Boat Plans And Patterns | Old tools but good ones

Boat Plans And Patterns

Tools.

I’m not really a tool freak, not a collector in the sense of lovingly restoring old woodworking hand tools and putting them on display in glass fronted shelving but I do enjoy getting my hands on old tools and bringing them back to life. When I’ve a particular little job that needs a special tool, and I can go to my shelf and pick up a tool that was designed to do that special thing, I get great satisfaction from using it.

So I watch out for the unusual as well as the standard ones that I use every day.

Junkshops, garage sales, on line auctions and occasionally a friends eagle eye all bring in treasures.

My usuals the ones that I’ll buy without thinking are the Record and Stanley number 3 or number 4 planes.  Those are tools that I use every time I go into the boatshed, and now, living on the ship with the boatshed here plus my old shop back in Hamilton still being used, I have built up a double set of tools.

I’ve now 10 of those, the reason being that when working and one wears its sharp edge off or I hit something that puts a nick in the blade, that plane goes in the shelf above and I pick up another that’s sharp and set.

To be sure, when they’re all in need of a sharpen it’s a big job, but on a wet morning when there is no one around its quite a satisfying thing to set up an assembly line with the dry grinder, the wet grinder, the two different grade waterstones and the lap, and run through them all.

I digress.

Just recently my friend Paul Mullins came across a couple of unusual tools when a neighbours shed was being cleaned out.  There was a Stanley number 67 Spokeshave, this one is designed to cut right up against an edge and could be used to tidy up a curved rebate, left or right handed. 

The number 67 spokeshave, note how the handles can be repositioned to allow it to work against a rebate, that can be done either side.  Interesting tool.

The other is a router.  No, not one of those noisy finger biting things a “real” one.  Used to be known as a “Grannys tooth”. Its a Stanley number 71 1/2,  one of a series of different sized routers that Stanley made.

It’s a hand tool, essentially a flat plate with a pair of handles and a cutter that extends below the plate, push it and it cuts away below the surface, the cutter can be set for depth so its able to gradually work away increasing the depth of the cut.

Excellent for relief carvings.

Stanley number 71 1/2 router with 1/2 in and 3/8in cutters.  I do use one of these now and again, have also the very small one which I use when carving tabletops and such.

 Note that these, like almost all Stanley tools found in New Zealand or Australia are English Stanley so there are some differences from those made in the USA.

I was thinking that I should be looking for a brass wire brush to start tidying these two treasures up, they’ve been soaking in Inox for a while now, and are ready or a cleanup before I regrind the cutting edges and flat the backs of the irons, when my very elderly uncle, a joiner by trade, gave me a Stanley number 55 combination moulding plane that he’d had since very early in his career.

Its got all the standard irons, no parts missing, it’s a real treat!

Heres the link to a page of pics.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=stanley+number+55+combination+plane&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCgQsARqFQoTCOSjz6yy78gCFcxVPgodnjwAQw&biw=1024&bih=776

These planes can be used to make mouldings. Look around your house at picture frames, the surrounds of windows and doors, skirting boards ceiling coves, cupboards and chests and you’ll see a huge variety of different shapes.  This plane can make all of those.  Not in one pass you understand, but by planing away part of the profile then changing the blade and the positioning of it, it then does another part of the shape.

 In its original box, this ones done quite a lot of work but all of the original parts including "the book" are there and in good order. 

 There are a lot of parts to one of these, the handle is out to the left and each of the parts to the right is a separate fence and depth gauge system, some of which have knife holders as well as scribers. 

I should have counted them, there are probably 40 different knives in the set, rounded, radius edge, beading, rebate, oogee, you name it.  Amazing tool.  Yes Ive used one, but its not something that Id use every day. This is a collectors item, will be greased up and stored, but maybe, just maybe, Ill need it to produce a moulding to match something existing someday.

Theyre slow, but if one is matching up a section no longer available off the shelf, or too big for a router bit (the electric finger biting kind not the one above) it’s a practical and useful tool.

That plus it’s a really impressive thing to show off with.

I need more shelves. 

Again.

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Boat Plans Wooden | Saturday Night Special

Boat Plans Wooden

Saturday Night Special build

There are several builders of this design aiming at next years Texs 200,  we’re hoping for a fleet of them, some to be available as fundraiser charters  to raise money for cancer research.

To recap the project, the build projects and the sponsorship to help build them is being managed by Jackie Monies ,  and we’re hoping for half a dozen to front up on day one of the Texas 200 next year.

Phil McCowin decided that this sounded like fun, and is busy building one with which to participate, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be his crew.  I’m very much looking forward to this event.

Phil has his SNS all planked up, she’s looking lean and slippery.  Do bear in mind that the design is intended to be a very quick build so the build standard is not fancy, just basic carpentry rather than a lesson in “how to build a heritage standard boat”.  To give you an idea of how the build goes I asked Phil how long it took to plank her, and he tells me that it took about 6 1/2 hours, thats the chine panels and topsides, essentially from a basic frame to "a boat". One day with coffee and lunch breaks.

She has just the simplest structure and basic interior which means shes light, quick and easy to build, and may well be the most bang you’ll get for the buck.

She’ll be fast, capable of planing on most points of sail, has a lot of bouyancy built in and in the strong quartering tailwinds that characterise the T200 course at that time of year should be a fun ride.

Here are some of Phils  pics from the Saturday Night Special Facebook page,  you can see more over there.  Thanks Phil.

 Plans are available from www.duckworksmagazine.com  

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Boat Plans Bateau | Posture Pixies and their relatives

Boat Plans Bateau

For most of us, long distance rowing is demanding on the back. The good news, though, is that help IS available, and I dont just mean taking a couple of 12-hour Neurofen before you start (though I am a strong believer in doing that). There is no need to struggle to sit up, keep your back flat and engage your abdominals on your own.

The Posture Pixie is there to help.

As anyone who has paid attention during Peter Pan or has read Terry Pratchetts Small Gods knows, creatures like the Posture Pixie exist if you believe in them. I called it into being in 2006 when  I was vaguely organising ("coaching" would be to strong a term) a very tall, very thin young man, who generally tried to row as if he were about a foot shorter than he actually was, and I was worried that he as going to do himself some permanent damage if he did that for the full 50km of the Boston Marathon.

Fortunately, he survived, thanks to some great work by a Posture Pixie who sat on his shoulder the whole way, whispering "Sit up, Charlie" at regular intervals. Other members of his quad later voiced concerns that he had developed an ongoing friendship with the Posture Pixie, but he was over 16 by then and it really wasnt my problem.

Posture Pixies are very useful, but
somewhat limited conversationally.

I was asked recently, by the coach of an adult novice squad, where she could buy a supply of Posture Pixies, as her coachlings desperately needed their help. All I can say suggest is that, if the belief route doesnt work for them, I look forward to readers pictures of any that they have a) made out of PlayDoh, icing sugar, or similar substances or b) knitted.

This woman is beyond help from a Posture Pixie.
Her only hope is to scull.

The Magic Rigging Fairy
This is where the belief thing doesnt work. We all WANT there to be a Rigging Fairy, and weve probably all rowed with someone who apparently believes that she exists. But she doesnt. Sadly.

This is what we want the Rigging Fairy to do.
Do you see her in the picture?
No. Because she doesnt exist.

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Boat Plans Aluminum | A tiller for SEI

Boat Plans Aluminum

Laminating a curved item such as a tiller is one of the more rewarding jobs. A gracefully curved and very strong tiller with the gluelines accentuating the curves can add a nice touch to the boat, and its not hard to do.
Heres "me" making a tiller for SEI.

A tiller for SEI.

Now SEI being a double ender has the rudder a little further away from the skippers hand than is usual in a transom sterned boat so needs a longer tiller than would otherwise be the case.  That’s consideration number one, consideration number two was the shape, then consideration number three was what to make it from.

I didn’t have a suitable piece wide enough to cut the shape from in one piece, and friend Bill Simpson had given me an interesting piece of wood that had come from a big shipping pallet.  Who knows what it is, but its light, tough, is close grained and glued well.  It is not so easy to work with a hand plane, the fibers being long and tough don’t cut so well, but wood like that generally machines well, so I figured that being much too narrow, I’d laminate the tiller.

The tiller slot in the rudder stock ( rudder head in some languages ) being 27 mm wide I sliced up the wood with the sawbench, cutting first to make two 35 mm pieces out of the 70plus wide piece to give me room to plane it down to the 27mm width, then splitting that into 5mm lamells.

I took a piece of scrap ply down to the boat, propped it in place and drew the shape of the tiller thereon.  Reproduced that on the plywood floor in the boatshed, screwed the laminating clamp blocks into place and mixed up some glue.

There is not a lot of curve in this tiller, I like the “hand end” to be about 100mm above the knee when sitting at the helm, and the final position will be set by shaping the haft end where it sits in the tapered slot in the rudder stock.  So with only a gentle curve to accommodate this was an easy job to lay up and clamp.

The shape drawn on the plywood boatshed floor, and the clamping blocks screwed in place, the lamells are laid out in order. Note that the tiller is much deeper at one end and finer at the handle end, so there are more layers at the "thick" end, no need to have it the same depth all the way.  Im read to start applying glue.

Glue applied, priming the one and laying the glue on the other for each layer, the whole set was layed on the supports, then clamps with little pads under the clamps feet were fitted, just lightly, then gradually tightened to bring the 12 lamells into the curve. Easy peasy, a little at a time but with that many layers in there the amount of force applied between the many clamps is considerable, so it pays to just be patient, a little at a time works well.

All glued, and clamped up. Its time to go and do something else for a day or so.

Next day with the glue all set, the first job was to plane it to the correct thickness, so it was with a scrub plane, that’s an ordinary block plane, in this case a Stanley number 4, with the blade sharpened with a round in the edge so the corners don’t dig in, that I cut all the glue squeeze out away and scrubbed that side down to fairly flat.

The edges of the layup don’t match perfectly so there is a bit of material to remove, that’s why the lamells are 35 mm for a finished thickness of 27 mm.

All good, now its time to get all the bumps off and the blank planed down to the correct thickness.

With one side fairly flat and the bumps of glue removed I put the blank through the planer, flat side down and the other side getting planed down.  Three passes got it down straight and true, then flipped it over and trued up the side I’d hand planed.

In action with the scrub plane. Note that I have a heap of these Stanley number 4s, 9 I think, and several have their blades ground for particular purposes such as this.  I watch the shelves down the back of a couple of favourite junkshops and if I see one at under $20 Ill buy it, do a little work on it it if needed, and put it on the shelf with its brothers and sisters. Youd be surprised at how often I use more than one on a job.

Careful measureing, still well over the 27 mm I needed, so more passes through the planer, taking care to remove a few little defects on the way, and when it was close, I tried the fit in the tiller slot, a couple of very fine cuts in the planer and I was happy with that.

Then the shape was drawn on one side of the tiller blank, and the shape cut with the bandsaw, in fact careful use of a jigsaw would have done it, or even a Japanese razor saw using the ripsaw side of the blade http://www.duckworksbbs.com/tools/pullsaws/index.htm

Either  of these would do fine as long as attention was paid to keeping it perpendicular to the surface being cut through.

Action with the router, that edge near the power tool is now nicely rounded over, it took about 30 seconds.  Note that I was given that old beast of a router by my elderly uncle, he thinks its probably 40 years old, today youd get one like that for $10 or so and it works just fine. Its much simpler than todays flash harry ones, and I much prefer it for heavier use. Ive a little laminate trimmer for very light work but this is the workhorse when there is serious stuff to do.

With the shape cut, the edges were trued up with a random orbit sander,  the piece clamped to the edge of the bench then a router with a 12mm radius bit employed to round the edges. Remember not to round the haft where it fits into the tiller slot, that just needs a very small round with sandpaper.

With some light sanding, its done.  Looks sweet, looks much harder to make than it really is.

Just a few finishing touches to be added. I cant wait to use it for real.

I’ll varnish it, apart from the oarlock support blocks it’s the only varnish on the boat, it adds a nice finishing touch.

I’m not so far away from sailing SEI,  have to finish the rudder assembly, turn some wooden end blocks for the carbon fiber boom and yard, then rig it, and I’ll be at the mercy of the winds.

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Boat Plans Building | A good read on drowning

Boat Plans Building

I pulled the following directly from this website.  Its a good interesting read, and pertains directly to those who spend time on the water, alone, with friends, with children.

My advice is to wear your lifejacket, everyday, everytime you are out on the boat.  I have a comfy life jacket that has pockets, doesnt get hot, but breaks the wind on cool days too.  It never gets in the way.  It only works when I wear it.  Anyway, read on:

Drowning Doesnt Look Like Drowning

The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not ten feet away, their nine-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!”
How did this captain know, from fifty feet away, what the father couldn’t recognize from just ten? Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the water (hint: that’s all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew knows what to look for whenever people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, “Daddy,” she hadn’t made a sound. As a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, I wasn’t surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.
The Instinctive Drowning Response – so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D.,  is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water.  And it does not look like most people expect.  There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind.  To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this:  It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) – of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult.  In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening (source: CDC).  Drowning does not look like drowning – Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene Magazine, described the instinctive drowning response like this:

1. Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. Th e respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.
2. Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water, permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.

(Source: On Scene Magazine: Fall 2006)

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble – they are experience aquatic distress. Not always present before the instinctive drowning response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long – but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in there own rescue.  They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are n the water:

• Head low in the water, mouth at water level
• Head tilted back with mouth open
• Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
• Eyes closed
• Hair over forehead or eyes
• Not using legs – Vertical
• Hyperventilating or gasping
• Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
• Trying to roll over on the back
• Ladder climb, rarely out of the water.

So if a crew member falls overboard and every looks O.K. – don’t be too sure.  Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning.  They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck.  One  way to be sure?  Ask them: “Are you alright?” If they can answer at all – they probably are.  If they return  a blank stare – you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them.  And parents: children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.
If you have any questions at all – please post them in the gCaptain forums under “maritime safety”
disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the author are not necessarily those of the Department of Homeland Security or the U.S. Coast Guard.

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Boat Plans Stitch And Glue | Concordia Yawl

Boat Plans Stitch And Glue

While we are talking about Waldo Howlands Concordia Company, we might take a look at the most famous design to come out of that shop in Massachusetts.

The Concordia yawl was designed in 1938 by naval architect C. Raymond Hunt for Llewellyn Howland and built by Llewellyns son Waldo.

I found this Concordia yawl preparing to hoist anchor while cruising in the San Juan Islands near the western extreme of the Canadian border with the US.


Concordia Yawl Design Specifications:
Length Over All 39-10"
Length Waterline 28-6"
Beam (Extreme) 10-3"
Draft 5-8"
Ballast (Iron Keel) 7700 Lbs.
Displacement 18000 Lbs.
Sail Area 690 Sq. Ft.
(Fore Triangle, Mainsail and Mizzen)

Construction - Oak keel, steam bent laminated oak frames, African mahogany planking, bright mahogany deck trim, canvas covered main deck and house top, bronze plank fastenings, galvanized iron keel bolts.

Rig - Hollow spars, including spinnaker pole, stainless steel rigging, galvanized tangs, bronze fittings and winches.

The Concordia yawl has won numerous prestigious races including the Newport/Bermuda Race (1954 & 1978), the Annapolis Race (1955), Cowes Week (1955) and the Marblehead-to-Halifax Race (1955 & 1997); Proving that a cruising boat can also be competitive.

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Kayak Boat Plans | How to be a good ocean rowing supporter

Kayak Boat Plans

Rule 1: Its not about you.
Your support and encouragement are incredibly valuable to your rower. However, as life at sea is incredibly tough, and sending messages 10 times more onerous, and 50 times less immediate than it is on land, craft your messages (content and frequency) based on what THEY would enjoy receiving not what YOU want to send.

Everything else derives from this rule!

Here are some detailed Dos and Donts for how and what to communicate whilst your rower is at sea. Be careful, though, because you may find that you develop OARS (Obsessive Atlantic Rowing Supporting) or the related condition SPOT (Serious Pacific Ocean Tracking) Syndrome!

Please note that the advice below is my personal view, based on my experience. It may not be appropriate for ocean rowers in different situations and with different objectives! Apart from Rule 1, which always applies.

DO remember that the crew are NOT on the internet. 
Although theyre writing blogs that APPEAR on the internet, they email those blogs in to the host site/social media page. 

Why arent they on the internet? OK, do you remember before there was broadband we had 56k modems? Slow, werent they, compared with broadband?  Well, the speed for a satellite phone modem connection is 7k. And thats why theyre not logging in to Facebook or Twitter... Oh, and there are no mobile phone signals off shore either. (NB their land team may well be texting on good messages on Facebook etc to them, and theyll love having a permanent record of your messages once they finish – all the ones in the phone will have got deleted.)

DONT state the obvious.
For example, "Youre nearly at half way". They KNOW. They have a GPS on board. and being 50 miles from half way may seem like "nearly" to you on the map, but its a lot of strokes theyve got to take.

The cabin is cramped.

DO identify yourself clearly. 

This doesnt have to take up lots of letters but over-abbreviation can have its hazards "Love, E" may be obvious to you, but particularly when there are multiple crew members on board, the nearest and dearest of all using the phone may include little sister Elizabeth, drinking mate Eric, Auntie Erin and colleague Elizabeth. 

A friend on our row provided an excellent example of good ocean rowing supporting in this area. Early on, he sent a text saying "Dave Heffernan here, Ill be signing all my messages to you DH". This used up half a text, but it was a great thing to do: he established the code, and then used it consistently.

DONT ask them questions that you could find the answer to a) by speaking to the crews land team or b) on Google. 
Replying to messages from an ocean rowing boat is DIFFICULT (see * below) and it takes up time that the rower may well prefer to spend sleeping, eating or wiping their back side with surgical spirit. As YOU want to support THEM, you can help by not adding to their "to do" list.

DO use spaces.
Being "clever" by leaving all the spaces out between words and using capitals at the start of each one, so you can squeeze more in means that the start of the message doesnt come up on the tiny phone screen  so the rowers have to scroll down and try to find it again later and, more importantly, its hard work deciphering the message in a sweltering cabin on a rocking boat. 

DONT ask for updates if they have indicated they have a problem.
They will update you when they are ready to. All sorts of things may be going on that they dont want to share with you. See Rule 1.

DO include mundane things from your everyday life on land.
We were at sea over Christmas, and enjoyed hearing about Mels roast duck and Lisas presents (including a Kindle). We also liked getting news of the effect of cold weather that we struggled to imagine, including one text from a teacher who admitted she was currently "doing a cover lesson for 2nd year Latin and looking out the window at the snow-covered playing fields". 

DONT ask if they got your message, unless its REALLY important. 
Some crews (mostly smaller solos or pairs) respond in their blogs to text messages theyve received: "Loved that joke Baz", "Congrats on the new job Geraint". These personalised messages from the sea are lovely to receive, but if they DONT happen to mention your message in the blog, dont then text them again saying "Did you get our last text?" especially if your last message was of the "Youre doing really well, were so proud of you" type. They will get lots of messages during the day, and mostly only blog once a day. It is tough to remember who messaged. Be confident that they enjoyed getting it. But remember Rule 1. 

DO make a collection to "debrief" them on whats been happening in the World whilst they were away.
A great way to do this is to keep the front page of the paper (or even the whole paper) once a week, and present this to them when they get back (or send it out to the finish with someone who is going, if youre not).

Those with a written learning style will find it hard
to solve anagrams in this situation.

DONT send anagrams.
(Unless the crew are known crossword geniuses). Most people can only solve these by writing them down, and you just cant do that on a boat when youre either rowing or lying on your back in a cramped cabin.

I apologise profusely to ocean rowers to whom I have sent anagrams in the past. I wont do it again.

DO send riddles/puzzles that can easily be remembered and mused over whilst rowing. 
The very best ones we had were from a vicar friend (his profession is actually irrelevant to the point Im making, but I feel it adds colour to the story) who, a couple of weeks in, sent us five "Tube Station" riddles such as "Monarch not happy", "Posh Spice" and "Entertainment in a seat of learning"**. He offered that there were more where these came from and we replied that we loved them, but could he just send a few and only once a week?

A good ocean rowing supporter, wearing
a "I didnt row the Atlantic but I know
someone who did" t-shirt.

This he duly did, and it actually gave structure to our otherwise unstructured weeks. "Hey, Jims latest tube station riddles have come in!" A nice example of the application of Rule 1 (poor bloke must have had to diary doing this, and remember to fit it in "faithfully" of course, in between writing sermons).

DONT send many messages in the first 5 days.
It takes time to establish the routines of ocean rowing, most people feel seasick for the first week, and the conditions are generally choppier nearer land. 

DO remember that consecutively-sent messages will not necessarily arrive consecutively.
If you have to send several consecutive messages because you want to deliver an essay, put "Part 1/3" or "2/3" at the beginning so that they can figure out whats going on more easily.

DONT suggest to the crew that they row slower/faster towards the end so that they arrive in daylight/you have time to get there. 
They MIGHT be happy to accommodate this, but probably not. Best not risk it.

Children who had contracted OARS Syndrome.

DO take a picture of yourself supporting your rower.
We loved getting pictures later of supporters in our team t-shirts in various places, and also snaps of them raising a glass when we safely arrived.

DONT duplicate what the Land Team is doing.
Your rower will almost certainly have arranged for their Land Team to send them information on where they are relative to the rest of the fleet, weather forecasts and possibly other things, to a particular schedule. Check with them what this is before taking it upon yourself to send this kind of material.

* And finally, if you want to get a feeling of what writing an email is like in an ocean rowing boat:

• Remove everything from the cupboard under your stairs (if you dont have one, go to a friends house which does, though because of the next but one point, it will have to be a very good friends house).
• Turn a fan heater on in the cupboard for at least 5 minutes. It needs to be hot enough that sweat runs down your face.
• Take your clothes off.
• Put sun cream on so youre sticky.
• Put some woolly gloves on to make your fingers as hot and clumsy as they would be if they were stiff from rowing all day for weeks.
• Get a large hardback book and a tin of beans. Lay the bean tin on one side, put the book on top of it, and sit on the book (in the cupboard) so that you can rock from side to side. If you cant sit in the cupboard because its too low, lie down in it, leaning on one elbow.



I used to sit up, wedging myself against the
foam-padded arch on the left, with my feet braced against
 the other wall of the cabin on the right (out of shot)
to type blogs. But Im quite small.

• Set up an lamp to shine into your face - if your rower is crossing the Atlantic from E to W, as most do, and are writing their blog in the eve ing, as most do, in the stern cabin, as most do, the sun will be shining straight in through the door, making the screen impossible to read.
• Fire up your laptop. Yes, it is hot and sticky having it on your hot, sticky lap. 
• Whilst lurching unpredictably from side to side, write an email. It needs to be factual, funny, mention at least 5 people by name, include data, be different from the ones youve written on the previous 32 days despite the fact that youve done virtually the same thing for the past, said 32 days (hopefully – dramas are generally the last thing you want on an ocean rowing boat unless they involve the sighting of dolphins). 
• To send it, connect a phone to the external aerial, and also to the computer, wait for the satellites to come over so that youve got 5 bars of signal, and then press Go.

** Kings Cross, Victoria, Oxford Circus. It took us ages to get Oxford Circus.

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