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07-01-2011, 01:53 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 6
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Greetings from new member
Hi Guy's
Great to be on board.I am located at Lake Macquarie, NSW Australia. I work on my own stuff mostly so keen to exchange ideas on building or fixing stuff.
Cheers,
Lutz
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07-01-2011, 04:26 AM
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Guru
City: Toms River
Vessel Name: V E N T U R E
Vessel Model: 1996 36' Island Gypsy Classic
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,361
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RE: Greetings from new member
Welcome to the forum, from a fellow Island Gypsy owner.
I am sure you will find lots of great info here.
JohnP
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07-01-2011, 06:14 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 10,101
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RE: Greetings from new member
And greetings from another fellow downunderite, if I can coin that term? Keep an eye out for developments on the cruising Downunder board Lutz.
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07-01-2011, 06:48 AM
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,743
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RE: Greetings from new member
And if information is what you're after go way back in the archives and get lost in or smothered by all the information of the past. Take some to the bank, put some in the trash and ponder the rest. Have fun and get to know some of the guys.
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07-01-2011, 07:03 AM
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Senior Member
City: Maine
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 109
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RE: Greetings from new member
Welcome aboard Lutz. I hope you enjoy this forum. The members are great and our moderators do a fantastic job.
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07-01-2011, 09:48 AM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 300
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RE: Greetings from new member
Hi Lutz!
Welcome aboard.* Thanks for joining!
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07-01-2011, 02:46 PM
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#7
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 6
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RE: Greetings from new member
Thanks Guys'
I feel elcome already!
Looks like a great forum.
Anyway, a little brekkie and i'm off to work on my baby...lol
Cya all
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07-02-2011, 05:55 AM
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Guru
City: Mooloolaba
Vessel Name: Flora
Vessel Model: Timber southern cray boat
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,859
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RE: Greetings from new member
Welcome on board Lutz.
There's a few Aussies on board and we have our wee section for local news etc.
Do you intend to head north in your vessel in the near future.
let us know if you do we may be able to catch up enroute.
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07-02-2011, 07:00 AM
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Guru
City: Missourah
Vessel Name: M/V Scout
Vessel Model: Sundowner Tug 30'
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 645
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RE: Greetings from new member
Welcome! You Aussies talk funny but all I have to do is hit my Google 'translate' button.
Chip 'the redneck hillbilly'
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07-02-2011, 03:25 PM
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#10
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Senior Member
City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Arcturus
Vessel Model: Polaris 35
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 111
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RE: Greetings from new member
Hi Litz
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My Boat is in Sydney but I currently live in Perth. Welcome to the forum. I am fairly new to the forum as well but I have found it fullof great info even if the majority of the members live upside down lives.
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07-02-2011, 03:26 PM
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Senior Member
City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Arcturus
Vessel Model: Polaris 35
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 111
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RE: Greetings from new member
Oops sorry Lutz for wrong spelling of your name!!
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07-02-2011, 11:35 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 10,101
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RE: Greetings from new member
Rebel wrote...
"I am fairly new to the forum as well but I have found it full of great info even if the majority of the members live upside down lives."
On that last point, I know it shouldn't make any difference, (actually it's us who hang upside down, according to conventional depiction of the globe), but I must say, I found my instinct for direction, you know points of the compass, and which way to go when emerging from the Underground, etc, decidedly 'off', when we were in the UK recently. Why do you think that would be, unless we do normally sense things a bit like the birds/animals etc, and this gets screwed up when we change hemispheres? After all, it does affect the rotation of cyclones - and the plug-hole vortex, interestingly.
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07-03-2011, 07:26 AM
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Guru
City: San Diego
Vessel Name: Circuit Breaker
Vessel Model: 2021..22' Duffy Cuddy cabin
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 6,691
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RE: Greetings from new member
Quote:
Peter B wrote:
After all, it does affect the rotation of cyclones - and the plug-hole vortex, interestingly.
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* * * * Not to mention the diection of flow in the toilet.
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07-03-2011, 11:06 AM
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Master and Commander
City: Vallejo CA
Vessel Name: Carquinez Coot
Vessel Model: penultimate Seahorse Marine Coot hull #6
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 12,559
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RE: Greetings from new member
Quote:
Peter B wrote:
... but I must say, I found my instinct for direction, you know points of the compass, and which way to go when emerging from the Underground, etc, decidedly 'off', when we were in the UK recently. ...
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*That's understandable.* UK is haunted as evidenced here in Dover Castle:
(The ghostly image was not in view when Perla took the photo.)
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07-03-2011, 02:54 PM
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#15
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Senior Member
City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Arcturus
Vessel Model: Polaris 35
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 111
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RE: Greetings from new member
Yeah but Peter who wants conventional?
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And I am with you on directions in the Northern Hemisphere. Generally here in Oz I am spot on. In our recent trip and other we have made to France and the UK I have to be very deliberate in fixing direction.I have tried to explain it in the same way you are thinking but my wife just thinks its my excuse for stuffing up as in Oz she is not very good but in NH she seldom has trouble. Go figure!!
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