Category Archives: Just for fun

Click on the following link and remember you are never too old to enjoy a good laugh

French artist Julien Berthier has designed the ‘Love Love’, a fully functional boat to look as if it is sinking. The 6.5m (21ft) yacht was cut in half with a new keel and motor added so it remains in the … Continue reading →

Time on your hands.  Like a good computer game. Well here is your chance.  ‘VIRTUAL SAILOR’ .  Sorry girls this is not quite the computer program you might be thinking of right now. Virtual sailor has the following features: * … Continue reading →

A new page has been uploaded which you can all contribute to.  As with all things in life, things change.  Some for better some for the worse.  People even make money out of ‘Change’ and many consultants will tell you … Continue reading →

Does anyone have a set of written rules for ‘uckers’  I know that individual ships had their own rules because I remember a number of you cheating..

Here is a cartoon drawn by one of our own. Sorry not sure who the artist was but anyway have a look !

Reported in the NZ Herald 29 October 1897 The system of wireless telegraphy invented by Signor Marconi is about to be exploited commercially, a company having been formed in London for that purpose.   According to the Electrical World, however, … Continue reading →

Have a look at this clip http://www.topsy.org/toofunny.html and select Morse Code v Text Messaging.  Amazing.

Have a look at the following images and think about the poor Signalman who spent the rest of the Commission on Duty

Well thanks to Lieutenant Commander Royce Bell of the RAN we now have the complete ‘Ode to Sparkers which I have reproduced belowfor the sparkers of the Branch. Thanks Royce A nondescript nonentity, a limb of the oppressed, I wear … Continue reading →