Showing posts with label what. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Modern Shaggy Rugs and what they bring to the table
You probably think that we’re over the worst of the bitter winter weather but there is still a cold chill in the air! Are you fed up of the ridiculous heating bills or are your slippers simply not doing the job? Could your favourite room be a lot more inviting and warm? Well let me introduce the glamorous and affectionate alternative – Modern Shaggy Rugs.
These rugs are a very rare breed; they look to bring a contemporary guise to the well-adored Shaggy rugsrange. Shaggy Wool rugs are renowned for their super soft sentiments and luxurious textures. They have been a popular doughy floor decoration for many years and have prevailed within the rug market, and just like trends have changed over the years, Shaggy Wool rugs have had to accommodate the common cultural climate and contemporary fashionable moves.
Unlike average Shaggy Cream rugs, which are still rife movers in the market, Modern Shaggy rugs seem to bring a whole different outlook to Shaggy Wool rugs that have helped pave the way. Not only do Modern Shaggy rugs enjoy the squashy and cushioned dense piling found in standard Shaggy rugs, but they also compliment these textures with innovative and wicked designs. As technology has advanced, so has the designer’s eye for creative glory. Fringes Rugs see more and more Modern Shaggy rugs being supplied to their showroom by the best rug artisans in the world! There are even Modern Shaggy rugs for sale on discount prices.
So why should you think about installing one?
Well, I put it to you - Why buy a rug with amazing colourful designs and imaginative flare when all of these attractive design methods can be implemented onto a much more absorbent piled rug? Modern Shaggy rugs are a state of the art acquisition and are the perfect choice if you seek to bring both warmth and style to your interiors. Modern Shaggy rugs have the ability to display multi coloured stripes, soothing swirls, floral decorations, chequered designs and even mystical tint changes which can be demonstrated in the Large Modern Shaggy Haze Rugsrange.
Comforting, fashionable and affordable. That is all I need to say. Modern Shaggy rugs have been created by using the highest quality materials and are guaranteed to serve both your floors and your cold feet extremely well for many years to come.
Written by Thomas Bray.
Sunday, 16 April 2017
What a dumb idea stupid why I oughta
This should have been a simple job. A Raymarine E-120 wasn't getting a fix, and the investigation begins. Let's check the power, and antenna wiring. The wiring is by the book, and we have good power. The Seatalk cable is plugged in, so let's make sure that it is the master, and it is. I do a software upgrade, and follow it with two factory resets, and still, the GPS page is blank. So where is the GPS? This is the question of the hour.
It's not on the top of the T-top, and it's not in the electronics box. I looked under the combings, nope, I chase the antenna cable, and find the antenna must be mounted on top of the electronics box. You can see the wire passing through the hole. I had to clear the wiring away just to see this much.
So I reach my hand up to feel where it was, and I couldn't feel it or see it, because someone at the factory had covered the entire area with two part foam, I guess to seal the two small holes passing though the electronics box. The actual GPS was fully encapsulated in several inches of foam. This is one of the areas in a boat, where you can look, or you can get one hand in, but you can't do both at the same time.
It took about an hour to excavate around the GPS enough to free it from the box. Two part foam is very tenacious and the GPS was well adhered to the electronics box, but with the judicious application of numerous explicatives, and some hard digging with my fingers, the GPS finally was removed. The point of the exercise was to see what the little LED on the Raystar 125 was telling me. It couldn't tell me anything, because the chemicals in the two part foam, had obscured the clear port you look through to see the LED status.
I happened to have a new GPS in the truck, and when I plugged it in, the unit immediately started to blink happy green, and within a minute, we had a position fix. So what was wrong with the original unit, we will never know, maybe the foam out-gassed fumes that got into the unit, or maybe stuff just happens.
Recapping the moral of the story, there had to be many other ways to seal the two small penetrations through this box, and I think the worst possible way to do it was to use two part foam. It made pulling new wires through the existing holes almost impossible, it was ugly, unprofessional, crudely done, and I'm going to revoke the boat rigging licence of who ever did this, if I ever catch him. I do have my sealing suggestion below, and don't confuse this with 3M 5200, or I will revoke your licence also.
Saturday, 15 April 2017
Its Just What Nature Does
It was, again, time to visit local waters and to see what was and what had changed. I carried down the hill from the house, 250 yards and a drop of 75 feet to set out into the sea, and I headed north up the coast with a quartering headwind that caused more chill than effort.
Three double kayaks sat low in the water among the distant rocks that I must pass by. The drivers sat erect and near motionless. I knew they would become cormorants perched on the lowest of the rocks, but for the moment they looked every bit like Aleut sea otter hunters from a century and a half ago.
I rode the flood tide under the low bridge and into the Oyster River. My first visit here was shortly after Hurricane Sandy and I could not for the life of me figure out why it deserved the name, "Oyster". The bottom was nothing but clean sand and it would remain that way for more than a year. The hurricane waters rearranged many things in the marsh. Today, for the first couple hundred yards the bottom is nothing but oysters. A natural repair for a natural disaster.
The bird life lacks the usual diversity that I normally see here. A large number of crows are making noise in the trees, a handful of Canada geese show just their heads from the marsh well back from the river. With every second or so bend, I flush a dozen or two mallards...lots of mallards.
Three brand new osprey boxes have been erected at even spacing along the run of the river.
I decide to paddle up to the bridge just out of pure curiosity. The river past the bridge is choked with phragmites...not a river but just water flowing through porous marsh. But, today I find something new. The river has cut a narrow channel, narrow but wide enough for the canoe. And, I continue.
A few hundred yards and the channel is still open, although it is a wading passage at this point. I can't be sure, but I imagine that this upper section of marsh had been rearranged by the hurricane. Another natural fix for a natural disaster...although nature really doesn't have disasters...it's just what nature does.
Saturday, 25 March 2017
Morons at the gate Just what were they thinking
Just when you think you have seen it all, you find something new. This started when the owner wanted to install a new stereo in this center console fish boat. Sure, piece of cake, and it will take about an hour and a half. The owner also asked if I would look at the power feed on the boat to the console. He felt that there was some issue there, because things would turn off on occasion.
The holes get punched, the speakers and stereo go into them, and I climb into the console to hook up the wiring. Hmmm, no power block, and whats this on the breaker? What the dealer had done was to jumper onto the first breaker the power for the Standard Horizon VHF, Garmin GPS, Hummingbird depth finder, and a couple of other items. All of this was somewhat corroded.
Then I looked at the power feed to the console. In the upper picture, you can see the red #10 wire curled up that feeds the panel. That white #16 wire wrapped around the red wire was attached to it. The panel builder was expecting a #10 feed wire, but the boat builder used an under sized cheesy grade white wire to connect to the power to the panel. All of those other white wires you see are also 12VDC positive feed wires. I guess this builder had run out of red wire, and used whatever they had laying around.
In the second picture you can see the white wire coming out of the battery switch. Yep, the same cheesy white wire that feeds the panel. The panel was providing power for the electronics, bilge and baitwell pumps, fish box pump, nav lights, and everything else. I think the total possible load would be approaching 20 amps, and all of it being carried on the cheesy #16 wire. At 3% voltage drop the wire should have been at least a #10. Funny, that's what the panel builder thought also, because that was the wire size they used.
Then I looked at the power feed to the console. In the upper picture, you can see the red #10 wire curled up that feeds the panel. That white #16 wire wrapped around the red wire was attached to it. The panel builder was expecting a #10 feed wire, but the boat builder used an under sized cheesy grade white wire to connect to the power to the panel. All of those other white wires you see are also 12VDC positive feed wires. I guess this builder had run out of red wire, and used whatever they had laying around.
In the second picture you can see the white wire coming out of the battery switch. Yep, the same cheesy white wire that feeds the panel. The panel was providing power for the electronics, bilge and baitwell pumps, fish box pump, nav lights, and everything else. I think the total possible load would be approaching 20 amps, and all of it being carried on the cheesy #16 wire. At 3% voltage drop the wire should have been at least a #10. Funny, that's what the panel builder thought also, because that was the wire size they used.
If I hadn't made the point clearly enough, this was unsafe wiring, and could have resulted in a power failure, or in the worst case possibly a fire.
So in the end, I pulled in a new #10 feed, installed a fuse block for all of the accessories, cleaned up some corrosion issues, and life is now safer, and better for the owner. This was a very bad piece of work by this builder, and it appears they have no quality control, or just don't care, or both..
Monday, 6 March 2017
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Wooden what seen here in Hout Bay South Africa
This came in a few days back, I thought it was another converted and German Mine sweeper, maybe it is?
We had some conversions going on here a few years back, German boats sold to Japan I think, then bought and converted in the Simonstown naval dockyard for service work in Nigeria.
http://www.blogspot.co.za/2011/02/storm-petrel-by-another-name.html
http://www.blogspot.co.za/2011/02/storm-petrel-by-another-name.html
Any ideas?
Here is a well qualified comment from a master marine engineer,
Here is a well qualified comment from a master marine engineer,
Roy,
I can only assume as you did that she is an ex-minesweeper if constructed of timber. The low open deck aft is another signature feature of a minesweeper.
It’s possible that she is one of a large number of ex-naval and other craft that have been pressed into commercial service for security / anti-pirate patrols and escort duties in east and west Africa – Nigeria as you mentioned. She looks to be in good condition.
The fact that she’s in Hout Bay means that she must have already been cleared-in at Table Bay or some other SA port.
Any identification markings, flags, etc, on her? Is she shut-down and on shore-power or is she running her generators?
Roy
It was only by the next day did I find out the ship was part of a filming production ( i know the name ) and was by then flying a French national flag.
Another exciting event in the Hout Bay harbour was over.
Roy
Roy
It was only by the next day did I find out the ship was part of a filming production ( i know the name ) and was by then flying a French national flag.
The ships markings had been DTC 8799, they had been removed for the filming , a house flag was also flying.
The ship has a really nice bronze anchor.
By 5pm a Table Bay service tug had taken the ship out into the bay and back to where ever the ship is normally berthed?
Out in the bay and on its way.
Roy
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