kicks the bucket away.