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About Me
- steve
- A welshman displaced to wonderful Plymouth in SW England; a novice sailor, motorhomer and boat builder with a passion for all things to do with the sea. Follow my journey as I learn to sail Arwen, grappling with charts, tide tables and passage planning so that I can become 'a dinghy cruiser' And by the way, just occasionally, little snippets about our travels and adventures. Subscribe on this blog and at www.youtube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy for videos about dinghy cruising. I look forward to hearing your comments, tips and thoughts.
My Blog List
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Maurice Griffiths and His ‘Eventide’ Yacht - *'Ishani'* Many yachtsmen will have affectionate memories of sailing and owning boats that were designed by Maurice Griffiths, and perhaps thousands...
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Merry Christmas - Local knitters out in force and doing a great job decorating not just the post box but the old phone box for Christmas, will make you smile even if ...
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The America's Cup in Barcelona - I haven't posted for a long time, but it's blog anniversary day and I've recently been in Barcelona where managed to see the America's Cup, so thought...
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Waves, water and wild places - The wind was rising and the Captain called for the t’gallants to be furled. Two of us ran down the leeward deck to get buntlines and clewlines ready. At th...7 months ago
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FOR SALE - Sailing Just For Fun: Rare opportunity to own wooden gaff cutter Shoal Waters. Owner retiring. New sails. Yard trailer. Spare original sails. Ghoster sail....
1 year ago
Popular Posts
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If you search a few posts back you will see that I built a new outboard engine maintenance stand. I based it on plans off the internet but ... -
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Below you will find information to help you, should you decide you want to give it a go. There are photographs from my strip-down along wit...
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You can see the video about changing the impeller, the gear oil and the shear pin below. Below is a photographic summary of how to cha...
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Part 2 If you haven't yet read part one - access it here at https://arwensmeanderings.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-kentucky-stick-ch... -
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6 comments:
Great fun and a novel way to show lovely areas of our countryside. However, I don't want to spill cocoa on your duvet, Steve, but have you seen the regulations on drones? They are "evolving" according to the CAA, but currently don't allow flights within 50 metres of people, buildings, vessels, etc "not within the operator's control". As with all recreations, the minority (not you!)spoil it for the rest by irresponsible use. Expect even tighter regs as a result!
In the meantime, I'm enjoying all your posts. Keep it up!
Stuart
all good points - was aware of them. the people around tended to arrive after the drone flight started. I was though within 50m of buildings just I suspect. and I guess being alongside a cycle trail probably wasn't the best chosen location
But your technique is great!- very restrained motion. Some users revel so much in the arial freedom it's like being inside a drunk mosquito. This will add so much to your cruising and walking videos.
There are very very few who "spoil it for the rest" - the real problem is the flippin right wing press who jumped on this on a quiet news week and, of course, this useless govt have listened to the Daily Mail rather than the facts...
don't entirely agree with that. know some airline pilots who have had some close encounters with drones. Those drone pilots are dangerous and give the rest of us a bad name. I do agree the majority I suspect try to abide by the rules. However, the growth of travel tourism and use of drones to get footage is now becoming an issue in some places
Hi Robert - thanks for the comment - I always try to work on 'less is more'; I'm slowly mastering it so I can get footage of my trips - hopefully one coming up next week. Hope you are well
Steve
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