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Gyrodyne QH-50C, 1963.
While the U.S. Navy began their FRAM programs to update their destroyers, Gyrodyne received the authorization to proceed with the development of the QH-50C DASH by the Navy on February 4, 1960 under Contract NOw 60-0099-c and to supply the Navy with Two QH-50C aircraft for R & D purposes.
The development of the QH-50C, although an extension of its QH-50A/B helicopters, was in fact, a completely different aircraft. Mating a 255 SHP turbine engine to a transmission where only twin 72 hp piston engines had been, required extensive engineering and machining, but the need was immediate and the rush was on to build not just a prototype, but a production model under the guidelines of the Navy's "Concurrent Development and Production" program. By April 1, 1960, the Navy awarded Gyrodyne contract NOw 60-0154c to supply an additional 15 QH-50C drones for the proposed testing and evaluation phase of DASH. Within 1 year and 2 months and 2 days of the original development contract, the first flight of the QH-50C with a safety pilot took place on April 6, 1961.
To illustrate the urgency of the DASH program for the Navy's stand-off weapons needs, the Navy granted it's production authorization on April 4, 1960: some two (2) months after the R & D go-ahead and ONE YEAR before the first model had actually even flown! To make matters worse, the Naval shipyards were a full three years ahead of schedule, causing completely refurbished FRAM'd Destroyers to go to sea without the DASH system that they had been extensively modified to operate in the first place. This "ship-to-drone gap" together with the stand-off capabilities previously demonstrated by the QH-50A/B models created a strong pressure on the Navy and on Gyrodyne to expedite development and delivery of the QH-50C drones.
This pressure caused production to slip as developmental problems occurred with the Navy's "off-the-shelf" flight control system. These problems began to occur in test and on the production line. Despite the initial order of Two QH-50C drones not having being delivered by the December 1960 deadline and therefore the flight testing not having yet begun, the Navy nevertheless ordered an additional 42 PRODUCTION model QH-50C aircraft for fleet use. In the following 35 months, the QH-50C test program was conducted and did reveal many deficiencies of the Drone. Gyrodyne proposed several modifications to the "in-testing" drones, but such action would have halted the production line. The Navy declined the contract to modify the aircraft on the line as well as aircraft already delivered.
The first operational drones were delivered to the fleet when a QH-50C was remotely flown from San Clemente Island, California out to the destroyer USS Buck (DD-761) on November 15, 1962. It had been only 2 years, eight months and one week after the award for the development contract.
Unfortunately, from November 1962 to January 1963, 27 QH-50C drones were lost and the trend showed that further losses would occur if the deployed aircraft were not fixed. The Navy agreed to a mandatory grounding in January 1963.
The major problem dealt with the altitude axis of the automatic flight control system which had been designed to use a Government-furnished (GFE) radar altimeter. With the vendor responsible for the GFE radar altimeter not complying with the goals of the program and no other source available at that time for installation in a remote controlled helicopter, other methods had to be investigated for stabilization of the altitude axis. In January 1963, Gyrodyne requested that all QH-50C aircraft be grounded until the problem could be solved.
Gyrodyne then initiated a crash program to solve the problem by using a barometric altimeter. This led to the development of a static source mounting assembly on the top of the upper rotor drive shaft. The concept of the installation is so unique that it not only solved the vertical axis problem for the QH-50C, but it turned out to be a patentable item in which Gyrodyne received patent no. 3,347,095.
By June 6, 1963, the problem with the "stabilization of the altitude axis" had been solved and the Navy ordered an additional 127 QH-50C aircraft and the production line began to move once again. On February 1964, the Navy placed an additional order for 185 QH-50C aircraft.
There is no question that the Navy's rush to field the QH-50C resulted in inadequate testing and evaluation. This lack of testing of the GFE automatic flight control system coupled to the coaxial platform resulted in drone losses. It should be pointed out, that these losses were NOT due to the airframe, but rather the obsolete radio-controlled automatic flight control system the Navy insisted upon using.
Irregardless, the belief that the increased range of operations of the ASW QH-50C drone would create such a deterrence effect on Soviet sub commanders that it was felt that the benefits outweighed the risks of possible losses and that fielding the Drone for that effect had value; even if the Drone needed to be updated on the destroyer it flew from.
In April 1964, the Navy directed Gyrodyne to reconfigure 4 QH-50C drones on the production line (seen left) to overcome the problems associated with lacking all-weather capability and to increase guidance accuracy. Those aircraft would become the QH-50D and the most versatile variant of the QH-50 series of drones. With the introduction of the QH-50D to the fleet in mid 1965, the Navy began to replace the lower powered and more troublesome QH-50C with the improved D model.
By 1970, 139 of the 142 surviving QH-50C drones of the original 378 produced had been removed from fleet destroyers and placed in storage. At that time, the QH-50C drones were being retained as a contingency reserve for use in the event of a national emergency. By 1980, all the QH-50C drones in storage had been transferred to the following facilities to act as either missile targets or target towing vehicles:
* Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC)-China Lake, California
* Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC)-Pt. Magu, California
* U.S. Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command's Target Management Office (US ARMY STRICOM-TMO), White Sands, New Mexico
By 1998, the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office, Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) was the sole user of the QH-50C, having acquired the China Lake assets during the base re-alignment program.
With the groundings of the Boeing 737 MAX, Air Canada has had to lease this 767-200 from Omni Air International to cover on the YVR-Hawaii flights. Note the brand new pushback/tug that does not use a tow bar.
An ice shelf is a thick platform of ice that forms at the grounding line of a glacier, where the glacier meets the coastline. Most freshwater on earth is bound in the huge ice shield covering almost entire Antarctica and extending in shelf-ice to the sea. Increasing melt of Antarctic ice would lead to significant sea level rise.
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Feb. 2014 -- ODOT contractors perform an exothermic weld to connect existing and new ground rings at Bosley Butte in Umatilla County.
These aren’t much - old snapshots that I scanned several years ago, but I thought I would post them for mlbrookmire, who says she can’t get enough of all the lobster boats and our means of working on them. When I grounded out to paint the starboard side, it was a tight squeeze on a rocky beach and I had to plop her down just right between ledges and boulders. The port side I had to do next door on my relative’s beach of crushed mussel shells, which are brutal to any barefoot kid going swimming but very soft on a boat. (Adults don’t swim in the salt water in Maine, the warmest the water ever gets is 67°, about 19° Celsius). Grounding out against the wharf is fairly easy: just leave your lines tied properly to allow for the boat to drop 12 feet yet remain snug to the wharf and you can walk away and leave her going up and down with the tide for days if you like.
The old risk of grounding sign on the approach to Achterneed level crossing, when it was an automatic open crossing. The crossing was subsequently upgraded with the addition of half barriers and this sign was replaced with the modern version.
Speaker Pelosi is now reportedly will visit Taiwan on August 2, touching down at 10:20 pm local time, before going to Japan. In the meantime, the U.S. is grounding most if not all of its F-35 fighter jets due to ejection seat quality control problems.
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Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, Taiwanese and US officials say
(CNN) US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to visit Taiwan as part of her tour of Asia, according to a senior Taiwanese government official and a US official, despite warnings from Biden administration officials, who are worried about China's response to such a high-profile visit. The stop -- the first for a US House speaker in 25 years -- is not currently on Pelosi's public itinerary and comes at a time when US-China relations are already at a low point.
The Taiwanese official added that she is expected to stay in Taiwan overnight. It is unclear when exactly Pelosi will land in Taipei. The US official added that Defense Department officials are working around the clock on monitoring any Chinese movements in the region and securing a plan to keep her safe.
During a regular foreign ministry briefing Monday, China warned against the "egregious political impact" of Pelosi's planned visit to the self-governing island that China claims as a part of its territory and reiterated that its military "won't sit by idly" if Beijing feels its "sovereignty and territorial integrity" is being threatened.
"We would like to tell the US once again that China is standing by, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army will never sit idly by. China will take resolute responses and strong countermeasures to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity," Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters, when asked about the fallout from Pelosi leading a congressional delegation to Taipei.
"As for what measures, if she dares to go, then let's wait and see," Zhao added. Though China's military did not mention Taiwan, the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command said it would "bury incoming enemies" in a video posted online Monday showing off its weaponry and fighting tactics. "Firmly stand by and ready for the fighting command; Bury all incoming enemies," a message posted on Weibo said.
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby said Monday that the Biden administration will support Pelosi on a trip to Taiwan.
"We want to make sure that when she travels overseas, she can do so safely and securely and we're going to make sure of that. There is no reason for the Chinese rhetoric. There is no reason for any actions to be taken. It is not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to Taiwan," Kirby told CNN's Brianna Keilar on "New Day."
"We shouldn't be as a country -- we shouldn't be intimidated by that rhetoric or those potential actions. This is an important trip for the speaker to be on and we're going to do whatever we can to support her," Kirby continued.
Asked if the US was prepared for fallout with China over the visit, Kirby said that "there is no change to our policy. No change to our focus on trying to keep a free and safe and open Indo-Pacific."
The issue of Taiwan remains one of the most contentious. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed it at length in a two-hour-and-17-minute phone call on Thursday, as tensions mounted between Washington and Beijing.
"The question of Taiwan is the most sensitive, important core issue in China-US relations," said Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang at the Aspen Security Forum in July.
While Biden has said publicly the US military did not believe it was a good time for Pelosi to visit Taiwan, he has stopped short of telling her directly not to go, according to two sources.
Administration officials have worked over recent weeks to apprise the House speaker of the risks of visiting the democratic, self-governing island of 24 million residents, including in briefings from Pentagon and other administration officials. But Biden did not believe it was his place to tell her she should not go, and he has avoided commenting publicly about her trip since his initial statement on July 21.
Biden said last month that the US military opposed Pelosi visiting Taiwan, though since then has refused to elaborate on the warnings. The White House has said it is up to the House speaker where she travels.
Still, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently said he'd discussed a visit to Asia with Pelosi.
The administration takes extra care for Pelosi's security when she travels overseas because she is in the presidential line of succession.
Administration officials are concerned Pelosi's trip comes at a particularly tense moment, as Xi is expected to seek an unprecedented third term at the upcoming Chinese Communist Party congress. Chinese party officials are expected to begin laying the groundwork for that conference in the coming weeks, putting pressure on the leadership in Beijing to show strength.
Officials also believe the Chinese leadership doesn't completely grasp the political dynamics in the United States, leading to a misunderstanding over the significance of Pelosi's potential visit. The officials say China may be confusing Pelosi's visit with an official administration visit, since she and Biden are both Democrats. Administration officials are concerned that China doesn't separate Pelosi from Biden much, if at all.
Pelosi has long been a critic of the Chinese Communist Party. She has met with pro-democracy dissidents and the Dalai Lama -- the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader who remains a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. In 1991, Pelosi unfurled a black-and-white banner in Beijing's Tiananmen Square to commemorate victims of the 1989 massacre, which said, "To those who died for democracy." In recent years, she voiced support for the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
The Chinese embassy to the United States has objected to her expected trip, which was planned for April before Pelosi tested positive for Covid-19, urging members of Congress to tell the speaker not to make it.
"I would say there's been a full-court press from the Chinese embassy to discourage a trip to Taiwan," Washington Democratic Rep. Rick Larsen, the co-chair of Congress' US-China working group, told CNN. "I just don't think it's their business to tell us what we ought to be doing. That was my message back."
Liu Pengyu, spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the US, responded that his office is in "regular contact" with members of Congress, including Larsen.
"On the Taiwan question, we have made our stance loud and clear," Pengyu said. "The Embassy is making all our efforts to prevent the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and the stability of China-US relations being damaged by the potential visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan."
"We hope serious consequences could be avoided," he added. "This is in the common interests of both China and the US."
Many Democrats and Republicans in Congress said it was Pelosi's right to travel to Taiwan.
"It is Speaker Pelosi's decision alone on whether or not to travel to Taiwan, not any other country," said Illinois Republican Rep. Darin LaHood, Larsen's Republican counterpart on the US-China working group. "In our democratic system -- we operate with separate but equal branches of government."
"It is inappropriate for foreign governments, including the Chinese government, to attempt to influence the ability or the right to travel for the speaker, members of Congress, or other US government officials to Taiwan or anywhere else around the world," he added.
Other members appeared to be more cautious about the diplomatically sensitive trip.
California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu, the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress, said she has "always supported Taiwan."
But when asked whether a Taiwan trip now would send the wrong message, Chu said, "You could look at it two ways. One is that the relationships are very strained right now. But on the other hand, you could say maybe that's when Taiwan also needs to be shown the strength and the support."When asked what she thought, she said, "I leave it up to those who are going to make that decision."
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EXCLUSIVE: Air Force grounding F-35s over ejection seat concerns
The stand-down follows the Navy grounding an undisclosed number of jets due to concerns with ejection seat safety.
WASHINGTON: The Air Force is grounding the majority of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet today, due to a faulty component inside its ejection seat that could prevent the pilot from being able to safely egress from the aircraft during an emergency, Breaking Defense has learned.
In response to an inquiry, Air Combat Command spokeswoman Alexi Worley confirmed the temporary standdown of ACC-controlled F-35s.
“ACC’s F-35s do have Martin-Baker ejection seats, and on July 19, began a Time Compliance Technical Directive to inspect all of the cartridges on the ejection seat within 90 days,” she stated. “Out of an abundance of caution, ACC units will execute a stand-down on July 29 to expedite the inspection process. Based on data gathered from those inspections, ACC will make a determination to resume operations.”
Later on Friday afternoon, Air Education and Training Command announced it had also paused F-35 operations on July 29 “to allow our logistics team to further analyze the issue and expedite the inspection process,” said AETC spokeswoman Capt. Lauren Woods. AETC controls F-35 training squadrons at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, and Eglin AFB in Fla.
“Based on the results of these inspections and in conjunction with ACC, the lead command for F-35, AETC will make a decision regarding continued operations,” Woods said.
While ACC controls the majority of operational USAF F-35s, smaller numbers of jets are spread out among other major commands, including United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) and Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It was not immediately clear if those units would also be standing down their fifth-generation fighters for a safety check.
At issue are cartridge actuated devices — explosive cartridges used inside ejection seats to help propel the seat out of an aircraft during an emergency. According to the Air Force, certain production lots of CADs used in Martin-Baker ejection seats have been identified by the company as being defective and needing replacement.
“Since CADs are used in the ejection process, a faulty CAD may not allow all the functions necessary to take place that would allow a complete and safe ejection,” Michael Cisek, a senior associate at the aviation consulting firm AeroDynamic Advisory, told Breaking Defense on Wednesday. “While the aircraft are flyable, I don’t think too many pilots would be willing to fly knowing they may not be able [to] eject.”
This latest news comes days after the Air Force’s Air Education and Training Command stated that it had temporarily grounded almost 300 training aircraft due to the CAD-supply issue, and the Navy separately acknowledged that it had grounded an unspecified number of its own trainers and combat aircraft.
Breaking Defense first reported the Navy groundings on Wednesday and Air Force Times first reported the Air Force groundings on Thursday.
The problems have left the US Navy and Air Force scrambling to understand the scope of the problem, which has also impacted the United Kingdom’s Eurofighter Typhoons and Red Arrow demonstration team, according to the Daily Express.
The Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) supplies CADs and Propellant Actuated Devices for the entirety of the joint force, including the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps aircraft.
According to Naval Air Systems Command, the Navy was notified of a potential defect by Martin-Baker and began using “validated radiography procedures” to scan its available CAD inventory and verify that it was “properly manufactured.” NSWC IHD then began shipping cleared replacement parts on July 24 “to several fleet maintenance centers,” the NAVAIR news release stated.
The F-35 Joint Program Office has issued a “90-day Time Compliance Technical Directive (TCTD) inspection procedure” that F-35s will go through to be checked for defective CAD, the program office said in response to questions from Breaking Defense. International F-35 customers have also been made aware of CAD issue.“
The collective team is actively engaged in supporting the inspection process, providing supply as needed, and communicating with stakeholders,” the JPO stated.
A Temporary Standdown of Air Force Trainers
The Air Force initiated a standdown on July 27 so that maintainers could inspect the 203 T-38 and 76 T-6 aircraft suspected of being equipped with the defective CAD, Air Force spokeswoman Aryn Lockhart said in a statement. That number represents 40% of AETC’s T-38 fleet and 15% of its T-6 fleet, including trainers at the undergraduate pilot training bases and Naval Air Station Pensacola.
Once maintainers confirm the ejection seats are fully functional, those specific aircraft will return to service, with flying operations for unaffected aircraft expected to resume on July 28, Lockhart said.
However, Maj. Gen. Craig Wills, 19th Air Force Commander, emphasized that aircraft will not begin flying unless the service is “confident” its ejection seats are in proper working order.“
Our primary concern is the safety of our airmen and it is imperative that they have confidence in our equipment,” he said in a statement. “Our actions today were taken out of an abundance of caution in order to ensure the safety of our pilots and aircrew.”
Although Air Combat Command also operates T-38s, it flies the A and B models that do not have Martin-Baker ejection seats. Therefore, they are not impacted by the stand down, Worley said.
An Unknown Number of Navy Aircraft Affected
On Wednesday, a Naval Air Systems Command spokeswoman said the service “has made the decision to ground some fixed-wing aircraft due to an ejection seat cartridge actuated device (CAD) production issue.”
The spokeswoman declined to comment on how many aircraft were ultimately affected by the problem for “operational security” reasons, but the initial press release on the issue said the defective CAD was isolated to a “limited range of lot numbers” used in F/A-18B/C/D Hornets, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, E/A-18G Growlers, and T-45 Goshawk and F-5 Tiger II training aircraft.
In light of the Air Force’s public disclosure of the number of T-38 and T-6 aircraft that were grounded, Breaking Defense sought more information from the Navy about the number of aircraft it grounded. A service spokeswoman again declined to provide any specific information, saying the Air Force disclosed numbers of training aircraft, rather than those operational or deployed forward.“
Disclosing the number of total aircraft (with or without specifying Type/Model/Series) poses an OPSEC risk,” the spokeswoman told Breaking Defense on Thursday. “At any given time, we will have an undisclosed number of aircraft being serviced, but stating the total number of aircraft affected by this issue effectively alerts our adversaries to limitations in our ability to respond should the need arise.”
While the Hornets, Super Hornets and Growlers do remain operational in deployed squadrons, the T-45s are primarily used for training Navy pilots. Meanwhile, the service bought nearly two dozen F-5s in fiscal 2020 to “provide air-to-air training for strike fighter and electronic warfare advanced readiness programs, large force exercise, unit-level training and fleet replacement squadron training,” according to budget justification documents.
Airman 1st Class Mark Dunton (left) and Senior Airman Samantha Maquillan work on upgrading lightning protection and grounding on a communications tower at Pease Air National Guard Base, N.H., June 22, 2015. The installation of the lightning protection gear helps protect resources such as radios that 157th Air Refueling Wing Airmen use to support the mission.The Airmen are assigned to the 243rd Engineering Installation Squadron, Maine Air National Guard in South Portland, Maine. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Curtis J. Lenz)
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The 221-foot MV Commander successfully refloated and anchored in the vicinity of Protestant Cay Feb. 1, 2014, after the cargo ship grounded on Round Reef just outside Christiansted Harbor Jan. 31, 2014. The Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the grounding and an initial underwater assessment survey has identified two missing rudders, minor scraping and no major damage to the ship's hull or any signs of pollution leaking from the vessel.
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How can you connect your own personal bio-electromagnetic field directly into the Earth’s much larger and slower field in order to discharge high frequency energy that has entered into your field from the environment?
How can you use simple grounding technology help you beat jet lag, boost energy and catch up on years of lost sleep?
Today we are exploring the practice of connecting our body to the Earth’s magnetic field, which is a very low and steady 8hz charge, as this practice allows us to discharge all that high frequency energy that is flying around our environment, altering and distorting our body’s natural bio-electromagnetic field.
Grounding out high frequency energy from our field into the Earth can be done most directly by lying down on the grass, the forest floor or a sandy beach, though there is very simple and effective technology that can allow us to use the electrical grounding system inside any properly wired building in order to connect to the Earth’s balancing 8 Hz charge.
Of course, everyone knows that lying on the beach is incredibly relaxing and there’s been plenty of research into how the concentration of negative ions at the beach are so beneficial for our health because they donate electrons to our bio-electromagnetic field.
And we know that negative ions are produced in mass by the crashing water of the waves, so walking right by the breaking waves is where you get the freshest air. And this is also one reason you may be drawn to linger in the shower, because breathing in the negative ions from crashing water is just really refreshing…
But negative ions are not the only beneficial effect we get from the beach. Walking along the beach also helps our electrical body to connect to the low 8 Hz frequency of the Earth… and this is especially pronounced when you lay down on the beach for a while.
Have you ever laid down on the beach and gotten so relaxed that you get the sensation of feeling you’re actually like, magnetically stuck to the ground? Like the beach is literally holding you down, in a very pleasant and relaxing way, but you are going to have to really uhhhhhh! push! to get yourself up!
And I’m sure you have noticed that you also get very refreshed from laying on the beach like this, and also that if you get up too quickly from this deep relaxation, you feel groggy and a bit discombobulated…. but if you lay there long enough, you end up feeling deeply recharged.
Well, these effects are not due to negative ions but from being so directly connected to the Earth’s slowly oscillating 8 hz frequency.
This low frequency slows your electromagnetic field down immensely, which allows your body to literally “ground out” all those high frequencies that have entered into your field, such as and wifi’s standard 2.4 gigahertz frequency and cell phones with 4 and 5 gigahertz frequencies.
You know, there is an invisible sea of high frequency energy that we are swimming in all the time.
So grounding ourselves to the Earth by laying on the beach or the forest floor is a powerful natural remedy that can help us detoxify at the body’s electromagnetic level, and, as would make sense, this has a very powerful effect on our brain and our nervous system, both of which are highly electrical.
Seen from a more conventional medical perspective, grounding lets our autonomous nervous system drop into a very deep parasympathetic state, which helps to restore our foundation of centered focus, presence, clarity, and restores equilibrium to all the body’s systems.
To do an intention grounding practice, you can lay around on the beach and wait for grounding to happen naturally, but it’s actually pretty easy to do this consciously to speed up the process of grounding. You lay on the beach, on the grass, really anywhere on the earth is fine, and you can use a blanket or a towel to not get too dirty if you prefer, because the electromagnetic frequency of the Earth can definitely pass through fabric. Though having some direct skin contact is probably more effective.
WASHINGTON (May 10, 2022) — NTSB released Tuesday Marine Investigation Report 22/14 detailing its investigation of the June 9, 2021, grounding and sinking of the fishing vessel Sage Catherine Lane on the St. Marys River, south of Cumberland Island, Georgia . Sage Catherine Lane is pictured following the grounding on the jetty (left), and after being broken apart on the jetty three days after the grounding (right). Marine Investigation Report 22/14 is available at go.usa.gov/xu7Vh. (Source: U.S. Coast Guard)
These aren’t much - old snapshots that I scanned several years ago, but I thought I would post them for mlbrookmire, who says she can’t get enough of all the lobster boats and our means of working on them. When I grounded out to paint the starboard side, it was a tight squeeze on a rocky beach and I had to plop her down just right between ledges and boulders. The port side I had to do next door on my relative’s beach of crushed mussel shells, which are brutal to any barefoot kid going swimming but very soft on a boat. (Adults don’t swim in the salt water in Maine, the warmest the water ever gets is 67°, about 19° Celsius). Grounding out against the wharf is fairly easy: just leave your lines tied properly to allow for the boat to drop 12 feet yet remain snug to the wharf and you can walk away and leave her going up and down with the tide for days if you like.
Workers excavate shallow trenches following rain inside the bottom of the headhouse, where a lattice of large grounding wire will be installed.
These aren’t much - old snapshots that I scanned several years ago, but I thought I would post them for mlbrookmire, who says she can’t get enough of all the lobster boats and our means of working on them. When I grounded out to paint the starboard side, it was a tight squeeze on a rocky beach and I had to plop her down just right between ledges and boulders. The port side I had to do next door on my relative’s beach of crushed mussel shells, which are brutal to any barefoot kid going swimming but very soft on a boat. (Adults don’t swim in the salt water in Maine, the warmest the water ever gets is 67°, about 19° Celsius). Grounding out against the wharf is fairly easy: just leave your lines tied properly to allow for the boat to drop 12 feet yet remain snug to the wharf and you can walk away and leave her going up and down with the tide for days if you like.
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March. Yay!
Paint roulette colours - winsor red, winsor lemon, payne's gray, raw umber and cobalt blue.
Frankly, I prefer to make do with 3 or 4 colours and mix other colours with those. But it's good to stretch and play.
Best of all, it settled me down so that I can focus on something that needs to be done. Painting is very centering and grounding. It's the focus, I suppose.