Pic Of The Day

Aqua_Aura

We decided to pull it out for the winter 🤣

mattie

@Aqua_Aura

"When you think you are at the top of your game - you find out you're not even in the game."

Aqua_Aura

Same thing to this guy as well. If I do a 180 there is another yacht that dwarfs this one. 

pcmpete

  This view never gets old.  (Excuse the pano wobble)

YYZRC

Looks like a Rinker in a Tim Burton movie.

Aqua_Aura

Such a hot day the boat is melting. 

SimcoeRinker400

I am out 🙁 but it is also 10 Celsius here going down to like 2 Celsius tonight...🥶 ... for you US folks 50 F  and 35.6F.....  but she's is washed and ready for cover Saturday!  (Picture before wash)  before you guys comment!

SimcoeRinker400

 Now, I am getting the next project ready to be stripped and body work to get done  😁....

randy56

pcmpete said:

  This view never gets old.  (Excuse the pano wobble)

Where are you located I see palm tree's?

pcmpete

randy56 said:

pcmpete said:

  This view never gets old.  (Excuse the pano wobble)

Where are you located I see palm tree's?

Fort Lauderdale 

RiverRat232

PickleRick said:

the admiral had some hood and fender damage when when we bought her discovery.  Her 99 now has the 2003/2004 headlight conversion. The fender hood/lines are not 100% but for a vehicle that's being built for daily driving and winter trail rides she'll do. Wiring was easy.   Getting the inner workings pulled back into place so headlight,  hood and fender would all match my, not so easy.

I'm currently in talks with a company thay makes LS swap bolt I kits for the discovery 2.  They are setting me up with all the electronic mods I need to make a different engine play nicely with the disco 2 body and engine computers.  Im still looking for a donor car but this one will be getting a mercedes 5 cylinder turbo diesel conversion.    Due to covid the LS swap  shop is backlogged and parts supplies scarce.   The 2003 donor rig gives me a beefier  transmission with 80,xxx miles and I'll be ordering the adapter from doomsday diesel. 

It's taking time away from my 4 runner build

 I vote for a Cummins swap. 
https://www.motortrend.com/features/1101dp-swap-a-cummins-into-anything/

PickleRick

RiverRat232 said:

PickleRick said:

the admiral had some hood and fender damage when when we bought her discovery.  Her 99 now has the 2003/2004 headlight conversion. The fender hood/lines are not 100% but for a vehicle that's being built for daily driving and winter trail rides she'll do. Wiring was easy.   Getting the inner workings pulled back into place so headlight,  hood and fender would all match my, not so easy.

I'm currently in talks with a company thay makes LS swap bolt I kits for the discovery 2.  They are setting me up with all the electronic mods I need to make a different engine play nicely with the disco 2 body and engine computers.  Im still looking for a donor car but this one will be getting a mercedes 5 cylinder turbo diesel conversion.    Due to covid the LS swap  shop is backlogged and parts supplies scarce.   The 2003 donor rig gives me a beefier  transmission with 80,xxx miles and I'll be ordering the adapter from doomsday diesel. 

It's taking time away from my 4 runner build

 I vote for a Cummins swap. 
https://www.motortrend.com/features/1101dp-swap-a-cummins-into-anything/

The r2.8 is a nice swap but  if you need parts for your daily driver you can't go to the local dealer/auto parts store.   

Willhound

Midland Harbour. A few hardy souls still in. Coming out this week I imagine

Willhound

Sunrise. Lake Simcoe. About 3 minutes from my house.

aero3113

J3ff

Have fun with those pumpkins, this shot was right off pumpkin key. Did a little bay side snorkeling today... found some cool stuff and brought back a bag of trash that we filled...  

mattie

Lake Huron yesterday  - Yeeesh!
Poor dog tipped over while taking a dump.

rasbury

Dang..bigger than the waves at our beaches here...

mattie

rasbury said:

Dang..bigger than the waves at our beaches here...

lol.......bit deceiving pic. Cliff in front. 8-10 footers at shore. 12-15ft out in the lake.

LaRea

Haha - @mattie thank you for clarifying!  At first glance, it looked like the 2-foot whitecaps we get on the upper Potomac.  

randy56

Flooding is expected to peak on Friday and linger through Saturday. During this time, two to four feet of coastal flooding is likely.

J3ff

Seeing reports from liveaboards in that area that the tides have been extreme, boats in the mud etc.. def take some flood shots tomorrow!

LaRea

This wind is trying to shove the entire Atlantic Ocean up into the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River, so the high tide this afternoon should be interesting.


The local weatherdude likes using scare tactics like this:

  Weatherdude:  You remember that horrific tidal flooding from Hurricane Isabelle? 
  Audience:  Gasp ... ohh craaaappp, we're all gonna die!
  Weatherdude:  Well, it won't be that bad.  But we'll get some flooding.

YYZRC

Imagine you went to work every day and 30% of what you did was wrong, yet that was considered good job performance?

LaRea

Ironically, yesterday I was notified that Fairfax County updated its flood maps. 

I have always carried FEMA flood insurance because part of my yard is in the 100-year flood plain.  Well, the new flood boundary moved about 10 feet, and now it touches the house.  Hello, rate increase!  

RiverRat232

LaRea said:

This wind is trying to shove the entire Atlantic Ocean up into the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River, so the high tide this afternoon should be interesting.


The local weatherdude likes using scare tactics like this:

  Weatherdude:  You remember that horrific tidal flooding from Hurricane Isabelle? 
  Audience:  Gasp ... ohh craaaappp, we're all gonna die!
  Weatherdude:  Well, it won't be that bad.  But we'll get some flooding.

My favorite Weatherdude overdramatization is the term "dangerous lightning". As opposed to "safe" lightning?

LaRea

This pic was taken three hours before high tide, so we'll get another two feet of water if not more.  It actually is pushing close to what we had during Isabelle, but the wind isn't nearly as bad.  In Isabelle, we had 2-foot waves in the parking lot.  

davidbrooks

Annapolis is underwater right now. Along the Severn River and the magothy most of the docks are underwater.

LaRea

I had to do water rescue.  A neighbor's ski boat floated off the lift and got loose in the marina.  While I was corralling that boat, she was trying to rescue her jetski.  Then she got blown out into the fairway, with no PFD, on a ski that wouldn't start!  I'm glad I was there.  

She cracks me up.  She looked out her window and said to herself "Oh, look - somebody else got a boat just like ours ... BWAAAAHH that's our boat!" 

halifax212

@LaRea    wow , be careful out there.