The Steamtug Blog

It’s been so long since I had a weekend at home, that: the lawn is taking over, my hops vine is dead and I’m 2 kegs of beer down on beer production! But making another batch of beer had to take second place when Tom insisted that he needed me as a fireman to drive his steam truck to “The Heyfield Vintage Machinery Rally”. (continue reading…)

It’s bonfire time again! We spent ages constructing it, lots of time to make the beer, 6 months working on the music playlist, and it was all over in one insane night of fire, beer and song! But don’t be the first to fall asleep, or bad things may happen to you…. read on and see! (continue reading…)

I have always wanted a Schatz Royal mariner, ship’s clock. A collegue I worked with years ago, had one in his lounge room, and I always admired it for it’s beauty, and authority of ringing the watches on the ship. And how many people took notice, and paid attention to it’s command on when your watch would start and finish; I loved it! So, after 10 years of searching I found just the right one on eBay and brought it! And it made me think of the old days back in another life, when had the world’s best job, engineer of a real steamship. (continue reading…)

The time has come, when living by motorcycle only is no longer funny. So in preparation for the coming Winter, I have brought a new car. It’s nothing really special, a Mazda 3 but has the sports pack with the leather seats, leather sports steering wheel, and the most essential, the Bose 10 speaker premium sound system. It even has a “fully sick sub woofa” which is mounted into the spare tyre in the boot! (continue reading…)

As the garden at home shrivels up before my eyes, with only 2 lots of rain, 10mm each, and the endless Summer culminating in 2 weeks of temperatures above 30 degrees (one morning it was still 27 when I went to work!) I find a “cool” way to stay cool. With 4 boat trips in 1 week! (continue reading…)

I had been giving it a good lashing over the warm summer months, but when I came home from the “Great Australian Beer Festival” held here for the first time in Geelong talking double speed that making no sense, I got a bit of a talking to from me Ma. Who convinced me to take a month off drinking and participate in the much touted “Free February” and give up alcohol for a month. (continue reading…)

As the hops plant blossoms with a bumper crop of cones, and Queensland is washed away, we continue to beg the skies for rain here in Victoria. I spent a quiet New Year’s eve in Beechworth brewery, helped Tom get his steam truck on the road, tried to catch up with my beer production, and sent a team of underwater hockey juniors down to Tasmania to compete in the Australian National championships where they got smashed by everyone. Read on… (continue reading…)

Is it just me? Or has this year just flown past? I know I have been busy with the project I am working on at work, but it only seems such a short time ago that the 2012 underwater hockey season started, and now it’s over all too soon. So to celebrate such a great year of hockey, we all went to Bancoora Beach near Geelong for a swim in the surf, a few beers, and eat our pizza while holding the annual general meeting. (continue reading…)

Welcome back to those who had not found the new address. The old free hosting server had become a haven for tricksters, scammers dreamers, schemers and screamers, so it got pulled. Unfortunately for you lot, we had a back up copy of this blog… so as they say in the classics ‘The monster lives!” This week, Goofa gets hitched… again! (This time for sure, eh Jeff?) and I get a special hello from a Pretty Girl! Read on for more… if you dare!
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They say “practice makes perfect” and we may have done this 99 times before, but this time we got it right! With crowds thronging from far and wide, including England, Canada, America, Colac and other exotic destinations, and traffic grid locking the whole of central Victoria, we hosted the Lake Goldsmith steam rally for the 100th time! Read on…. for the details! (continue reading…)