Author Archives: Mike
LPG Regulators
So, LPG Regulators fail. They come in two varieties, single stage, of the like you might see on a small BBQ, and two stage. The two stage ones work by having the first stage drop the pressure from the tank to a “domestically” usable pressure, the second stage compensates for atmospheric pressure variations and stops … Continue reading
Category 3 problems
Someone once told me there are three types of problems in the world: Category #3 problems need money to solve. Category #2 problems need time to solve. Category #1 problems need both time and money to solve. Aboard ERIK, we are starting to have a number of Category #3 problems, and some of them are … Continue reading
Twas the season to be merry…
What a big year 2011 was… As many of you following the blog would know, we left our floating home snugged up on a mooring in the Tamar and headed southwards for what my father used to call the “silly season”. Speaking of fathers, my Dad generously offered to come up from the Tasman Peninsula … Continue reading
Monotremes journey
So, when I woke up This morning, I felt the familiar sense of another boring day of schoolwork. But it was not to be! Before I got I asked my parent who still in bed, if we could have an excursion day today. After we’d had breakfast, Dad answered my question. I was both overjoyed … Continue reading
About today
Today we went to Seahorse World. We went on a tour there, saw heaps of seahorses, and two enormous crabs. The crabs were very big, they were about the size of a wallaby! It was red and white. It had big and small pincers, there was enormous one… Big! And one tiny one. The little … Continue reading
A wander downriver
What a nice time we had at Gravelly Beach! Last Friday we attended a MAST flares presentation at the Gravelly Beach Slipyard. The Slipyard put on a BBQ and all manner of hairy boaties turned up, including yours truly. We got to talking to a white haired chap who looked like he’d been around boats … Continue reading
The QVMAG is awesome
We took a trip to the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, now located at the old rail yards in Invermay, just north of Launceston’s city center. The QVMAG has an amazing display of relics salvaged from the wreck of the SYDNEY COVE, a ship that went down off Preservation Island in the late 1700’s. … Continue reading
A stroll up the Tamar
We had a miserable start to our trip up the river to Launceston. It blew a cold 15 to 20kt southerly and we completely stuffed the tide calculation. That meant doing 2 to 3 knots against the outgoing tide in the pouring rain and biting wind… The trip should have taken two hours but it … Continue reading
St. Helens to the Tamar
We made it to the Tamar. Our first overnight trip! We dropped anchor at Deep Hollow in West Arm at 0700 this morning after leaving St. Helens yesterday at 0830. The trip was planned out in some detail, given the tidal critical nature of it at three points of the passage. Back in St. Helens, … Continue reading