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Forum: Challenges 26-08-2012, 23:15
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Thumbs up Re: Toasted ?

Top stuff, after a bit of l heated bidding I won the engine on EBay. The bloke I am buying it off is more than fair about the transaction. It seems like it is in that good a condition, instead of...
Forum: Challenges 22-08-2012, 16:44
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted ?

Thanks SCTPC
Forum: Challenges 19-08-2012, 17:34
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted ?

Butler,

Thanks for the encouraging post!
Forum: Challenges 12-08-2012, 23:52
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Hopefully it will encourage more kids to get into dinghy sailing!

I should have also said a thanks to the Sydney MSB Officers who helped me after my misadventure. I saw they also got a letter of...
Forum: Challenges 12-08-2012, 23:40
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Yep, I just have to keep exploring until I find the dinosaur graveyard!
Forum: Challenges 10-08-2012, 01:25
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Thanks again,

You would not believe it, I met one of there technicians at the marina I am at. He had just delivered a Yanmar. I asked him if he had any Bukhs for wreaking. His answer was "How...
Forum: Challenges 10-08-2012, 01:08
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Thumbs up Re: Toasted?

Thanks heaps, I will have a look! :)
Forum: Challenges 10-08-2012, 01:03
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Talking about yachties in need of a tow you should have seen today's carnage at Little Manly Cove (Where I got caught out) with three yachts on the shore and one at Manly Cove.

It was not nice...
Forum: Challenges 15-06-2012, 17:00
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

It is difficult to imagine, but things got worse. I sailed the boat down to Manly for the surf comp and anchored off in what I thought was a protected cove. The NSW cruiser's bible states the cove...
Forum: Challenges 30-05-2012, 00:23
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Thanks again for all the positive replies!

At the least I can can say I am gaining a lot of hands on experience with tools. This should give me a bit of confidence for getting in and fixing the...
Forum: Challenges 29-05-2012, 03:08
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Hey, another epithany for the Maritime twits who towed me out of Swansea Channel. Instead of harrasing people with genuine dramas why don't you piss off the tinnies anchored off fishing in the...
Forum: Challenges 29-05-2012, 02:33
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Talking good karma I had an epithany today. While I carefully cleaned the bolts and the newly tapped holes, I have a really bad feeling I forgot to do the same where I tapped the flywheel. That is,...
Forum: Challenges 28-05-2012, 02:42
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Lightbulb Re: Toasted?

And now for a nice story! I drove out to the industrial estate to get some nice new sharp cobalt drill bits to get this last beligerant bolt out. So I am running out of feul on the way back and pull...
Forum: Challenges 28-05-2012, 02:26
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

That's the exact feeling I am getting. No sense giving up now that I have sunk everything into cruising in my yacht. It would just be too easy to give up and feel sorry for myself, but that would...
Forum: Challenges 26-05-2012, 23:38
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

@ Ex-Calif,

It is obviously confusing how we have all these different bodies over here enforcing overlapping duties. You would not believe how rule based and politically correct things are getting...
Forum: Challenges 26-05-2012, 23:19
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Thanks,

The best advice I can give you to avoid getting on the Maritime most wanted list is to keep moving. In places like Sydney Harbour, Lake Maquarie and Newcastle, if you stay anywhete...
Forum: Challenges 26-05-2012, 23:12
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Before things turn nasty, here is an amusing story one of the top competitors - and blokes - was telling me today. Apparently if more than three stand up paddle boarders paddle togather on a NSW...
Forum: Challenges 26-05-2012, 23:00
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Well I was not going to piss in your Budweiser, however,go to Google earth and have a look at Swansea Channel NSW. I was well on the lake side of that bridge when I broke down. For them to dump me...
Forum: Challenges 26-05-2012, 17:30
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

This is the part I don't get either. The flywheel drama started a few months back when I was steaming out of Swansea channel late night. I had only been on the lake for ten days with one sail back...
Forum: Challenges 26-05-2012, 03:56
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Till the latest dramas started that was exactly where I was heading after I compete in oneore surf comp in Sydney. Hopefully things will come good yet and we can catch up for a beer!

Oh I also...
Forum: Challenges 25-05-2012, 22:18
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Thanks

I sent a mate a message about a long shaft outboard he might still have for me. Likewise, in six weeks I should be able to buy a generator. As soon as the gale subsides I will get into...
Forum: Challenges 25-05-2012, 21:48
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Hey people, sorry about the long story, but I feel I need to get the facts out there. You never know, this mooring could fail late night and I might go down with the SV Tardis.

Hopefully there...
Forum: Challenges 25-05-2012, 21:11
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Thanks again everyone!

I am a bit hesitant admitting what happen next, but here goes. During the day before I made the post I was competing in the Southern Cross Festival standup paddle comp at...
Forum: Challenges 24-05-2012, 07:03
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Thumbs up Re: Toasted?

Hey, thanks everyone! While I have got some positive thoughts I should try to stop worrying and get some sleep!
Forum: Challenges 24-05-2012, 07:00
Replies: 83
Views: 12,220
Posted By SurferShane
Re: Toasted?

Yep, that's another big point: no leaving the boat to the gulls now I have sunk so much time and effort into getting this far. There is no home waiting on land. I don't even know if I could sleep in...
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