Frank Hagan
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Absolutely beautiful! Did you tell your grandson's parents about it, or is it a surprise?
I built a very similar one for my grandson about 8 years ago, but it had a flat bottom. The plan had built rocker feet for it also, and they used it that way once the grandchild got older. Now it's a toy box in the kid's room. I actually liked working with the copper rivets.
I live in Oxnard, next to Port Hueneme. Is your son or daughter in the Navy?
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I saw one episode last year, I think, and you're right ... it was all production boat building and focused primarily on automation. The episode I saw did include some talk about the woodworkers fitting teak railing.
I wonder what a show like this would do with Graham's massive catamaran project?
From the inception of the design all the way to now is a story that will probably never be told. But it is such a story for the entire industry. The man is a walking genius in his own right. The massive wiring that's now taking place would rival most aircraft carriers too.
One of the problems is probably the time frame to tell such a story. You count the hours when making media, and being there for each step of the build would take millions of dollars. But they could recreate the years of building with images and interviews, and have someone film the launch, and create a pretty good segment out of that.
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I saw one episode last year, I think, and you're right ... it was all production boat building and focused primarily on automation. The episode I saw did include some talk about the woodworkers fitting teak railing.
I wonder what a show like this would do with Graham's massive catamaran project?
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Give us some background on you, what role you play with the show, and if you come from a boat-related background or ??? It would be interesting to hear some "behind the scenes" info on how you select the boat builders, etc.
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The cost difference for the entire boat, would have been $700 which is a ridiculously small amount to try to save in a $20 K plus overall expenditure.
It is one of the first expenditures a new boat builder considers, so the cost of ply may take on an overstated importance.
In my case, I never expected my boat to last more than five years, and I considered using the cheapest materials a challenge. It's 13 years later and the boat, still living on her trailer but now at a nephew's house, is doing fine. I used construction grade lumber and exterior ply, the cheapest epoxy I could find, and marine salvage materials where possible. HOWEVER, had I known someone else in the family would want it, I would have used better materials. There's a lot of maintenance that starts to become necessary after a few years.
If I were to build another boat, it would be a better design and I would use much better quality materials.
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Here's Huggy Bear, the loveable pimp from the seventies show 'Starsky & Hutch':
Stick a drill bit in his mouth and you have the design ethic for our modern times.
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I just hope that someday we get past the TRANSFORMERS MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE styling and get back to functional tool design. All the tools now look like they were designed by a 1970's pimp like Huggy Bear.
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Wow, sorry about that Dr. Crampton; I didn't see this post until this evening. No excuses because I visit the forums every day.
With my current schedule, I don't think I'll be able to get something going by Oct. 1, so another developer might be a better choice. I apologize!
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Are the Iithion batteries lighter? I haven't picked up a new tool since I don't know when, and I'm sure my current cordless are, at best, nicad or whatever they used to use.
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Well, the Touch looks nice, but it isn't in production yet, and the creator is trying to finance making it using that Indie GoGo crowd sourcing project. So it wouldn't meet the immediate need of which cordless drill to buy.
I like Bosch and Makita. My favorite cordless right now is a light weight 9v Makita that has two batteries. One rests in the charger while I wear down the other one. It doesn't have the power that a 12 or 18v drill has, but is also very light, has a slim base, and doesn't wear me out if I'm "drilling overhead".
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I wonder if it's really a privacy settings. I suspect Facebook is requesting a cookie from your browser.
I recently did an article on email privacy rules regarding "nonpublic personal information" for fellow tax preparers, who are considered "financial institutions" by the Feds (so they have to adhere to the same rules as banks). Many don't follow the FTC guidelines for privacy of personal information, and do things like password protect a PDF file containing the client's social security number, birthdates, etc. and email it. In researching it, I found quite a bit of information I didn't know before: basically, privacy is very hard to obtain!
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Another recent comment ....
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This topic is to test the Facebook feed of new topics.
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Testing the feed to the Facebook page.
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OK, I deleted that message and added a new one with a Facebook link. See if you can open that one without any problems. It is at http://messing-about.com/forums/topic/8749-like-us-on-facebook/
It has much the same content, but does not have "topic tags" added.
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Like our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/messingaboutforums
We're hoping this will give us exposure to a wider audience! Thanks
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Let me know (in the other post) if opening this one also triggers your virus checker.
I'm wondering if the Facebook app is acting like, well, like Facebook often acts.
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That's the strangest thing that has happened here. I can click on the baby cradle tender thread and all others and no problems. But the original one with the facebook link and this one sends my computer in alert mode when I am not logged into the forum software. When I log in and open these two threads I still have no problems unless I attempt to log in to the facebook link. Oh well, moving right along, as I know very little past pushing the on and off button on the computer or telling that little mouse which way to go after the computer is on.
That is strange, although who knows with Facebook? There's a sidebar block named "messing-about Facebook Feed" that is a Facebook App, and these posts were added after that app was put in place.
Let me add a new post, and see if the same thing happens. It may be that Facebook is doing something through its app (would not surprise me at all).
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Let me change the topic heading, and we'll see if it is reacting to the word "DIE", or if its the link to Facebook it doesn't like.
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Maybe because you don't use Facebook? Or maybe my "or DIE" wording is triggering something? I just tried it from several different browsers and it seems to work OK.
Anyone else see this?
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Thanks, Dave. The CDN caches images and other static content and then serves it from a server that is closer to the person visiting the forums. But I don't think it helps that much.
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Looks like the built-in CDN (Content Delivery Network) was having trouble serving the files. I disabled it. Let me know if you feel the loading of the forums is slower than usual.
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Sorry about the forum display problems, guys. I'm trying to correct it now, and have a message into the software authors.
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"Free" is sometimes a relative term! I've had a lot of free things that ended up costing me.
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Yep, still here of course, but haven't been on the water in years now. Life has conspired to interfere with the things I love far too much the last few years!