The Forever House Ok Blog Buddies, maybe it doesn’t look so great right now but just wait until our secondary school students finish with it. Here is what Stuff has to say about the Forever House: “Over the coming months, Stuff and our sponsors will build a warm, dry, eco-friendly and low cost home with […]

It was a lovely, calm morning at the boat club. Borderline is floating nicely in the distance as I row toward her in the dinghy. The weather has been so wet that it is taking forever for the new lithium house battery to charge up. The solar panel is barely keeping up with the refrigerator. […]

Hi there Blog Buddies.  I haven’t written for a while because of things.  You know…”things”.  You know how it is.  You’ve got good things, bad things, old things, new things and unexpected things.  Anyway, there has been a tiny break in things coupled with a very nice thing happening.  The nice thing is that a […]

Holy Shit! You won’t believe it. Here I am in the Man Cave, reading about the latest development in batteries from Sidney University in Australia. You will notice that I have tidied the place up. Just look at this exciting photo below, of the laboratory battery developed by a Chinese-Australian (I know) research group.* Anyway, […]

For all you 76 year olds out there, rather than go to the gym, I suggest you antifoul a boat. Above is the after photo.  There is no before image because the catamaran hulls were in such a terrible, neglected state that a photo is just too embarrassing.  The reason I suggest you could avoid […]

In this troubled world, there are few sadder sights to see than a neglected bottom. This is how the horrific scene unfolded. I was just about to the annual maintenance haul-out of Borderline in November 2021, when events were overtaken by a family illness that put everything on hold. After 6 months of medical heroics, […]

The world is closer than ever to a World War III. Russia has Vladimir Putin, a crazy dictator threatening to press his big, red, nuclear button. Russia is supported by China’s Xi Jinping who is a dictator with a big, red nuclear button. It is certain that Putin is crazy. Putin has destroyed the Russian […]

  Ika Rere Built by the Wellington Electric Boat Building Company She may not be solar powered but Wellington’s new electric ferry is very impressive indeed.  Just look at these specifications: LOA – 19 Meters Speed – 22 knots Passenger  capacity – 135 Engines – twin 350 kw Battery weight – 550 kg Cost – […]

There was this huge bang and the entire glass apparatus I was using completely disintegrated into a million pieces. There were tiny bits of glass everywhere. Sulphuric acid too! Fortunately neither of those went into my eyes. Those were the days! I remember it was back to my high school years, fooling around with chemicals […]