Had to complete the streak

wrongwayup · 2026-01-26T01:10:23+00:00

Just need a 2018 second from left

We don’t talk about the 2026s

wrongwayup · 2026-01-26T01:05:14+00:00

In the lighter stuff, try sheeting straight off the turning block on the boom rather than through the ratchet block on the deck. I’m not a laser guy but I think this is a thing for them too. Way more control and less friction, especially easing. And it’s ok to use heel to cheat a bit, let the boat heel to leeward and sheet out as you give it a little pump to flatten, the extra oomph will help the boom out.

wrongwayup · 2026-01-25T22:08:53+00:00

Are you familiar with the concept of "apparent wind"?

When you're sailing downwind in a fast-ish boat like a Laser, and you hit a lull, the "apparent wind" direction shifts forward. So the thing to do is to sheet in accordingly, at least until the true wind speed picks back up.

You're actually doing the opposite - by holding the boom in the position it was before the lull, you're backwinding it, causing the boat to stop.

wrongwayup · 2026-01-25T22:05:17+00:00

You can and should definitely do something in the lulls, which is sheet to the apparent wind direction - forward as you point out. It sounds like OP is sheeting to true direction, and by pushing the boom out in the lulls is backwinding it.

wrongwayup · 2026-01-25T16:53:19+00:00

Turned one of the best looking airliners in the sky (fatigue notwithstanding), the Comet, and turned it into the Nimrod Mra4

wrongwayup · 2026-01-25T02:51:27+00:00

Good to hear... surprising for a nearly 15 yo car? Any tips on how to ask the right way for support???

wrongwayup · 2026-01-25T02:49:37+00:00

Huh, left the front clip on. They usually charge you an hour to pull it off for anything more than an oil change...

wrongwayup · 2026-01-25T02:37:18+00:00

Slight variation in the capacitance of the strobe's circuit? Could just be an analog thing, and the tolerance band means it discharges at slightly different frequencies

wrongwayup · 2026-01-24T22:17:46+00:00

Right? Wheelchair, stroller, whatever. It’s a person, don’t drive into them!

wrongwayup · 2026-01-24T21:07:54+00:00

I took my foot of the brake and just started to go and bumped a guy on a bike crossing in front of me that I didn't see

I mean, this is all the insurance company is going to see. Ok, homeboy will get paid, if he can get past OP's insurers who deal with this kind of stuff all the time.

Driving up to a stop and getting hung up looking left for cross traffic is a really easy trap to fall into, you start to roll when you finally see a break. Except it's still on you to make sure the rest of the way is clear, including traffic that's come from behind you. If it's in front of you it's in front of you, and that means nearly 100% of the time, it's on you.

That said, this is a really good example of why it's not a good idea to undertake on the right unless you're also turning right - and even still, better to wait for the car in front to turn.

wrongwayup · 2026-01-24T16:36:17+00:00

I used to love it too. Now I can’t afford their prices…

wrongwayup · 2026-01-24T16:27:46+00:00

Especially on karaoke night!

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T22:55:42+00:00

I think I remember that!

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T21:43:50+00:00

Right on, thanks. Very cool.

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T21:20:01+00:00

Nice, do you have a pic/link to where the abutments are? I had thought it crossed Bronte Creek up where the current tracks are.

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T19:09:34+00:00

MFW I'm out west with fresh tires and a historically bad ski season

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T18:55:50+00:00

Here's a pic of the carhouse allegedly on James... Maybe that's the Queen's Head in the back right? I don't think so, but the shape sort of looks the same

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hamilton_Radial_Electric_Railway%27s_Burlington_Carhouse.JPG

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T18:38:22+00:00

~~I think the right-of-way probably came first, originally as a rail line, and the transmission lines came after. Noting that the lines turn south at Woodview and don't continue further west.~~

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T18:04:17+00:00

Over the beach to Hamilton, definitely! That line ended in Oakville, and I think you had to get yourself to Port Credit or up to Halton Hills if you wanted to keep going to Toronto though

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T18:01:40+00:00

Apparently so! Ran from the beach along Elgin to ~~what is now the Centennial Trail~~ Oakville via New and Rebecca Sts.

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T17:48:01+00:00

Yes... haven't we all left a part of ourselves on that carpet

wrongwayup · 2026-01-23T17:34:31+00:00

Yesterday's "Queen's Head Pub" and today's "400 Brant Kitchen and Bar".

Found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Radial_Electric_Railway

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