Living History

[Top Banana]

There is a restoration going on of the old race boats Benihana and Michelob Light. Are there any restos out there that someone has a nice series of photos of the resto being done?

[THUNDERBOLT]

you guys with the glass boats have it easy, I am restoring THUNDERBOLT Tommy Sopwith's winning entry in the 1961 Cowes Torquay, the race that started it all here . Being a ply laminate it is expensive but I have had some help. Tommy donated £1000.00 to the project literally the prize he won in 1961! When I collected her from Don Sheads there were no engines except one very siezed and rusty Crusader which hopefully will be turned into exibit.
Hull repairs costing £8000 plus then needs new engines shafts gearboxes.
Restoring all original items I can to original. Anyone out there with a Casale c500 v-drive going spare let me know need one of those as well! Hope to have her on the water in 2008....wish me luck!

Mike

[THUNDERBOLT]

question
how do I transfer photo's if your site says file too big?
Mike

[Ben Mazur]

Welcome to Proprider THUNDERBOLT.

That largest jpg file we can currently use is 97.7 kb. The actual pic. size e.g. 640x480 doesnt really matter.

The idea is to save the image at a lower resolution. What I do is open the file on the desktop. Since I use a Mac the picture opens in an application known as Preview. Then under the 'File' drop down menu I choose 'save as' and choose jpg as format and reduce the quality until the pic. is under 97.7kb.

I know it sounds complicated but it's not really. Not exactly sure how it is done on a PC but I'm sure it's similar. Rupert Munro I'm sure will chime in with the definitive answer.

Look forward to seeing your pictures.

[Rupert Munro]

Easy on a PC especially if you have Microsoft Office - use MS Picture Manager - Open it with that and then right click the pic (in the program) and choose 'edit pictures'. Here you have two options -

either choose 'compress picture' and choose 'web page' (note the compressed size is in bottom right once web page setting chosen - ensure its under 97) This however makes the photo 448x336.

Otherwise on the 'edit picture' menu choose 'resize' and you can play about with the with the size as % of original - better for getting the picture close to the maximum size but much more fiddly.

Use the first method unless you really need the pic to be as big as possible.

If you dont have MS Pic Manager let me know and will tell you another way. Problems - just email me the pics and will do it for you.