For whatever reason Ubuntu doesn’t include a valid certificate chain for sites using RapidSSL certificates. If your server has read data from a site that uses RapidSSL then you have good chance that you will receive errors stating that the certificate is invalid. To solve... Read More

I have been running on and off for a fair while and I was hoping to increase the distances that I was running. At the time I was running 6km two or three times and week and 12km once a week. My aim was to increase the distance I was running to a consistent 12km at least twice... Read More

Racing the week before was spoilt by breaking the outhaul. This week I replaced most of the control lines to avoid a repeat of the incident. Of all of the lines which has made the biggest difference was replacing the elastic that holds the centerboard into the boat. This made... Read More

The wind around Albert Park Lake was blowing 10-15 knots from the South-South West. With the tents and grandstands being built at the southern end of the lake for the Grand Prix the wind was light and very fluky down the narrows and rowing basin. The race went well with the winds... Read More

Nice steady spring breeze rolled in to Albert Park Lake just before the race. With a Starboard course the question of how to tackle the island/entrance to the narrows is a tricky one. It seems that there was better wind towards the island rather than out near the entrance to the... Read More

Caught a bunch of Photos of Shauna (#84) racing in the Honda Hybrid Womens 3 Day tour. Read More

Yesterday was an extremely windy day, with the wind was consistently over 25 knots, with the weather station at Royal Melbourne recording gusts at 47 knots (87 kmh) during our race. An idea of how windy this is, there was spray being blown off the surface of Albert Park Lake, and... Read More

Strong northly breezes provided challenging racing this week. This was the first decent breeze that I had the boat out in. The biggest news is that I didn’t break anything on the boat and everything pretty much held together. The first couple of laps I took it relatively... Read More

Photos from our recent trip to the US. Headed up the Empire State building around 10:00am one morning. Read More

While I have put a number of photos of rebuilding and repairing Dad’s boat, I haven’t put any photos up of the finished boat. Unfortunately it would probably have been better to take these photos before breaking the mast and punching a hole in the deck. I took a... Read More