Is that your back yard Jombob?

Need some Queenslanders down there to help you with the weed.

photo's from 5mile drift and this is after we had 3 to inches of rain the last few weeks.

Is the Peel Inlet now the premier shallow water speed sailing spot?

So I might have been the last to speed sail LG....

gpsteamchallenge.com.au/sailor_session/show?date=2016-01-26&team=33

pity you could not join me, was still fun on the big lake

red said...

jimbob SA said..








photo's from 5mile drift and this is after we had 3 to inches of rain the last few weeks.

Hey Jamie can you walk out and find my sunnies.. about 750m out from 5 mile a bit upwind.. shouldn't be too hard to find!!!

And Aldo's mast off the middle island. I too offer my shovel for a little digging.

The spit Big lake side.....subi is parked where I done my first 40 ever with Hamma.

Sammys Gap bone dry...lakes are separated totally can drive from spit to cockys. actually drove onto snake island where I took this pic from. Sammy would be crying. ill get over to barby island and look for masts know there a pryde one there too, will also take pic of Carls board snapping rocks,



ill find ya glasses Red remember seeing your crash when you lost them FUNNY as.

the sand in the channel to the sea is up to the bridge gunna be a huge job bit much for a few spades guys.
people on the LG management committee tell me its gunna be dug out but the drainage board who do it are very doubtful but either way the weed is gunna be a long way from recovering to the glory days.

So glad I went last year..

Very sad for you Jamie.

From www.lakeeyreyc.com/Status/latest.html

Yes
I know of two groups who did it back in the 90's (I think) and also about 5 years back..
Lake Eyre Yacht club is having a Regatta soon.
www.lakeeyreyc.com/Regatta/2016/2016%20RegattaFlyer.pdf

does this happen often at this place during the dry season? that's ruthless

Piv said..
Might need a few runs with the plow and seeder to get the weed going. ....

what next?

Hmmmm? Incidental weed, fair enough, but doesn't this infringe on Law 42 of cricket?

www.lords.org/mcc/the-laws-of-cricket/players-conduct

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/bushrangers-wicketkeeper-matthew-wade-cops-ban-for-pitch-tampering/story-fni2fnmo-1226761940511

You'd have to think that weed alters the apparent viscosity of water. Possibly even pushing it into the category of a non-Newtonian fluid.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_viscosity

Years ago I was decanting large volumes of ethanol for preserving timber samples. It pours noticeably different to water. Not sure if it would be better or worse to sail in. But if it was better it'd be the same thing wouldn't it? Law 42. Not cricket.

If you hypothetically filled one of these speed trenches with a liquid of a more favourable dynamic viscosity would the records be valid? Industrial ethanol is reasonably priced, it might do the job. If the trench was constructed accurately to the bare minimum volume, crash mats on either bank for safety? It's doable even if there's only a knot or two in it.

These two whoppers could probably fill Lake George in a Month or two!

Two V12 twin Turbo 2 stroke Diesels driving two 1 meter diameter inlet and outlet pipes. Over 6M gallons and hour. I would hate to be paying the fuel bill!

Nah Ian, I just want to fill up a trench somewhere windy!

My Cousin said the dam is filled to within 30 cm of the top. I asked him if they ever have any strong winds. He said a super cell storm came through before christmas and flattened some grain silo's! . I told him that might be just a tad more than I was looking for!

Yeah, I thought that was a good avenue to explore some time ago, but I found almost all of them have trees or forest alongside them, and they are very rarely filled to the top.