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There is a Folkboat (GRP not clinker) in Pungol marina currently that is being offered in exchange for a donation to charity - it’s been in the boat shed for years, covered in bird shit and generally feeling a bit sorry for itself, and in the photograph you can see it has a prop in the usual place, but also an outboard motor on the transom suggesting that the onboard engine is feeling a bit sad.

I’m in the process of starting my own company at the moment which means I make my own schedule, I’m going to have a look at what taking on this project would mean - I have very little money but if I could make up for that in labour it might work out.

Yesterday we went out in my friends 32’ ketch, it’s a fibre glass hulled boat from the early 1980’s, around 9 tonnes. We had been going out fishing on this boat before I started learning how to sail, but we’d used the motor - this was the first time we actually went sailing.

With all four sails set and good winds Valor will do around 7 knots - we didn’t have fair winds yesterday so we saw just over 4 knots for brief periods, although that was enough to get the gunwale close to the water which was fun.

Everything happens much more slowly on this big boat compared to the little dinghies that I have been using for the past month of so of buggering about in boats, and the sensation of speed and the immediacy of the response are both muted.

Weng’s boat has a steel tube and GRP Bimini added, which I can’t stand up underneath, so it was a case of finding somewhere to perch where I had sufficient leverage on the tiller but could also see the wind vane and what the sails were doing - tricky! I’d far rather a clear field of view (and would have accepted being rained on in exchange) rather than having the roof in the way. I’d also very much have preferred to have been standing, especially when sheeting in or out as doing so squatting wasn’t my preference. I would also like to try a smaller yacht that weighs less, but has a keel and ballast, and that I could stand up in - which I admit may be impossible as the smaller boats have lower booms, although I guess I’d just need to develop a good ducking reflex.

2200mm of annual rainfall here, 1500mm in Scotland.

That was there so the guy selling it could give it a clean. Not to me I would add.

Musk is gaming the Polymarket thing openly though, so I'd ignore that.

The FT article is going to be more genuine I would think.

I have been sailing a dinghy recently- had to pull the keel board up when it hit rocks so I appreciate how handy a shallow draft can be.

Rain may stop play today however

What’s Puffins draft?

I have poured 20g of beans into my portafilter on a couple of occasions. Luckily the coffee machine is plumbed in so I have not had the opportunity to fill the grinder up with water.

Mazzer cancelled my order as it’s below the £135 threshold which would mean that they would need to gather and remit UK VAT.

Would anyone be interested in ordering from Mazzer and could add a set of 189 Philos burrs to their order?

Luckily bare feet, pair of shorts and a rash vest is all the kit I have on- there’s 85kg of me of course, but the more ice cream I eat the more buoyant I get (relatively).

I’ve mentioned this before but the Sri Lankan/British chap I met on holiday earlier this year was nailed on as a Reform voter- said you couldn’t trust the rest and the immigration problem had to be solved to save the NHS.

He lived in North London, worked for the NHS as an immigrant. Obviously the leopards wouldn’t eat his face- they would be able to discern between good and bad immigrants as they stalked them.

From my experience of this I’d advise giving the bike a good clean and once over with some grease and a torque wrench- I have blamed by BB30 bearings for a rear skewer, cassette and seatpost clamp so for.

If there’s no other source of noise and it has to be the BB I would recommend replacing the current BB yourself- take your time and put everything together very carefully, and torque everything up according to the instructions. No one will take as much care of your bike as you will, and if you do everything absolutely correctly and it still creaks then it’s time to bond a sleeve in.

Is it time for the leopards/face meme?

Ok, Polywatch works quite well

The screen protector I put in my phone started to come away in places- looked like the screen had mange. I used isopropyl and a stiff plastic card to scrape the remains off and in the process have scratched the fuck out of the screen. Oh the irony.

I’m sure I can polish it up again- my first thought was polywatch, what have people used successfully in this situation?

I’m hoping to pick up a Ploprof for a song, at some to be determined point in the future

What do people think is happening in the second hand market in general- going to keep falling or stabilising now?

I agree, they’re in a mire. The membership (and the fumbled leadership contest) has tied them into fighting Reform for a share of votes that will never win them power, and that’s even if they could succeed on that front, which they can’t because Reform will always outflank them on the right for the moron vote. Meanwhile the voters they lost to the LibDems and Labour, who would have been much more easy for them to win back, will continue to be appalled by the Tories and lose the habit of voting for them. Eventually they’ll be joined by those who stayed home at the last election when they see that the Tories have no intention of taking things seriously and winning them back.

The result, if they can be nimble enough, will be the LibDems hoovering up the disaffected centre-right and threatening the Tories’ position as the second biggest party.

100% agree. The only thing I think that might be interesting here is the Greens and the formerly Tory NIMBY vote - if the Greens continue their policy of NO NO NO NO to all development then that might become the (somewhat surprising) home of a lot of formerly Tory voters in the Shires who don't want new housing, new infrastructure, new factories and facilities near their village thank you very much.

Looks like CPU is fine but memory is possibly the issue here

My 16GB of Ram but otherwise stock 2020 MBA was being very slow today- surprisingly so, it’s normally fine with what I use it for most often.

Where I live racism is embedded in the administrative state, which at least means it's something you can simply look up.

I love this

Blue cars with any sort of relation to rallying need gold wheels if going aftermarket.

Because they look dreadful, fall out, may compromise the seal of the tyre on the rim and shout to the world “I have such low situational awareness that I’m a danger to others”.

Do not get plastic rim protectors.