grendel

Ah, just had to log in and redownload my maps as I didnt realise my app had updated, just awaiting an 88mb download now

I seem to recall when we were discussing this a while back the what 3 words location for one forum member was one of 4 3m squares in the car park outside his house. my issue with what 3 words is that to use it you require an internet connection, what i like about mine is that both the speed app i use (gps test) and the os mapping, work offline (with the os mapping you need to have bought the paper map od the broads area, and with that you get a free download of that map to their app, which works offline, it will show a view outside that area to a certain scale if you have the internet connection. I think your main stumbling block MM will be the fact the tablet is windows 10, so the android apps wont work, is your phone windows 10 too, if so we will need to be looking for a whole different set of apps to do the same job.

when you think about it there is all the free advertising they get - even if its just people discussing it on forums.

I believe they can set the views from the control point so wont need to get up to the camera again.

see the square at the bottom right that changed to two rectangles, if you put your finger on the square long enough it goes split screen to the two rectangles, the same to reverse the process. first fire up the first app, then split screen and fire up the second app.

the gps isnt working right now as I am indoors inside a big metal roofed building, this tends to block the satellites.

Like this

then I split screen it with os maps to get the map showing where I am

I use GPS test on my tablet

also remember that most boats like to get close to the home yard overnight before handover day, so most boats will have a whole nights electric use and maybe half an hour of cruising to get back to the yard, thus the batteries on handoved could well do with an additional top up.

when I was staying at the hickling campsite there was a company that came and set up a tent for a lady that was doing a walking or cycling holiday, basically she just got up and started toward her next destination and the company came and took down the tent, moving it lock stock and barrel to her destination campsite and re setting it up ready for when she arrived later that day, sounds a wonderful sort of holiday, but I suppose not that cheap if someone is basically doing all the work for you.

thats the one, huge place, we had a party of about 180 people, and there were two more functions of a similar size going on, yet everything was running smooth as silk.

I was passenger in my friends car many years back now, and we were driving along with the windows open and he flicked his cigarette out of the window, it sailed back in the rear window and went down the back of his tee shirt, talk about panic, i eventually got it out and out of the car, while my friend managed to pull up on the hard shoulder

my day - last Friday. well it was up with the lark, a 4.30am start as that is when I awoke, ready for work and off, a few delays on the way to work, but in before 8am, an hours work, then its time for the directors end of year briefing and our own team briefing. next was training a colleague how to do a specific thing in google earth, and by now its lunch time. since we have the company Christmas do this evening and its in Birmingham, we are allowed to set off at 1pm, so a quick rush to get another job out and then its out to the car with a colleague to head for Birmingham. my plans had been M25 M40 M42 to the NEC, this was to avoid the M1 roadworks, but just as I approached the M1 turning all of the traffic signs started showing a warning J2 - J4 of the M40 were shut until 8pm, so turn off and up the M1, 50mph most of the way due to traffic and roadworks. so our 2 1/2 hour trip turned into 3 1/2 hours with my passenger talking work all the way. after arriving we booked into the hotel rooms, to be fair I have had bigger rooms but it had all the necessary fittings and was comfortable. the hotel where we were was the hilton at the NEC, so at 6pm when I recieved a call from another work mate asking which hilton hotel we were supposed to be at I answered - only to find she had gone to the one in the centre of Birmingham, oops. at 7pm i went down and joined the throng around the bar, where the free champers and beer were being handed around, I was collared by the company Managing director who greeted me and said he would see me at breakfast next day (he is another early riser and is usually down as soon as breakfast starts like me) and at 7.30 we were ushered into the event room (I later found out the hotel was running 3 big events that evening, which they easily managed without getting the events merged at all,) the meal was good, and we had entertainments in the form of a drumming group that got everyone involved using wooden spoons and kitchen utensils, that was great fun. It was at this point I kept getting the ladies coming up to me and passing me their room keys to look after - well what could I say (it turned out that the ladies only had small handbags and had been told by the reception not to put their door keys next to bank cards or mobile phones, so as I had lots of pockets and was fairly sober I was chosen to look after them). I say I was fairly sober, I had had a glass of the champaigne and was on my third bottle of cider at this point ( there was an ice bucket with beers and ciders and I was the only one on our table drinking the cider). the evening progressed with a band and dancing (which I managed to avoid) and a couple of video games that matched the ice spectacular theme for the evening. amazingly though several people were drinking to excess, nobody embarrased themselves or the company, (well not before midnight when I sloped off to bed anyway - having of course handed back the keys to the ladies so they could get into their rooms (I have to get to bed before midnight to avoid turning into a pumkin) I had a nice lie in until 6am, when I got up, showered and was ready to face breakfast and the next day in general. Normally at a hotel when I get up and head for breakfast as soon as the service starts at 7am, I am a lone individual for at least the first half hour, but this time was different, as the hotel also caters for the airline staff, the restaurant was full of tiny maroon airline stewardesses and air crew, al twittering around and having their tiny (egg on a slice of toast was the biggest I saw) breakfasts, I just went down the buffet line and loaded my plate with several of each option, yes fried egg as well as scrambled. this with a glass of orange juice was my first course, next of course was the toast and coffee, followed by the continental breakfast (i skipped the cereals). during this time I was joined by several colleagues all breakfasting and eventually my travelling companion showed up (I had impressed upon him that we would be leaving around 9am) so an hour and a half into the breakfast service, I finally completed my leisurely breakfast and headed back to my room, to get my bags and check out. We left on the dot of 9am, and this time I was determined to go home via the M40, it was of course raining and visibility was not the best, but we got the best part of the way without issue, then the rain stopped, and the sun came out, this would have been nice except we were heading straight into the sun and the spray was terrible, making the driving difficult. anyway 2 1/2 hours after we had left I dropped my colleague back at the office, pumped his flat tyre up for him and lent him a spare tyre pump, then it was onwards for home, where I arrived at about 1pm unfortunately this wasnt the end of my day as that evening it was my astronomy club christmas party, so once again I headed out and joined in the christmas cheer. as is ever the case when a group of astronomers get together, it happened that I spotted the moon was looking lovely and went out with camera and new lens to get some more moon pictures, and was soon joined by several others also taking advantage of the clear skies. ten pm and we were winding down, by now i was shattered, so headed home and hit the sack, sleeping well after my busy 42 hours

you would need to put a lot of air in the tyres for them to get about on the broads

the shaping for the top of the windows

today it was more work on the inside of the cockpit, a wide thin piece of teak was chosen, and cardboard patterns were made up and the inner sides of the cockpit were cut out this piece was 3" wide by just a shade over 2mm thick, and has been cut to size ready for fitting. a recess will be cut into the top and a handle will be fitted to the top of the window sash to allow the sash to be raised.

I see its a very appropriate song for you Jay.

just turn the volume down MM that will work

as an serial wooden boat hirer, i would certainly be interested in maybe a couple of weeks in the year (that would depend upon the weeks in question, a certain week in august maybe?) plus i would be willing to assist in maintenance as far as my skills go. its certainly of interest to me as it would give me a way into at least a part of a wooden boat, whilst i cant promise too much time at present i am sure i could at least make some time available to assist in the renovation and preservation of other basket cases too, even if it is just constructing parts in my home workshop to contribute to the cause.

thats funny, I have just submitted Jays to the Babysitting Service

retirement age.... I dont want to retire I really enjoy doing my job and helping all the people I work for, and to be honest the company I work for are great, we even made no.8 in the best UK workplaces awards (for large companies) this year, only our second year into our participation, there cant be many workplaces that provide free yoga once a week.

only just snuck into the 60's by under a month

ooh, that means i only have just over a month to wait for free prescriptions myself.

I have never yet needed an electric point, martham boats never have electric hookup and they do have pretty good batteries as almost the only electric item is the fridge lights and shower pump