Thursday, April 10, 2025

Dogger Bank


Too nice again not to try out the new waders, and see if they float my boat. The keel has always been troublesome and when unladen the craft wants to settle on its side like a dying whale.

Needless to say I forgot to bring the weights and thus the smaller stone at 300g suits the motor, whilst the larger at 1635g falls between the heavier battery-packs available to me and the much lighter. Suffice it to say that weightier ballast would have to be shifted to the rear to sustain this trim, which is not what we want aerodynamically.

Nonetheless perfection being the enemy of the good, there's always a workaround of some sort or another. Bear in mind everything here is lighter than water, including the superstructure of the keel and the ski, so it's an achievement getting it to settle at all.

The picture's good enough for my online merch (Ed. he hasn't got any), and looks like something Monet would paint prior the tea and cake that I'm about to have myself.

It's called, "Drone at Giverny... and where the fuck are my lilies?".