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First meeting of the Bangor Coastal Rowing/Sailing/Boat-building Group was tonight. I think it’s a darned shame that towns and villages up and down the Ards peninsula have projects involving this sort of thing but where there’s a will there’s a way. I’m going to link up some things I found before: Foyle Punts and Drontheims … Continue reading “Bangor Coastal Rowing/Sailing/Boat-building Group”
First meeting of the Bangor Coastal Rowing/Sailing/Boat-building Group was tonight. I think it’s a darned shame that towns and villages up and down the Ards peninsula have projects involving this sort of thing but where there’s a will there’s a way.
I’m going to link up some things I found before:
I’ll add to this as much as I can.
These Fishermen Melt Down the Plastic They Catch to Make Furniture…While They’re Still Fishing Down Coastal Rowing Club – an initiative to build 8 St Ayle Skiffs – 19 or 21ft long narrow boat made from 9mm plywood, rows 4 with a cox Row The Erne – a community based organisation empowering people of all … Continue reading “Before the Mast…”
These Fishermen Melt Down the Plastic They Catch to Make Furniture…While They’re Still Fishing
Down Coastal Rowing Club – an initiative to build 8 St Ayle Skiffs – 19 or 21ft long narrow boat made from 9mm plywood, rows 4 with a cox
Row The Erne – a community based organisation empowering people of all abilities and ages to build and row traditional craft on the Erne Waterway System in County Fermanagh.
and I previously covered Galgael.
We got a new addition to the family. It’s in wonderful condition and hails from the 1960s in ply. We’ve a bit of work to do it to touch up the varnish, give it a good clean but it’s a beauty. Keep an eye here for some of the planned progress. Related posts: Better drowned … Continue reading “BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WON’T DROWN”
We got a new addition to the family. It’s in wonderful condition and hails from the 1960s in ply.
We’ve a bit of work to do it to touch up the varnish, give it a good clean but it’s a beauty. Keep an eye here for some of the planned progress.
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From Dolphins Under my Bed, by Sandra Clayton: And for the present at least the great oceans of the world are still an unpredictable, ungovernable environment that is largely unrestricted, un-nationalised, unmonitored, untaxed, unprotected by social legislation, unrepresented by quangos, impervious to 24-hour news media, untrammelled by lawyers and emotional trauma counsellors or health and … Continue reading “The Final Frontier”
From Dolphins Under my Bed, by Sandra Clayton:
And for the present at least the great oceans of the world are still an unpredictable, ungovernable environment that is largely unrestricted, un-nationalised, unmonitored, untaxed, unprotected by social legislation, unrepresented by quangos, impervious to 24-hour news media, untrammelled by lawyers and emotional trauma counsellors or health and safety directives and not remotely politically correct.
I recently attended a “Civic Conversation” workshop where a group of committed, thoughtful people discussed their views on civic innovation. This is the process of finding ways to change society for the collective betterment of all. These changes don’t have to be “groundbreaking” but they have to represent some sort of change. My own submission … Continue reading “Civic Conversations”
I recently attended a “Civic Conversation” workshop where a group of committed, thoughtful people discussed their views on civic innovation. This is the process of finding ways to change society for the collective betterment of all. These changes don’t have to be “groundbreaking” but they have to represent some sort of change. My own submission was in Free Public Transport, something I feel ever stronger about.
The Conversation was the brainchild of Denis Stewart FRSA (@denisstewart). We were ably assisted by Graham Leicester and Andrew Lyon from the International Futures Forum.
A project mentioned by Andrew Lyon was Galgael (“friend of the Gael”) in Govan, Scotland. This project, based in inner-city Glasgow, seeks to provide a different set of values to those assumed by their location.
I’ve spoken to a few people about something similar in Northern Ireland. I’ve spent altogether too much time looking at boats and boatyards. Found unfortunate locations throughout Northern Ireland which hark back to our island past.
I’ve never built a boat before. I’d love to.
This morning I went for a walk around Bangor seafront. Yes, I love it here. Related posts: Holidays in England Living in Bangor Costs of Transport Sunday morning: After the Holiday
This morning I went for a walk around Bangor seafront.
Yes, I love it here.
And tonight I will be perving at the web site for the brokers selling these beauties. Related posts: Developing for iPhone? Happy Chinese New Year. Lunch Lunch yesterday
And tonight I will be perving at the web site for the brokers selling these beauties.
Last weekend I went out sailing with Ballyholme Yacht Club for their RYA Adult Sailing Beginner Course. Best. Fun. Ever. I’m going again on the 24th-25th September for the Level 2 sailing which will cover more about: rigging, ropework, sailing techniques and manoeuvres, launching, recovery, capsizing and an introduction to racing. Related posts: Pivot? No, … Continue reading “I’m the one in the yellow lifejacket…”
Last weekend I went out sailing with Ballyholme Yacht Club for their RYA Adult Sailing Beginner Course.
Best. Fun. Ever.
I’m going again on the 24th-25th September for the Level 2 sailing which will cover more about: rigging, ropework, sailing techniques and manoeuvres, launching, recovery, capsizing and an introduction to racing.
The show is on from the 16-25 September in Southampton, no less. Advance tickets are very reasonable. See here. Just interested in seeing if other travellers would like to attend as I’d love to make the trip down maybe for one of the weekend days. Bringing this back into the realm of the day job: … Continue reading “Anyone fancy going to the Southampton Boat Show in September?”
The show is on from the 16-25 September in Southampton, no less. Advance tickets are very reasonable. See here.
Just interested in seeing if other travellers would like to attend as I’d love to make the trip down maybe for one of the weekend days.
Bringing this back into the realm of the day job: I went to the London Boat Show earlier this year and I was struck by one thing: how few of the traders and chandleries in the exhibition stands were prepared for taking payments other than cash. I’d see this sort of market ripe for companies like AirPOS to provide mobile points of sale turning netbooks, tablets and even phones into a point of sale for small businesses.
The first business show that I exhibited at really drilled home the concept:
Don’t give me your business card, give me your credit card.
For smaller items, you just want to buy, for larger items you want it to be shipping to your house just after you get home (or waiting in your office). Having a connected Point of Sale with an online store can make all of the difference. It pains me that so few companies take this on board.