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Pune: Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been known as a smart captain. Agreed, that few of his moves in the just-concluded Test series against England were questionable, but the man who has led India to two World Cup triumphs is still very much smart in his ways.
On the eve of the first T20 of the two-match series against the Englishmen, Dhoni was asked for his views about split captaincy ' an idea that is being debated upon widely as an aftermath of the 1-2 Test series loss. But the India captain ducked the tricky question in the smartest of manners.
"Your question on my view about split captaincy is good, but let's stick to the T20 format as we have a T20 game on Thursday," Dhoni said during the media conference.
"Before the start of an important series, I don't want to comment on that… Because when it comes to Indian cricket, if it's not going the right way, questions pop up about several issues… About captaincy, senior players, junior players, the kind of talent we have got, the bench strength we have... Everything will pop up and if you keep answering, I think, we will not have enough time," he added.
His calls for not dealing too much with the past might sound cliched, but given the sorry state that the Indian team have been in of late, one has to say that sticking to the present is, probably, the best option.
"No point looking too much into the past… I have always said whether you do well or bad, it is important to stick to the present… The T20 format is very different… So let's stick to it," Dhoni said.
"It's a completely different format, so I don't think there's any point carrying anything from the Test series. It's a very different format," he reiterated.
Accepting that the Test series debacle was disappointing, Dhoni, however, pointed out that there were some positives to count upon. "It was disappointing that we did not win the series… But in the last Test, in Nagpur, we did pretty well. The wicket was quite flat... Still, there were plenty of positives from the series. Youngsters like Cheteshwar Pujara, who I think is the future for us along with Virat Kohli, did well… You saw the bowlers did well, especially the spinners, when there was not much assistance from the wicket."
On the dew factor, which will surely play a part in deciding the course of the match at this time of the year, Dhoni said: "The conditions may be slightly different this time of the year, with a bit of dew… Which may mean the spinners may not be that effective, but these are all speculations. And England are a balanced side irrespective of the format."
According to Dhoni, India-England T20 history wouldn't count much. "We have won a few games and lost a few against England... In this format, it's just about a couple of players really changing the game. It's about enjoying the game, just getting that one run or making that one run-out which changes the game. I don't think it's proper to analyse the patterns in this format," he said.
On India having a chance to go atop the T20 rankings, provided they do well in the T20 matches against England and Pakistan, Dhoni said: "We are never bothered about the rankings... If we do well on the field, the rankings take care of themselves. It's like I am repeating myself, but that's what I have always said."
But while Dhoni refuses to look back at the Test series, counterpart Eoin Morgan wants to draw inspiration from England's splendid show in the longest format. The England stand-in captain said: "As you have seen in the past, whenever the Test side has done well, it has a knock-on effect… So we will certainly be looking to win the T20 games and take confidence from the Test side," the 26-year-old said.
Again, while for India restoring some of the lost pride is the agenda, for the Englishmen the T20s are simply an opportunity to perform. "It's a big opportunity for guys like myself, Bressie (Tim Bresnan) and Samit (Patel) to perform again… Performing under pressure is what the selectors want to see," Morgan said.
Like India, the England T20 squad is mostly made up of fresh and young players. That's defienitely an advantage, thinks Morgan.
"The new guys generally bring a bit more energy… The fact that the team has changed so drastically, their energy is evident around the (team) hotel at the moment. So we have to pick that and take it into the game. My expectations from the guys are quite simple… Show courage and skill," Morgan said.

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Published: January 28, 2008 at 4:38 PMPersonally, I'd be happy to see Six Flags take a strategy of sacrificing several parks in order to upgrade its top 5-7 parks to where they could compete for the family vacation market with Disney, Universal and Busch.
The alternative, it seems to me, is to go down-market and position simply as day-visit parks to locals, in which case I think they'd be better off still repositioning as a premium water park chain, with maybe a few "dry" rides on the side. Much lower costs there, and still the ability to get into the family market, which they could not get otherwise going as a local's park.
The day-visit local's amusement park business is where Six Flags was before, overrun with teens spending little, with high maintenance and security costs and little hope of attracting big-spending family vacationers.
Even Cedar Fair is having a tough time making this model work, outside of the very well-established flagship Cedar Point, Knott's (saved by Disney spillover) and maybe Kings Island (which had a strong flagship history of its own before Cedar Fair bought it).
Published: January 28, 2008 at 5:06 PMThis would be really sad, since Fiesta Texas is by far THE BEST park in the chain that I've been to, and I've been to just about every one of the them. It has some of the best themed lands, best shows, and an absolutely perfect setting inside an abandoned quarry. I would rather see Six Flags America, 20 miles from my house and one I visit at least 2-3 times a year, close than this park that I've only been to once.
It also doesn't make any sense since the park has invested capitol to move Batman from New Orleans to become Goliath in San Antonio.
Published: January 28, 2008 at 5:11 PMThe funny thing is, the last time SF made any real (as in not some financial tomfoolery [yes, I just wrote " tomfoolery"]) was when there were only 7 parks. SFOtexas (an good 'ole money maker), Georgia (back in the day, they banked some real cash), SF Magic (big money), St. Louis ( not so great, but covered its nut), Great Adventure (at one time the highest attended seasonal park in the US), Astroworld (yeah, maybe not so good) , Great America-Chicago ( Jim Wintrode, the former GM, made sure they made money-EVERY year)....
They were in a much better position to make some money. Time Warner put some cash into it and it looked like it could make it long term-maybe I am wrong. They had just started to get some synergy when they sold off to whoever was next.
Premier used the purchases of silly little, off-the-wall properties and it was just a ruse. The other parks were all part of a pyramid scheme to make it look like the company was strong and moving forward-bought just to make the year over year revenue increases look good.
Now, it isn't pretty-sell, sell, sell if you can. The properties may not be worth much anymore, but expanding the corporate office with higher paid salaries doesn't ever work.
They have gone after corporate-wide sponsorships (a good idea) that can make some cash, but it isn't enough to make a real difference, it looks good in a news release, but what kind of cash is committed to the bottom line-almost none.
It is sad, but not really unexpected....
Published: January 28, 2008 at 5:53 PMIt seems crazy to me that they would consider selling Fiesta Texas. That particular park is what I would term the working model for the rest of the chain to become. It isn't in the biggest market in the world, and perhaps that's why it's a nice place. I just don't understand why they think the ship with a million holes can be righted in a couple years. They have made some positive steps, but there is still lots to do. Closing more and selling will hurt the company value even more, and further reduce attendance and earning potential. Instant gratification for owners and investors just isn't going to happen. Ease up on the price hikes at the parking lot, at the gate, and inside the park to keep attendance, invest in some family attractions, and ride it out.
Cedar Fair's model still works pretty well. The company is a little stretched right now from it's spending spree, but their smaller parks do just fine fiscally speaking right along with their larger parks because they are responsible with improvement. Cedar Point, Kings Island, and Knotts get the attention, but there is a park north of the border that has quietly become the most attended park in the chain.
Published: January 28, 2008 at 8:04 PMWell I think it would be great if Busch was to buy Fiesta Texas. It would be a perfect match for its Sea World Texas and Busch could run the park well.
Published: January 28, 2008 at 9:36 PMI agree with Russell... Six Flags Fiesta Texas is among the best of the entire group. It's a nice park, with great coasters, a good location (near town) and a very cool setting (the abandoned quarry). Elitch Gardens, Vallejo, SF America, St Louis, Great Escape, maybe even New England and (by far the worst) Kentucky Kingdom should be closed first...
Published: January 28, 2008 at 9:40 PMThis is a GREAT park because Six Flags didn't build it, Opry did. I would suspect that it would do better without Six Flags, just like sKnotts would do better without Cedar "I can't run a theme park" Fair.
Published: January 29, 2008 at 7:49 AMParks are pricing themseleves out of operation...especially regional hardtop amusement parks such as Six Flags. And, in order to support a major park, people have got to be able to afford driving to it...and, even though gasoline is now lower in cost than a couple of months ago, this does not mean it will not flux higher again in the next couple of months.
This loss of finances is going to be hitting even the major players such as Disney in the future...especially when it comes to families meeting the transportation cost of getting to that park, let alone the cost of parking, lodging, getting in, food,souvenirs, et al.
That being said, Six Flags has it's chain anchor there in Dallas area...and, one Six Flags per state may be enough to the corporate line of thinking for financial operation gain. The distance between San Antonio and Dallas isn't that great...I've literally done Fiesta one evening and by the next afternoon (after driving from San Antonio that given morning) enjoyed the afternoon and night at SFT)...whichreally isn't easily said for a state such as California where Six Flags also operates two properties - MM and that which used to be known as Marine World in the Bay Area...I can easily see the theme park/animal park in Vallejo being closed by Flags in the near future in order to meet operational costs...
Even now, Six Flags has decimated and closed the back half of Magic Mountain...not that the loss there is great, Psyclone was already removed...Deja Vu had low capacity, and, the remainder was a craft shop village...If they (Six Flags) were to close the Vallejo operation, then, I could easily see the relocation of the major coasters from there to Valencia in SoCal...and, hopefully, if that speculation were to happen, they would bring ROAR south rather than leveling it.
In the sense of Fiesta, there aren't many coasters that could readily travel as easily, sad to say...and, as the Park already has the infrastructure built, it would be sad to see no other company come in and take operation of it and re-develop the property into something different than that which Six Flags had operated in order to give a different theme park experience in Texas for families to have a reason to travel to and enjoy.
Published: January 29, 2008 at 10:39 AMI wish SF wou;d sell my local, SF park, Six Flags Grerat America to someone like the company that runs Dollywood/Silver Dollar City. My park is still a very good SF park but it gets hurt being stuck with the medicore parks that are part of the company.
Published: January 29, 2008 at 1:21 PMWow. Six Flags might actually sell Fiesta Texas. Oh well, I guess it would happen sometime. If it joined Silver Dollar City/Celebration City it could be cool, but I think Busch could buy it and try a Busch Gardens Central America or South America or something like that.
Published: January 30, 2008 at 6:09 AMSix Flags, closing another park? Or maybe a few? Well figured it would happen sooner or later ...A lot of what made them good to great parks in the beginning is now gone. How many ways and in how many parks can you install the same attractions and rides? Or recycle the names? Before your guest base sees it as the same ol same ol....


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I've placed an image here
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New version 5.0 released!
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I'm happy yo announce that a new updated version is available for download. This version and future versions will be called 5.x; this is a big update, maybe not enough to jump from the previous 2.9.3 to the 5.0, maybe this should be the v3.0, but for not being confusing with Joomla CMS versions (which current one is the 3.4.3), I have decided to adopt this number.
This new version includes several improvements and some new options, to achieve, if possible, a better performance and adaptability. So, the main changes are:
- Improved some descriptions of the module options (Shown when you pass the pointer mouse over each option of the module).
- Modified the description and page of module parameters. When you enter to edit the module, you see its options in the first screen.
- Fixed Division by zero and Warning errors, which were shown when one of your article's images has been corrupted or disappeared from the server and doesn't exists anymore. Now, if this happens, EVO frontpage will not try to generate the thumbnail (from the disappeared image), and will leave that article without thumbnail. PRO version will do the same, or will show the default thumbnail, if it's enabled.
- Improved CSS style when thumbnails are configured to be shown centered and before title. ".evofrontpagepro-default .title" is now divided into ".evofrontpagepro-default .title" and ".evofrontpagepro-default .head", so it's even more customizable.
- Boosted thumbnail speed generation. Now, thumbnails can be generated much more faster. You will specially notice it if you have a lot of articles to be shown.
- Now, the thumbnails generated from the default image (Only in PRO versions), are stored on /images/evopro, instead of /modules/mod_evo_frontpage_pro/images.
- Added option "Ignore symmetry". As explained in the popup description of this option: "(Only useful with Static Layout) If you have configured the module to show, for example, 3 rows of articles in 2 columns (3x2=6) of 'News' category, but you only have 5 articles there, the module will display 2 rows and 2 columns (2x2=4), but the 5th article will be shown in the Other Articles list. When you reach 6 articles on the category selected, the 3rd row will be completed, so it will finally show 3x2. If Ignore symmetry is ON, the 5th article will be shown in the 3rd row, but that row will not be completed (because the 6th article is still missing)."
- Added a new function, currently only in PRO version, which also detects the images of the articles inserted through the "Intro Image" and "Full Article Image" fields. So, the priority order in which EVO searches images to generate the thumbnails is: 1. Intro Image, 2. Full Article Image, 3. Image inserted inside the article's text.
Thank you for your feedback and ideas. Hope you enjoy it.
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Update v2.9.3 available
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In this new version of EVO frontpage module, there are some new functions and minor errors fixed, however there have been modified more than normal quantity of the source code, considering the final user-visible changes.
The new functions are:
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- Minor optimizations of the source code and minor errors fixed.
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In addition, I have made a mini tutorial (2 minutes) to demonstrate how to quickly install and show the module on the frontend as a "main news" layout. It's really easy and fast, and you will get a great result even with the default settings, as I show you:
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I'm glad to anounce that, from now (v2.9.2), EVO frontpage module has a responsive design, which means that users who visit your page from devices with a small screen or resolution, will see EVO frontpage in a special way, as it will adapt its size to be more user-friendly, changing the number of displayed columns (for example, if you have 3), to only one unique column.
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Maintenance release: EVO frontpage v2.9.1
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It's highly recommended updating EVO frontpage to this new version v2.9.1.
I have released a new version update for EVO frontpage; it has very little changes, however it can improve the performance of EVO frontpage on some sites, which means that your webpage will load faster and this is a fundamental factor on the internet success.
You only need to download the module and install it as always. Your module settings (menu items assigned, number of columns, rows, tabs, right align, etc, etc) won't change.
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The version 2.9 of EVO frontpage has been released. On this version, you will have a new option to place the thumbnails of your articles; before, you were able to place it at right or at left, but now, you can do it centered too.
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There's a report in German Magazine Bling this morning that Hertha Berlin fans have posted messages on Pierre-Michel Lasogga's Facebook page – and they are unhappy that he wants to join Hamburg instead of signing an extension of his contract at current club Hertha Berlin.
Pierre-Michel Lasogga – has chosen Hamburg – but no deal yet
Many messages were placed on his Facebook page such as "Football hooker!", "Traitor" and "You were our favorite. Now we hate you! "
So what do we make of this?
It seems he has definitely chosen Hamburg of the three clubs he was to choose between, but there is still no deal that has been forged between Hertha Berlin and Hamburg for the 22 year-old striker.
And the Chronicle has a report out today about the current situation, and Hamburg are apparently due for some funds from investor Klaus-Michael Kuehne, and if this happens they should have the money to do the deal.
Hamburg's General Manager Oliver Kreuzer wants to get Lasogga signed as soon as possible, but Klaus-Michael Kuehne isn't sure of the management structure at the club and may want to change the coach – and even the General Manager – if he make the investment.
It seems Kuehne isn't convinced the current coach Mirko Slomka is the man for the job – this is what he has said:
"I think it would be good if the money would be used to keep Lasogga". "As a private citizen and HSV fan, I can only say that I do not believe in this coach."
"My personal opinion is the trainer must be replaced."
So there is some uncertainty at Hamburg, but the bottom line is that Lasogga wants to move to Hamburg, and the General Manager Kreuzer and investor Kuehne both ant to sign him.
And we don't even know what would be his second choice if he doesn;t get the Hamburg deal – maybe he would even to stay at Hertha Berlin.
We suppose there is a chance that Newcastle can still get the job done, but it's not looking good for Newcastle.
With the new news today in Blind, it looks like he has definitely chosen Hamburg, and there was some uncertainty about that yesterday.
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Greetings to one and all,
I'm taking a bit of a liberty here, as the great boat building weekend is still eight weeks away, and is scheduled for the weekend of 11th-14th of May. However Fish and I have been on about this since last November. Members of three forums (Over the Gate, GWBT, and Predator fishing UK) are now aware of this pending escapade, but I thought that I would blog it on this forum. Hopefully we will capture all of the events, elation's, trials and tribulations as they arise during the weekend on Digital stills photographs and digital video. For personal reasons, I have been really looking forward to this weekend, ever since I first suggested it.
So here is a summary of progress to date.
Nov. 06
Fish suggests on P-F UK
that he is considering purchasing a canadian style canoe from ebay. Gareth chokes on his tea, reading that Fish is willing to part with his hard earned, and that the Autumn's brew of rough Zider has totally unhinged Fish.
Gareth informs Fish that he can build one for about £80-£90 from the free plans on the internet at
Gareth tells Fish of the five boats that he has built to date. Three as child with his father, and then the two that Gareth built as an adult with his own son during 2002.
In a chronological order. Gareth and his father during the 70s; A woven willow and plastic sheet covered, coracle, a plywood half punt/half Jonboat, and a proper woven willow and tarred skin covered coracle. In 2002 Gareth and his son built a plywood pram utility rowing boat 'Kingfisher' and a plywood jonboat.
A discussion continues and Gareth volunteers to drive the 250+ miles from Norwich to Stourhead to help Fish build a boat during a spring weekend in 07. Gareth needs another project completing that Fish is eminently qualified to execute, and so an exchange of labour deal ensues.
Jan 07.
Gareth comes out of (very) early retirement/self unemployment, obtaining a job as a boat builder for one of the larger boat yards in Wroxham, Norfolk. Gareth is not a professional boat builder, but a professional Agricultural engineer. However the boatyard requires a 12/24 volt electrcian/engineer/fabricator/ welder, all of which Gareth is suitably qualified and fully experienced in. So Gareth is offered the Job and begins work during the first week of January.
Internet chat continues between the two friends who have yet to meet, and a bit of a pi&&ing contest begins over home-made Zider and Mead, etc. With a home-made Mead exchange and comparison now featuring as a major part of the boat building weekend. Gareth suggests that the Plywood 'Kingfisher' would be a more viable boat for fish and his family to use, and a lot less complicated and a quicker to build.
Kingfisher can be built in two variations. Rowing/motor and sailing. and with the addition to the build plans of a removable rudder, can be used either as rowing/motored or sailing boat.
and this has what has been agreed on. Giving the Fish clan the opportunity to have and enjoy the pleasure of a utility, come fishing, come sailing dingy. Something for one and for all.
Late Jan 07.
Gareth meets Elaine on one of the internet dating sites, and a relationship develops. Gareth and Fish continue to exchange chat about the now confirmed boat building weekend.
Feb. 07.
Gareth starts and completes lofting the scaled drawings and plans of Kingfisher to full size
Late Feb. 07.
Gareth and Elaine have one of those tiddly, pissed and playful weekends, and with the exception of one last remaining bottle of home-made mead, consume the lot.
March 3rd 07.
The predator group, and Usual suspects pay tribute, and honour the life of their friend Gerry Castles, who died in december. By fixing a wreath at one of Gerry's favourite fishing spots on Oulton Broad, Near Lowesoft, Suffolk.
March 07.
Gareth starts another 4 gallon batch of home-made mead, this time using proper mead making yeast instead of cheap bread making yeast. Hopefully it will be ready in time for the up and coming great event (and hopefully go better than 11% ABV this time).
10th of March 07.
The lofted drawings are still on the side in Gareth's room, and he remembers that he should get around to the vilage post office and post them to Fish. Hopefully the required temporary frames and tressles can be knocked up prior to the event. Gareth has recently had to give up, and retire his beloved engineering industry standard air powered tools, because the boat yard no longer has the compressor to power them. So he goes out and purchases 14 different cordless power tools, two main's chargers, five batteries and quiet a few accessories from the Ryobi one plus, professional 18 volt range.
These will be extremely useful for the boat building weekend, several of Gareth's other up and coming projects, his main and secondry employment, and the vast majority of any future DIY projects that he may embark upon
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Time to meet one of the participants in this pantomime.
That is me, Gareth.
Today, I have been working out the quanities of srews, nails, and glue required for Kingfisher. I have decided to go for stainless steel wood screws for corrosion resitance, and durabiltity, and because they will not be as easily damaged as Brass screws during the build. I have had a look around some internet sites regarding suitable glues and adhesives and have choosen the following from screwfix.
I have choosen this product because it is specified as resistant to sea water, the grab time, the open joint time, and it suitability for use on other materials, such as plastics and metals. We will require approx 1400g of ahesive , so I have also taken into account the quanity in the bottles (2 X 750g bottles), the price and its availability. So it should be more than capable of handling freshwater and man handling, during launching and roof racking, etc.
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7 weeks left to go and counting.
18th March 07
I've not done much this week regarding 'Kingfisher,' apart from look at the specifications of stainless steel screws. Again after searching the internet Screwfix looks to be the best supplier for the quantity of screws that we require for this project.
The drawings are still on the side in my room. I really do have to drag my ass around to the local village post office 400 metres away and get them in the post to Fish. However, I have started off another 10 gallons of mead. This time I have followed the instructions from my little home-brew book, and so an extremely good brew is expected. It may be a little young, but cheeky brew of mead when the great weekend arrives, hopefully standing up in good stead against Fish's more experienced mead brewing efforts.
I have also ordered and received my Ryobi One + 18 volt cordless tool set from Machinemart, and so we now have 14 different cordless tools, 5 batteries, and 3 chargers to play with over the boat building weekend. The cordless plane, and orbital sander are not released in the United Kingdom by Ryobi until mid April, so these two items are now on order.
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24th March 07
Well, it has been one of those weeks. A little apprehension on both Fish's and my parts. Nothing too serious, but hurdles that had to be crossed nonetheless, resulting in a friendship strengthened.
Also this week, I got to play with all my brand new Ryobi tools at work. We took a new Sumatra 755 bare hull into the boat build shed for me to be getting on with.
Had a great time drilling, cutting, screwing, sanding and the like.
This morning, I eventully got around to walking the 400 meters to the village post office and posting off the lofted to full size stem, transom and frame drawings.
Now I have to find the CD rom with boat plans on. it really shouldn't be that hard, as I live in a 10 X 12 foot room. However I am your typical single 40 something male, and so hunt the CD may turn into a major undertaking.
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We are now at T minus 4 weeks and counting for the big event.
Work is extremely busy with the start of the holiday season, and I am spending most of my time on hire fleet duties. Therefore I have become lazy. So rather than type out an entry for this week, I am cheating by copying and pasting an earlier message to Fish.
Greetings Mate,
Have you got your plots sorted yet, last I heard you were thinking of Carrots and Parsnip, and installing the netting for all those yard of Peas you are planting.
Me? I'm up to my usual tricks. Since breaking up with Elaine, I have got back on the dating horse again and I'm back out there. Having dated and Indian nurse, a Chinese health care worker, a Brazilian dance teacher (I got a slap from her, for asking if a real Brazilian, has a real Brazilian), an Eurasian shop worker, a Californian female Professor of Chemistry, a red haired Caledonian (Scottish to you) teacher, a French I. T mangeress, a Danish artist, and the local Gothic Vampiress complete with tattoos and piercings (she was lots of fun).
So as you can see I'm working my way through the Alphabet; A= American (Californian), B= Brazilian, C= Chinese, D= Danish, E= Eurasian, F= French, G= Gothic, (I just need to fill the gap H for Hispanic), I= Indian, J= Jock (the Caledonian). Then I can move on to K,L,M,N,O, etc. Although Q might be a little difficult. Hopefully an Aussie from Queensland, and not a pre/post op "Queen."
Back to boat building, and Kingfisher.
Well mate, we are now at T-minus 4 weeks and counting. I'm going to place the order with screwfix for the glue, etc. in a few days and have it delivered straight to you. Tonight, I will make a special effort to find the CD rom with plans on and get it copied and posted to you. I would like you to take a look at the plans on t'internet, bearing in mind that we are making the sailing version.
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I have now found the CD rom and will mail it to you tomorrow morning. But still look at the plans on T'internet, also look at Jonboat
Kingfisher is 9 foot long, Jonboat is 12 foot long. Jonboat is easier and cheaper to build but will need care to convert it to a sailing version. As we would have to make it up as we went along. Your choice matey.
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Here are a couple of pictures of Sonata 3, one of the Sumatra 755's that I have built. She is now a part of the company's hire fleet, and as I write this, a family is enjoying a holiday upon her.
For those of you who are interested, here is a link to the Barnes Brinkcraft holidays afloat web site.
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11th of April 07.
During the last 24 hours Fish and myself have exchanged quiet a few PM's regarding the boat building weekend, and we have decided not to build Kingfisher the 9 foot plywood pram. Instead we are going to build a 12 foot Jonboat.
There are several reasons why we have come to this agreement. The Jonboat is; longer and wider and so more roomy, is more stable, is a simpler design, using less materials, quicker to build, lighter in weight, and less expensive.
Other advantages are; the plans also show you how to optimise the plywood sheets with a pre cut component layout. This makes things easier as I can process the more complex pieces at work using the bandsaw, saw table, thicknesser, planers and detail sanders in the timber mill. These bits will also fit into my car along with all my other stuff, and so I can transport them with me. The advantage there being the time on the ground at Fish's, allowing for some serious Zider and Mead drinking.
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12th of April 07.
A stroke of luck today, as I have managed to aquire, free of charge 2 gross of 3/4 No 8 and and 2 gross of 3/4 No 10, countersink, A2 grade stainless steel wood screws. These will be suitable for holding the plywood skin to the wooden frame of the boat. There is also the chance of other sizes and lengths of wood screws in A2 Stainless steel.
A2 is not a grade that we use at work, A4 is the proper marine grade, but A2 stainless steel will be more than adequate for a boat that is only going to be used occosionally, and stored out of the water
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How long do you envisage from start to finish for your project Gareth ?
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Hi CW,
I intend to actually put no more than 30 man hours into the build. From Marking out, cutting, building and skinning. This will be done over the long weekend of the 11th-14th of May. With me and Fish working flat out in front of a live webcam feed. It should only take us all day Saturday, and until about 2pm on the Sunday. If I get the opportunity to put a sander across the boat, I will. Otherwise the Sanding, Varnishing, and finishing is down to my mate Fish. Although I will not see the boat completed in person, nodoubt Fish will send me/us digital photos, and I have every intention of driving back down to Wiltshire in the Autumn so that the two of us can enjoy some Pike fishing from her.
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Fish and I have been exchanging PM's regarding the boat build this week. I am also trying to encourage him to participate in this thread, giving his own thoughts, views and perspective.
As you will have already read, we are no longer gong to build the Plywood pram, and are now going to build a plywood Jonboat. I have already listed some of the advantages, but I am now going to add to this list.
Fish, Mate! first of all ignore all of those hand prepared drawings that I have sent to you. They are for the Plywood pram dingy. Put them back into the plastic drawings tube, and I will collect them.
Right mate, remember what we exchanged in the PM's and on the phone? Well, here it is again. You concentrate on the frame and a making a couple of temporary trestles. I will concentrate on most of the plywood. I have spoken to my Boss, and can process most of it in the timber mill at work, during lunchtimes. I now have planner/thicknessers, circular saws, band saws, cross cut saws, etc. to play with. I will process 2 of the three sheets of plywood used for the boat's skin and internal supports. Basically the Stem, the transom, the two sides and the fiddly bits. I have had a measure up, and can fit all these bits into my Peugeot estate and bring them with me. This should save us at least 4-6 hours on the ground at your place, allowing more time for Mead & Zider drinking. [smilie=pdt_aliboronz_24.gif]
You will need to organise one sheet of 1/4 plywood for the bottom of the boat (see attached file), and the materials for the framework. I will go through the list again one evening this week, and will send you a corrected list of timber that we will need. I will do the rest of the plywood here in Norfolk next weekend.
Here is the layout of the plywood sheets;
I have nearly finished organising the quantity of Glue, screws and nails required, again leave this to me.
Other developments.
I have been out and purchased myself a new digital Camcorder with its own hard disk drive. It can record for over 9 hours continuously, and if I figure out how to play it simultaneously through my lap top, we should be able to use as a constant live feed webcam at the sametime. Hopefully I can set up a host site, with a link from here for all Over Tthe Gate, and Predator-fishing UK users to watch us in action. :
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From what I've seen today just give fish a big enough log and he'll soon whittle you a boat.............. :-)
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Many years ago I co-designed a wonderful hillside house. The economy then tanked, and the clients put the project on hold. I opened my own firm, and got busy with that. About a year ago, I heard that the clients finally began construction. Just last week, I had a chance to see the house, and much to my delight it's almost finished, and it looks great. I didn't take any pictures, but I plan to at some point. Seeing the house almost finished got me to thinking about the genesis of the design. The house is very simple, with a few special touches, but its main features are the courtyard and the spectacular views. One of the challenges of designing in the hills is finding a way to provide good outdoor space, and I've long been a proponent of the courtyard as a way to do this.
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