Forum: Boating
01-07-2024, 06:51 PM
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Replies: 219
Views: 220,291
Coverage Speculation...
If insurance covers this Hackercraft, will the insurance company offer a new Hackercraft?
From the Hackercraft factory in NY, their cheapest model starts at $235,000.
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Forum: Boating
01-06-2024, 03:38 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 21,355
My Story of A "Cell" on Winnipesaukee...
With no wind or ripples showing on the lake, I have a photograph showing my sailboat's wake!
If you have to get going, just pull out this handy-dandy gizmo:
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Forum: General Discussion
01-05-2024, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 79
Views: 31,281
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Forum: General Discussion
01-05-2024, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 189
Views: 110,551
Cyanobacteria Have a Distinguished Past...
1.75 Billion years ago, cyanobacteria started the "Great Oxygenation Event", making life on Earth possible. (As just reported in Nature magazine).
"As reported in a new study, scientists have...
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
01-03-2024, 03:27 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 13,004
How It's Done...
...in Russia...:eek2:
https://youtube.com/shorts/JeSnKGvrxyw?si=fTkw4tG27joKlxA3
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Forum: Boating
12-31-2023, 08:44 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 19,705
Yee-Haw...!
'Found this "Shorts" video showing a fast bass-boat below an airplane.
Does the audio "speak volumes?" :rolleye2:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fsyaeu0yv_4?si=f1ZGXHNZwYPRyl1p
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Forum: History
12-26-2023, 06:12 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 113,055
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
12-23-2023, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 14,461
DIY Doorlocks...
Owning three properties, I have each property "keyed-alike". Schlage makes an excellent lock, and I key them myself. :eek2:
With the correct key inserted, they disassemble easily, but the center...
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Forum: General Discussion
12-22-2023, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 189
Views: 110,551
Then...
Wouldn't everybody's lawn be yellow?
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
12-17-2023, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 12,028
Try This...
Of the many sliding glass doors I've seen in Florida, all locked only from the inside. Perhaps because burglars gain easy access to the inside by prying the doors upwards--and out of the track--....
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Forum: General Discussion
12-17-2023, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 112
Views: 41,550
Acronyms Changed...
NH DRA has changed all this for future payments:
The BET is now the DAT, and BPT is now the GON.
When your DAT is $110,000 and your GON is $100,000 then you pay $110,000 (Full Credit for the...
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Forum: Restaurant Information & Reviews
12-15-2023, 01:33 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 26,351
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Forum: Restaurant Information & Reviews
12-12-2023, 05:37 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 26,351
At Least, Looney Bin Didn't Have Looters!
Somewhere in my presently-sidelined laptop, I'd taken a picture of a concrete-filled bollard bent over and resting against a gas pump!
Some vehicles might have the "heft" to move them. Here's a...
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Forum: General Discussion
12-11-2023, 07:41 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 14,279
A Fine Point...
Just a fine point, but "Right Of Survivorship" can exist among family members--or anybody else.
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Forum: Weather
12-10-2023, 10:20 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 27,029
The Long View...
Not unlike other energy sources, nuclear energy produces heat. That's why nuclear must have cooling systems. (Towers or canals).
In the "sawtooth" graphs recording Earth's temperatures, wide...
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
12-05-2023, 03:59 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 17,655
The Engineer in Me, Says...
1) I can only suspect that even a small electric fan, directed at any part of a woodstove's vertical surfaces, would be far more cost-effective than a $50 heat-powered fan. (As others have previously...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-21-2023, 04:08 AM
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Replies: 189
Views: 110,551
No "Leaf Litter" When White Pines Are Planted...
1) Trees do a good job of breaking up heavy raindrops. You get just as wet walking beneath them, but the velocity of rainfall is kept in check. The sloping roofs of waterfront homes accelerate the...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-19-2023, 04:53 AM
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Replies: 189
Views: 110,551
Surely, There Are Lessons Here...
Much "landscaping" within the last several decades has consisted of adding impervious granite to lakeside property. Parking areas are demarcated using huge concrete blocks, and the flow of runoff is...
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Forum: Getting Here
11-18-2023, 02:23 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 19,925
An Update from Ormond Beach...
My car was towed from an Ormond Beach Days-Inn motel.
Warnings to “Park with front of vehicles to be ‘facing-in’ or your car will be towed”. (Written in white shoe polish on lobby windows). I...
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Forum: Snowmobiling
11-14-2023, 07:05 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 50,359
Caution: Lynx
Remember, they're all teeth and claws!
:eek2:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZiBnGYfhTTE?si=kE0xbvEPDt7cKG9k
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Forum: History
11-12-2023, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 44,462
Unless Someone Beats Me To It...
I never knew Center Harbor was so Metropolitan! :eek2:
Now, I'm thinking of starting a thread on "Melvin Village in the 50s and 60s". :coolsm:
I promise, it'll be a short one... ;)
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Forum: Getting Here
11-12-2023, 12:19 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 27,568
They'll Keep The Lights On...
There's not much south of Wilkes-Barre. Hersey fills up on car show days. My Wilkes-Barre stay is Motel-6 at the top end of Schecter Street. There are choices of rooms with microwave/refrigerator--or...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-11-2023, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 189
Views: 110,551
Upon Sale...
Why not add septic systems to the usual inspections accomplished on every sale of real estate? Roof, termite, survey, structural defects, building code violations—among others--chimney, furnace.
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
11-08-2023, 03:38 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 17,655
Woodstove Fans--The 10 Best....
They're not expensive, but how efficient can a heat-powered fan be? :confused:
https://forestry.com/reviews/10-best-wood-stove-fans-2023/
Giving some thought to buying a woodstove fan. Has...
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Forum: General Discussion
11-06-2023, 05:53 AM
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Replies: 189
Views: 110,551
Advancing Lake Eutrification...
Canada's government has given Manitoba 27 years to clean up the world's most blue-green
lake. The cost will be in the billions of Canadian dollars.
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