Oolite Bulletins

And it's got an engine. A troublesome engine, actually, that amidst other things made mayonnaise from the oil and spat it all over the engine compartment, leaked salt water on the bilge, lost coolant, had compression problems, burned the starter solenoid, and now that I thought I had fixed it, it blocked completely and won't budge even with a crowbar on the starter flyweel.

I'll have to remove the blasted thing (hoist the boat, crane the thing, send it to the mechanic workshop) and hope it can be fixed. And hope I can afford it...



AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGH!!!!!!!!

Sorry for you!

But, man, how shall I put this, I mean, errrm, it's a SAIL boat. So why do you always complain about its engine? Aren't you supposed to use its, well, errr, SAILS, anyway????

Commander McLane wrote:

Sorry for you!

But, man, how shall I put this, I mean, errrm, it's a SAIL boat. So why do you always complain about its engine? Aren't you supposed to use its, well, errr, SAILS, anyway????

+++Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!+++

Captain Hesperus

Captain Hesperus wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

Sorry for you!

But, man, how shall I put this, I mean, errrm, it's a SAIL boat. So why do you always complain about its engine? Aren't you supposed to use its, well, errr, SAILS, anyway????

+++Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!+++

Captain Hesperus

Why that? Do you think I should look out for a katana from behind now???

It was just an innocent question. Really!!!

+++Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!+++

And BTW: I had to look that up in the wikipedia first. As I mentioned before, I have not grown up with English popular culture...

Commander McLane wrote:

Captain Hesperus wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

Sorry for you!

But, man, how shall I put this, I mean, errrm, it's a SAIL boat. So why do you always complain about its engine? Aren't you supposed to use its, well, errr, SAILS, anyway????

+++Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!+++

Captain Hesperus

Why that? Do you think I should look out for a katana from behind now???

It was just an innocent question. Really!!!

Ignorance can kill - but the best way of curing it is 'asking'.

Imagine yourself running on a rough sea with shore on your lee, no suitable anchorage and unable to gain sea room, and tell me you wouldn't like to have an engine. Or on a more common situation, it's much easier manoeuvre and drop/raise anchor on a crowded anchorage if you have an engine (I can do it by sail and alone, but there's always a risk).

Calms nonwithstanding, the sails are the boat's main propulsion system, and the engine just an auxiliary for the trickier parts - albeit an important one.

+++Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!+++

And BTW: I had to look that up in the wikipedia first. As I mentioned before, I have not grown up with English popular culture...

Yes, here too...

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

Imagine yourself running on a rough sea with shore on your lee, no suitable anchorage and unable to gain sea room, and tell me you wouldn't like to have an engine. Or on a more common situation, it's much easier manoeuvre and drop/raise anchor on a crowded anchorage if you have an engine (I can do it by sail and alone, but there's always a risk).

You do what sailors have done for hundreds of years before engines (get smashed to pieces on the rocks). Some people have no sense of fine seafaring tradition.

Helvellyn wrote:

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

Imagine yourself running on a rough sea with shore on your lee, no suitable anchorage and unable to gain sea room, and tell me you wouldn't like to have an engine. Or on a more common situation, it's much easier manoeuvre and drop/raise anchor on a crowded anchorage if you have an engine (I can do it by sail and alone, but there's always a risk).

You do what sailors have done for hundreds of years before engines (get smashed to pieces on the rocks). Some people have no sense of fine seafaring tradition.

And of course, either trying to ean how to breath brine or clinging onto driftwood/fibreglass awaiting the coastguard to coe past and laugh at you....

Captain Herperus

Captain Hesperus wrote:

Helvellyn wrote:

Cmdr. Maegil wrote:

Imagine yourself running on a rough sea with shore on your lee, no suitable anchorage and unable to gain sea room, and tell me you wouldn't like to have an engine. Or on a more common situation, it's much easier manoeuvre and drop/raise anchor on a crowded anchorage if you have an engine (I can do it by sail and alone, but there's always a risk).

You do what sailors have done for hundreds of years before engines (get smashed to pieces on the rocks). Some people have no sense of fine seafaring tradition.

And of course, either trying to ean how to breath brine or clinging onto driftwood/fibreglass awaiting the coastguard to coe past and laugh at you....

Captain Herperus

Thanks a lot for the cheer up, guys

Oh, and Captain, my boat is made of aluminium...

Meh, Aluminium, fibreglass. Neither of them float too well on their own.

Captain Hesperus

+++Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!+++

Well, I understood it! And the need for an auxiliary power system. The engine is a necessary evil to get in and out of a harbor, but the sweet blissful silence of shutting off the motor.

By the way: What about an Oolite-ship with a gigantic sun-wind sail only for its propulsion? Without an engine?



















(No, just kidding.)

An early Gen-ship maybe?

Captain Hesperus

looked stupid before, but with shaders there are possibilities for a nice sail.

I always run aground when trying to design a nice solarship, so I'll pass while I still can.

Arexack_Heretic wrote:

looked stupid before, but with shaders there are possibilities for a nice sail.

I always run aground when trying to design a nice solarship, so I'll pass while I still can.

'Like Gen-ships that pass in the night.'

Not that I've ever passed a Gen-ship in the night, I'm sure I'd have noticed. I mean, they're hardly difficult to see. Aren't they? Damn that Medicinal Megaweed!

Captain Hesperus

ummm. what about oars? take out some of your frustration. ^^