Doesn't take much to amuse me.

This one has potential on those low wind days.







These were all on the web and thought I'd share.

Thanks Chook........some of us dont realise that most things have been done

then lost in time. The biggest theme from old photos seems to be that it was a

multi person [family] passtime.....where now it is individual stress release

Charley's rig cracked me up.

I think that fibreglass sailbus was a kiwi machine being built for a beachside resort or hotel, but was cancelled halfway through for some reason.

stephen

AD landyachts found it on the greenbird website

desertyank said...

Nice pics.

Been a while since we've flown a flag with 13 stars too

I was sent acopy of this photo from friends in California
I believe the problem is that 13 stars predates photography?

colk2004 said...

Thats the one.



It's the fred flinstone wheels that did it for me That must have been one rough old ride.

Cheers Col

Col I recall picking up the hubs of those actual wheels back in the 1980's and they took 2 people. the wheels,and mast step were rescued from being buried by causeway builders in the early 70's, but the remains were picked up by an environmental cleanup crew around1998 from the old clubhouse and ended as landfill. ther were 2 pulleys also recovered from the remains . the club has 1(sitting in a box in my office as we have no clubhouse) and I believe an ex-member who frequents this site may have the other one(not me or TP1)
Its a frustrating yacht to find info about as the owner of the photo album<which that image appears to have been scanned from,is relly hard to track down. the album has a collection of kodak brownie prints taken by a chap that worked in the area and passed on to his family, and is the only known collection from that area.
Our museum had the album for a short while and didnt copy,preserve or record the details of the owner. so all i have is a name -Fred Chambers.
I sat down one day and rang very Chambers in WA and almost worked out their family tree, with some help from one lovely lady in Busselton. I even found one of her missing cousins!!!!! but never did track down the album

they are manky bits in a pile under a tree. they approached me to give aprice to fix them up, but i said they were U/S
they have some blokarts but i think they may belong to the scout leaders.
they come out maybe once a year and play

while we are at it

Thanks Gizmo,
If it ain't one of them then it's one of the other Either way it is very much like a Manta.
Ta,
Ron

Nikrum said...

Yeah Paul,
What Breed of LY are those in the Pic?? LAN/Nelson has one over here and is still sailing it..
You and TP1 have been remarkably quiet the last week or two??
Ron

I will try to get a photo of the remains of theose scout yachts.
meanwhile TP1 and i have been doing what you folks call WORK !!!!!
5.15 starts and 40+degree days.
today was the day when i almost fell over from heat stroke.
buggered if I know how TP1 can work in overalls

mistery solved........my scouting troop were at that jamboreee in perth. they must have come back east with the thought implanted. Thay built at least two, which are probably [stored] somewhere. these things loose enthusiasm over time. I have seen them in the flesh, interpreation..... slightly aggricultural

Kids, well not just the kids either, seem to live in an instant world.
They are devastated if their text isn't answered in seconds.
I find the same thing with the yachts.

My spare yacht "Saltern", has now done over 100 hours of sailing. (Of that I've used it for about 15 mins with the hand steering on it)
I always take it to the lake on the trailer and someone gets their bum in it.

I get heaps of interest about it, as they have had such a great time.
The question is always the same. How much would you charge to build one?
There is no way I would do this, as it defeats the whole purpose, and I don't have enough time anyway.

I have photocopied Pauls plans off seabreeze (inappropriate use of government equipment I know) and tell them to check out this forum.
All the phone numbers and addresses are there to source what's required locally and home they go with these plans, along with the offer of the use of my jig to weld them up when they get to that point.
So far, not one phone call and 8 packs given out.
The question is always the same. How much would you charge to build them?
They just want to pay the money and go sailing.
I'm stumped as to what the answer is

That sn has been the Barrow I've pushed for years..
To reiterate an old but very true story. When I was managing a farm up on the Sassafras in NSW we never had much money and my little boy he was little then but big for his size wanted one of those Robot Toys made up of 5 Lions. The Bloody thing was $90 and we never had the cash. Anyway I said "OK, you save the money and you can buy it, which he judiciously did by helping Feed Out the Cattle and every week I gave him $5 for his troubles.. He saved his 90 Bucks and so bought his Robot. This in itself was a good leson for him.

What happened next is the Story! Some weeks later my B-in-L, who worked for a Cab Company found another identical Robot in a Cab which they bought down and gave to Our Little Trav' who promptly put the one he bought to one side and treated the one he was given like crap until it no longer was of use to Man Nor Beast..

Moral of the Story?? Well figure it for yourself>> He had the Robot he payed for, for many years...

Ron

colk....well, youd'v had to go out and jump from a tall building to impress that

mob, what line of business was it, just so i can avoid it forever.[}:)]

let them all know...dont bother immigrating, we need better than that!!

have you considered that they simply dont know any better