It was the 82nd consecutive running of the Fall Field day on Sunday, a tradition that refuses to die. Our weather was perfect and we found 152 species for the day which ended at 5 PM. Counts were higher than usual with teams recording as many as 117 and 113 species.

The wood will die at each of the "noble" > fittings, i.e. at each spot where you want the wood to be extra strong... > Where the wooden structure holds the struts, the stuffing box, the > rudder bearings, etc. the wood will turn to mush!

If your teak deck is about to die, go a head and use Cetol. do not be shy about applying extra coats. We have boats going on five years without stripping. Brian Hall CHB 45 "Any Sea" Old Bay Marina Baltimore > everything up and cleaned all with Te-Ka Teak Cleaner. This is powerful > stuff and you have to be careful with nearby paint etc.

Before hauling Miss Muffet, I would do something to remove the sea cocks from the cooling circuit and see if the engines overheat and the impellers die. Is there another sea cock of sufficient size that you could use to obtain cooling water, so that you could run long enough to take a trip to test the impellers?

I.e., two-part die press, vs. the rolling press design. Do I care which design of press is used, so long as it is rated for the correct wire size (our biggest is 14mm Dyform). Fortunately our rigging is relatively small compared to the Americas Cup and Whitbread boats that Southern Spars does routinely.

The rotary press can usually be called upon to do a prettier job with no die marks. Example: Check out a tapered front fork on a bicycle. There is usually no finishing process between swaging and cleaning/painting on this part. The part is usually rotary-hammer-swaged to a very fine surface finish, bent, assembled and painted. Ed

I'll probably die over that remark, eh? Seriously though, there seems to be a different perception toward odours depending on whether you're male or female.

One option lets you print a chart with overlayed routes showing course and distance on each leg - this is handy for those who fear their GPS will die. It also lets you upload and download to/from a GPS. Being able to print the charts in large sizes with waypoints/routes is very useful for us, as we use a Yeoman and don't bring a 'puter on board.

Rarely does anyone survive a car wreck only to die by drowning. Boating is much more akin to piloting an aircraft. With the exception that we can stop, they can't. So make the most of what you have. Many times I have found that just by backing off the throttle, the situation resolves itself. It is not like I was goin' very fast to begin with.

Ron Rogers wrote: > Also, a good way to jam the crimper is to place a too-large connector in the > wrong die. If you cannot COMPLETELY close the crimper, the blue-handled > Ancor I own will jam and require disassembly - you do not want to "try this > at home!"