Boat Tools

06 Jul. 09

You know I have given Lola so many ideas but she doesn’t approve of most, for example I told her we should all learn to ride unicycles because they would be easy to store on the boat, her comment was that people wouldn’t approve and would say things like here comes that circus family. I then suggested pogo sticks which she shut down even faster with bouncing fools. So my lets keep some chickens on board suggestion was only said as a joke.

14 Jul. 09

Had a day drift on Friday last week, the weather man said that the weekend was going to have cold weather so we decided to bunk work on Friday and take advantage of the day as it was nice and sunny, sadly no wind what so ever. Still better than work anyday. Trying my hand at writing a book have an idea but cant quite get further than a couple of pages. I find that you have to be in the right mood to write and with work and other distractions the mood doesn’t arrive.

So I decided to paste a sample of my attempt, hope its not to lame.

"Young freddys life was very confusing as a child, he never seemed to be the same as all the other siblings in his family and later on not the same as the other kids in his class. His mind was clouded and things didn’t seem real to him as if it was happening to someone else.

One day whilst playing alone on the playground at school he was joined by another kid in the game. This kid had been scaring him for some time and knew that young freddy had fear of him and took full advantage of this. At every opportunity he would sit next to young freddy and tease him. Sometimes he would wait inside the toilets where he knew he would catch young freddy alone and try to push young freddys head under the water in the toilets whilst flushing the toilet. Young freddy was pertified of water and could not swim and stayed clear of the water, but this did not stop the bully from increasing the fear and young freddy stopped going to the toilets unless there was lots of older kids in the toilets as this gave young freddy some sense that the bully would not try for fear of the older kids reprise.

Young freddy waited to see what his punishment would be this day as this other kid would be dealing out and young freddy would have to receive. This was the order of things in his life and in his confused mind he believed that. Even at home where most are safe young freddy,s life was ruled by an angry stepfather with a bad drinking habit. The man was large over 6 foot and abusive even when sober. Many times he would take young freddy into the yard and make him dig over the garden whilst sitting in a lazy chair and watched waiting for young freddy to tire then he would get up stumble over and lay a large fist into young freddy,s body. When young freddy cried he would beat him with the fist repeatedly until he stopped crying and lay unconscious bleeding on the floor.

The boy stared at him and young freddy could see the torment in his eyes. He tensed himself waiting for the inevitable. What felt like an eternity went by and the fear started to grow more intense with every passing moment until he thought he could take it no more. Young freddy considered running but his legs would not allow him to move, he was trapped by his own in ability to escape and thus had to be punished. The forehead landed hard on his face shattering bones and teeth and he could instantly taste the blood in his mouth. He felt his knees give way and his whole body shook as the back of his head collided with the solid concrete pathway. Instantly the blood ran down his neck and onto his collar. Then the darkness saved him and the fear and pain was gone.

30 Jul. 09
Its been a while since I have written anything, where to begin, this month has been very eventful but not in a good way. We have for some time been having theft occur at one of our clients and we have discovered after some serious investigating that some of our employees where involved. This has caused a lot of stress. The matter is still under investigation in order to establish how deep it went. Hope to get to the bottom of this and put it behind me. Can’t seem to focus on other things whilst this kind of thing is happening.

On a better note we went through to Deneysville to star marine the other day and bought a wind indicator, this should make sailing a lot better as I will now be able to see from where the wind is coming. The current wind indicator on the boat only shows apparent wind as it is installed to low at the back of the cockpit. I’m not sure how the previous owner used it as it is pretty useless to me. Also went over to Axel and Peta’s house the other day and had a bit too much of a good time, the evening was a lot of fun though and the next day babelas was worth it. I now have to decide if I am going to go up the mast to install the indicator or if I should get Greg to fit it for me next time we go down to the vaal. The weather has been absolutely terrible and cold so we haven’t been on the boat much the last couple of weeks. I have managed to remember to get my fluke meter into the boot of the car and hope to start to solve why none of the instruments on the boat work soon.