Keep us updated on the conversion. I would love to do the same but can't justify throwing away a perfectly good diesel (well, will be when I get everything sorted).
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Next time fire a parachute into the water after dark - they zoom around like a submarine firing out a red trail. (Just don't do it in Vanuatu - they might put put you in jail and who wants to spend NY eve there?)
And if you read Johnny Wray's book he talks of modelling Ngataki on Earling Tambs' Teddy.
By the way The Cruise of the Teddy was a great book and I haven't seen a copy in decades.