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by Jacko
28 Mar 2023, 20:50
Forum: Newbie Questions
Topic: stiff rudder
Replies: 3
Views: 2391

Re: stiff rudder

Have a read of the Hobie manual (link below). Stiff rudder turning could be 1. friction between the control handle shaft and hull and the spring, 2. friction between the left and right steer control lines or 3. friction between the steer control lines and the control lines tube Stiff rudder raising ...
by Jacko
28 Sep 2022, 17:23
Forum: The Ride Home
Topic: Fly Fishing
Replies: 23
Views: 24462

Re: Fly Fishing

👍 Top Gun Pete. :?: .I used to enjoy flying solo student out of Moorabbin and looking down between the clouds over the potato farms in the training area. That was almost 40 years ago but the cost was too much for me to keep up the hours needed to maintain a licence. I might take you up on the offer ...
by Jacko
16 Mar 2022, 17:55
Forum: DIY Section
Topic: Motorized cart build
Replies: 9
Views: 4889

Re: Motorized cart build

Hi Lloydy, Have you done a real life test yet ? How did you tighten & secure the straps that hold the front wheel to the yak ? I have just invested in a electric motorised jockey wheel to help me move and park my kayak trailer My trailer is a modified extended drawbar box trailer with canopy cov...
by Jacko
17 Aug 2021, 22:02
Forum: The Ride Home
Topic: Music Vids I Like
Replies: 102
Views: 45830

Re: Music Vids I Like

Tried youtube music during lockdown and after selecting a few music vids I liked
youtube recommended Green grass and high tides by the outlaws to me.
If you like guitar rifs you will enjoy this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qd4xRdhVps
by Jacko
17 Jan 2021, 21:24
Forum: The Ride Home
Topic: They were jumping into the boat!
Replies: 2
Views: 2776

Re: They were jumping into the boat!

Looks like the whales were bubble netting.
by Jacko
03 Jan 2021, 22:14
Forum: The Ride Home
Topic: Anniversary Sarsfield Bushrires.
Replies: 2
Views: 2357

Re: Anniversary Sarsfield Bushrires.

So glad you have the confidence to go forward and rehabilitate your beautiful property Digger. You did your bit for our country and have earned & deserve the help provided. The ADF & Defence community certainly do treat veterans as family. I am not ex ADF but as a public servant in Defence g...
by Jacko
08 Aug 2020, 00:55
Forum: The Ride Home
Topic: Music Vids I Like
Replies: 102
Views: 45830

Re: Music Vids I Like

This one came up on my you tube while watching other vids. I'm too young for the beatles but their music lives on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dq9AX-Z1pc
by Jacko
03 May 2020, 22:05
Forum: The Ride Home
Topic: East Gippsland Fires.
Replies: 72
Views: 18562

Re: East Gippsland Fires.

Thinking of you today Dig, hope the rebuild is going well and you are enjoying a few quiet ones. :cheers: X2 I was thinking of digger & all the other service men & women on the 25th April. It was a very different ANZAC day. Normally I would have been marching with friends, relatives & d...
by Jacko
03 May 2020, 21:51
Forum: The Ride Home
Topic: Final goodbye
Replies: 11
Views: 3820

Re: Final goodbye

So sorry to hear of your mums passing Larry. I am sure you would have done as much as you could for her in her elderly years. Your mum must have had a good healthy life for her 95 years. If you can keep a copy of the Eulogy reading and other parts of the service, photos etc that will help with the g...
by Jacko
24 Jan 2020, 20:59
Forum: Say G'Day
Topic: Complete newbie checking in
Replies: 9
Views: 3819

Re: Complete newbie checking in

Welcome Dom, I was a complete newbie and did a beginner kayak fishing course with east coast kayak in Sandringham. (Also known as The Kayak Shop) It is a one day course and they show you through the kayaks, paddle techniques equipment safety etc. There were 12 on the course I did and 8 of them were ...