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any little gaps will be tightened up and disappear when this is glued down.

so after doing the stepped joint, and staining the wood with teak stain, here is the result on side 2

the issue I can see is that to go to a full tabernacle and counterweight system would possibly require a hatch to be cut through the deck, you will excuse me please if I am wrong, but most of my experience is from wooden yachts with timber masts, which do generally require counterweights for the ease of raising/ lowering required for the broads bridges.

Today I was helping out at the elham valley railway museum, doing crafts, so it was pyrography, finishing off the second side of deck planking, awaiting delivery of more 1/32" ply to do the foredeck, I also spent a few hours assisting someone threading up a 4 shaft table loom, as its something I have done before.

a picture would give us an idea of what she currently has and make suggestions easier.

Charlie, its where you use something similar to a soldering iron to draw on wood, effectively burning the surface to imprint a pattern onto the wood. the tricky bit in this instance was using a metal straight edge effectively robbed some heat from the tip. having tried printed paper I wanted to find a way of doing it in timber, I had thought of something similar to marquetry (using wood veneers for the dark lines and cutting my own planks from the teak stock) but this seemed to me that getting the planks thin enough with a good finish might just take a bit of tricky work, that and the black lines would have been so fine they might have been tricky to work.

joining the two deck sections with staggered joints, just fettling the joint

the toe rails will run around outside this decking, plus I have the stainless steel deck fittings to make too. but after thinking how I was going to do this for way too long I have finally bit the bullet and started the decks.

so trimmed to size and with a coat of teak stain and its starting to look good

so to the deck, I had been thinking of printing it on paper and sticking it down, but today I had an idea, perhaps I could use pyrography to score the dark lines into the deck sheet, so some 1/32" ply was marked up, and then the dark lines were burnt in. some dark stain will get the colour correct, then it can be varnished.

someone mentioned that the approach to catfield dyke on hickling had been dredged, it may have been on here or it may have been the ranger that popped in to the nbn meet the other weekend.

norwich

when I had 2 foot showing on the depth gauge the river was very low (about 6 foot 8 at Potter bridge the next morning) but I guess that you would need it low to get BA through Potter. (the yellow line on the map below is 40 foot)

Griff, I reckon a man with your skills could turn BA up there, as long as nobody has moored right opposite the dyke opposite, I managed to turn 34 foot of boat there, and there was a bit of spare, at worst you could set someone ashore with a head rope and power the stern around, turning a jewel there would probably be a no.

Judith 5 is two foot or under draft, well I say that because catfield dyke was showing 2 foot, and I got both ways along it all the way to the staithe, though I will admit that after I had turned I had churned up a fair bit of mud in the water.

it was a pencil, and you can bet the lead has broken.

much as we change quiz master on a friday by allocating the post to the winner, I think a similar system could be arranged for the meets, so that the quiz master has a break and has a chance to compete in someone elses quiz. this will enable the quiz master of the year to set the questions to any level they wish and enable us to ring the changes.

without wanting to complain at what was after all an excellent quiz, and tricky even for the quizzers team, it would probably be better with some easier questions such that every team scored 50-75 percent, with maybe just a few tricky questions to sort out the top few places. That said it is always tricky to set the level of the questions, I have got it wrong on the quiz a couple of times, when I set questions that could only be answered with google. that and splitting the quizzers would seem to be the solution.

I think a suitable punishment might be to make them attend the meetings of the club and assist in the repair of the damage they caused, then they would get to know the people they have caused suffering to, they will gain an insight into the amount of work that goes in to a model railway layout, and on top of that they may also gain a new interest that would keep them off the streets.

if you are using the app it may be that you will need to log in through a browser to see the donate button.

if you are on a pc the donate button is on the right under the adverts, on a tablet using a browser that will be at the very bottom of the page, not sure about if you are using the apps. lets see if i can copy the link here, nope I can copy it, but then it doesnt work.

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it was one that seemed family friendly

Well heres hoping you are enjoying Judith 5, we arrived not a few minutes after the yard opened, as we had moored up just around the corner in candle dyke, I did leave a couple of nbn beermats in a galley cupboard, not sure if they would have been tidied up or not though. I am sure you will have as great a time as I did with Judith 5

day 7 the last full day, and its going to be a long run, 7am start to get back above potter for the tuesday hand back. for those who say use a speed app, that would be fine, but out in the sun, with the tablet flat on the roof, its barely readable.