catchall

Les took these pictures up north where he likes to fish.  Also snapped were the photos of bears.

Tyson was a bad cat this morning because he was catching birds so is under house arrest until he has learned his lesson.  Not to be ignored, he’s found a way to stay busy by installing computer updates on my Mac.  I knew I had to get around to it sometime.  What I can’t understand is how he got my password!

I hope he doesn’t use it when I’m out of the house ’cause he may have a Facebook group I don’t know about.

If you’ve got internal sheeting inside your mast, it’s not that easy to fix a broken halyard. Click here to see a video of how it’s done. For help with hoisting yourself up the mast, here’s a contact for a bosun’s chair.

What a great summer 2008 is on Georgian Bay with Marianne, family and kids.  You can play where’s Waldo by guessing who’s taking the picture.  Some highlights..snakes in the water, Oppi crash course, great eats bedtime parties and sipping wine!

Here’s what it takes when a jib halyard breaks on a J24. After 20 years of service, the halyard broke at the weakest point, the splice at the wire and line. Tom had to go up the mast, Heider and Gord winched him up. It took about 3 hours on a Sunday to get all the team together and the brainpower to complete the process of fishing the line through the interior of the mast. Click here to see a video on how the Bossun’s chair works.

Heider has a self hoisting bosson’s chair which helps to hoist the person up the mast at a pace that is best suited to conditions on the water.

It’s now August and I had to stop cutting the grass round the fountain as the baby toads were hopping all about.  There were at least 6 everywhere and hard to catch in a photo.  Glad that they finally are able to get out of the pond and make it into the grass but one needs to have lots of care when running around.  That’s one of the advantages of having a water fountain, the attraction of birds, squirrels, nesting pairs, doves in the winter and the soothing chirping of mating toads in the spring.