Seebold called this morning, he is definitely going to the bristol reunion, so he should , holding the meet without him would be like ordering a CC7 without the Canadian Club.
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Seebold called this morning, he is definitely going to the bristol reunion, so he should , holding the meet without him would be like ordering a CC7 without the Canadian Club.
I finally worked out how come S&F think i still live in france, anything i send from the "IMAC" desktop looks like its come from France and my IPAD says i live in England.
OK admin men can you please confirm that you understand there is only one of ME and all posts on S&F were sent by the one and only ME!!!!!!!
I just happened to have moved house and country but Dammit to heaven there is still only ONE me. The world as we know it would cease to exist of there were two of us!!!!!!!!!!
But Jackie you had us thinkin you were a real jetsetter buzzin back and forth!!! LOL GaryQuote:
Originally Posted by jackie wilson
Wot! Me a jet setter,your having a laugh Gary, the pope would sooner preach the Koran.Quote:
Originally Posted by olboatman
Far too involved with my own life and friends and family to be a jet setter.
Strictly "Beef and two veg" and don't take fools or prisoners.
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Chucked it down all morning so I locked the workshop door and doodled on the black wing, decided to put pipes, filler caps and a tie bar on it. It's been sculling around the shop forever, unloved, unwanted and in need of a facelift. If I could sign write it would be ok, but unfortunately I'm not gifted paint wise. Was interrupted and had to place the trellis I made as the sweet peas are sprouting and the order came from high up, (in fact in our house it came from the kitchen goddess herself and it don't get any higher than that).
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Thats the lean to that took me all weekend to construct with a little help from my friend for two hours. Now I can make the pool room into a showroom/studio.
We have Billy coming to stay with us for a few days early June, see if I can lure him to Brooklands or Goodwood, Maybe the Air museum at Tangmere!
Have a couple of very English country pubs for him to try out, hope to wean him off "Bud Light" onto a genuine English ale !
Apparently Geico had a handling problem with the steering, it certainly looked a bit frog like going into the beach turn. Needs to be better than that at Marathon, that C3 was running sweet and on rails, great to see a boat set up and running nicely.
weather cold and blustery with rain in the air and forecast for rain all day, plants are growing flipper leaves, goggles and snorkels.! Only joking, honest!
Mark says he's coming over next week to see the family, be nice to see him again. We talk on FaceTime, couple of times a week but nothing beats face to face.
He looks after a fleet of Pershing and Ferretti boats prop wise -----repairs usually require a lot of physical on the anvil, talk later. J.
Jackie...Here's some motivation to stimulate your creativity....might even improve your painting "skills". Have fun my friend! Pictures from the March CRA event in Tavares FL...........Three wings expected for the November CRA event with OFF.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
BTW, Working on the cover sets for the stackers. Hope to have them look'n like Mr. K. would want them for November.
Open exhausts always look kinda sexy on a motor I reckon...Think of the F1 and Indy cars of the sixties,Top Fuel Dragsters also..
Thanks for the piccies Roger, after looking at the rear end of Diablo I have a lot better feel of the boat.
I did the painting on the side of the wing in emulsion, knew it wouldn't be any good so I can just wipe it off, but I'll come up with something to make it a bit more respectable.
Working on some new pipes for it, turned some up in brass, not bad, but they need to be bigger and polished alloy! Will get there in the end !
Got an idea in my head for a twin Molinari rig out of stainless with mahogany Sponsons and an oak centre section, just a "Concept" of course, nothing too serious, I know my limits.
Still haven't come up with a solution on how to mount the "ghost" and TRAILOR on to a solid mount that will withstand the rigours and abuse and celebrations of "Winners"!
Erected the gazebo on the rear deck , took all morning on my own, another piece of chinky cheepo junk that requires a degree in military construction and the patience of Job neither of which I am blessed with. There is no way on Gods earth that forty pieces of tube will stay together while you slide the top cover over said erection-----would be easier to put a condom over the Statue of Liberty -----answer----bolt every piece together, which I did ! Drilled and bolted every single pole to each other, and the corner pieces, and the top-------took two steps back and thought to myself, HAVE SOME OF THAT, "BITCH"come apart now if you can, ha, bloody ha,ha,ha! At that moment in time a gust of wind just lifted the whole shebang and dumped it in the middle of the lawn.
I think someone was trying to tell me something?
Will show you a piccie of the finished article tomorrow, nighty night peeps, MYGGWY.J.
You our know what Phil, I never ever saw an open stacked boat run anywhere in Europe, the UIM had draconian laws about noise levels, but it didn't seem to apply to hydros.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
Too funny. Sounds like my adventures with those darn things.Quote:
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Dave
When that damned gazebo took off Dave, I swear if I had hung on , it would have taken me with it.
It is now nailed to the house wall and the decking, if it goes walkabout again it will be with the front of the house!
we got another bright sunshiny day, wind has dropped (as it would now the damned gazebos erected). Need to get into the shop, have several things to do and ideas that need formulating before I forget them. Wonder if anyone else out there stands in the middle of a room or workshop and thinks "What the hell was it I was going to do" or " What did I come in here for"? It happens to me on a regular basis.
Spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden, have decided to only do mornings in the shop, have my nap and then enjoy the garden in the afternoons during the summer months.
What was that old English poem, "The kiss of the sun for pardon,, the song of the birds for mirth Your closer to God ( or was it Gods heart ) in a garden than anywhere else on earth" I think it was written by a Dorothy Frary.
I am not overly religious , I believe I'm like most people, just a good Christian with a belief!
Will take the KODAK with me today !
[QUOTE=jackiewilson;2755915]We have Billy coming to stay with us for a few days early June, see if I can lure him to Brooklands or Goodwood, Maybe the Air museum at Tangmere!
Jackie, there is a "breakfast club" meeting at Goodwood on the 7th June..
Brooklands is always worth a visit, I think they were racing there before "The Mayflower" tied up wher'nt they?
Beaulieu ??
It's a shame Bluebird K7 is such a way distant..they would loved a visit from from you guys for certain, hell I would have taken you both myself.
I have a Bristol programme from 1979 do you think Bill would sign it for me?
I don't know how you are travelling down but let me know if you need picking up from anywhere this end............Phill.
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Me and Betty ----still a dab hand at de-burping a nipper, "nobody does it better " as Carly Simon used to say.
Proud grandma Jill, it's what we do in the afternoon these days !
Started making a half decent mount for the third golf trophy for the old farts 2015 Golf Tourney, it's a nice chunk of crystal, when it's finished it'll be like Bridgette Bardot-----DESIRABLE ,
Well into the Stainless Twin engined Molli-----decided this one would have a pair of Bridports , made too many stackers lately, feel like making a change. Was going to do a pair of "Rudes" but decided to be patriotic. Anyway, many more non blacks and Butler and Welch would disown me, don't have enough "Live" friends left to lose any of 'em, even the cranky ones.
[QUOTE=ron54;2756448]Problem is Phill, I think daughter Sam has booked us all in for breakfast in "The Kiln" on Sunday morning and it's near three hours up the road from Bristol to Goodwood so methinks we will not make the breakfast club!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
You reminded me to get my K7gold star out of the closet, haven't worn that for many a long year!
Looks like Billy is bringing Leo and The Mouse, Leo is the guy who swopped power heads in record time so Billy could wipe the floor with a 2.4.
OMC had suddenly put a " minimum " limit in the OZ class------they would not allow him to run the two litre which was a great pity as that run faster than the 2.4.
Rest of the story is history, but just to remind you---------one little old Merc thrashed the arse ofn a field of world class drivers using OMC V8 motors-------kinda brings a tear to your eye don't it ?
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Thats the the gazebo that gave me such a hard time, you wouldn't believe that a $25 chinky piece of garden kit could be such a challenge, why make it easy for anyone when you can make it so bloody difficult without really trying.
Thursday again, might just take a cursory glance at what's going down at the car boot sale at Ford Aerodrome this morning, nice sunshiny day forecast, might as well make the most of it, should be back home by 9:00am.
Bought a rake of tools, spent money on things I already have, bought things I wanted but did not need, have got to stop going to flea markets and duplicating stuff I already have ten of and most of it wont ever see the light of day.!
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Ford aerodrome car boot sale, 7:30am Thursday morning, 200 + vendors flogging their wares!
Picked up a great crystal with the mouse motif, will make another fine "Desirable " golf trophy when I've finished working on it.
Found half a dozen really old woodcarving chisels that need a sharp up and tidying (must have close to 50 now) and a a mint condition spokeshave that I honed a razor edge to ( got ten of them).
I know that all of you out there have heard the tale about the 1946 Carnation Milk effort to find a new jingle for the product, even offered a $5,000 reward to the winner. Old lady who had worked a farm in Wisconsin all her life came up with this rendition !
Carnation milk is best of all,
No tits to pull, no hay to haul,
No buckets to lift or sh-t to pitch,
Just punch a hole in that son of a bitch.
I know it's 70 years on, but it still makes me chuckle, I hope it does the same for you!
Glued up the centre section. To take the twin Bridgeport motors, still pondering the best way to stitch the mahogany sponsons to the stainless deck. Have worked out the mount, will look really "COOL".
As usual at this time of night, I'm totally knackered, so goodnight one and all,MYGGWY.J.
I guess everyone has started out on their spring break already, , either that or I got leprosy, nobody talking to me at all this week ?
My son Mark is coming over to see the family next week, he doesn't often make that trip, he is now fully "Americanised", loves Florida and Martin County in particular. Been there near twenty years, says he will never leave. My grandson, Craig has a son who was born in Florida, he is more American than Obama.
As Dylan once said "Times---They are a changing"!
Were still here Jackie.
Damn work getting in the way of everything
Havnt had a boat in the water for months
New workshop underway that costs more than i used to earn when i started work.
thats the downside to singapore
Sheet of 18mm ply sgd 36 thats the upside
What do you pay there?
Hells teeth Pilgrim, I was paying £45 for a sheet of eighteen mm in 1967 !
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No, it's not some sort of wild fantasy machine, it's what happens when you run out of workspace and you stick one piece of a boat on top of another for safe keeping, it's a mish mash of a wing and a twin Molli.
all should be explained over the weekend, I just got too many projects going on at once, if you don't hear from me, it's because I disappeared up my own backside. think I must have caught a new strain of senility, "Wandermind", get into one thing , then think of something that is more urgent than what I'm on at the moment, get halfway through then forget what the hell I was doing in the first place, stand in the middle of the floor, Jillly comes in, takes one look at me and asks, "what are you doing"? ---quick as a flash , I tell her COGITATING . that's the moment I realise I'm "Smarter than the average Boo Boo", I still got ALL my marbles!
Bank holiday weekend over my side of the pond, put the heating on the pool, do not want the grand kids suffering rigor mortis, it gives grandparents a bad name. Expecting the hoards over the weekend
Been invited to a Barbie Saturday afternoon, four staying at the house, I fancy things will be a bit hectic, thee Canadian Club bottle will be in huge demand!
Feels like summers just around the corner, had the balcony doors open last night for the first time. Trouble is, the dawn. Chorus starts around 3.30am and nobody can sleep through that "Cacophony".
Looks like Lewis got his act together, quickest round Monaco in both sessions, so would I be if I'd just signed a hundred million pound contract with Mercedes !
Still got the woodpile outside the workshop, must get the damned stuff sawn up and stacked, then the shop needs tidying up before Mark gets here and disowns me. His shop is always immaculate!
Haircut and beard trim this morning, do not want to look like a scruffy "elderly gentleman" over the holiday!
Have a great weekend Peeps, I know I will.
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Put the twin Molli next to the other "nearly done" boats, they are all spoken for, the twin is anybody who wants it!
Pool been in valiant use today , grandkids had a whale of a time, parents not that interested!
Lewis did the easy part, all he has to do is keep his cool and and his nose in front all the way to the finish, it's usually a bit of a procession in Monaco, barring dramas, the finish should be pretty much the same as quallifying.
Always swore my shop would never get as untidy as my friends, with snot and shavings and everything covered in dust, unfortunately I have been remiss and have to spend the next couple of days rectifying that.
Thought I had found the perfect base for The " Rich Luhrs Trophy," unfortunately it was a foot short of my requirements but it will do nicely for Roger H's wing. Will try it tomorrow, show you the result if it works out ok.
That'll do for tonight, enjoy the rest of the holiday, night! MYGGWY.J.
Definite shortage of sunshine in my neck of the woods, in a weeks time we are into June it's known here as FLAMING JUNE,.
pool is now up to eighty degrees and the sounds are more like what you hear at the public baths, is it only at my house where kids seem to squeal and scream all the time, girl kids in particular.
Im pretty sure my sisters used to take their duckings in absolute silence.
Jilly threw all her dollies outa the pram yesterday, she had been asking me to stack the woodpile (sister Anges demolished shed, complete with nails )with remarks like "what would you think if one of the grandkids stepped on a nail ?" I just said, " I think we had raised a pretty stupid grand kid."
Fairly certain it was the wrong answer, she stacked all the wood in ten minutes flat, she kinda mumbled to herself all the while, great result , never mess with an old fart. "smarter than the average, Boo boo".
Been cooking with gas all morning, opened up the pool at eight am, is now thirty degrees, about ninety in the colonial calendar. That left me free to do as I pleased, finished the old unloved chunk of timber that had been stood up outside for the last twenty years, colours are sublime. looks good as a wing stand. REMEMBER the wing that goes on the back of the Rolls Royce, I was never happy with the TRAILOR so I rebuilt it, now it does look good ".
Will show you some piccies later on!
Lewis will be spitting feathers after this one, cruising to victory and the the team screwed it up. Should think he will be glad to get to a circuit where driving ability counts. rest of the season will be plain sailing for him. Rosberg, Vettel, Hamilton, that was a real bummer.
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Now THATS A TRAILOR, Mahogany runners, Rolls Royce Wheels for an English Yew wing, I'm quite chuffed with the result, if I ever find the right mount for the Ghost with the wing in tow, I feel I can make Rich a happy man.! Maybe.?
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Rogers wing on the unloved chunk of oak which is now shaved and polished, "Almost There" good name for a song, dontchathink?
Think i'll give it a rest for a while---everyones on vacation, call me when you get back, ill still be here, haven't even started to clean the shop yet and my son arrives tuesday so i better get a wriggle on. Grandkids leave tomorrow so back to a bit of normality anytime soon, Bristol in two weeks. My kids are all excited but at the moment I'm not exactly burning with enthusiasm, buggered if i know why, will be alright on the night.
Gotta love it!
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Jackster my man! I just poped in to check up on you, Mersy, your not letting up, god bless you! I'm still stuck on making payments, as I saw your son "Mark" forced to be late the event probably from pressures of attempting to be successful love all you do, hope to win one of your trophys this year :D :cheers: :iagree:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Attachment 320300The unloved slab of English Oak after a modicum of TLC and a coat of beeswax, have to admit, it does enhance the "Concepts" that sit on it.
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Rich's Roller !!! Car and Boat and TRAILOR look fine as individual pieces-----Trick IS--- To stitch them all together as a very classic trophy.
Already tried several mounts but nothing has been "spot on"!
The unloved lump of oak was great with "THE SILVER GHOST" on its own, but was light years away from being right for what I have in mind for the finished trophy.
It does seem to be nearly there for Rogers wing, just needs a bit of "Something" !
It'll come to me while I'm "Taking the tablets" or a dump? Or feigning a headache, you can think long and hard about something and nothing clicks, then suddenly "Flash, Bang, Alakazam", Another good name for a song Dontchathink, ?
Make the most of the last day of the holiday, colonials do get the Fourth of July -----our next break is August, we have to help Cameron make the UK. Great again.
very niceQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Hiya, Pilgrim, it's a whole lot better than any of the pictures I posted, really should take a basic course in still life photography.!
All the grandkids are gone, switched off the pool heater, life should be back to normal tomorrow, let's see what life has in store for us, sleep well folks, MYGGWY.J.
Woke with a a grim determination to tackle the dirty workshop problem, not often I get fired up about a clean up job. There are couple of polishing machines and a grinder I want to move. I'm just not getting the best out of the shop, too many "Nearly there " concepts still in the shop and not enough working bench space.
Have to change from a butterfly mind to a tidy mind and do one thing at a time, people have only got to mention "can you make a so and so" and off I go like a long dog chasing a bone or a "female dog" on heat. ( not allowed to say the "B"word on S+F).
Anyway off we go again, chasing rainbows, keeping the mind from going do-lally, and the hands free from the dreaded arthritis , afraid I'm losing that battle, the fingers seem to want to curl up and when I force them straight they hurt like buggery. If I mention it to the doctor at the next "Well Man" session I fear I shall get prescribed yet another pill bringing the total to eight a day which, while keeping me fighting fit means I can fart for England with a good chance of bringing home the gold.
Sun came up at around five this morning, had been awake a couple of hours putting the world to rights, cogitating the next move , Marks visit, Craig's wedding, Billy and the Bristol re Union , life's never dull when you get past 83.
I still leave the motorway and take the B road whenever possible, stop and smell the roses, talk to the dwindling list of old friends, occasionally stop by and say hi, can still remember all the grand and great grandkids names and thank God I'm still up and running and a going concern!
Had no idea what the next "Concept" might be, then I remembered I still have a bunch of trophies to put together for THE OFF GOLF TOURNEY 2015, the glass mouse, the Jack Daniels, the crystal ball, and whatever I dream up next.
Coming up to 6am so I can leave you all in peace for a few hours, the ramblings are not meant to annoy anyone, just touching base with a few old and some new friends, bear with me long enough and I'm sure there will be some subject you'll find interesting?J.
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Made a start on the awards for the 2015 OFF golf tourney, try and make half a dozen pieces to go with the main trophy, it's good fun competing with each other on the day, the Barbie and bubbly makes it all worth while.