Bute, Friday 10th August 2018
Friday was always going to be the last day of our faster runs. We'd calculated a long time ago that 150mph was about the maximum safe...
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bluebirdk7
Aug 87 min read
Thursday 9th August 2018
By now we were really beginning to coalesce into a very slick team and we arrived at the side of Loch Fad to find a pleasant 14 degrees...
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bluebirdk7
Jul 144 min read
Mini Sidescan Adventures. HMCS Regina
There's not a lot to report on K7 at the moment. The RM is rapidly learning that the canopy is difficult, there's still no spray baffles,...
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bluebirdk7
Jul 1011 min read
Becoming an Amateur : Part 3
Could you find a machete thrown into a river using sonar? Hopefully we’re back on track now. Having to reply to that ridiculous open...
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bluebirdk7
Jun 215 min read
An Open Reply to an Open Letter
Dear trustees, Your open letter was read with dismay and some team members have responded privately to which I add my thoughts, which...
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Renegadenemo
Jun 1715 min read
Becoming an Amateur - Part Two
If you've read Part One you'll know there have been attempts to belittle the work, equipment and skills employed in finding the Bluebird...
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bluebirdk7
Jun 131 min read
Stop Press
The RM have issued a letter but their link doesn't work so here it is.
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Renegadenemo
Jun 1011 min read
Becoming an Amateur - Part One
Now that K7 is out of her workshop and in the wing we get a lot of feedback on what's going on because anyone who looks at K7 and is in...
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bluebirdk7
Jun 39 min read
Bell Ends And Engine Inlets
We've been subjected to several weird and wonderful acts of awkwardness at the hands of those who run the Ruskin Museum. For example,...
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Renegadenemo
May 288 min read
While we're waiting.
It's been a while since I last sat down to write something. Apart from an obituary, that is. The main reason is I've just been too busy...
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Renegadenemo
May 254 min read
Goodbye Doddy.
Our old mate and BBP team member, Alan 'Doddy' Dodds sadly passed away this week. * Way back many years ago we were contacted by a bloke...
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Renegadenemo
Mar 14 min read
BB is Dead, Long Live BBP.
Just a few paragraphs because, sadly, life is now extinct in the big tin machine. Off went the battery charger for the final time and out...
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Renegadenemo
Feb 92 min read
Enough is Enough
As the news is out we'd best say something. When we returned from Bute in 2018 we had dates to run on Coniston Water for the following...
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Renegadenemo
Feb 54 min read
Victor Pelican Part 3. Webbed Feet
This was to be a puzzle. I've made many things out of metal before but a huge pair of webbed feet was to be a first. I'd done the rest of...
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Renegadenemo
Jan 285 min read
Victor Pelican Part 2
With the wings made, Victor needed a body and the level of detail had now been established at higher than intended so it had to be right....
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Renegadenemo
Jan 168 min read
Victor the Pelican. Part 1.
Since I took to Twitter or X or whatever it is nowadays with a couple of pictures of Victor the pelican (I will get to how he got his...
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Renegadenemo
Dec 31, 20238 min read
Another Year Over
I've not written much this year because basically I've had a year where I haven't been full time on the project, my first since 2001. I...
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Renegadenemo
Mar 12, 202311 min read
The Show Must Go On.
Because it's possible we'll have a long delay in this endlessly twisting and turning journey on which we're embarked, the team had a sit...
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Renegadenemo
Mar 5, 20233 min read
It's a Crazy World
Just a short note at the end of what was a busy week but at least I learned a new skill. I am now incredibly adept at putting printed...
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Renegadenemo
Feb 23, 20232 min read
With Regret - Maybe.
This morning my eldest daughter brought a fat envelope upstairs in which was a pile of paperwork from the Ruskin Museum. It contained...
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