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art that got finished a few days ago that i forgot abt lmao
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#sails and batten are so important to me#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#sth#miles tails prower#sails the fox#rouge the bat#batten rouge#sonic prime#no place
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Sonic Prime Multi-Sonic AU (No Place: Emerald Eye)
So, I'm not really sure if anyone remembers my theory/headcanon on "What if there was a 'Sonic' in each Shatterverse that took place before the shattering?", but here's one that I kept in my folder after rewatching Sonic Prime (when Dread makes his first appearance) and noticing how "buddy-buddy" Dread was with Sonic; almost as if they've met a long time ago...
TW: Contains character death, gruesome detail(s), Pirate speak, yaoi kiss (if you have a problem with that, then don't read). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[Setting: No Place. Dread, Emerald Eye, and the crew follow a red-mark trail. Emerald Eye overhears the crew speaking ill of Dread.]
Emerald Eye: Um, no offense, me bucko. But, be ye sure ye be knowin' whar we're headed? Dread: Of course, I do. Th' ground be marked like th' map! Emerald Eye: Alright, if ye say so…
[Suddenly, Emerald Eye noticed something below Dread's footing snapped. It's a trap! Before Dread could even react, Emerald Eye pushed him out of the way as a bolt of blue lightning struck the blue pirate through the chest. The rest of the crew was blown back. As the smoke slowly settles, Dread witnessed a horrid scene… Emerald Eye's chest is now harboring a medium-sized burnt crater that's all black and smokey. Smaller scars are going through his charred body. His one good eye is now bulging a bit with veins that pulsated. His signature "emerald-green" eye is now a lifeless dull shade of burnt moss… Dread couldn't believe it, his one and only is dead. His one and only took the shot that was meant for him. All he could do was to shakely embrace his beloved, one last time…]
Dread: *thinking* His chest be warm, but his body's cold… Crew member 1: Dread… Ye keel-hauled that scurvy dog?! But, he were bein' yer beloved! Crew member 2: How could ye do this? Bunny Bones: Traditionally, when a Cap'n dies, their second-in-command becomes Cap'n. But, who will e'er trust ye?
[Dread is now too devastated to answer. But, suddenly, an idea comes across his mind! The Devil's Lighthouse… According to legend, the power of the Devil's Lighthouse can bring a person back from the dead with only scars to tell the tale of their survival.]
Dread: What has happened can't be ignored. But, I've got an idea! All we need be t' get th' Glowin' Gemstone a- Jack: Be ye serious?! Our Cap'n visited Davy Jones' Locker savin' ye, but all ye care about be some giant rock?! How selfish can one Corsair get?
[Taken aback by this, Dread understood the traditions and this unfortunate circumstance. So, as he took off, he quickly grabbed Emerald Eye, his Captain hat, and continued his way to the other side of the island.]
Dread: *looks behind him* It appears to be that we lost them, I'll warrant ye. *looks down to Emerald Eye's body* Oh, me beloved… *cradles it gently* Ye knew th' blast were bein' meant fer me, why would ye take it instead? *tearing up a bit* Now, our crew thinks that I should've been poxed! *looks down, sadly nuzzles Emerald Eye's face* Ah, I can't stay mad at ye. Because o' ye, I've ne'er felt lonely out in open waters. Due t' yer inability t' not swim, I've always been by yer side. *gently placed Emerald Eye down as he gently kissed his forehead* I'm not really good at sayin' "goodbyes", but ye've made me life an adventure. *sadly part ways with their last lip-kiss*
[After saying a small, yet important, prayer, Dread digs a hole deep enough for Emerald Eye to forever rest in and keep his hat as a tragic keepsake. As he got up, he noticed a rowboat that both looked and felt sturdy enough for him to set sail. For what seemed like forever, Dread was growing concerned about losing his rations. He was about to give up hope, until…]
Sails: *offscreen* Avast there, scurvy dog! Dread: *looks up to see a ship* Black Rose: Be ye alright? Batten Rouge: We have more than enough grub and plenty o' juice and water from coconuts! Dread: *taken aback by this kindness* Uh, yeah! Thanks, to be sure! Can ye help me up onto yer ship? Black Rose: Of course, we want ye t' join us! Sails: Th' more, th' merrier! Batten Rouge: Plus, we've always wanted a Cap'n! Dread: Wait, me? A Cap'n? What makes ye think that I'm a Cap'n? Black Rose: Well, ye have a hat like a Cap'n. Sails: Nobody on our boat has one. Batten Rouge: I believe that's it.
[Dread was afraid to tell them the truth. But, he's also afraid to be a captain. After taking a deep breath to calm the nerves…]
Dread: Well, ye're correct, me buckos! I be Cap'n! But, not just any Cap'n… Yer Cap'n! Sails: This calls fer a celebration! Black Rose: Three cheers fer our new Cap'n! Dread's new crew: Hip hip, hooray! Hip hip, hooray! Hip hip, hooray!
[As Dread's new crew parties until the sun goes down, the Echidna sadly looks up at the premature stars, forlornly thinking about his one true beloved. Wondering what Emerald Eye would say or even think of him now...] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yeah, I'm not that good at "Pirate lingo", so I had to use various websites to translate as correctly as it appeared.
For the next one(s), it'll either be Boscage or New Yoke.
Fun fact: During the era of pirates, women weren't allowed to be on the same ship with them. So, it was common practice for men to sleep together. This means that they can explore other things than treasure...
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Ok since I finished Sonic Prime I have some Thoughts I need to get out without tormenting my loved ones so:
• I really like Sonic’s characterization. I feel like they did a good job giving him solid character flaws without making him seem like an asshole. I like that he seems to have an ongoing character arc throughout the show so far, esp since he’s the only constant presence throughout the season. I also think making him deal with versions of his friends who don’t know him and, as such, are harder to deal with is a really interesting way of making him confront his failings in how he’s treated them before.
• I love how frequently Sonic goes to Tails in every universe for a solution. It’s pretty clear he really thinks the world of Tails no matter what universe and that really gets me.
• Speaking of Tails and his AU counterparts: Nine is obviously the most developed of the three so far (and one of my favorite characters overall), and I’m really glad they seem to be giving him more of a long-form arc! There’s a lot of potential there, and I’m really glad they’re exploring it more fully! Also, his relationship with Sonic is just precious. It’s really sweet how much he really wants Sonic to be his friend, despite everything. (Also also: I love Mangy and Sails too, I just don’t have much to say about them)
• Knuckles! I think Dread is a really interesting take on his character, and while Gnarly (Boscage Maze) is my favorite, I feel like Dread will have a bigger role to play as the show goes on and I am looking forward to that. Otherwise, Renegade is fine, and it’s nice to have a more “normal” Knuckles around.
• Next is Amy! I’m not a huge Amy fan, but I have a soft spot for robots in fiction, so of course I love Rusty Rose, and I’m interested to see how she develops as the show continues. Thorn, although not bad, I found kind of annoying personally. Black Rose is more plain, but this also makes her a better contrast to Rusty when she shows up, so I think it works.
• Rouge is simultaneously very Rouge-y and kind of weirdly assimilated into the rest of the cast throughout the season. I think it’s interesting how both Rebel and Prim take up leadership roles, but Batten is largely just kind of…there? Especially since Rouge’s greed is what causes her to clash with Knuckles in the games, it’s weird that Knuckles is the one who seems lowkey obsessed with No Place’s shard. I don’t know if I like that or not (it’s hard to tell how far the characters are supposed to stray from the “originals” at this point), but it’s definitely weird.
• Tails, Amy, and Knuckles have each got a version with a big focus so far (Nine, Thorn, & Dread), so I’m hoping for Rouge and maybe even Big to get something like that in season 2 as well.
• I’m pretty happy so far with Shadow’s characterization. I like that he feels more balanced as Sonic’s rival than some other recent iterations, and I think with his history, it’s interesting they made the decision to make him…kind of right? Like, yeah, Sonic did kind of fuck things up, and maybe he needs someone to take him to task for it. Otherwise, it seems like Shadow’s gonna have a pretty important role, so I’m excited to see exactly what that ends up being in the end.
• Oh! And I think it’s neat how Sonic always adapts to his friends’ new names in each ‘verse almost immediately. It’s probably just to not confuse viewers (especially as characters start to cross over between Shatterverses), but I feel like it shows how much he really cares about them as who they are in the present, rather than just who he remembers them being.
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Two years ago around this time I tried to do something very foolish, which I'm glad I wasn't successful at. Being reminded of that and related memories have me pretty down, but it's also close to the anniversary of my finally going back to therapy, which in many ways has been life changing. Obviously therapy isn't a magic bullet, otherwise I wouldn't still be going. But it's been something important, a weekly port in the storm where I can work on things. These are pretty awful times for a lot of people (hello) and the holidays can make us feel even shittier when we're already depressed. So if you're going through some rough waters please hold on tight and batten down the hatches and reach out for help. If you need to talk or type to someone, please use the information out there. Winky and I are not done with our adventures and we'd like you to continue to travel along with us. Be good to yourself. Rough seas do calm. You don't have to sail alone. https://www.instagram.com/evandorkin/p/CXsDAfXMJnj/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Sailing is a kind of sport that allows people to both relax and to go through the excitement of outdoor activity. Sailing processes a long history, which was originated from a means of transportation in Netherland. Being an important part of the aquatic sports, sailing not only requires its sailors to have a strong body that stand the severe environment on the sea surface, but also the ability to swim in case of the boat lose its balance and staff on board falling into water. However, the high requirements of such sport do not hinder its position as one of the most popular sports throughout the world. Personally speaking, it differs from other sports in that it provides me the feeling of the vast of the ocean(or the sea) and greatness of the nature. And when human beings are compared to the nature, they somehow remain so slight. But still, we are brave enough to challenge the wild nature on the nearby lake of Muskegon.
The lake of Muskegon has long gained its reputation as a great place for sailing sport and fishing. Its view is also one of that kind. Sailing with my friends and teacher on the such lake is of great fun. And since that we have looked through the history of sailing on the class, this very movement then turned into an existence more than a sport. Originated from Netherland, the sailing came into the crowd’s view imported by Charles II to England. Along with the colony the sailing sports was wide spread to the mainland of America, and became one of the most popular water sports. The athletes use the wind which pushes the sails on boat to navigate, which is a blent of competition, entertainment and adventure. When people are out on the sea sailing a boat, attention should be paid as all the equipment on board should be serious checked. What’s more, great importance is attached to the controlling of the sails, which provides the force for going forward. It’s amazing how you can use the wind and the waves to move, every adjustment in the sails can change your speed, every movement can turn the direction. Consequently, every sailor should process the skills to control the sails in order to access the highest speed while keep the balance of the body of the boat. So we had a great trip on the lake of Muskegon, learning and practicing the skills to control the sails.
Guided by our teacher, my friends and I went on board. We enjoyed sightseeing for a moment, and the boat stopped almost on the very central of the lake, where the teacher manifest how the sails are operated step by step. The consistence of the sails can hardly described as complex, but every part of it is essential, which turn out to be namely the jib, head stay, sheet and main sheet, mainsail, mast, shrouds, boom and battens. While operating the sails, every component above would be involved in the process. Firstly, raise the mainsail, install one side of the batten onto the mast and then buckle the other side of the batten with the sheet, and then hoist the mainsail by pulling down on its halyard. Though it may sound quite easy, the whole progress requires the not only strength, but also to cooperate with the natural wind. The moment the sails were ready and set in the teeth of a foul wind, it would drive the boat forward. It was such an interesting experience that I shall never forget the lake and the wind that flapped the sails onto my face. Controlling the sails is only a part of sailing, there still remain much for me to learn. However, I don’t recognize it as any boring, i would definitely spare every effort to acquire the skills of sailing.
As sailing sport has gradually grown into an international sport, it not only carry the skills of itself, but also the sport spirit and the communication between athletes. The wills to fight against the waves and storms allow people to challenge themselves. What’s more, it indeed helps with the development of equilibrium sense, the sensibility and endurance. It has rise the meaning of healthy from the physical level up to the mental level. And if I ever have a chance to sail around the world, I will set out without hesitation. To feel the isolation, the nature of human beings and the voices from inside my head and from the vast ocean. Sailing makes me feel so free, peaceful, safe and incredibly grateful for nature itself. I once heard a saying that “people who can embrace the sky or ocean are usually open in mind”, while watching the prow of thereat cut through the water like a knife and leave the lithe white spindrift behind, I couldn’t agree with the saying any more.
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Personal: Storm Season
August is coming to an end and autumn has been on the wind since the last rainfall. Something that I hadn’t considered to be real until moving here was that Canada has a storm season. My first year in this province the storm season wasn’t so bad; 2 black outs, 2 thunder storms and a handful of windstorms. Nothing major right? Last year, Dorian was the biggest storm that came through and I got my first real taste of storm season. Thankfully I received some education on what to do from some classmates prior to the storm coming. This year, it seems like storm season is going to be a long one, so I thought I might detail what we do to prepare before everyone begins to scramble to get it all done!
First off, storm chips are a thing! The focus around food is that it has to be counter or cooler safe. It was recompensed to us to have 4 days worth of food prepared before the storm hits. So of course we did, and we had all the leftovers in the fridge. Once the power went off, it hit us that what we did wasn’t the best idea. Thankfully, the Atlantic Superstore down the street has it’s own backup generator and we were able to purchase some quick meals. Many people will also buy numerous bags of ice to pack into their fridges/freezers to try and keep the area cool if a blackout lasts for a few days. Much later in the storm season when the weather is rather cool, one can store things to be kept cold outside. Many who have BBQ’s will opt to fill their propane tanks and BBQ their meals once the storm has passed. PLEASE DON’T BBQ INSIDE YOUR HOME. Canada’s public health services recommend food that won't spoil, liked canned goods, energy bars and dried foods.
Water is also a big deal. You want to be sure to have enough water to drink, bathe, flush the toilet, clean etc. for about 4 days. So, buying jugs of water is common as well as filling up all bathtubs with water. Canada’s public health services recommend two litres of water per person per day. Include small bottles that can be carried easily.
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Batten down the hatches! Storm winds range from ~75km/h to ~115km/h which can have a huge impact on your yard and home. All loose Items or things that aren’t permanent fixtures should come down and be stored in a secure location. This could be under the skirting of a deck, inside a shed, inside the house or if you’re so luck you’ll have access to an indoor garage. Cars should be moved close to the house or taken to places that have indoor/protected parking. During storm season, many businesses in the area offer their protected parking areas for free to people who don’t have garages. It’s honestly a wonderful benefit to the maritime community. Of course doors and windows should be firmly locked & latched. I like to have the blinds open so I can see what’s going on in the community and can better anticipate if any property damage is going to happen to our home. Trees are a big thing to look out for. Depending on the time of season, there can be a lot or minimal damage from trees. The leaves act as sails which is more likely to down branches/whole trees so an early storm can do a lot of damage. Once the leaves have come off the trees, the risk of damage is far less as only limbs are likely to break instead of whole trees coming down. If you can, trim high risk/loose/damaged branches prior to storms.
Power outages can last a while. In the Atlantic region, most of the power lines are hung, not buried, due to the density of clay in the ground. This means that power outages happen often and after a big storm, they can last for a few days while everything is being repaired. Some people have backup generators or other power sources that they can use during this season. Obviously, there is priority restoration to places like hospitals, nursing homes, long term care facilities, and people’s homes who have a resident living on an electricity powered device. This can pose a problem when it comes to heat and light. Many folks have candles all over their home and a plethora of blankets. A big one is to be sure to fully charge all of your devices and backup/external batteries. It was advised to me to limit the use of them after the power goes off because one never knows exactly how long the power outage will last.
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People safety is obviously an important one. Be sure to refill all prescriptions prior to the storm, including an extra set of glasses/contacts if you use them. Fill up all of the vehicles you own with fuel before the storm. Be sure you let the power company know if someone in your home is dependent on electrical devices (oxygen providing, ventilator, etc.). Many people take storm season as an opportunity to check the smoke/carbon monoxide detectors in their home and support/replace them as needed. In the interest of community, make sure that you have the numbers of people you care about as well as neighbors and high risk people in your community so that you can check in on them throughout the storm. It’s often a good idea to have an emergency/storm kit in your home as well;
flashlight & extra batteries
candles & matches
can opener
external battery for electronic devices
basic first aid kit
fire extinguisher: ABC Class
battery-powered or wind-up radio and extra batteries
blankets & toilet paper
special needs or health-related items such as prescription medications, infant formula or equipment for people with disabilities
extra keys for your car and your house
cash (especially smaller bills and change for payphones)
your family's emergency plan
Pet safety is close to many people’s hearts during storm season. Have carriers/leashes on hand with a little travel pack of your pet’s necessities inside. This is mostly done to prepare for if there is significant property damage and the family needs to get out fast. That being said, I keep my pets on the same floor or in the same room as I am just in case we need to leave fast. Please don’t leave your pets outside or unattended during a storm such as these.
I hope this has been a helpful walk-through on how to prepare for a big storm.
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For a Roof in Old Westbury, N.Y., a Singular Slate From England
Reprinted from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/realestate/old-westbury-gardens-slate-from-england.html
For a Roof in Old Westbury, N.Y., a Singular Slate From England
To make repairs, Westbury House on Long Island needed a supply of Collyweston slate, but all of the mines had closed decades earlier. Then one reopened.The Life of a Mansion in Old Westbury, N.Y.10 PhotosView Slide Show›via John S Phipps Archives, Old Westbury Gardens
By John Freeman Gill
Dec. 20, 2019
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Nobody ever said that New York was a movable feast, but one rich family did its best to make it one a century ago by packing up an entire, sumptuous Fifth Avenue dining room and reassembling it in the country.
In 1927, shortly before the demolition of the steel magnate Henry Phipps’s marble Renaissance mansion at 87th Street, his eldest son, John S. Phipps, salvaged its dining room’s ceiling and paneling and brought them under the roof of his grand home in Old Westbury, a colony of millionaires on Long Island.
That dining room — now featuring a family portrait by John Singer Sargent — has been a major attraction ever since in the Georgian Revival manse on the Phipps estate, which has been open to the public as Old Westbury Gardens since 1959.
The formal dining room of the steel magnate Henry Phipps’s Fifth Avenue mansion was salvaged before the building’s demolition in 1927 and reassembled at Westbury House on Long Island.Credit…Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times
But the English slate roof that shelters the room and 22 others has been a beautiful headache ever since it was installed in 1905. By 2005, the slates were in such gross disrepair that a British consultant diagnosed them in terms worthy of a medical examiner.
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“He declared our roof ‘perished,’” said Lorraine Gilligan, the gardens’ director of preservation.
Restoring the roof with historically appropriate new material seemed impossible, however, until recently — when the world’s only mine producing its distinctive limestone slate reopened for the first time in half a century.
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Westbury House boasts what experts believe is the only roof in the United States made of Collyweston slate, a singular material prized for centuries in England for its hardiness and for the distinctive golden yellow it turns with oxygen exposure. The slate was long employed on farmhouses and manor houses throughout Britain, as well as at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
How Westbury House came to be topped by a British stone so alien to America is a trans-Atlantic tale of successes and failures, of fabulously wealthy heirs and hardworking laborers. And the story has come full circle this year, as one of the Englishmen installing the replacement roof is the great-great-grandson of a slater who sailed from Britain in 1905 to consult on the original roof.
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Construction of Westbury House around 1905.Credit…via John S Phipps Archives, Old Westbury Gardens
Westbury House in 2004, with its distinctive roof of golden-yellow Collyweston slates.Credit…via John S Phipps Archives, Old Westbury Gardens
Both the lady of Westbury House and its designer were English. In 1903, John Phipps, known as Jay, married Margarita Grace, whose family owned the shipping line that became the Grace Steamship Company. Mr. Phipps promised to build his bride a great country house reminiscent of those in her native country.
To keep his word, he turned to the London aesthete George Crawley, a passionate student of design with no formal architectural training. According to a biography by Cuthbert Headlam, Mr. Crawley had befriended Amy Phipps, Jay’s sister, while the Phipps clan was renting a manor in England.
In 1904 the Phipps patriarch, a partner of Andrew Carnegie, hired Mr. Crawley to decorate several rooms of his Manhattan mansion, including the one that was eventually transferred to Westbury House. That same year, Jay Phipps retained Mr. Crawley to design Westbury House itself.
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“He was at last enabled to put into actual shape — in stone and marble, in iron and wood — the beautiful things which filled his mind,” Mr. Crawley’s biographer noted. To help him realize his vision, Mr. Crawley was paired with Grosvenor Atterbury, an architect of Gilded Age confections both on Long Island and in Manhattan.
At Old Westbury, Mr. Crawley conjured up a home of subdued, symmetrical elegance, its cherry red Virginia brick accented by cream-colored Indiana limestone and a terra-cotta cornice.
The house’s crowning glory was to be its broad-hipped roof of gold-hued Collyweston slate, a material Mr. Crawley likely knew from visits to a relative who lived near where it was mined.
The slate is made from a unique limestone found only in a narrow, three-foot seam 40 feet beneath the earth in Collyweston, a Northamptonshire village.
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The new Collyweston slate roof at Westbury House. The distinctive limestone material grows more golden over time as it is exposed to oxygen.Credit…Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times
“Ours is the only working Collyweston slate mine in the world,” said Nigel Smith, whose company, Claude N. Smith, began producing its first new slate in 2016. “But we know from rough drawings of the area that during the 1800s peak, there were at least a dozen.”
The laborious traditional production method required three to four winters to create slates. Once mined, hunks of stone called logs were laid in a field and kept constantly wet to promote repeated freeze-thaw cycles. Eventually, the stone began to split and workers separated it into sheets of slate with a hand-forged tool known in England as a cliving hammer.
Climate change badly damaged production in the 20th century, however, by reducing the number of frosts. Builders, meanwhile, began buying cheaper, reclaimed slates from farmhouses. By the early 1970s, all the Collyweston mines were shuttered.
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But as buyers like King’s College, Cambridge, emerged, Mr. Smith reopened the mine beneath the land his father had bought as a builder’s yard in the 1980s.
Technological breakthroughs made the new slating business viable. Limestone logs are now mined by a robot called the Brokk 100, and clever innovations have reduced production time from years to about a week.
Instead of relying on nature to provide the necessary frosts, Mr. Smith said, he experimented with a “lorry-back freezer,” a frozen-food truck he bought on the cheap from the Tesco supermarket chain. He now uses refrigerated steel containers designed for carrying frozen goods on ships.
Among the four workers Mr. Smith sent across the pond this year to install 37,000 new Collyweston slates at Westbury House was 26-year-old Tom Measures, a big, shy man whose baby face is covered with a rugged brown beard. It was Mr. Measures’ ancestor, Arthur Osborne, who sailed on the S.S. Teutonic from Liverpool with a fellow slater in 1905 to consult on the original roof.
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Mr. Osborne’s services were necessary because American workers had botched the roofing job, failing to allow for air circulation around the slates and using stiff Portland cement instead of a more breathable mortar mix. Many slates also broke during shipping and installation.
This time around, Old Westbury Gardens made sure to import Collyweston artisans.
“This is a true heritage trade,” said Kurt Hirschberg, the lead designer of the roof restoration for Jan Hird Pokorny Associates, the project’s architect. The slaters perform the job in pairs, he noted, “and there’s a rhythm to the two of them working back and forth that’s amazing to see.”
Two English slaters, Tom Measures, left, and Conor Depellette, installing a new Collyweston slate roof on Westbury House in early December. Credit…Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times
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On a recent frigid morning, as a bone-chilling wind sent snow flurries dancing, Mr. Measures and Conor Depellette balanced themselves on a plank supported by ladders near the ridge of the mansion’s 60-foot-high roof.
Working toward each other from opposite ends of a stretch of roof, the partners were mirror images as they moved along a horizontal wooden batten that had been nailed across the roof’s surface.
After setting a line of lime-rich mortar, each man would lay down a slate and push its bottom edge into the mortar bed until the excess oozed out like mustard from a sandwich. Then he would pick out the optimal next slate, expertly anticipating the width, thickness and texture needed to create the right functional and aesthetic relationship to both its neighboring slate and the two just below it.
When the pair met in the middle, each went along his half of the course of slates, driving a nail through a pre-drilled hole in the top of each slate and into a batten. The process, performed with a minimum of words, was intuitive and oddly intimate.
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Later, as the pair tooled back the mortar in the slate joints to create a clean drip edge, the scraping of their trowels echoed across the countryside.
“It’s a long, long way from home, and it’s pretty surreal,” Mr. Measures said, looking out from his rooftop perch. “It’s just crazy to think I’m working on a roof one of my ancestors was working on over a hundred years ago.” Pausing to scratch his beard, he added, “It makes me feel quite proud, really.”
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Keep Going. This Too Shall Pass.
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Keep Going. This Too Shall Pass.
Authored by Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheTollOnline.com,
Like the weather when a storm approaches, or as the seasons turn, or waves pounding on a shoreline, any deviations are measured and compared by speed and intensity. The same can be said for headlines: Omnibus, discouraged Deplorables, rumors of war, prospects of peace, economic bubbles, fluctuating markets, and political intrigue. Round and round it goes; when it ends, nobody knows. It’s a time of transition; and when traveling over mountaintops, through valleys, and on rough seas, no one has all of the answers.
Even when looking at maps.
The books, “Generations” (1992) and “The Fourth Turning“ (1997), were written by the historians William Strauss and Neil Howe. These recent explorers identified recorded cycles of history and categorized them across multiple cultures and eras. In both books, historical timelines were analyzed and populations were correlated to specific life-cycles labeled as generational types. Strauss and Howe additionally addressed the concept of time in the context of both circular and linear perspectives and defined what is called a “saeculum” as a “long human life” measuring roughly 80 to 90 years. Every saeculum is comprised of four turnings, each lasting around 20 years.
Just as there are four seasons consisting of spring, summer, fall and winter, there are also four phases of a human life represented in childhood, young adulthood, middle age and elderhood. As each phase of human life represents approximately 20 years, so is each generational archetype identified within the historical cycles, or turnings, as follows.
The generations experience each turning according their life stage; and the Seasons (i.e. order of Turnings # 1 -4) are identified by each generation as they reach middle-age. Amazingly, history shows a consistent pattern in how the generations both cause and affect historical events. The patterns develop based upon how each generation interacts with the other and documented consistencies are delineated by the authors.
In America, since the end of the late sixteenth-century, there have been four full “cycles” (i.e. saeculums) as follows:
1.) Colonial Cycle
2.) Revolutionary Cycle
3.) Civil War Cycle
4.) World War Cycle
In every Fourth-Turning, or Crisis period, within all of the above saeculums, American society experienced great upheavals and war. Moreover, like progressively burgeoning tsunamis rising and crashing upon the sands of time, each consecutive American Fourth-Turning Crisis was more devastating than the last.
America’s last crisis occurred during the years of 1929 through 1945; a turbulent transition period whereby the nation experienced a financial crash, a great depression and a world war.
Now it’s our turn. Time’s up. According to Neil Howe, this current Fourth Turning began in September 2008 and is projected to last until around 2030.
All we can do ride it out the best we can. Trying to individually affect a Fourth Turning would be like lassoing the wind or reversing an ocean’s tide. It can’t be done. With this in mind, it is best for us prepare and adapt by battening down our hatches and adjusting our sails.
Whether we are climbing mountains, descending into valleys, or being tossed about on stormy seas, know that the Presidency of Donald J. Trump is a storm. By accident or design, he has shaken the foundations of geopolitics in ways few could have forecasted less than two years ago.
Although I am first and foremost a Better-than-Hillaryite, I was always cautiously optimistic about Trump. This does not make me a Trumpster, per se. I’ve called him the Oompah Loompah Man, a Reality TV Star, the Orange One, etc., and I’ve previously written about him as the manifestation of one of the following three possibilities:
1.) The Real Thing
2.) Serving the agenda of the global financial elite unwittingly
3.) Controlled opposition as a Judas Goat or Trojan Horse
Time reveals everything; and people are known by their actions, not by their words. The same can be said for events.
Much has transpired in American politics over the past year and a lot of it has been good for Trump voters. Yet, in his recent Omnibus signing speech, Trump acted like a man in a hurry, with more important things on his mind. Obviously, his signature on that steaming pile of shit pissed off a lot of former Deplorables, including one of his most avid advocates, Ann Coulter.
What was Trump thinking? He signed his name while sounding like Br’er’ Rabbit pleading not to be thrown into the brier-patch. Trump wanted the military funded. And now it appears he desires to build The Wall, as a priority of national security, using the defense budget.
Did Br’er Rabbit Trump, outsmart the Establishment’s Tar-Baby? Or do the globalists have photos of Stormy Daniels spanking him in his underwear? Could it be the swamp is too muckedand the mountains too high for a lone, art-of-the-deal making, 6-level-chess playing, billionaire wizard and his staff?
What’s going on?
Transitions.
Appearances are not always what they seem and Occam’s Razor, at times, loses its edge. But, if past history is any guide, it may not be wise to underestimate Trump; even if paying for the $1.3 trillion Omnibus Bill will be like America’s children climbing Mt. Everest in bare feet.
Multiple forces have been aligned against Trump from the moment he first rode down his escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for president. And now, every day, he’s still here driving all of my sworn enemies batshit crazy, one Tweet at a time.
The famous underworld attorney extraordinaire, Roy Cohn, in a 1984 interview claimed Trump was the closest thing to a genius he had ever met in his life. Thirty-two years after that statement by Cohn, Trump became President of the United States while being outspent two to one, against a rabidly hostile media, in opposition to colluding officials in the United States’ FBI, DoJ, and State Department; plus, with zero support from all Democrats and a significant percentage of Republicans.
Transitions, indeed. Tightrope walking is more like it.
Today, Trump stands high up on the mountain in the middle of a political blizzard. He is surrounded by the gale force winds of a phony Russian election hacking narrative, a sinister special council investigation, and allegations ranging from obstruction of justice to being spanked by porn star with a Forbes magazine.
I couldn’t make that shit up if I tried.
Now, according to a report in Politico (hardly a conservative publication), a majority of Americans believe the Deep State manipulates U.S. policies:
The majority of the country believes a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate national policy, according to a Monmouth Poll released Monday.
Of the 803 adults polled, 27 percent said they believe the unelected group known as the deep state definitely exists. An additional 47 percent said it probably exists. Sixteen percent said it probably does not exist and 5 percent said they believe it definitely does not exist.
Although most people may consider the Deep State as the “administrative state”, or the “establishment”, one wonders how many of the sheeple would have been half-awakened if not for Trump. I say “half-awakened” because most know nothing of the round table groups as referred to by the historian, Carroll Quigley, or the secret societies as referenced by former president John F. Kennedy. This means the majority of Americans remain naïve, controlled, and at the whim of True Power.
But what about Trump?
Our president is either who he professes to be, or he is not. You either trust him, or you don’t. It could be he is playing the power game the best he can and prioritizing actualities that we can’t see for purposes we don’t know; or he’s puppet, or imbecilic sell-out leading us down to a dead-end on the primrose path.
Call me quixotic, but I remain cautiously hopeful. I remain so in spite of the warhawk John Bolton, Trump’s new war cabinet, and his latest hardliner stance with Russia. Why? Well, similar to the way I rejected solipsism in college for fear of being too lonely, I now refuse to despair over Trump’s personality swings because I enjoy the view.
Is he controlled opposition? Or controlled demolition?
Either way, I have nothing to lose and nowhere else I’d rather be at this time. There’s not one damn thing I can do to prevent Russian bombs so I will , instead, wait patiently for the imminent Inspector General’s report; which is said to contain some pure TNT.
What a panoramic scene that will be.
Will the revelations of Michael Horwitz’s report turn the tide for Trump and make America great again? Hope springs eternal. Or, it could be the global elite will trick Trump into cannonading the Cossacks in order to conclude any conversations on corruption in our country. Who knows? The elite bankers could also crash the economy, like Kondratieff and Elliot Grand Supercycle waves, on history’s rocky shore; leaving Trump in a rumpled heap right next to the bleached white bones of Herbert Hoover.
The winter of this Fourth Turning’s discontent will undoubtedly deliver war and economic turmoil; and not necessarily in that order. But what will ensue? Constitutional Law or tyranny?
Time reveals all things; and, what happens after the release of the Inspector General’s report will be very telling. Why? Because transitions are roads to revelations.
So keep going, watch, and see.
On the way, however, look for any false flags and know this: Tyranny wants you controlled or dead; it is, in fact, right behind you, and up just ahead. It also really, really, really wants your guns. If you don’t believe me, just look behind to see how fast we’ve traveled from Parkland, Florida to a full repeal of the Second Amendment.
Winter is here. A chill is in the air.
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Keep Going. This Too Shall Pass.
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Keep Going. This Too Shall Pass.
Authored by Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheTollOnline.com,
Like the weather when a storm approaches, or as the seasons turn, or waves pounding on a shoreline, any deviations are measured and compared by speed and intensity. The same can be said for headlines: Omnibus, discouraged Deplorables, rumors of war, prospects of peace, economic bubbles, fluctuating markets, and political intrigue. Round and round it goes; when it ends, nobody knows. It’s a time of transition; and when traveling over mountaintops, through valleys, and on rough seas, no one has all of the answers.
Even when looking at maps.
The books, “Generations” (1992) and “The Fourth Turning“ (1997), were written by the historians William Strauss and Neil Howe. These recent explorers identified recorded cycles of history and categorized them across multiple cultures and eras. In both books, historical timelines were analyzed and populations were correlated to specific life-cycles labeled as generational types. Strauss and Howe additionally addressed the concept of time in the context of both circular and linear perspectives and defined what is called a “saeculum” as a “long human life” measuring roughly 80 to 90 years. Every saeculum is comprised of four turnings, each lasting around 20 years.
Just as there are four seasons consisting of spring, summer, fall and winter, there are also four phases of a human life represented in childhood, young adulthood, middle age and elderhood. As each phase of human life represents approximately 20 years, so is each generational archetype identified within the historical cycles, or turnings, as follows.
The generations experience each turning according their life stage; and the Seasons (i.e. order of Turnings # 1 -4) are identified by each generation as they reach middle-age. Amazingly, history shows a consistent pattern in how the generations both cause and affect historical events. The patterns develop based upon how each generation interacts with the other and documented consistencies are delineated by the authors.
In America, since the end of the late sixteenth-century, there have been four full “cycles” (i.e. saeculums) as follows:
1.) Colonial Cycle
2.) Revolutionary Cycle
3.) Civil War Cycle
4.) World War Cycle
In every Fourth-Turning, or Crisis period, within all of the above saeculums, American society experienced great upheavals and war. Moreover, like progressively burgeoning tsunamis rising and crashing upon the sands of time, each consecutive American Fourth-Turning Crisis was more devastating than the last.
America’s last crisis occurred during the years of 1929 through 1945; a turbulent transition period whereby the nation experienced a financial crash, a great depression and a world war.
Now it’s our turn. Time’s up. According to Neil Howe, this current Fourth Turning began in September 2008 and is projected to last until around 2030.
All we can do ride it out the best we can. Trying to individually affect a Fourth Turning would be like lassoing the wind or reversing an ocean’s tide. It can’t be done. With this in mind, it is best for us prepare and adapt by battening down our hatches and adjusting our sails.
Whether we are climbing mountains, descending into valleys, or being tossed about on stormy seas, know that the Presidency of Donald J. Trump is a storm. By accident or design, he has shaken the foundations of geopolitics in ways few could have forecasted less than two years ago.
Although I am first and foremost a Better-than-Hillaryite, I was always cautiously optimistic about Trump. This does not make me a Trumpster, per se. I’ve called him the Oompah Loompah Man, a Reality TV Star, the Orange One, etc., and I’ve previously written about him as the manifestation of one of the following three possibilities:
1.) The Real Thing
2.) Serving the agenda of the global financial elite unwittingly
3.) Controlled opposition as a Judas Goat or Trojan Horse
Time reveals everything; and people are known by their actions, not by their words. The same can be said for events.
Much has transpired in American politics over the past year and a lot of it has been good for Trump voters. Yet, in his recent Omnibus signing speech, Trump acted like a man in a hurry, with more important things on his mind. Obviously, his signature on that steaming pile of shit pissed off a lot of former Deplorables, including one of his most avid advocates, Ann Coulter.
What was Trump thinking? He signed his name while sounding like Br’er’ Rabbit pleading not to be thrown into the brier-patch. Trump wanted the military funded. And now it appears he desires to build The Wall, as a priority of national security, using the defense budget.
Did Br’er Rabbit Trump, outsmart the Establishment’s Tar-Baby? Or do the globalists have photos of Stormy Daniels spanking him in his underwear? Could it be the swamp is too muckedand the mountains too high for a lone, art-of-the-deal making, 6-level-chess playing, billionaire wizard and his staff?
What’s going on?
Transitions.
Appearances are not always what they seem and Occam’s Razor, at times, loses its edge. But, if past history is any guide, it may not be wise to underestimate Trump; even if paying for the $1.3 trillion Omnibus Bill will be like America’s children climbing Mt. Everest in bare feet.
Multiple forces have been aligned against Trump from the moment he first rode down his escalator in 2015 to announce his candidacy for president. And now, every day, he’s still here driving all of my sworn enemies batshit crazy, one Tweet at a time.
The famous underworld attorney extraordinaire, Roy Cohn, in a 1984 interview claimed Trump was the closest thing to a genius he had ever met in his life. Thirty-two years after that statement by Cohn, Trump became President of the United States while being outspent two to one, against a rabidly hostile media, in opposition to colluding officials in the United States’ FBI, DoJ, and State Department; plus, with zero support from all Democrats and a significant percentage of Republicans.
Transitions, indeed. Tightrope walking is more like it.
Today, Trump stands high up on the mountain in the middle of a political blizzard. He is surrounded by the gale force winds of a phony Russian election hacking narrative, a sinister special council investigation, and allegations ranging from obstruction of justice to being spanked by porn star with a Forbes magazine.
I couldn’t make that shit up if I tried.
Now, according to a report in Politico (hardly a conservative publication), a majority of Americans believe the Deep State manipulates U.S. policies:
The majority of the country believes a group of unelected government and military officials secretly manipulate national policy, according to a Monmouth Poll released Monday.
Of the 803 adults polled, 27 percent said they believe the unelected group known as the deep state definitely exists. An additional 47 percent said it probably exists. Sixteen percent said it probably does not exist and 5 percent said they believe it definitely does not exist.
Although most people may consider the Deep State as the “administrative state”, or the “establishment”, one wonders how many of the sheeple would have been half-awakened if not for Trump. I say “half-awakened” because most know nothing of the round table groups as referred to by the historian, Carroll Quigley, or the secret societies as referenced by former president John F. Kennedy. This means the majority of Americans remain naïve, controlled, and at the whim of True Power.
But what about Trump?
Our president is either who he professes to be, or he is not. You either trust him, or you don’t. It could be he is playing the power game the best he can and prioritizing actualities that we can’t see for purposes we don’t know; or he’s puppet, or imbecilic sell-out leading us down to a dead-end on the primrose path.
Call me quixotic, but I remain cautiously hopeful. I remain so in spite of the warhawk John Bolton, Trump’s new war cabinet, and his latest hardliner stance with Russia. Why? Well, similar to the way I rejected solipsism in college for fear of being too lonely, I now refuse to despair over Trump’s personality swings because I enjoy the view.
Is he controlled opposition? Or controlled demolition?
Either way, I have nothing to lose and nowhere else I’d rather be at this time. There’s not one damn thing I can do to prevent Russian bombs so I will , instead, wait patiently for the imminent Inspector General’s report; which is said to contain some pure TNT.
What a panoramic scene that will be.
Will the revelations of Michael Horwitz’s report turn the tide for Trump and make America great again? Hope springs eternal. Or, it could be the global elite will trick Trump into cannonading the Cossacks in order to conclude any conversations on corruption in our country. Who knows? The elite bankers could also crash the economy, like Kondratieff and Elliot Grand Supercycle waves, on history’s rocky shore; leaving Trump in a rumpled heap right next to the bleached white bones of Herbert Hoover.
The winter of this Fourth Turning’s discontent will undoubtedly deliver war and economic turmoil; and not necessarily in that order. But what will ensue? Constitutional Law or tyranny?
Time reveals all things; and, what happens after the release of the Inspector General’s report will be very telling. Why? Because transitions are roads to revelations.
So keep going, watch, and see.
On the way, however, look for any false flags and know this: Tyranny wants you controlled or dead; it is, in fact, right behind you, and up just ahead. It also really, really, really wants your guns. If you don’t believe me, just look behind to see how fast we’ve traveled from Parkland, Florida to a full repeal of the Second Amendment.
Winter is here. A chill is in the air.
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Macerator Pump Dept. Blog: Don't Overthink Your Sailing Strategy
Don't Overcomplicate Your Sailing Methods
Raritan Engineering Company your macerator pump suppliers would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding why it is important not to over think your sailing strategy.
It's September 2018. Imagine yourself at the dock at the start of day two of that big event you've been working toward all year. Your macerator pump distributors discuss how it's currently blowing 18 knots with even bigger puffs because a front has just rolled through.
What should you set the rig to? Is the course full of waves and steep chop? Where is the sweet spot for your jib halyard? Are the jib cars too far forward, too far aft, or just right? What about the top main batten?
Hopefully, many of these questions will be answered in your preparation leading up to the big event because, if you try to focus on all these questions simultaneously, it's easy to get muddled and over complicate things.
First, have a plan and stick to it.
You've raced before, so set a routine that works and stick with it. For instance, you can keep provisioning simple by bringing the same food every day. You know what's been successful in the past, so why over complicate things?
Knowing when you need to get to the boat and when to leave the dock should also be part of your premade plan. Again, keep it simple.
Second, don't leave things to the last minute.
When you come in from racing, it's rare that something doesn't need to be fixed or tweaked. How tempting is it to say, “I'm tired. I'll just do that in the morning. What I need right now is a beer!”
Browse our macerator pumps here at Raritan Engineering, where we always take care of your marine sanitation supply needs.
Practice isn't last-minute either, even though we've all heard people say, “I'd like to get out to the racecourse early to practice.” During a major regatta is not the time to try to improve your skills.
Third, don't sweat the details you can't change.
As you head out to the racecourse, the question of whether your tuning is right always weighs on your mind, but don't dwell on it now.
If you've practiced and your team is ready, the tuning will be good enough to allow you to win the race. The point is not to focus on something you can't change. Keep it simple and focus only on important decisions you're able to make.
Fourth, make sure you're going fast.
Speed is king in keeping things simple. Both upwind and downwind, speed makes everything easier because it allows you to concentrate on the race and your tactics. Whatever your problems may be on the racecourse, speed will help you overcome them.
Have a plan and stick with it, never leave things to the last minute, and avoid getting stressed over details that you can't change. As some of you may have already heard me say: Sailboat racing is like NASCAR – just go fast and turn left!
So don't forget how you can stop over thinking your sailing strategy. 1) Have a plan and stick to it; 2) don't procrastinate; 3) don't sweat the details you can't change; and 4) go fast.
Huge shark spotted swimming next to a boat
We're reminded time and again of the numerous ways you can die in Australia thanks to frequent appearances by extremely venomous snakes, but then a shark that's not far off from being as long as a boat shows up.
The shark, identified as a great white, can be seen circling the waters where a 28-foot-long boat and its crew marveled at what was going on. The shark was swimming just over 150 feet away from a beach, according to reports.
“Big Fish – Fourth Beach Esperance today … by the way, that's an 8.5 metre Patrol boat,” Riggs wrote there. The boat, as we said before, measures in at 28 feet long, while the shark's eyeballed length was approximately 13 to 19.6 feet.
When you look at a shot of them nearly side by side, you see how huge this shark really is.
Riggs told PerthNow that he used a drone to record this footage.
“I got a tip off that a shark was out at Westies so I grabbed my drone and put it up. And what I got is this footage,” he said. “I reckon it had to be about four metres, and it looked as though it had been fed. It was just cruising along, it looked chilled.”
Reserve your items here and see how we provide you the best products in the marine sanitation industry today.
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Macerator Pump Dept. Blog: Don't Overthink Your Sailing Strategy
Don't Overcomplicate Your Sailing Methods
Raritan Engineering Company your macerator pump suppliers would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding why it is important not to over think your sailing strategy.
It's September 2018. Imagine yourself at the dock at the start of day two of that big event you've been working toward all year. Your macerator pump distributors discuss how it's currently blowing 18 knots with even bigger puffs because a front has just rolled through.
What should you set the rig to? Is the course full of waves and steep chop? Where is the sweet spot for your jib halyard? Are the jib cars too far forward, too far aft, or just right? What about the top main batten?
Hopefully, many of these questions will be answered in your preparation leading up to the big event because, if you try to focus on all these questions simultaneously, it's easy to get muddled and over complicate things.
First, have a plan and stick to it.
You've raced before, so set a routine that works and stick with it. For instance, you can keep provisioning simple by bringing the same food every day. You know what's been successful in the past, so why over complicate things?
Knowing when you need to get to the boat and when to leave the dock should also be part of your premade plan. Again, keep it simple.
Second, don't leave things to the last minute.
When you come in from racing, it's rare that something doesn't need to be fixed or tweaked. How tempting is it to say, “I'm tired. I'll just do that in the morning. What I need right now is a beer!”
Browse our macerator pumps here at Raritan Engineering, where we always take care of your marine sanitation supply needs.
Practice isn't last-minute either, even though we've all heard people say, “I'd like to get out to the racecourse early to practice.” During a major regatta is not the time to try to improve your skills.
Third, don't sweat the details you can't change.
As you head out to the racecourse, the question of whether your tuning is right always weighs on your mind, but don't dwell on it now.
If you've practiced and your team is ready, the tuning will be good enough to allow you to win the race. The point is not to focus on something you can't change. Keep it simple and focus only on important decisions you're able to make.
Fourth, make sure you're going fast.
Speed is king in keeping things simple. Both upwind and downwind, speed makes everything easier because it allows you to concentrate on the race and your tactics. Whatever your problems may be on the racecourse, speed will help you overcome them.
Have a plan and stick with it, never leave things to the last minute, and avoid getting stressed over details that you can't change. As some of you may have already heard me say: Sailboat racing is like NASCAR – just go fast and turn left!
So don't forget how you can stop over thinking your sailing strategy. 1) Have a plan and stick to it; 2) don't procrastinate; 3) don't sweat the details you can't change; and 4) go fast.
Huge shark spotted swimming next to a boat
We're reminded time and again of the numerous ways you can die in Australia thanks to frequent appearances by extremely venomous snakes, but then a shark that's not far off from being as long as a boat shows up.
The shark, identified as a great white, can be seen circling the waters where a 28-foot-long boat and its crew marveled at what was going on. The shark was swimming just over 150 feet away from a beach, according to reports.
“Big Fish – Fourth Beach Esperance today … by the way, that's an 8.5 metre Patrol boat,” Riggs wrote there. The boat, as we said before, measures in at 28 feet long, while the shark's eyeballed length was approximately 13 to 19.6 feet.
When you look at a shot of them nearly side by side, you see how huge this shark really is.
Riggs told PerthNow that he used a drone to record this footage.
“I got a tip off that a shark was out at Westies so I grabbed my drone and put it up. And what I got is this footage,” he said. “I reckon it had to be about four metres, and it looked as though it had been fed. It was just cruising along, it looked chilled.”
Reserve your items here and see how we provide you the best products in the marine sanitation industry today.
Be sure to watch our latest video on macerator pumps below.
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Toilet Macerator Division Blog: Importance of Good Sail Maintenance
Your Toilet Macerator Suppliers Share Amazing Tips for Keeping Your Sails in Great Shape
Raritan Engineering your toilet macerator manufacturers would like to share with you this week some great information regarding the importance of good sail maintenance.
1. Keep your sails out of the sun
If you have furling systems, this may be just a matter of furling sails when not in use. For non-furling sails, this means covering or stowing sails. There are cover options for both mainsails and headsails, allowing the sail to stay rigged and protected between uses.
2. Protect your furled sails
Most owners use sewn-on sun covers to protect furled sails. Sunbrella and WeatherMax are the fabrics commonly used for sun covers. For racer-cruisers and some racing sails like furling code zeros, there are lighter weight options such as UV-treated Dacron.
All sun covers should be inspected regularly and repaired if damaged. Generally speaking, covers should be re-stitched every three years or so to prevent more extensive damage to the fabric that can occur from flogging due to compromised stitching.
To provide maximum protection for your sails, sun covers require care and maintenance. Remember, if you can see the sailcloth below the cover…so can the sun!
3. Keep your sails clean
After sun, the second-worst enemy of any sail is salt; but other types of dirt and debris can be just as damaging. Periodic sail washing is key to maintaining your sails. A couple common-sense rules apply to frequency: 1) a sail that has been exposed to saltwater should be washed sooner rather than later, and 2) all other varying degrees of grime should be removed when possible.
4. Protect them from the elements
Sailmakers generally refer to the life of a sail in hours or seasons, rather than years. The lifespan is affected by the amount of time sailing and the level of care given to the sails. In the mid-Atlantic region, the main sailing season can begin in early spring and extend late into the fall.
If you know your sails are going to be sitting idle on the boat in a marina for at least a month or more during a sailing season, you can extend sail life by taking the sails off of your boat and stowing them.
5. Inspect sails regularly
At least once-a-year sails should get a check-up. To do this yourself, find a dry place in good light where you can lay them flat, then work your way over every inch of the sail, looking for trouble spots such as abrasion or loose stitching. Small problems can turn into bigger problems later, so be sure to note even the smallest details.
We Continue to Discuss Ways to Extend the Life of Your New Sails
6. Tape the turnbuckle
Your toilet macerator experts talk about how if you've ever scraped your finger on a piece of hardware, then you know it's sharp enough to damage your sail. Even seemingly blunt objects (like a spreader) can damage sails on a tack, so take a look around (and up) to see what can or should be covered to protect your sails. If you have an extra piece of spinnaker cloth, wipe it across every surface of your boat and rigging.
7. Check the leech
Even a well-protected spreader-tip or navigation light can wear a sail tack-after-tack. For these areas, a spreader-patch (or navigation light-patch, etc.) might be the answer.
8. Don't wait for repairs
A lot of catastrophic sail failures can be traced back to a small repair that was never made. When you notice a small hole or a chafed spot that's getting increasingly worse, save yourself serious head- and wallet-ache by addressing the problem while it is still small.
9. Bag It
Pretty simple here. There's a good reason new sails come with a sturdy bag and it's not just another place for a logo. That bag is a much cheaper sacrificial covering than the sail inside of it. Take a look at an old sailbag that's scuffed and torn-up, now imagine if that were your sail.
10. If you don't know, ask
Curious about some sail-care method you've heard somebody touting on the dock or trying to figure out if your sail could use a new piece of webbing on the tack? Feel free to call the service team at your local Quantum loft. We're happy to field your questions and provide helpful pointers. Consider us a member of your team.
So don't forget these great ways to keep your sails in great shape for a long time. 1) Keep your sails out of the sun; 2) don't wait for repairs; and 3) tape the turnbuckle.
Quieting Your Boat's Engine
The engine in my 1977 Down East 45 schooner, Britannia, is a tried and trusted – but noisy – Perkins 4-236, an 85-horsepower four-cylinder diesel.
I call the space the equipment bay. It runs 12 feet under the saloon floorboards and is 3 feet wide at the sole level, then tapers to just 15 inches at the bottom of the 41⁄2-foot-deep bilge. Seven removable floorboards give amazing access to all the equipment below, but the large space also acts as a massive boombox.
There are a number of products that claim to significantly reduce noise from machinery, and some are specifically designed for boats. The trouble with most of these is they are also specifically aimed at your bank balance!
In simple terms, the object of sound insulation is to absorb noise at its source, and thereby minimize what filters into the interior of the boat. It would be practically impossible to eliminate this altogether, but I had effectively reduced the engine noise from a similar diesel on a previous boat simply by installing a false floor beneath the cabin sole.
Before I started work on Britannia, I wanted to take a reading of the sound levels to have a numerical comparison after the modifications were complete. I downloaded a neat iPhone app, a decibel meter by Decibel Meter Pro, for the vast sum of 99 cents, from iTunes. It was very easy to use, and I took readings at head height in the center of the saloon.
Fitting the False Floor
To get started, it was first necessary to make support battens for the false floor panels to lie in, under the existing plywood sole. I bought a 24-by-48-inch sheet of ½-inch plywood and cut it into 4-inch-wide strips with my table saw. I also made ¾-inch square battens out of hardwood.
I screwed the ¾-inch square battens to the sides of each aperture to support the ends of the false floors. I painted the beams and all the new timbers white.
The sound-deadening properties of a ½-inch-thick sheet are actually better than the ¾-inch-thick marine plywood sole, which is roughly 35 pounds per cubic foot. (The MDF sheets were also available in ¾-inch thickness but would have been heavier and more expensive. In the end, I decided to compromise between weight, density and price, and go for the thinner stock.)
The simplest, time-honored method to handle boards covering apertures is to cut a hole in the board big enough to get a couple of fingers through to lift it in and out. But these MDF boards were too big and heavy for that, and it would also have allowed a little bit more noise and heat to escape.
The weight of the new fiberboards was 60 pounds, but it's all positioned low in the hull, and it was a small price to pay for reducing the noise. When lying between the beams, their weight also keeps them firmly in place. The sole and subfloor now has a combined thickness of 1¼ inches, with a density of about 80 pounds per cubic foot.
Beat the Heat
To complete the project, there was one more thing I wanted to do. We could often feel heat permeating through the single-thickness cabin sole when either of the diesel engines had been running a long time, especially on our own soles when walking barefoot.
I bought two 4-by-8-foot sheets of Rmax Thermasheath R6 foam-board insulation from Lowe's for $21.98 each. These are 2 inches thick, with aluminum foil on one face and an insulation rating of R6, which is the highest available for this thickness of foam. I cut them to the sizes I needed at the store using a sharp knife, which helped me fit them in my car.
The section of floor around the Perkins engine was particularly awkward because parts of the top of the engine were higher than the bottom of the floor beams. In fact, the valve cover was only an inch below the sole. This was, of course, the principal source of all the noise, so it needed special attention anyway.
I fitted battens all around the engine as I had in all the other openings, then shaped pieces of fiberboard to fit around the engine as well.
The remainder of the floor now had the ¾-inch plywood sole pieces, with 2 inches of foam glued underneath, then a ½-inch air gap, then the ½-inch MDF false floor. It was now certainly a compact floor.
After all this backbreaking work, I was naturally keen to take new readings on the decibel meter. With only the main engine running at the same revolutions per minute as before, my iPhone app meter read 65, a reduction of 20 db!
In addition to a considerable reduction in noise, there is now no perceptible heat coming through the floorboards, which helps to keep the living area cooler. Heat is carried outside by the engine-room extractor fans, and the noise from them is much reduced too.
Most projects I have undertaken on Britannia resulted in visible improvements, most notably when I renovated the teak-and-holly sole.
This method of sound insulation would be very worthwhile for any boat, offering excellent noise reduction for minimal financial outlay. I actually used some spare pieces of MDF to double the wall thickness in the spaces where my two air-conditioning units were installed, and this reduced the noise of the compressor and fan as well.
There are, of course, no labor charges factored into the cost of the job, which took me four days to complete, but messing about on boats is supposed to be fun.
Visit us at http://raritaneng.com/raritan-product-line/marine-toilets/seaera-et/ and see how Raritan Engineering provides you the best quality and selection in the marine sanitation industry today.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge Review
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge Review
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”25530,25531,25529,25525,25526,25522,25523,25520,25519,25528,25521,25527″][vc_column_text]Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me! Batten down the hatches, weight anchor and hoist the mizzen! ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ sails back into cinemas after a 6 year absence (can anyone believe it’s been that long?) for a fifth instalment, with as much gusto and moxie as ever. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’ (or ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ as it’s titled in the U.S.) gives us yet another adventure from Captain Jack Sparrow, hearkening back to some of the best and not as great parts of the franchise along the way.
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle. Jack’s only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
If you’re at all familiar with any of the other movies in the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise, particularly the later entries, you already have an idea of what to expect. This film doesn’t deviate much from the tried and true formula they’ve set along the way, despite two new directors in the form of Joachim Rǿnning and Espen Sandberg. Set many years after the previous entries, our familiar characters look much older but are still as spry as ever. There’s plenty of heart racing and fast paced action with a touch of humour throughout the film as we’ve come to expect, which is always thrilling to watch even it stretches plausibility at times.
This film is an entertaining mixed bag for sure. We return to Caribbean setting – this time in St. Martin – which doesn’t look all that different from Port Royal or any of the other towns we’ve seen, there’s plenty of inventive action that feels right at home with the rest of the franchise, no shortage of humour from Jack Sparrow primarily, plenty of different parties chasing after the mystical MacGuffin despite some of them ultimately not even needing to be in the chase and one could make the argument some of those groups not needing to be in the film at all. The plot is a slightly different twist on what we’ve seen, but yet despite some differences in the details, feels all too familiar. A dead ghost crew which harkens back to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl’ seems like a nice call back to the original movie, but yet feels like a retread at the same time. The humour we get throughout mostly lands, despite some misses as well, although it’s tough to deduce if the franchise itself is being pulled down by relying on it so heavily, especially when the overwhelming majority comes from Jack Sparrow. The charming and enigmatic pirate, with an over inflated sense of self importance, who seemed like a fool with deceptive cunning lurking beneath the surface, now seems like a total fool played for laughs and who lucks his way through situations either with help or purely by accident. It seems like a disservice to Captain Jack Sparrow, which they can hopefully try correct in future films, although audiences have also come to expect that from the character and do many want Disney to change?
Johnny Depp leads a great cast, reprising the role that he has both defined and in turn has come to define him, as Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp hardly disappoints and gives us what we’ve come to expect from him. He could practically sleepwalk his way through this role at this point. As seen in the trailer, we get a moment of a much younger Johnny Deep (much like Disney subsidiary Marvel Studios have done with Robert Downey Jr, Michael Douglas, Kurt Russell and others) by way of flashback that looks like it was plucked out of vault from twenty years ago. It really is a sight to behold. Despite the great cast and other characters driving the story, the movie is really Jack Sparrow’s from start to finish. Javier Bardem turns in another good performance as the ghostly and dead Captain Salazar. Bardem brings the right level of menace and presence to the role and the mood changes whenever he appears onscreen. This always goes down well when creating a villain and threat in these films; and the effects on his face, hair and crew are not bad either. Perhaps the best actor of this whole movie is the returning Geoffry Rush who arguably steals the show as rival turned ally: Captain Hector Barbossa. Proving to be an actor of distinction, Rush slips back into the role of Barbossa as easily as slipping into a familiar pair of shoes, and is as capable as ever playing a pirate as he is Albert Einstein. While he and his character are much older in this film, he is still having as much fun as ever and plays Barbossa to the hilt, stealing scenes and arguably gets the most character work and development. Benton Thwaites and Kaya Scodelario are fine in their roles as new characters to the franchise but don’t have the presence or the seasoning as the above mentioned cast, and rounding out the cast Kevin McNally who does fine work again as First Mate Joshamee Gibbs. Keep an eye out for some familiar cameos too.
I would feel I’m neglecting my duty if I didn’t take a moment to mention the great scoring of Klaus Badelt. Taking over from mentor Hans Zimmer who composed the previous ‘Pirate of the Caribbean’ film, Klaus Badelt delivers a great score that delivers all the classic musical themes and cue you have come to love in the franchise. If one didn’t take note of the credits, it would be hard to ever notice the difference. If you’re fan of film scores this one will be a treat and you’ll get a great sampling if you stay through the credits as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgeu5rhoxxY
‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge’ truly is a mixed bag. A fun and entertaining one to be sure, but mixed all the same. There’s plenty to of good acting, action and humour to keep us entertained, but also a lot of familiar beats and elements that could make some wonder why Disney needed to make another one. This one will likely come down to how much of a fan you are of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movies, but I’d say as much as it it doesn’t break new ground and one can nitpick about the creative decisions along the way, this is a film that will entertain fans of the franchise and anyone looking to enjoy a film on the big screen. Kids will love the characters and jokes, action junkies will get their fix, there’s some romance and familial relationships to keep female viewers happy and most will surely be satisfied one way or another when the credits roll, thus making it a fun family outing. There’s an extra post-credit scene for those dedicated enough to sit through the credits that may or may not hint at the future of the franchise so be mindful of that before entering Ster-Kinekor or Nu-Metro cinemas this weekend. Drink up me hearties, yo ho![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
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[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Reviewed on: Cinema 3D Available on: Cinema 2D, Cinema 3D, IMAX 3D, 4DX Genre: Action, Adventure Age Rating: 13 Estimated RRP: R50 – R175 Release Date: 26 May 2017[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
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Inventive and fast paced action
Casting
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa
Deaging CGI
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Too familiar?
Dumbing down Captain Jack?
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Toilet Macerator Division Blog: Importance of Good Sail Maintenance
Your Toilet Macerator Suppliers Share Amazing Tips for Keeping Your Sails in Great Shape
Raritan Engineering your toilet macerator manufacturers would like to share with you this week some great information regarding the importance of good sail maintenance.
1. Keep your sails out of the sun
If you have furling systems, this may be just a matter of furling sails when not in use. For non-furling sails, this means covering or stowing sails. There are cover options for both mainsails and headsails, allowing the sail to stay rigged and protected between uses.
2. Protect your furled sails
Most owners use sewn-on sun covers to protect furled sails. Sunbrella and WeatherMax are the fabrics commonly used for sun covers. For racer-cruisers and some racing sails like furling code zeros, there are lighter weight options such as UV-treated Dacron.
All sun covers should be inspected regularly and repaired if damaged. Generally speaking, covers should be re-stitched every three years or so to prevent more extensive damage to the fabric that can occur from flogging due to compromised stitching.
To provide maximum protection for your sails, sun covers require care and maintenance. Remember, if you can see the sailcloth below the cover…so can the sun!
3. Keep your sails clean
After sun, the second-worst enemy of any sail is salt; but other types of dirt and debris can be just as damaging. Periodic sail washing is key to maintaining your sails. A couple common-sense rules apply to frequency: 1) a sail that has been exposed to saltwater should be washed sooner rather than later, and 2) all other varying degrees of grime should be removed when possible.
4. Protect them from the elements
Sailmakers generally refer to the life of a sail in hours or seasons, rather than years. The lifespan is affected by the amount of time sailing and the level of care given to the sails. In the mid-Atlantic region, the main sailing season can begin in early spring and extend late into the fall.
If you know your sails are going to be sitting idle on the boat in a marina for at least a month or more during a sailing season, you can extend sail life by taking the sails off of your boat and stowing them.
5. Inspect sails regularly
At least once-a-year sails should get a check-up. To do this yourself, find a dry place in good light where you can lay them flat, then work your way over every inch of the sail, looking for trouble spots such as abrasion or loose stitching. Small problems can turn into bigger problems later, so be sure to note even the smallest details.
We Continue to Discuss Ways to Extend the Life of Your New Sails
6. Tape the turnbuckle
Your toilet macerator experts talk about how if you've ever scraped your finger on a piece of hardware, then you know it's sharp enough to damage your sail. Even seemingly blunt objects (like a spreader) can damage sails on a tack, so take a look around (and up) to see what can or should be covered to protect your sails. If you have an extra piece of spinnaker cloth, wipe it across every surface of your boat and rigging.
7. Check the leech
Even a well-protected spreader-tip or navigation light can wear a sail tack-after-tack. For these areas, a spreader-patch (or navigation light-patch, etc.) might be the answer.
8. Don't wait for repairs
A lot of catastrophic sail failures can be traced back to a small repair that was never made. When you notice a small hole or a chafed spot that's getting increasingly worse, save yourself serious head- and wallet-ache by addressing the problem while it is still small.
9. Bag It
Pretty simple here. There's a good reason new sails come with a sturdy bag and it's not just another place for a logo. That bag is a much cheaper sacrificial covering than the sail inside of it. Take a look at an old sailbag that's scuffed and torn-up, now imagine if that were your sail.
10. If you don't know, ask
Curious about some sail-care method you've heard somebody touting on the dock or trying to figure out if your sail could use a new piece of webbing on the tack? Feel free to call the service team at your local Quantum loft. We're happy to field your questions and provide helpful pointers. Consider us a member of your team.
So don't forget these great ways to keep your sails in great shape for a long time. 1) Keep your sails out of the sun; 2) don't wait for repairs; and 3) tape the turnbuckle.
Quieting Your Boat's Engine
The engine in my 1977 Down East 45 schooner, Britannia, is a tried and trusted – but noisy – Perkins 4-236, an 85-horsepower four-cylinder diesel.
I call the space the equipment bay. It runs 12 feet under the saloon floorboards and is 3 feet wide at the sole level, then tapers to just 15 inches at the bottom of the 41⁄2-foot-deep bilge. Seven removable floorboards give amazing access to all the equipment below, but the large space also acts as a massive boombox.
There are a number of products that claim to significantly reduce noise from machinery, and some are specifically designed for boats. The trouble with most of these is they are also specifically aimed at your bank balance!
In simple terms, the object of sound insulation is to absorb noise at its source, and thereby minimize what filters into the interior of the boat. It would be practically impossible to eliminate this altogether, but I had effectively reduced the engine noise from a similar diesel on a previous boat simply by installing a false floor beneath the cabin sole.
Before I started work on Britannia, I wanted to take a reading of the sound levels to have a numerical comparison after the modifications were complete. I downloaded a neat iPhone app, a decibel meter by Decibel Meter Pro, for the vast sum of 99 cents, from iTunes. It was very easy to use, and I took readings at head height in the center of the saloon.
Fitting the False Floor
To get started, it was first necessary to make support battens for the false floor panels to lie in, under the existing plywood sole. I bought a 24-by-48-inch sheet of ½-inch plywood and cut it into 4-inch-wide strips with my table saw. I also made ¾-inch square battens out of hardwood.
I screwed the ¾-inch square battens to the sides of each aperture to support the ends of the false floors. I painted the beams and all the new timbers white.
The sound-deadening properties of a ½-inch-thick sheet are actually better than the ¾-inch-thick marine plywood sole, which is roughly 35 pounds per cubic foot. (The MDF sheets were also available in ¾-inch thickness but would have been heavier and more expensive. In the end, I decided to compromise between weight, density and price, and go for the thinner stock.)
The simplest, time-honored method to handle boards covering apertures is to cut a hole in the board big enough to get a couple of fingers through to lift it in and out. But these MDF boards were too big and heavy for that, and it would also have allowed a little bit more noise and heat to escape.
The weight of the new fiberboards was 60 pounds, but it's all positioned low in the hull, and it was a small price to pay for reducing the noise. When lying between the beams, their weight also keeps them firmly in place. The sole and subfloor now has a combined thickness of 1¼ inches, with a density of about 80 pounds per cubic foot.
Beat the Heat
To complete the project, there was one more thing I wanted to do. We could often feel heat permeating through the single-thickness cabin sole when either of the diesel engines had been running a long time, especially on our own soles when walking barefoot.
I bought two 4-by-8-foot sheets of Rmax Thermasheath R6 foam-board insulation from Lowe's for $21.98 each. These are 2 inches thick, with aluminum foil on one face and an insulation rating of R6, which is the highest available for this thickness of foam. I cut them to the sizes I needed at the store using a sharp knife, which helped me fit them in my car.
The section of floor around the Perkins engine was particularly awkward because parts of the top of the engine were higher than the bottom of the floor beams. In fact, the valve cover was only an inch below the sole. This was, of course, the principal source of all the noise, so it needed special attention anyway.
I fitted battens all around the engine as I had in all the other openings, then shaped pieces of fiberboard to fit around the engine as well.
The remainder of the floor now had the ¾-inch plywood sole pieces, with 2 inches of foam glued underneath, then a ½-inch air gap, then the ½-inch MDF false floor. It was now certainly a compact floor.
After all this backbreaking work, I was naturally keen to take new readings on the decibel meter. With only the main engine running at the same revolutions per minute as before, my iPhone app meter read 65, a reduction of 20 db!
In addition to a considerable reduction in noise, there is now no perceptible heat coming through the floorboards, which helps to keep the living area cooler. Heat is carried outside by the engine-room extractor fans, and the noise from them is much reduced too.
Most projects I have undertaken on Britannia resulted in visible improvements, most notably when I renovated the teak-and-holly sole.
This method of sound insulation would be very worthwhile for any boat, offering excellent noise reduction for minimal financial outlay. I actually used some spare pieces of MDF to double the wall thickness in the spaces where my two air-conditioning units were installed, and this reduced the noise of the compressor and fan as well.
There are, of course, no labor charges factored into the cost of the job, which took me four days to complete, but messing about on boats is supposed to be fun.
Visit us at http://raritaneng.com/raritan-product-line/marine-toilets/seaera-et/ and see how Raritan Engineering provides you the best quality and selection in the marine sanitation industry today.
Be sure to watch our latest video on toilet macerators below.
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Toilet Macerator Division Blog: Importance of Good Sail Maintenance
Your Toilet Macerator Suppliers Share Amazing Tips for Keeping Your Sails in Great Shape
Raritan Engineering your toilet macerator manufacturers would like to share with you this week some great information regarding the importance of good sail maintenance.
1. Keep your sails out of the sun
If you have furling systems, this may be just a matter of furling sails when not in use. For non-furling sails, this means covering or stowing sails. There are cover options for both mainsails and headsails, allowing the sail to stay rigged and protected between uses.
2. Protect your furled sails
Most owners use sewn-on sun covers to protect furled sails. Sunbrella and WeatherMax are the fabrics commonly used for sun covers. For racer-cruisers and some racing sails like furling code zeros, there are lighter weight options such as UV-treated Dacron.
All sun covers should be inspected regularly and repaired if damaged. Generally speaking, covers should be re-stitched every three years or so to prevent more extensive damage to the fabric that can occur from flogging due to compromised stitching.
To provide maximum protection for your sails, sun covers require care and maintenance. Remember, if you can see the sailcloth below the cover…so can the sun!
3. Keep your sails clean
After sun, the second-worst enemy of any sail is salt; but other types of dirt and debris can be just as damaging. Periodic sail washing is key to maintaining your sails. A couple common-sense rules apply to frequency: 1) a sail that has been exposed to saltwater should be washed sooner rather than later, and 2) all other varying degrees of grime should be removed when possible.
4. Protect them from the elements
Sailmakers generally refer to the life of a sail in hours or seasons, rather than years. The lifespan is affected by the amount of time sailing and the level of care given to the sails. In the mid-Atlantic region, the main sailing season can begin in early spring and extend late into the fall.
If you know your sails are going to be sitting idle on the boat in a marina for at least a month or more during a sailing season, you can extend sail life by taking the sails off of your boat and stowing them.
5. Inspect sails regularly
At least once-a-year sails should get a check-up. To do this yourself, find a dry place in good light where you can lay them flat, then work your way over every inch of the sail, looking for trouble spots such as abrasion or loose stitching. Small problems can turn into bigger problems later, so be sure to note even the smallest details.
We Continue to Discuss Ways to Extend the Life of Your New Sails
6. Tape the turnbuckle
Your toilet macerator experts talk about how if you've ever scraped your finger on a piece of hardware, then you know it's sharp enough to damage your sail. Even seemingly blunt objects (like a spreader) can damage sails on a tack, so take a look around (and up) to see what can or should be covered to protect your sails. If you have an extra piece of spinnaker cloth, wipe it across every surface of your boat and rigging.
7. Check the leech
Even a well-protected spreader-tip or navigation light can wear a sail tack-after-tack. For these areas, a spreader-patch (or navigation light-patch, etc.) might be the answer.
8. Don't wait for repairs
A lot of catastrophic sail failures can be traced back to a small repair that was never made. When you notice a small hole or a chafed spot that's getting increasingly worse, save yourself serious head- and wallet-ache by addressing the problem while it is still small.
9. Bag It
Pretty simple here. There's a good reason new sails come with a sturdy bag and it's not just another place for a logo. That bag is a much cheaper sacrificial covering than the sail inside of it. Take a look at an old sailbag that's scuffed and torn-up, now imagine if that were your sail.
10. If you don't know, ask
Curious about some sail-care method you've heard somebody touting on the dock or trying to figure out if your sail could use a new piece of webbing on the tack? Feel free to call the service team at your local Quantum loft. We're happy to field your questions and provide helpful pointers. Consider us a member of your team.
So don't forget these great ways to keep your sails in great shape for a long time. 1) Keep your sails out of the sun; 2) don't wait for repairs; and 3) tape the turnbuckle.
Quieting Your Boat's Engine
The engine in my 1977 Down East 45 schooner, Britannia, is a tried and trusted – but noisy – Perkins 4-236, an 85-horsepower four-cylinder diesel.
I call the space the equipment bay. It runs 12 feet under the saloon floorboards and is 3 feet wide at the sole level, then tapers to just 15 inches at the bottom of the 41⁄2-foot-deep bilge. Seven removable floorboards give amazing access to all the equipment below, but the large space also acts as a massive boombox.
There are a number of products that claim to significantly reduce noise from machinery, and some are specifically designed for boats. The trouble with most of these is they are also specifically aimed at your bank balance!
In simple terms, the object of sound insulation is to absorb noise at its source, and thereby minimize what filters into the interior of the boat. It would be practically impossible to eliminate this altogether, but I had effectively reduced the engine noise from a similar diesel on a previous boat simply by installing a false floor beneath the cabin sole.
Before I started work on Britannia, I wanted to take a reading of the sound levels to have a numerical comparison after the modifications were complete. I downloaded a neat iPhone app, a decibel meter by Decibel Meter Pro, for the vast sum of 99 cents, from iTunes. It was very easy to use, and I took readings at head height in the center of the saloon.
Fitting the False Floor
To get started, it was first necessary to make support battens for the false floor panels to lie in, under the existing plywood sole. I bought a 24-by-48-inch sheet of ½-inch plywood and cut it into 4-inch-wide strips with my table saw. I also made ¾-inch square battens out of hardwood.
I screwed the ¾-inch square battens to the sides of each aperture to support the ends of the false floors. I painted the beams and all the new timbers white.
The sound-deadening properties of a ½-inch-thick sheet are actually better than the ¾-inch-thick marine plywood sole, which is roughly 35 pounds per cubic foot. (The MDF sheets were also available in ¾-inch thickness but would have been heavier and more expensive. In the end, I decided to compromise between weight, density and price, and go for the thinner stock.)
The simplest, time-honored method to handle boards covering apertures is to cut a hole in the board big enough to get a couple of fingers through to lift it in and out. But these MDF boards were too big and heavy for that, and it would also have allowed a little bit more noise and heat to escape.
The weight of the new fiberboards was 60 pounds, but it's all positioned low in the hull, and it was a small price to pay for reducing the noise. When lying between the beams, their weight also keeps them firmly in place. The sole and subfloor now has a combined thickness of 1¼ inches, with a density of about 80 pounds per cubic foot.
Beat the Heat
To complete the project, there was one more thing I wanted to do. We could often feel heat permeating through the single-thickness cabin sole when either of the diesel engines had been running a long time, especially on our own soles when walking barefoot.
I bought two 4-by-8-foot sheets of Rmax Thermasheath R6 foam-board insulation from Lowe's for $21.98 each. These are 2 inches thick, with aluminum foil on one face and an insulation rating of R6, which is the highest available for this thickness of foam. I cut them to the sizes I needed at the store using a sharp knife, which helped me fit them in my car.
The section of floor around the Perkins engine was particularly awkward because parts of the top of the engine were higher than the bottom of the floor beams. In fact, the valve cover was only an inch below the sole. This was, of course, the principal source of all the noise, so it needed special attention anyway.
I fitted battens all around the engine as I had in all the other openings, then shaped pieces of fiberboard to fit around the engine as well.
The remainder of the floor now had the ¾-inch plywood sole pieces, with 2 inches of foam glued underneath, then a ½-inch air gap, then the ½-inch MDF false floor. It was now certainly a compact floor.
After all this backbreaking work, I was naturally keen to take new readings on the decibel meter. With only the main engine running at the same revolutions per minute as before, my iPhone app meter read 65, a reduction of 20 db!
In addition to a considerable reduction in noise, there is now no perceptible heat coming through the floorboards, which helps to keep the living area cooler. Heat is carried outside by the engine-room extractor fans, and the noise from them is much reduced too.
Most projects I have undertaken on Britannia resulted in visible improvements, most notably when I renovated the teak-and-holly sole.
This method of sound insulation would be very worthwhile for any boat, offering excellent noise reduction for minimal financial outlay. I actually used some spare pieces of MDF to double the wall thickness in the spaces where my two air-conditioning units were installed, and this reduced the noise of the compressor and fan as well.
There are, of course, no labor charges factored into the cost of the job, which took me four days to complete, but messing about on boats is supposed to be fun.
Visit us at http://raritaneng.com/raritan-product-line/marine-toilets/seaera-et/ and see how Raritan Engineering provides you the best quality and selection in the marine sanitation industry today.
Be sure to watch our latest video on toilet macerators below.
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via Extending the Life of Your Sails
via Photo
via Quieting Your Boat's Engine
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Toilet Macerator Division Blog: Importance of Good Sail Maintenance
Your Toilet Macerator Suppliers Share Amazing Tips for Keeping Your Sails in Great Shape
Raritan Engineering your toilet macerator manufacturers would like to share with you this week some great information regarding the importance of good sail maintenance.
1. Keep your sails out of the sun
If you have furling systems, this may be just a matter of furling sails when not in use. For non-furling sails, this means covering or stowing sails. There are cover options for both mainsails and headsails, allowing the sail to stay rigged and protected between uses.
2. Protect your furled sails
Most owners use sewn-on sun covers to protect furled sails. Sunbrella and WeatherMax are the fabrics commonly used for sun covers. For racer-cruisers and some racing sails like furling code zeros, there are lighter weight options such as UV-treated Dacron.
All sun covers should be inspected regularly and repaired if damaged. Generally speaking, covers should be re-stitched every three years or so to prevent more extensive damage to the fabric that can occur from flogging due to compromised stitching.
To provide maximum protection for your sails, sun covers require care and maintenance. Remember, if you can see the sailcloth below the cover...so can the sun!
3. Keep your sails clean
After sun, the second-worst enemy of any sail is salt; but other types of dirt and debris can be just as damaging. Periodic sail washing is key to maintaining your sails. A couple common-sense rules apply to frequency: 1) a sail that has been exposed to saltwater should be washed sooner rather than later, and 2) all other varying degrees of grime should be removed when possible.
4. Protect them from the elements
Sailmakers generally refer to the life of a sail in hours or seasons, rather than years. The lifespan is affected by the amount of time sailing and the level of care given to the sails. In the mid-Atlantic region, the main sailing season can begin in early spring and extend late into the fall.
If you know your sails are going to be sitting idle on the boat in a marina for at least a month or more during a sailing season, you can extend sail life by taking the sails off of your boat and stowing them.
5. Inspect sails regularly
At least once-a-year sails should get a check-up. To do this yourself, find a dry place in good light where you can lay them flat, then work your way over every inch of the sail, looking for trouble spots such as abrasion or loose stitching. Small problems can turn into bigger problems later, so be sure to note even the smallest details.
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6. Tape the turnbuckle
Your toilet macerator experts talk about how if you've ever scraped your finger on a piece of hardware, then you know it's sharp enough to damage your sail. Even seemingly blunt objects (like a spreader) can damage sails on a tack, so take a look around (and up) to see what can or should be covered to protect your sails. If you have an extra piece of spinnaker cloth, wipe it across every surface of your boat and rigging.
7. Check the leech
Even a well-protected spreader-tip or navigation light can wear a sail tack-after-tack. For these areas, a spreader-patch (or navigation light-patch, etc.) might be the answer.
8. Don't wait for repairs
A lot of catastrophic sail failures can be traced back to a small repair that was never made. When you notice a small hole or a chafed spot that's getting increasingly worse, save yourself serious head- and wallet-ache by addressing the problem while it is still small.
9. Bag It
Pretty simple here. There's a good reason new sails come with a sturdy bag and it's not just another place for a logo. That bag is a much cheaper sacrificial covering than the sail inside of it. Take a look at an old sailbag that's scuffed and torn-up, now imagine if that were your sail.
10. If you don't know, ask
Curious about some sail-care method you've heard somebody touting on the dock or trying to figure out if your sail could use a new piece of webbing on the tack? Feel free to call the service team at your local Quantum loft. We're happy to field your questions and provide helpful pointers. Consider us a member of your team.
So don't forget these great ways to keep your sails in great shape for a long time. 1) Keep your sails out of the sun; 2) don't wait for repairs; and 3) tape the turnbuckle.
Quieting Your Boat's Engine
The engine in my 1977 Down East 45 schooner, Britannia, is a tried and trusted - but noisy - Perkins 4-236, an 85-horsepower four-cylinder diesel.
I call the space the equipment bay. It runs 12 feet under the saloon floorboards and is 3 feet wide at the sole level, then tapers to just 15 inches at the bottom of the 41⁄2-foot-deep bilge. Seven removable floorboards give amazing access to all the equipment below, but the large space also acts as a massive boombox.
There are a number of products that claim to significantly reduce noise from machinery, and some are specifically designed for boats. The trouble with most of these is they are also specifically aimed at your bank balance!
In simple terms, the object of sound insulation is to absorb noise at its source, and thereby minimize what filters into the interior of the boat. It would be practically impossible to eliminate this altogether, but I had effectively reduced the engine noise from a similar diesel on a previous boat simply by installing a false floor beneath the cabin sole.
Before I started work on Britannia, I wanted to take a reading of the sound levels to have a numerical comparison after the modifications were complete. I downloaded a neat iPhone app, a decibel meter by Decibel Meter Pro, for the vast sum of 99 cents, from iTunes. It was very easy to use, and I took readings at head height in the center of the saloon.
Fitting the False Floor
To get started, it was first necessary to make support battens for the false floor panels to lie in, under the existing plywood sole. I bought a 24-by-48-inch sheet of ½-inch plywood and cut it into 4-inch-wide strips with my table saw. I also made ¾-inch square battens out of hardwood.
I screwed the ¾-inch square battens to the sides of each aperture to support the ends of the false floors. I painted the beams and all the new timbers white.
The sound-deadening properties of a ½-inch-thick sheet are actually better than the ¾-inch-thick marine plywood sole, which is roughly 35 pounds per cubic foot. (The MDF sheets were also available in ¾-inch thickness but would have been heavier and more expensive. In the end, I decided to compromise between weight, density and price, and go for the thinner stock.)
The simplest, time-honored method to handle boards covering apertures is to cut a hole in the board big enough to get a couple of fingers through to lift it in and out. But these MDF boards were too big and heavy for that, and it would also have allowed a little bit more noise and heat to escape.
The weight of the new fiberboards was 60 pounds, but it's all positioned low in the hull, and it was a small price to pay for reducing the noise. When lying between the beams, their weight also keeps them firmly in place. The sole and subfloor now has a combined thickness of 1¼ inches, with a density of about 80 pounds per cubic foot.
Beat the Heat
To complete the project, there was one more thing I wanted to do. We could often feel heat permeating through the single-thickness cabin sole when either of the diesel engines had been running a long time, especially on our own soles when walking barefoot.
I bought two 4-by-8-foot sheets of Rmax Thermasheath R6 foam-board insulation from Lowe's for $21.98 each. These are 2 inches thick, with aluminum foil on one face and an insulation rating of R6, which is the highest available for this thickness of foam. I cut them to the sizes I needed at the store using a sharp knife, which helped me fit them in my car.
The section of floor around the Perkins engine was particularly awkward because parts of the top of the engine were higher than the bottom of the floor beams. In fact, the valve cover was only an inch below the sole. This was, of course, the principal source of all the noise, so it needed special attention anyway.
I fitted battens all around the engine as I had in all the other openings, then shaped pieces of fiberboard to fit around the engine as well.
The remainder of the floor now had the ¾-inch plywood sole pieces, with 2 inches of foam glued underneath, then a ½-inch air gap, then the ½-inch MDF false floor. It was now certainly a compact floor.
After all this backbreaking work, I was naturally keen to take new readings on the decibel meter. With only the main engine running at the same revolutions per minute as before, my iPhone app meter read 65, a reduction of 20 db!
In addition to a considerable reduction in noise, there is now no perceptible heat coming through the floorboards, which helps to keep the living area cooler. Heat is carried outside by the engine-room extractor fans, and the noise from them is much reduced too.
Most projects I have undertaken on Britannia resulted in visible improvements, most notably when I renovated the teak-and-holly sole.
This method of sound insulation would be very worthwhile for any boat, offering excellent noise reduction for minimal financial outlay. I actually used some spare pieces of MDF to double the wall thickness in the spaces where my two air-conditioning units were installed, and this reduced the noise of the compressor and fan as well.
There are, of course, no labor charges factored into the cost of the job, which took me four days to complete, but messing about on boats is supposed to be fun.
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