Back to working on the website, which has been on the backburner for a while. Updated Units 1, 2, 6 and 7 of the IGCSE course and Units 1 and 2 of the AP Physics 1. I have been working on the second edition of the booklets, trying to improve them. The AP Physics 1 units on Kinematics and Newton's Laws are brand new as I only started the booklet scheme around Unit 5 last time around. The booklets are purely meant for my students of course! The IGCSE and KS3 ones contain copyrighted material, so are not publicly available. Eventually I will edit them and replace all the copyrighted material that we have purchased with my own resources. It is a question of the time needed to do it. Regarding the website itself, I have decided to add some text and pictures to explain the topics instead of just having a list of links and resources. This may take quite a bit of time to complete. I have also started to include some images of experiments. Since I started, I have found some good online resources to add more links to. My emphasis is to try to refer to island life in my prose!
Otherwise, apart from the day to day work at Saltus, I am busy fixing my boat, which sustained some storm damage from Hurricane Joaquin and planning the next BMDS set build project. Just to make things even more intense, my friend and competitor Richard wants me to help him save another storm damaged boat from being scuttled...
Otherwise, apart from the day to day work at Saltus, I am busy fixing my boat, which sustained some storm damage from Hurricane Joaquin and planning the next BMDS set build project. Just to make things even more intense, my friend and competitor Richard wants me to help him save another storm damaged boat from being scuttled...
My boat, an elderly Etchells called Vixen at Red Hole boatyard, Bermuda.
Her much younger sister, Gumpshon, hauled out at Mill's Creek boatyard after being on the rocks. By the time that I got to her yesterday, the boys had stripped out most of her gear and removed the keelbolts prior to removing the keel. Her owner can't be bothered with the boat so the plan was to scrap her. Originally I was happy as I could salvage some parts from her to replace some tired ones on Vixen. Especially excited to get a newer, straighter and stiff mast! Now the plan is to repair her and give her to some young crew to sail. Her rudder has been destroyed, her keel mashed up and her port side gouged open for a few feet. I see some MORE glasswork in my future and NO new mast (sigh...)
and this is the set that I have to manage the build of....
and this is the set that I have to manage the build of....
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