from the 2 inches behind the viewfinder: Mayday Mayday Mayday ! What May day ?

from the 2 inches behind the viewfinder: Mayday Mayday Mayday ! What May day ?: "The emergency call that rang out, said that there was a diminishing head count of P.O.B.'s , in this case it was `Photographers on Boar..."

from the 2 inches behind the viewfinder: Bronze, a link to the past

from the 2 inches behind the viewfinder: Bronze, a link to the past: "I am actively searching for bronze fittings for my new boat. Many people have helped and a selection of fine bronze is accumulating as the r..."

Bronze, a link to the past

I am actively searching for bronze fittings for my new boat. Many people have helped and a selection of fine bronze is accumulating as the refit progresses, My recent knee operation was a great success and didn't stop me wrapping the hinge in glad wrap and electrical tape , and plunging into deep mud to recycle fittings off a rotting hull 2 days after the operation.

                    Of course I had some assistance, Many thanks to Mark, his new toy, and Pete.

I am currently reading about the early Euro discovery of the Americas and Farley Mowats
`The Farfarer's' chronicling the earliest seafarers in the far north, predating the vikings and learning that ivory, copper and bronze has ages immemorial long association with men of war and the sea.
My boat already having two names,  I am in flux regarding her name at relaunching.

Tiana,                                       originally named after a lost daughter in Tahiti by the builder
Waylany,                                  re-christened by the Swede who registered her as Swedish ship
Maybe
Artemisia,                                 Long a favorite of mine
or
Farfarer ?                                   a return to her northern design origins

email me with your thoughts.
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Paul.

HP web enabled printers

Canon Wonder Camera Concept displayed at Expo 2010

Boatshed time in the City of Sails

The boatsheds at Orakei , on Ngapipi Rd face the setting sun on a full moon tide.

Winter maintenance

Hardstands and slips are getting busy as winter maintenance is undertaken and the scars and improvements following  a long glorious  season in the City of Sails are tended to.

Tradditional coastal replica Ripple is hauled for her topsides paint to be stripped and a coat of oil stain  finish applied. Her builder Ralph Sewell saturated her redwood timbers with linseed oil when he built her and this has had her throwing off paint ever since, so skipper Rodger Morris is stripping her topsides right back and revealing her woodenheart. Bravo!