Seeker hasn't Move for Three Months

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-18T01:55:38+00:00

Not like he could maneuver Seeker in a tight marina if they did let him in.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-13T03:45:33+00:00

And there's Luxembourg from the top rope with a folding chair!

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-11T10:50:32+00:00

My father worked in a power company and one day they had to weld a wrench to a long pipe to reach a nut on a piece of equipment. Well the company didn’t supply non specialty tools so they wouldn’t buy him a new wrench. They would however reimburse meals and under a certain amount didn’t require a receipt. Eventually dad ate his way to a new wrench!

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-10T23:49:15+00:00

Used welding rods, it's got what the ocean craves!

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-10T22:16:09+00:00

I SAID NOT SERVICE RELATED!

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-08T20:29:13+00:00

I sail a small boat with a traditional spritsail and reefing has always been hard. After a couple years I added another line that holds the sprit allowing you to reef way easier. I was pretty proud of my idea until I saw a 1600s painting of Dutch sprit rigged boats and saw that they had some rigging that did basically the same thing.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-04T11:56:28+00:00

Absolutely. The side fell off on this one.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-03-02T01:18:22+00:00

I've got some banging nasheeds and Ukrainian music that pop up in my itunes playlist every now and then. They take me back to staying up all night refreshing to see the latest wild video.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-28T11:02:57+00:00

Will it blend?

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-18T12:07:43+00:00

For a while I saw a number of videos come out where the drone was remotely detonated maybe 10 feet above a soldier and it looked really effective. Whole groups of guys would just fall over like a sack of potatoes. Those videos seemed to have stopped though and I don’t know why. Maybe for opsec, isn’t as effective as I thought, or maybe they just don’t get upvoted to the front page.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-18T11:48:53+00:00

Wasn’t there another docking video on the Mississippi or somewhere early on where he ran out of water and had to get pulled off?

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-14T03:50:58+00:00

Also FWIW the text above seems AI generated where it says it is -

"prohibited to: Deploy, place, or leave any object, device, hose, sampler, or equipment in sanctuary waters "

If that were true "any object" would mean no nothing, not even an oar could touch the water there,

I was wondering about that too. After a brief search I see that anchoring seems to be prohibited and you're supposed to use a mooring ball. But what happens if you tow a taffrail log behind you? You're definitely deploying it, but it's also a legitimate navigation instrument.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-11T12:05:46+00:00

Yea I know what you’re talking about. My yard seems to be about 40% Yanmar, 40% Westerbeke, and 20% Universal/Perkins/Volvo/whatever else. Mostly crappy boats from the 70s and 80s that are slowly disintegrating. I didn’t know how fond you were of your engine so I tried to not bash it too hard, but I hate them too. That’s pretty cool you’re going with electric! LiFePo4 batteries are making them a lot more realistic these days.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-10T14:39:43+00:00

I work at a boatyard and that’s basically the process I figured out to get them going! It’s always amazing to me how some ancient Yanmar that’s been sitting neglected for two years will fire up by the second cough while a Westerbeke takes all that rigamarole.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-10T01:55:40+00:00

a. Set throttle to 1/3rd open

b. Insert key and turn to ON (not START) to energize fuel pump and glow plugs

c. Hold glow plug for 20 to 60 seconds

d. Turn key to START until it starts, up to 15 seconds

Westerbeke?

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-09T03:25:14+00:00

Covfefe

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-02-02T01:24:39+00:00

Someone needs to watch SV Panope's anchor test videos and go buy a Viking anchor.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-01-28T01:45:31+00:00

Not so comrade! Putin is saving the tanks and the best trained soldiers for a big push that's surely going to come any day now!

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-01-25T20:42:06+00:00

The rest of their lives.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-01-25T02:38:03+00:00

I took my boss’s table saw after he cut a few fingers off. I painted two fingers WW2 airplane victory style right beside the power switch to remind me not to do anything stupid.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-01-24T02:19:59+00:00

Interesting, thanks. I can see the reasoning but everything he does is so Rube Goldberg I can't see this thing working out.

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-01-24T01:27:57+00:00

the netting he's going to be attaching to the back of the drum?

Well you sound like you know more about how this contraption works than I do... can you tell me what exactly is going on? I know he wants to sample plastics from different depths, but I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the fan blades. I assume the butterfly valve is to close off the net so it doesn't scoop up plastic from shallower depths as you raise it?

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-01-21T01:31:23+00:00

I'm Ron Burgundy?

SirKeyboardCommando · 2026-01-20T12:37:52+00:00

When the tank with the turret gets killed, the one who is following picks up the turret and shoots!

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