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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
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 Posted - 12 March 2007 : 05:08:55 AM
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Following a successful days racing aboard the Hagar, Rodney requested that I accompany home to help dismantle an old fireplace in his bedroom. Now Rod has no sense of smell as he has been a smoker for nearly 40 years, in addition he has selective hearing, which is always disfunctional at home.
Rods SWMBOd' complained that there were possums in the chimney. We destroyed and removed the old cover of the fireplace and found the fresh carcus of a possum with accompanying blowflies. It was still fresh with the body soft. We removed the prise and cleaned up the mess.
Looking up the chimney there was found to be two old and rusty metal plates. In a gap staring back at us was another possum.
We then took to the metal plates with crowbar, hammers and verbal encouragement.
After clearing all the metal as well as a load of possum nesting filth we spied the rodent half way up the chimney.
The solution was obvious, start a fire! Which we did and hay presto the rodent came out the top through an impossible opening and down onto the roof and into the adjoining trees.
Mission accomplished, with Rod to seal the chimney and prevent further invasions.
Went home covered in filth and smelling of dead possum. Another days sailing adventures completed.
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akeir
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Australia
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2007 : 8:20:58 PM
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Well Andrew, whether they are cats, rats, possums, cockroaches or whatever else creeps into the household, they are rodents to the SWMBOd's of our world and as such,.....we, as the pest disposal people of our households, are fully authorised to "EXTERMINATE!!!!!" and dipose of any of these nasties. You must understand Andrew that the SWMBOD's override the authority of any greeny groups or governments!!! Don't we know!!
No doubt Rods little friend will return and there will be more fun evicting his self adopted possum family.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 27 March 2007 : 4:46:49 PM
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Last night saw a group of stallwart Endeavour yachts men & women meet at the Drunnoyne YC for the AGM of the Australian Endeavour Association. Most of the usual people were there. The normal preocedual activities took place with Graham Macpherson re-elected as Present-aunty, the treasurer remains and there is a bit of a shuffel of the Secretaries duties and perons responsible.
Most of the night saw us bogged down arguing about yacht modifications, re-Macas, and others keel shaving. It had to go back to the committee due to lack of time & consecus.
The October regatta is at Drummoyne again and the 2008 Nationals will be held on Lake Macquarie and most likley at Lake Mcquarie YC.
The Association in financially and acivity wise healthy and there was a lot af interest in the resurection of old boats re-E24s'.
There is also going to be an auditing and collection, if at all possible of any Endeavour moulds, including part or full boat moulds of any type etc.
We were thrown out by management about 10pm.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 27 March 2007 : 8:41:44 PM
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Well the sad news is that the Hagar will not be attending the Easter Regatta at Lake Macquarie. This has occured due to both Rod & Pete pulling out. Pete has had a family commitment for his birthday while Rod is under severe pressure from his SWMBO'd. It seems he has to clean the chimney of the evils of possum odours. Rod has no sence of smell! Looks like we may be doing a day cruise to Pittwater as well as working on homes, boats & the Club.
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moakley
Helmsman
Australia
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Posted - 27 March 2007 : 9:46:58 PM
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| Chris - notice from yr post re Annual Meeting that 2008 Nationals will be at Lake Macquarie - we had previously believed they were to be in Perth. Does this mean that sailing Jester up north is on the agenda again for Sasha, Andrew & I ??? - Michael O |
Photos of "Jester" E24 Mk 1 -
http://s162.photobucket.com/albums/t261/moakley_album/E24%20Jester/ |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2007 : 07:25:03 AM
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Hi Micheal,
You are probably correct in that the E24 nats are in Perth for 2008. I have tunnel vision and am only thinking of the E27 to E30s' as well as the E26s'. These divisions will be racing at Lake Macquarie for their Nationals in 2008. I'm not sure about the E24's.
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Robert Simmons
Helmsman
Australia
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Posted - 28 March 2007 : 12:06:45 PM
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Unless you blokes in Vic want to host the E24 Nationals in 2008, we will in Perth. Copey, without the success of your little sisters, none of those bargeass behemoths would have been built, don't ya know? Will LM 08 be the second weekend in January again? I could do with another Sydney fix and can be bought as crew for a Bundy or two.
Rob
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Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep well, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and you will be saved.
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akeir
Helmsman
Australia
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Posted - 28 March 2007 : 2:22:26 PM
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Michael, are you up for the Great Australian Bight against the prevailing winds.
Cheers
Andrew
(Maybe you could get Sasha to fabricate a false stern and pretend to be an E26, or maybe get Sasha to extract the digit and get his 26 finished.. all options..) |
Owner of Charissa
Pictures at http://s154.photobucket.com/albums/s255/akkeir/Charissa/ |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2007 : 6:10:07 PM
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This week while travelling to & from work, I start around 3.00am each day, and was listening to some older music from my younger days. And in particularly Jethro Tull and while listening to "as thick as a brick", I was reminded of an old friend in our Club whose name is Phil. Now Phil was a cool character, short round and stout in appearence. Phil had many adventures in his younger days and sailed a variety of dinghys skiffs and yachts. He was a festideous timber boat builder and manufactured some classic timber craft. However while in his years of Moth racing he achieved notoriety in his scowe moth name, "As Thick As a Brick".
Now one year while Phil was away at the Nationals representing NSW. He arose in the morning in a rather frazeled condition, which was not uncommon for him after a rather heavy night with the Lads, to find that the good ship, "As thick as a Brick", had been vandalised! Someone had taken a sharp knife and rubbed away the lower right-hand of the "B" in the Brick! And it now read; "As Thick As A *rick"!!!
Phil was mortified and immediately rectified this incidious vandalism inflicted upon the good ship; "As Thick As A Brick" with the "B" carefully restored.
And.......,The moral of the story is......?
....don't leave your "*rick" laying about.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 18 May 2007 : 7:10:14 PM
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Last week one of the older members of our club visited me to take our club flyer to do a major boat drop. Now David is in his seventies and is a very active house maintenence and repair man.
He told me the story of his recent experience with a clients dog and its' meeting with the local constabulary.
The story goes that David was working on this clients house who was overseas and had inadvertently set off an alarm. He contacted the Police who decided to visit him anyway to check out the place. When the two officers arrived David introduced them to the resident dog, a huge female Irish Wolf hound. She is very big, mainly deaf, one ear up and one down, and a crazy staring eye appearence. David said, "the dog is OK but don't make any sudden movements as she is a bit touchy and may react".
The cops checked the house and as they were leaving the female constable said goodbye and skipped out the door. The dog lunged at her and bit her on the bum! David said,..."I told you,..... no sudden moves!"
There was no blood and the constable had a nicely bruised bottom. The dog was fine, just doing her job!.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 22 May 2007 : 8:14:51 PM
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THE CRONICLES OF ANDY
Introduction: A half a lifetime ago when all the lads from the Hagar were wild and much younger, we raced fourteen foot skiffs. Each year we campaigned our skiffs to the National titles and four out of five years saw us away interstate for the Christmas & New Year spell.
CHAPTER 1
And so it came to pass that the North Harbour 14 Association went forth to Perth to race on the Swan River for the Nationals that year of 1975? And in those days Andrew sailed with “cool- handed Wilsey, who was a perfect foil for the fiery red headed Andy. And with Andy’s new bride, Sally, they drove across Australia. Now when they arrived in South Australia it was decided that a little bit of wine tasting was in order in the Barossa Valley. Upon the completion of the tasting Andy backed the car and boat trailer under a tree and snapped the mast. It was not the best start of a good carnival. Then in Perth they found the conditions not their liking with light winds and a new mast. All the frustration came to the boil and Andy “blew-up”. And like the Hagar pirate that is, he became “difficult”. He blew up at Willsy who vacated their caravan and joined the bachelors for a quiet cup of morning after recovery tea. Not long afterwards we were joined by Sally. When sailing 14’s there were always lots of, “….and there we were stories”, with broken boats and bodies, excessive drinking and memorable times.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 28 May 2007 : 4:24:22 PM
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Many years past there was a 14 foot dinghy/skiff sailor named John Mac. Now Johno was a boat builder who went on to achieve some international acclaim.
One of the stories about Johno tells that he decided to build a new 14 for the upcoming world titles in Sydney Harbour. Each week as the building progressed he had the normal crowd of friends visit to view the progress of this cold moulded cedar skiff as it came together.
The same question came..."What are you going to call her Johno?"
And the answer was always the same from Johno..."F***'ed if I know!!!"
And of course the "DIFINO" became a legend among the skiff sailing fraternity.
The second story about Johno took place during their epic journey across Australia.
And it came to pass that in those days the 14 footer lads ventured forth to Perth to race on the Swan River for the 14 National Title. And in those days the road across Australia was not a yellow brick road, nor was it completely sealed with bitumen and there was dirt roads and lots of bulldust for many hundreds of miles.
While travelling these thousands of hard miles a bit a sportsmanship was entered into in the form of..."who can shoot the most number of animal species".
Did you ever wonder where the service station game of Spotto for kids came from?
Now Johno entered into this competition with relish and enthusiasm and was scoring well. However among the animal kingdom the most cunning of the birds is the Australian Crow, or Black Raven. This bird has a keen sense of eyesight as well as self preservation and no matter what Johno tried the crafty critters always evaded the accuracy of his trusty 22. Until!!!..... they entered a country town way out-back. Johno sighted the evil enemy and immediately emptied his magazine cartridge into the flock of taunting black-eyed devils.
The boys grabbed Johno and they beat a hasty retreat into the west before the local constabulary could be called.
Johno was penalised two birds for a disallowed shot.
Chris.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 10 June 2007 : 11:56:26 AM
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THE $10K POSSUM
In past postings we explored the problems our skipper was having at home with Possum infestations. And so Rod thought that it was all finished with the beasties disposed of and the chimney exits all wired up!! Well he was wrong, because his SWMBOd' decided that she could no longer sleep in a room with a chimney or with the faint possibility of a rodent dropping into the room via the chimney. Now Rod tried to explain that that they could no longer get to her, that the fireplace was all nice and clean and that there was no more smell, as if Rod would know!!??
And so his SWMBO'd moved into another room which she immediately dedicated to reservation and beautification. And so, with new built-ins carpets, a new king sized bed etc, etc, Rod is now out of pocket to the tune of $10K, about the value of a cheap E26 or a new set of sails for the Hagar VI!!! Don’t' we know.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 29 July 2007 : 1:15:53 PM
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The E30 Yacht Hagar IV has a history of being a Pirate Ship, her first owners named her Buccaneer and upon delivery it was voted that she should be re-named the Hagar IV by the new owners.
Now the comic character Hagar is a well known to most and in many respects images the individuals who own and sail aboard the Hagar Yacht today. Andy is a red haired and skinned individual with a personality & temper like the pirate Hagar. Whoever Rodney and the relationship with his SWMBOD' had a disturbing likeness to Hagar & Helga.
The following was lifted from the web-page about the relationship between Global Warming & the Number of Pirates.
Pirates and global warming
According to the Pastafarian belief system, pirates are "absolute divine beings" and the original Pastafarians.[2] Their image as "thieves and outcasts" is misinformation spread by Christian theologians in the Middle Ages and Hare Krishnas. Pastafarianism says that they were in fact "peace-loving explorers and spreaders of good will" who distributed candy to small children.
The inclusion of pirates in Pastafarianism was part of Henderson's original letter to the Kansas School Board. It illustrated that correlation does not equal causation. Henderson put forth the argument that "global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of pirates since the 1800s."[2] A chart accompanying the letter shows that as the number of pirates decreased, global temperatures increased; the absurdity of this demonstrates how statistically significant correlations do not imply a causal relationship (see confounding).
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akeir
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Australia
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 29 July 2007 : 8:32:35 PM
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Well the obvious re-joiner is that we will all just have to join the religious "disorder" of the Pastafarian sect which strongly adheres to the principle of Pirates and Piracy.
Please see the attached web-site with all the guff on this fast growing and environmentally "cool" link.
http://www.venganza.org/
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akeir
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Robert Simmons
Helmsman
Australia
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Posted - 30 July 2007 : 12:29:01 PM
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Alas, Hagar is not a Viking name, the comic uses poetic license. In the bible, Hagar was a servant (Egyptian) of Abraham and Sarah, who were childless. Somewhere in his eighties, Hagar was given to Abraham as a concubine (now these were GOOD times!) and had a son, Ishmael, a forebear of Mohammed. Sarah, not to be outdone, popped out a lad whilst in her eighties, this was Isaac, and the rest as they say, is history. But let this not stop the present thread which is most revealing and interesting. I think I saw the FSM in a dream once....is this significant?
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Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep well, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and you will be saved.
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doc
Main Sheet Hand
Australia
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Posted - 30 July 2007 : 4:04:13 PM
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| Egill Skallagrímsson, now he was a proper Viking. Wouldn't fit on the transom of an Endeavour though (even a bargearse E30). Would be a b*stard to spell phonetically over the radio too. |
Steve (Echo)
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. |
Edited by - doc on 30 July 2007 4:11:23 PM |
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What E30 Crews get up to?
