Duck tales – Holly inspection
Duck tales – Engine
An on going problem has been with the engines cooling pump. I had bought a refurbishment kit, dropped the gear case off to access the pump, refitted it, re-fitted the gear case and tested it. No water flow, not a drop. So I had to strip out the gear case again and examine the refurbished […]
Duck tales – Sea trial 1
Thunder Duck is ready for the first sea trial, almost. I have sheared bolts in an engine mount at address but other than that she is ready. The question is where to go? An enquiry on the Facebook page “Solent Boating” revealed a very attractive option on Calshot Spit, which is at the mouth of […]
Duck Tales
So I want to talk about our project, Holly and I. A very long story short is that over the last three years we have progressively gained qualification in Power Boating. We are both at the RYA Intermediate level, having already achieved Level 1 and Level 2. The next step is the Advanced level BUT […]
I’m not hanging around here
I have neglected this site again and I know that at least one person reads it. What can I say? First, the back is much better. Following Sam’s advice I am no longer bothered by it at all. Considering the pain it gave me back in March, I am so relieved. I don’t want that […]
Neglection of duty
Over two months have passed since my last post. I logged into this site and wondered what had happened. I seemed to have changed the theme. I Forgot about that. I actually don’t remember doing that. Humm, I suspect something has failed in the update process. I’m working from home, 100%, since March. It is […]
Lock Down
My work at the gym has take a serious knock following Dad’s death. I was hoping to get myself back up and running again. But then COVID-19 turned up the heat and the Gym closed. Tonight the country enters a three week lock down, well partial lock down anyway. So, as a result I will […]
Dad
Friday the 13th. I don’t go with this superstition stuff but Friday the 13th March 2020, wow, you unleashed hell did you not? My father died. He wasn’t supposed to. It wasn’t expected. I found him in the evening after I could not reach him on the phone. The good news is he knew nothing […]
400 more
Another visit to the gym last night and another 400 calories on the cross trainer. 799 calories recorded by the tech in 01:57:35. It was a wet old night so I got rather wet. First time not taking the bag. Not a great idea but so was taking the bag in the rain. Quite busy. […]
Bloody media!!!!
I’m banging my head on the table! Why would I do this? I got into weather forecasting for charity response organisations, chiefly Wessex 4×4 Response, because the main line media weather forecasts bias to the worst case conditions. More recently they don’t forecast at all, until the last minute. Either way that’s no good if […]