Frank Hagan
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Thanks, Mike!
Say, are you guys up to a semi-organized meet of Weekenders and Vacationers in California sometime this year? I'd like to issue an invitation to have a mess-about type of thing if there's enough interest.
That is, if you haven't salvaged the Weekender parts to make a Bugati or something
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Hey, you made it! And yeah, I would think in your case, choosing the picture would be the hard part! You could always see if you could make an animated .gif of several images that was under 6k ...
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Man! That is cold!
I'm headed to Chicago tomorrow so I hope the "warm snap" happens soon. I'll take my down jacket, which all the guys from the east laugh at, because I look like some Southpark character in it. But it keeps me *almost* warm.
So, when are you going to build an iceboat?
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Goodnight! :drinking:
I have had enough for one day. I'm going to get my full 6 hours of sleep tonight no matter what!
:microwave:
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Great! Glad to see the "remote registration" thing worked!
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It is cool. I pre-loaded several into the board, but really, its best to find one you like (or made!) and use it. I'm not artist, so I stole my captain at the wheel from one of those "Free Clip Art" sites on the 'net.
For those that can't make their own, you can enter "fish clip art" or "sailboat clip art" in Google and find free clip art graphics you can save to disk and upload here as your avatar. The limitation is that it can't be larger than 100 x 100 pixels. If you don't have photo editing software that can reduce that great 125 x 120 pic for you, just send me a "PM" (private message) with it attached and I'll see if I can resize it for you and mail it back.
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Hey, at least he's here! I remember a time he was busy and away long enough for me to think he probably had sewed himself to a sail, and couldn't get untangled from the machine.
(There's at least one user .. Bill Bird, using Adelphia.net, that can't get here yet. His ISPs nameservers are still resolving to the site that isn't there anymore!)
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I liked this one the best of the ones available. I went through several scripts before I decided on this one. Being an "oldtimer" to the online messaging world ... I had a BBS on-line prior to the Internet, and had a screaming 9600 baud Dual Standard modem .... I've always been partial to the threaded views like the old board. But you have to change with the times, I guess, and this one is much easier to maintain.
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I am really getting to like this format. Frank is the best!!
Like your avatar, Captain Surbrook ... but just how many sails are you going to put on that Weekender?!?
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Love to be there! But alas, I'm afraid I can't make it to Fairbanks!
I actually rolled Aslan over with just the help of my wife, and some thinking ahead. The Weekender rolls over easily enough, because it stops when on her side resting on the rubrail, then resting on the rubrail and cabin, and finally rocking easily on her cabin top. I made midget 2 x 4 saw horses to put under her bow and stern, high enough to keep the weight off the cabin top.
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That looks like fun. We should get one together here on the west-west coast (it always cracks me up when I hear the "west coast" and they are talking about Florida ... shows how your frame of reference really colors what you believe about the world.)
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Great account of your first day out, Buck. And the pictures are great ... thanks for putting them up in the Gallery for us to see.
The boat sails better than we'll ever let on in places like the Wooden Boat forum. One reason is that you generate more heat than light in those "seaworthiness" debates. I freely admit to being an amateur and not at all an expert, but some tend to go the other way in public forums.
You guys in NZ have proved your sailing expertise over the last few years ... so it doesn't surprise me that you would be more adventuresome than I would. A few have capsized a Weekender, but everyone I've heard of did it during an accidental gybe. I've had the rail in a few times myself. I never felt like the boat was going over.
I think the real danger in any small boat would be getting in a situation where you get swamped by a wave (in fact, that's the cause of most small boat sinkings in the US). But as you and countless others have shown, the Weekender is probably the equal of any other 16', flat bottomed boat (even those Bolger boxes!)
BTW - I found the Weekender tacks on a dime ... unless you get caught in the kelp, of course!
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Hey, there are new pictures in the My Gallery section ... Buck has posted a dozen or so of his Weekender. Pretty good shots too, including some action shots on the water. The album is at Buck's Album
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Wow! Those are great looking pictures. What is "Michigan U.P.", the "upper penninsula"?
The only thing I can say is that all the beautiful places look WET and COLD. I would have to take off my shades! 8)
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Hi Frank' date='
Here's that PC dummy from Nova Scotia...... at it again !
I'm like Gordie ....... I can't seem to find the, "ADD ATTACHMENT" , niche anywhere ! I recall seeing it when I added the "Snupi" logo , and it made attaching "a snap", but it's not making the trip to Canada . ( Not part of the Free Trade Pact"?)[/quote']
Uh, sorry! I had it turned on for "moderators" only in the Main Forum :oops:
It should work now for all registered users.
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Hi Frank
The new setup look good! I have one question for you tho, is the a link to the old msn site where all the albums were at.I tried small boats but not the right one or is that site now gone?
thanks for the great job as always
Jim
This is fixed now, Jim, and accessible from the Weekender Boatbuilding Page here on messing-about.com (look for the link in the left column).[/url]
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Hmmm ... it should be below the text box.
Its in the lower portion of this very highly compressed, bad quality screen shot I've attached.
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Were you able to log in? :?: You posted as a "guest" again, so I wanted to make sure you were able to get in!
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Thanks guys ... but really, its just standard off the shelf stuff. I even stole their default color scheme for the graphics and rest of the pages of the site.
So while its a lot of work to get it up and running, I can't really take too much credit!
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Frank' date=' It's good to be able to see all the posts in one thread without having to click and click. After I registered and returned to the forum, the text no longer fit on my screen so that I cannot both read text and see who wrote. This was not the case on first opening as a guest. Any suggestions?[/quote']
This should be fixed now ... is it?
It was the navigation menu at the top ... after logging in the line went too long for the 800 x 600 screen resolution. If you are at 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600, it should fit on the screen. If you are still at 640 x 480, it will scroll (unfortunately). At least that's the way it looks when I simulate those settings on my machine!
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Take a look at it now Arnie. did the change to the navigation menu fix the problem?
It should be OK for 1024 x 768 or 800 x 600, but if you're still at 640 x 480, its going to have to scroll.
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Oh and Frank the other boards are not the same as this main forum. They show email address's and none of the other cute stuff. Have fun as php is as wiggy as windows at best. I don't envy you at all. :wink:
I looked at this ... those are the imported messages from the old board. The only forums with new messages are the B&B Forum, where a "guest" posted about wood dust being a carcinogen (no email info or fancy little buttons) and my reply (which has the fancy little buttons). And the Classifieds, where a member posted an ad for 3 gals of epoxy fairing compound for $40 (he put his email in the message, but he gets the fancy little buttons under his post rather than an email link).
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It does the same to me Frank. I log in and the screen size increases about 1/2" or so. Log out and it goes back to a normal full screen fit. Interesting problem... :cry:
I figured this out. Its my navigation menu at the top of the screen.
When you log in, it adds "You have no new messages" (meaning you have no new private messages, another feature of the software). It makes the navigation menu too wide, forcing the screen out wider. I'll figure out how to correct it tonight.
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Most php boards are set for 800x600 screens if you are running a small monitor you may have problems with scrolling. And when some one posts a long url to some photo that will happen to all but the bigger screens. And now we have to deal with file size. When some fool with dsl or better posts a picture or links to one of mass file size you will have to wait for the damn thing to load every time you want to see who posted. Talk about a long down load time on dialup. And some of have no choice as the faster ISP's are not an option.
File size is limited to 200k' date=' and only three per post are allowed. When you go to post a reply, we don't re-download the pics (they disappear when typing in your reply). So some of the problems are taken care of.
Plus if too many people post pictures on the same thread you have to download them all every time. Like I said I am not a big fan of php boards as too many people have no internet sense at all. And no idea of file size.This is still true. "Three per post" means every poster could post three pics. That hasn't been our practice in the past, so we'll see how it goes. I can always configure it to allow less, or force smaller pic size, or not even show the pics, but just have a link to open it in a new window. So if the message loading time gets to be a problem, we can do that to address it.
Oh and Frank the other boards are not the same as this main forum. They show email address's and none of the other cute stuff. Have fun as php is as wiggy as windows at best. I don't envy you at all. :wink:Hey! How come? :roll: I'll have to check it out. ("A fun time was had by all." Sgt. Pepper.
Fintan: I'm headed your way!
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Fintan, my friend, we have our flights arranged to visit your island country April 10th through the 17th.
We'll be staying in Bray, and my daughter tells me I can not rent a car and drive (something about Americans driving on the wrong side of the road there ... although she says there's more trouble with American pedestrians getting squished while looking intently the wrong way for that bus that sounds so close.) I think she's getting too much like her mother.
How close are you to Bray?