Tmac, will you come with me to help find Sir William and sort out his little bleeders, or shall I set out with my pairs of pliers and cold chisel and hammer? (this is known as the boy scout's tool kit.)

I could take the lovely little King Dick I have as well, but probably not use it.

As always a pleasure to assist you FJ, I assume you are agreeable to the usual rates?

Ah the old cold chisel and hammer eh?.... obviously you are trained in the old school of injuneering ;) however techkno....tecknol...tekchnol.... things have moved on these days and we use the handy size plasma cutter and a carbon grit blast...saves all that unnecessary effort and swearing as well as the knuckles.. :sweat:

As for your lovely little King Dick.. what you do in the privacy of your own cabin is entirely your business ;)

If Sir William's V8 doesn't start, try fitting this one ! We might have to make some minor adjustments to the engine beds and mounting feet.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19eQBQep-sc

General Motors Detroit Diesel series 71. The most efficient machine ever devised by man to convert diesel fuel into noise.

Tmac, the expert is worth his money. Let's go, Sir William will be getting hungry.

Now where am I?

Don't worry, Sir William, we are on our way, bearing consumables to stay your hunger and thirst. There is, of course, a bottle of something soothing in the galley, and some of the horses hay is stowed in the cushions in the cockpit.

We have you targeted, we will be there in half an hour.

At anchor off Richard's bay, Tmac and I are just rescuing Sir William form a little mechanical excursion he inadvertently took.

Can you check that the horse has enough water and such. Be good to see you when we return.

thank goodness they have spotted me at last. One of our cut outs in trouble for forgetting to refuel my boat.

Get them on the blower...I want that V 12. Sounds lovely.

They have a few finishing touches to do, and want to know what colour you want it painted. GM green, or Luxury Yacht white? They will be crating it up after preparing it for shipment, and can either fly it out on the next UPS Jumbo freighter, or we can pick it up when we are passing. I told them you had a special unlimited credit card, and they said they already heard about it, so payment at any time by fax, email, telegram, carrier pigeon or smoke signal is fine.

It will need the fuel turning on even sooner.

Tmac, your bleeding of the fuel system was masterly, I noticed you delicately mopped a drip of diesel from the bleed valves with a tissue, to rub in the clumsiness of my efforts in the past.

All back on board, let's have a slight drink. Raise your glasses to Tmac, again I hear you all shout.

Plaggy stewards, a few cans of pees and some horses doofers, and none of those pineapple and cheese on sticks, that's a bit old fashioned.

I don't do horses old son... only multiples of 'em.. and usually when in conjunction with talking about flying machines... which is where I was last weekend and will be this weekend.. more Flying Fortress time...:cat::angel::wink::pint:

V-12??? Nah.. get a couple of Fairbanks-Morse 10 cylinder opposed piston diesels... though some of the restored diesel boats may look down on holes suddenly appearing where their engine rooms were..

We could devise an inflatable look alike. That might get us some time.



Probably in jail.....

Would it float like an inflatable or just look like one?

(Actually I understand there are some used inflatables under the funnel suite bunk. Don't even think there still good for a short time).

Tmac...With this new engine coming I will need a different Prop. we will up our speed and power a great deal.

Maskelyne is reputed to have floated an image of the Bismark down the Thames made from a box of cornflakes and a balloon (or some such), but no-one took a picture. Is this the kind of prop youare thinking of, Sir William?

Didn't he make the Suez Canal disappear during the War? Wouldn't have fooled us though, not with our super powerful digital hyper definition radar scanner. (That funny looking thing whirling around at the top of the Christmas tree above the compass platform on the wheelhouse roof.)

is that what that thing is? And I always thought it was a roundabout for Squeak!#

I excellent at screws Sire but may I suggest a water jet in this case ;)

Hoi you leave my "inflatables" alone young man, the puncture repair solution hasn't set yet :p The guy in the shop was of no help :really_mad: I took my inflatable back to him and complained that it went down on me.... all he said was " If I'd known it did that I'd have charged you more" :mad:

So I just walked away and left him lying there sporting a large dent in his skull from my flogging spanner (which I keep handy down the leg of my boiler suit just for such occasions ;))

Flogging spanner = A large device for cracking nuts undone..see I still remember my workshop practise lesons.

had one but it was a male....guy in the shop said I had it inside out

I think the plasticos are quite relieved at that news. They thought it had something to do with preparing for an amorous assault on a donkey.

(A jenny, of course, nothing wrong with our Tmac)

I have just been informed that our contact has arranged for us to go alongside on Thursday to load our cargo.

Meantime, anyone fancy a quick trip ashore? We have our tender working and not sunk, fueled up and ready to take a party ashore for a little bird-watching and leg stretching and anything in between.

count me in on that Farmer John. Love a run ashore.

Injuniers!!
 

Time the deckie types honored your efforts Tmac.

Never gonna happen Sire, who could break the habit of a life time.... anyhoo that depicts just a typical day down in the pit.... even as far as the tea....;)

Are all those dials connected to the BlackBush system?

weeeeeeeelllll I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you :very_sad: suffice to say I'm connected to the Black Bush system :pint: :wink:

Them's not just for the decoratives. Them's to show the gubbins is gubbinsing.

(Are you sure about squeak. My spollchucker wants that to be gibbons)?

Well I hope you all had a good run ashore, it was very sporting of Varley to tow the boat back by imitating a porpoise, with the bow-line in his teeth.

Standby to enter the port: Tmac, you I know to be ready, cutouts raise the anchor, dead slow ahead to take the strain off, and we are away. I fancy nuzzling up to Leda, we will fit in there somewhere, bodge about a bit and make room.

Well that was simple, all alongside and moored fast (you appreciate that the movement log can be filled in later when things have calmed down a bit. Just make sure that "finished with engines" is on a multiple of 6 minutes, makes the maths easier).

Right, bucket of water and spin the old floaty thing and then we have to work out where to put 1,500 tonnes of sparkly stuff. Don't worry, it won't go in the No 1 hatch, anyone else got any preferences?

Oh, and if anyone asks, we are currently disguised as a dirty British Coaster with a salt-caked smokestack, just a bit lost. Just show them this pile of cheap tin trays.

Ummm I hate to disillusion you old chap but we always look like that :paper:

Tmac, I know, you know, we all know. There is no more effective disguise than being a tree in a wood. It is only when you enter the accommodation that you see the sumptuous glory of the beautiful ship we live on. Looks even better than Trump's exquisite suite. See Sir William seated on that well-stuffed lion, it thought it was going to stud, poor wee bugger.

If you think the accommodation is good wait until you see the funnel suite.... injuneers only ME of course... and the occasional nubile maiden :wink:

You should have seen the look of surprise on that lions face as Sir Billy stuffed and mounted it :jester:

Tmac, I am an ignorant person, is "nubile" some form of vulcanized rubber? Don't tell anyone that I don't know.

More a jointing compound I believe.

Stuff whatevers going me Tmac ha ha

Must admit though, That Kangeroo in Aus almost had me beat till it started going downhill ha ha