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Yulohs and junk models in Hong Kong

  • 28 Oct 2010 22:33
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    If any one wants a yuloh fitting, Rene and I would be happy to oblige - we are in Lee Kee's at least once a week!! 
  • 27 Oct 2010 19:29
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    Slieve McGalliard wrote:

    Paul, thanks for giving the lead to the photos. Like Annie, I was a bit lost. Iwould have put a couple of photos of goosenecks on screen with my photo of the fitting David gave me if I had known how to  do it. I put a 30cm ruller along side the fitting to show the size. Is there any way I could paste a photo into the text of this mail?

    Hi Slieve,

    There is no way to embed a photo in a post at the moment but it is very easy to post a link to a photo that is elsewhere (on the JRA site or another website). To create a link, just click on "Link" (first button, second row when in edit mode) then select "Insert link" from the drop down list. This will cause a little form to pop up. Enter the URL (web page address) you need to enter it fully (example http://www.google.com) and in the box for "Link text" you can either just enter the URL again or put something more meanfull in it (like "My Yuloh photos"). 

    This site currently does not handle photos well but it is possible to create links (as mentioned above) to external sites so you could get yourself a Picasa or Flicker album (they are free). If you have a Gmail account you already have a Picasa account, you just have to upload some photos. Ultimately I am going to set up a photo gallery for this site (it will be an external site that will be linked to from this one) but I just do not have the time right now.

    Anyway, hope the above helps. 
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  • 27 Oct 2010 09:41
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    Paul, thanks for giving the lead to the photos. Like Annie, I was a bit lost. Iwould have put a couple of photos of goosenecks on screen with my photo of the fitting David gave me if I had known how to  do it. I put a 30cm ruller along side the fitting to show the size. Is there any way I could paste a photo into the text of this mail?
  • 27 Oct 2010 08:39
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    Annie Hill wrote: I'm back to going online in the library when I should be somewhere else, so am in a bit of a hurry, but I can't find your photos, David.  Tell me where I should be looking, please.

    Annie

    It's here Davids Yuloh Photos or go to David's profile (Just click on his ugly mug, actually, it's his name (underneath his photo) that you need to click on :-) you'll find all his photo's at the bottom of the page that the link takes you to.
     
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  • 27 Oct 2010 03:50
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    I'm back to going online in the library when I should be somewhere else, so am in a bit of a hurry, but I can't find your photos, David.  Tell me where I should be looking, please.

    Annie
  • 26 Oct 2010 23:12
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    Stavanger Wednesday, just

    Hi there

    I was to open this topic to say that that youloh fitting looks much like a gooseneck, but then Slieve had already seen that! I bet there are zillions of metal workers all over the world that can make one pretty easily. Going to Hong Kong to get one would be like crossing the river to fetch water...

    As for the youloh I tested on my Johanna a couple of years ago, I have turned it into firewood. I believe it was basically right, but I would have needed twice as much blade in the water. I guess I had 50 – 70cm in the water but it should have been 100 – 150cm. Without a real need for it, I dropped fiddling with it.

    Arne
  • 26 Oct 2010 17:21
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    Hi Bob

    The fitting David gave me is just like a heavy duty dinghy gooseneck fitting, but with the normal peg that goes into the boom tubular to fit over the pin fitted to the transom. If the boom fitting was fitted into the transom then a standard gooseneck fitting could be used. The one proviso is that the pin must be round and not the more usual square which is used to stop the boom rotating.

    Cheers

    Slieve
  • 25 Oct 2010 07:21
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    Robert Groves wrote:David: As a proponent of the "yuloh" as alternative propulsion I am quite interested in the photos. Working with Slieve to perfect the yuloh we are currently using continues to be an interesting project. The products produced by Lee Kee would be quite interesting. Any chance of JRA members accessing the Lee Key products?
    They are produced by little back-street metal working shops. The only ways to get one are to go to Hong Kong, or to talk to Lesley and Rene; perhaps the best way to get one like it would be to show the photo to a metal-worker local to you.
    Last modified: 25 Oct 2010 07:21 | Anonymous member
  • 24 Oct 2010 21:42
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    David Tyler wrote: I've just spent two days in Hong Kong, where I met up with Lesley and Rene Verbrugge on "Crib". They took me to Sai Kung, where Lee Kee sells robust stainless steel yuloh fittings, suitable for quite a large yuloh. I've made a photo album of pictures of this, and of two small boats using more simply mounted yulohs. 
    I bought one of the large fittings, and have given it to Slieve to use. I also bought a brass pivot plate as used on the smaller boats, for my own use.
    I also went to the Maritime museum, where there are some models of junks (but no full sized boats). Again, I've made a photo album.
    David: As a proponent of the "yuloh" as alternative propulsion I am quite interested in the photos. Working with Slieve to perfect the yuloh we are currently using continues to be an interesting project. The products produced by Lee Kee would be quite interesting. Any chance of JRA members accessing the Lee Key products?
  • 24 Oct 2010 20:21
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    I've just spent two days in Hong Kong, where I met up with Lesley and Rene Verbrugge on "Crib". They took me to Sai Kung, where Lee Kee sells robust stainless steel yuloh fittings, suitable for quite a large yuloh. I've made a photo album of pictures of this, and of two small boats using more simply mounted yulohs. 
    I bought one of the large fittings, and have given it to Slieve to use. I also bought a brass pivot plate as used on the smaller boats, for my own use.
    I also went to the Maritime museum, where there are some models of junks (but no full sized boats). Again, I've made a photo album.
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