Its quite here Nickypoos, hows things the way you come, Cisco is probably sleeping in or out looking for his horse. Did you hear it, the noise from the lake out west, this morning not long after dawn. Sound travells a bit slower than light so it may still take you some time yet....keep listening..... Sounded like a big big chook......or.........maybe.....a ROOSTER now, listen for the crowing.

Yer Right! GJ. Bloody Noisy I heered it about 5.30 yesty arvo! Damn Bright Flashes when it backfires as well and upset the tele an' all.. Tell 'im tu take it easy will yu..
Ron[}:)]

Hi Fellas,

yep- Chooks monster lives!

last I saw (Monday arvo) the crew were mostly still alive and hadnt lost too much hair.

The jet needs a bit of fine tuning, the sparklers work a treat at lighting the fire.
It needs some fine tuning with the fuel feed- trying to get the right amount isnt too simple- and bottles freeze up after a minute or so.

When first fired up, fellas 3 klicks away-cutting firewood, could hear it over thier chainsaw!
(they actually thought thier chainsaw was making a strange noise until they turned the saw off- and the noise was still there!)
When it quit due to freezing up, we could hear the echo roaring back from St Ives minesite for another 30-40 seconds.

awesome stuff!

cant wait to see the vids!

I took "Pannikin" for a spin on sat, sun, monday, 4.5m sail,
winds varied from light to the "ohs%^*I'mscrewed" level

I have no idea how I survived

The lake surface is perfect, winds were light and patchy to start with, but got better and better.
Sunday 10pmish, the wind came up and a lot of us went for a sail- torch taped to mast shining onto the sail- and "firefly" LED flashing lights screwed onto wheel valvecaps.
Bloke with a kite buggy had his kite thingy lit up- looked like a giant leaf blowing in the wind- pretty cool
minesite blokes must have been going loopy trying to work out what was going on out on the salt.
I got a bit "geographically embarrassed" at one point until I spotted a flashing light- assuming it was one of the landyachts I tried chasing it- turned out to be a minesite vehicle beacon on a causeway (oops) did a quick 180 and found the pack way behind me

Chook and a few of the "non work afflicted" crew are staying on a bit longer to test out the huge kite buggy Chook made, and have some more fun.

Only thing I've heard , so far, is a Frog in the audiance. Ribit, ribit, ribit. Ain't like to hear nuthi till one of yuz westerners posts some footage.
I didn't even manage to catch a Trout even though the weather SCREAMED "FISH"
Ron

well joe, it is my opinion that land sailing in this state anyway has passed awayand if it hasn't yet passed away it's about to and i suspect it would take a miricle to revive it from it's present stateand i don't do miricles anymore so i guess i'll leave it to it's own death throws to many key board sailors, to many wanna be's,call it what you will but as far as i can see it's like flogging a dead or dying horse

beachball57 said...
well joe, it is my opinion that land sailing in this state anyway has passed awayand if it hasn't yet passed away it's about to and i suspect it would take a miricle to revive it from it's present stateand i don't do miricles anymore so i guess i'll leave it to it's own death throws to many key board sailors, to many wanna be's,call it what you will but as far as i can see it's like flogging a dead or dying horse

BB, You can lead a Horse to water but you can't make it drink.. A proven fact..

Get on with your own game now and enjoy it.
Ron

ye seems like a plan Joe, now that I'm working for myself I can plan ahead, as it were,,,yeh Ron I think I'll just "do my own thing" for awhile and see what happens, if anyone wants to come sailing when i do they'll be welcome,, still have a trip or two planned to lake gilles before it gets to hot,, or maybe after xmas when the summer heat has gone,,,so i'll still be sailing around i guess,,

Hey Tony we are planning to come across to Lake Gillies for Melbourne Cup Weekend more than welcome to wander out and join us.