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Terry
Member since 20th June 2007
Occupation: Freelance journalist, marine surveyor, boatbuilder Terry Has been in Australia from the UK on and off for about 25 years. He lives aboard his Lugger, "The Nicky J Miller"that his partner Nicky and he built " Upside down in a paddock on top of five oildrums" He is a keen blues slide guitarist, songwriter and writes articles for boating magazines around the world
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13th June 2008
Many years ago I had a secret ambition . It was to build my own yacht and go sailing off around the World. I was fuelled by the achievements of the Vikings, Frances Chichester and a host of other notables who have stamped their niche into history. Althou...
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24th February 2008
The Dolphin 25 Fisher has finally been finished after a couple of up and down years in its production! Basically it was constructed in between frenetic bouts of work, overseas trips, cruising the Whitsundays, illness and several location moves! But finall...
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04th February 2008
WHY YOU SHOULD MAKE A VIDEOCLIP FOR YOUR WEBSITE
BY
TERRY BUDDELL
It may not seem obvious at first but there are several compelling reasons why getting a video clip on to YouTube, is a really good move to make.
It doesn’t matter if it is really...
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31st January 2008
Did you know that YouTube serves up over 200,000,000 video clips per day?
And that video ranks amongst the highest of all time factors that drive potential customers to websites today?
Research done recently on Alexa rankings and many other site engi...
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28th January 2008
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Hi there! terry Buddell back again........
I just wanted toanswer some questions about the Weissenborn Lap slide steel guitar that I built a few months ago using only simple hand tools whilst living on my boat! I have had lots of enquiries about these...
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22nd October 2007
Having always been a bit of a people watcher I find it extremely interesting the differing reactions that people have when you tell them that you actually live on board your boat in a marina. The responses range from the shock/horror type. “Oh no, how ...
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22nd October 2007
It’s a known fact that boating magazines have been responsible for spreading strange afflictions to many unsuspecting NP’s (normal people) many of whom started out in their blighted lives innocently glancing through the pages of one of those aforement...
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21st October 2007
From time to time I’ve been asked the question “I’d love to own a small boat, is it hard to build one?” It’s really surprising the looks of doubt when I answer, “No, no, no! If you know what to do and you’re willing to invest a little time...
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15th October 2007
I had on several occasions brought myself to the brink of the momentous event and then studied the smooth perfect forms of each of the guitars that I owned, heaved a deep sigh of regret, and once again slid back from the task.I kept asking mys...
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11th October 2007
Ever thought about building your own boat but have been frightened off by the thought that you may not have the time , the ability or money? The odds are that you are terrified of the dreaded process of lofting out the plans from the complicated pile of p...
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08th October 2007
One of the great increasing mysteries of today’s modern boatbuilding is the amount of hi-tech gobble-de-gook that the average home boat builder is expected to wade through when the time comes to paint the boat after the horrendous amount of sanding, fai...
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03rd October 2007
Whilst building my guitar I did not have access to many advanced tools such as one would find in a professional machine shop or woodworker’s den. I really had to sit down and make some serious decisions about what I would and would not use during the bu...
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25th September 2007
Having owned and played guitars for over twenty five years I have owned lots and lots of different makes and models of guitars, some good, some awful but the acoustic slide weissenborn still fascinates me quite beyond comparison. Why is that? Well, the so...
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20th September 2007
Before I had even begun to build my first Weissenborn guitar I was assailed by many doubts such as” Am I going to screw this up?” or “ suppose I get this wrong? and similar kinds of horrible thoughts!I would actually lie awake at nights thinking abo...
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18th September 2007
THE WEISSENBORN GUITAR BUILDBY TERRY BUDDELLTHE PLANSBefore I had even begun to build my first Weissenborn guitar I was assailed by many doubts such as” Am I going to screw this up?” or “ suppose I get this wrong? and similar...
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