[Kiwipushrod]

Hello Roamer Enthusiasts, In January of 03', A good friend and I set off to travel by boat, from Trempeleau Wisconsin to Sarasota Florida via the Mississippi river - Tenn Tom waterway.

Our two freshly refurbished vessels of choice, were "Knot a Clue" a 1972 Trojan F-30 and "Seafarer" a 1967 37' Roamer Riviera, hull # RXA-37-3027r, running the 427's.

Unfortunatley, after 3 of the worst days I've ever had on the water, We managed to sink the Roamer in 63' of water, at Kentucky lake, just in front of the dam. It has been recovered ($17000) and We then transported it back to Wisconsin on a lowboy, where it awaits a complete refit, which We have decided to complete this spring. Using hull # RXA-37-125r as a parts boat to replace parts (hardtop etc.) lost in the sinking.

I have quite a few pictures as well as a short video of the Roamer being brought back up by barge and crane. I read in the rules that We cannot use "hotlinks", are youtube and photobucket considered "hotlinks"?

Thanks, Kiwi

[YachtForums]

YouTube links are fine because the content is seen off site. It's hot links that we are concerned with, because the content can be a bad reflection on YF if the host replaces the links with different images.

[Kiwipushrod]

Here are a few pictures of the PARTS boat, hull #RXA-37-125r. Purchased about 5 years ago for $3000, in Greenbay Wis. This boat has the Lincolns and has sat uncovered for all that time. Previous owner said that it was pulled from the water for a port motor problem, the heads were already pulled and it came with a fresh set of heads still in machine shop plastic.

If You look in the backround of the first pic, You can see the 37' Riviera sinker project under cover, with only 1 davit remaining, more of the story/pics of that boat to come.

Links Removed.

Thanks, Kiwi

[YachtForums]

I just got done telling not to hot link images, yet you did it anyhow?

[Kiwipushrod]

Originally Posted by YachtForums

I just got done telling not to hot link images, yet you did it anyhow?

Hello Mr. Forums, after 20+ years on the internet (IBM 8088s and tricolor monitors) I've never heard the term "hotlinks", therefore, My request for clarification of the term, prior to using My photobucket account for posting pics. It's much easier to Me. I did take into account Your preferred pic sizes.

I'm not here to break any rules, only to trade Tech, Tips and Hints with other Roamer people, as is what I think this forum to be about.

I'm also not here for a public repremand, when a PM would have sufficed nicely.

Directions for the edit Please. EDIT: My first 2 post do not show the edit button.

Thanks, Kiwi

[YachtForums]

Originally Posted by Kiwipushrod

Directions for the edit Please. EDIT: My first 2 post do not show the edit button.

Edits are disabled after 60 minutes. We do this to protect the integrity of the forum because someone can return days or weeks later, change their editorial or images to something less benign and the mods would have no way to knowing unless someone makes a post to the thread and it comes up in our new search requests.

It is for this very same reason we don't allow hot linked images. The host can switch out the image. In some cases, we've had boat images replaced with full-blown porn. Sometimes this happens years later, after an account is abandoned. We have some simple rules at YF because we've learned much along the way.

I'm sorry you perceived my comment as a reprimand. It wasn't intended that way. I simply questioned why? Getting back to editing... simply attach the files in your next post. I'll remove the linked images.

Thank you.

[kips ahoy]

I would Love to see this info, have been to Trempalou, Wi. Several times.

Feel free to e-mail it to me

kip

[homer1958]

I never heard of a Roamer sinking ever?

[Kiwipushrod]

Let Me try this again.

Here are a few pictures of the PARTS boat, hull #RXA-37-125r. Purchased about 5 years ago for $3000, in Greenbay Wis. This boat has the Lincolns and has sat uncovered for all that time. The previous owner said that it was pulled from the water for a port motor problem, the heads were already pulled from the port motor when purchased. It also came with a fresh set of Lincoln heads still in machine shop plastic.

If You look in the backround of the first pic, You can see the 37' Riviera sinker project under cover, with only 1 davit remaining, more of the story/pics of that boat to come.








Thanks, a hopefully in full compliance, Kiwi


P.S. After searching for a good/easy/free photo resizer, I have found this from a microsoft site. Click on the link below, scroll down to Image Resizer on the right, downloads in seconds and becomes part of the dropdown window that works in Windows XP, whenever right clicked over an existing photo.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx


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[Seafarer]

Sorry to derail the thread a bit, but uploading pictures to this site is embarrassingly simple.

First you click on the button marked Manage Attachments, highlighted here by the red arrow. Then you browse for the file you want to upload if it's on your computer, or enter the url (the link you're putting in the [ IMG ] [ / IMG ] tags but should not be doing) where it says Upload File from an URL in the Manage Attachments window. Then you click the Upload button. Repeat this process for each picture you want to share. When done, click Close this window in the top right of that window. Enter the text of your reply as you normally would, and hit Submit Reply as you normally would. Your images will show up as the three tutorial images below have done.

[ScotL]

I thought that boat was long gone. Heard she went south.

Shame to see it in that condition.

[Kiwipushrod]

Originally Posted by Seafarer

Sorry to derail the thread a bit, but uploading pictures to this site is embarrassingly simple.

First you click on the button marked Manage Attachments, highlighted here by the red arrow. Then you browse for the file you want to upload if it's on your computer, or enter the url (the link you're putting in the [ IMG ] [ / IMG ] tags but should not be doing) .

Hello Seafarer, The managing attachments part is "embarrassingly simple", My problem was editing pics to size off My existing web album, then down loading to My computer, then managing the attachment back to YF. It's over now but thanks for that anyway.

The "[ IMG ] [ / IMG ] tags but should not be doing)" part of Your post makes Me think that My pics may not be seen correctly? Or a rule violation?

I just wanted to tell an exellent story, share some good pics and Tech on a refit of My Roamer.....So far, We have 11 posts, 2 pics of a boat that's a " Shame to see" and 3 paragraphs of a 7 year old story that I can't edit....After 60 minutes.

I'm not really sure that this is the place for this.

Thanks, Kiwi

[ScotL]

Your pics look fine.

I am happy that the parts boat will live on in the project boat. Keep us posted on progress. It i sonly a shame, because I remember seeing it out on the bay.

There is some great information for you here with the CC guys knowledge.

[Kiwipushrod]

For all You Roamer guys that have just read thru all this BS to get to THIS point... Here's the payoff...




As hull# RXA-37-3027r sat on 10/7/03












Let the Bashing begin .


Thanks, Kiwi

[Seafarer]

Originally Posted by Kiwipushrod

Hello Seafarer, The managing attachments part is "embarrassingly simple", My problem was editing pics to size off My existing web album, then down loading to My computer, then managing the attachment back to YF. It's over now but thanks for that anyway.

The "[ IMG ] [ / IMG ] tags but should not be doing)" part of Your post makes Me think that My pics may not be seen correctly? Or a rule violation?

I just wanted to tell an exellent story, share some good pics and Tech on a refit of My Roamer.....So far, We have 11 posts, 2 pics of a boat that's a " Shame to see" and 3 paragraphs of a 7 year old story that I can't edit....After 60 minutes.

I'm not really sure that this is the place for this.

Thanks, Kiwi

If your post includes [ IMG ]http://somesitethatisnotyachtforums.whatever/mypic.extension [ / IMG] then it's a violation of the posting rules. Images linked (to webshots, to tinypic, to photobucket, to picasa, to yahoo, or wherever) are a violation - that's a "hotlink" as opposed to a link because it links to an outside site without user intervention... a viewer of YF doesn't click the link to go to the other site.

If, say, 5 years from now you've sold the boat and forgotten about that web album, and the hosting site has deactivated your account or you deleted the pictures, then there is at best a string of red x's for dead image links or at worst a placeholder image from the hosting site. At times, those hosting sites use vulgar images as their placeholders... and that is exactly the situation that our forum's administrator is trying to avoid.

So don't take it as you being reprimanded or chased away, just understand that your contribution today can, through no malicious intent on your or anyone here's part, become something entirely different over time. Uploading the pictures to YF ensures that this does not happen.

The easiest thing for Windows XP users is to download Image Resizer (part of a group of small programs called PowerToys) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

If you've got Vista or Windows 7, the same program has been rewritten for your OS - http://blogs.technet.com/aviraj/arch...it-64-bit.aspx

There's also a tiny program called FastImageResize available for download at http://adionsoft.net/fastimageresize/

These are straightforward, don't do anything but resize your images to whatever parameters you set, and don't require uploading, downloading, and re-uploading.