Ramblings
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Renovating the studio: part 3
Not a lot of progress yesterday – the skip that should have been removed at 10:30 didn’t get removed until after lunch, which delayed the delivery of goods from the building supplier, and then it rained. However, the shallow footings have been dug, the shuttering is done for the concrete pour, and the supplies were…
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Renovating the studio: part 2
The builders were back bright and early today – pretty sure they were parked at the bottom of the drive at 20 past 7. The studio is pretty much gone, and the demolition was interesting. The roof came off first, and this is where Michael (head builder) discovered that the door frame had been taking…
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Renovating the studio: part 1
It’s taken a while, but the builder has finally been able to get here to look at taking the studio roof up by a course or two of bricks. Earlier in the year he came by to refresh his memory and check the holes in walls that I’d made to find out what was behind…
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Updating the cabin lights
Back in early 2018, I posted about the light fittings in the saloon and forward cabin, and how they were falling apart. I’ve finally found an appropriate replacement fitting, courtesy of boatlamps.co.uk (Wayback) – the Cantalupi DIANA 85. Boatlamps were able to supply both regular warm white LED lights (the default), and a red LED…
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A weekend adventure (and a lifeboat shout)
Earlier in the month, I had decided that I’d try a jaunt down the coast to see how far I could get on a single ebb tide, and then I’d come back up on the flood; I estimated that it’d basically be a day spent sailing, and that I could reach Wicklow Head. The forecast…
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Getting and displaying tide data
The DMYC has an IP camera pointed at the slip; the URL is very creative, it’s slipcam.dmyc.ie. Through the power of a Python script that knows how to talk to Twitter and another API, the image that gets sent to a browser has an overlay at the bottom with the current wind data from the…