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Colin Cole
Helmsman
Australia
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 Posted - 03 January 2009 : 09:27:59 AM
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Copey, if you see Stew (or if you are reading this Stew) can you give me a call before the weekend as I wish to lighten the Aus 24 champs wallet (Halvo outgoings) over the weekend!!! Ta.
Eric keeps tellin us how old he feels - I guess he has been around since the Zulu wars :)
No dark n stormies - just fed up with the waste and misappropriation that goes on! - hang on now I'm starting to sound old and grumpy !!! Will have a million rums over the weekend to make me feel young again - yeah that will help :)
So be it - C yas. |
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4Seasons
Helmsman
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Posted - 03 January 2009 : 10:08:24 PM
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| You young boys have no respect for your elders,remember that "the best music is played on an old violin" I'not sailing at Belmont, but i will be there and i expect to win the ''Verandah'' version of the nats,,,,I have a a virtually unbeaten record of race wins from verandahs, jetties,and spectator boats.I dont however,fare so well against doctors, mother nature and father time...Remember ,I'm there, you wimps have yet to get there,,,,GO THE GREY POWER,,,,,EH |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 04 January 2009 : 12:05:53 AM
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Have just got home and checked the latest skeg update on the Pittwater to Coffs Harbour race. Old Pete and Rod are aboard the Northshore 380 Sports, Overdrive. They have finished and came 6th in the PHS Division according to the current results with about a dozen yachts still at sea.
Happy to see you at any time anywhere Eric.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 12 January 2009 : 8:41:37 PM
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With the way the weather patterns are shaping up it is now mid week that the north easterlies will favour a return trip for the Hagar to Manly. And so late tomorrow I will be driving Rod and Ross back to the Lake Macquarie Yacht Club and they will sail her back to North Harbour with the weather charts showing a favourable system and quick ride home.
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Colin Cole
Helmsman
Australia
676 Posts |
Posted - 13 January 2009 : 06:44:19 AM
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that would be great for those who are able to steer their vessel! We are hoping for NE on saturday for our pending return - just have to fit a rudder and cut a trench out of the stern - to tuck our tail into "don't you know" :)
Well done to all competitor, organisers, sponsors and winners another grear weekend.
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Dumaresq
Main Sheet Hand
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 14 January 2009 : 10:51:42 AM
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Last night I drove Rod & Ross back up to the Lake Macquarie YC, John Anderson had bought the Hagar in off a mooring there and she was found OK tied up to the southern wharf. We loaded her up and then went off to have dinner and I drove home, having to work today. Rod & Ross then motored out to the Swansee bridge and would go through on the high tide last night and then sail home in the morning having picked up a courtesy mooring for the night on the eastern side.
This morning they phoned me and were sailing down the coast and waiting for the North Easterly to pipe in. They should be home later this afternoon.
We will be racing in the Friday night twilighter and again on Sunday at North Harbour.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 27 January 2009 : 7:33:04 PM
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Recently one of the Hagar's crew members and his wife went for counseling after many years of marriage. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the 20 years they had been married.
She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured over the course of their marriage.
Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and, after asking the wife to stand, embraced and kissed her passionately as her husband watched with a raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze.
The therapist turned to the husband and said, "This is what your wife needs at least three times a week. Can you do this?"
The husband thought for a moment and replied, "Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I race in the Manly Twilight yacht race, dontyouknow?"
The names of the persons involved in this problem have been deleted.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 10 February 2009 : 2:51:29 PM
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Last Tuesday afternoon I was taking by 14 month old puppy, Moriarty for a walk to the shops and back home. Now Moriarty loves walkies, but has grown to a size when I am the only person in the household who can handle him. He is weighing in at around 63.5 kilos and is a pedigree Grate Dane with six moths of filling out to do. He could get to about 86 kilos.
Anyway, after visiting the Vet and getting weighed we sallied forth to the Allambie Heights shops. He is very good with people but can get into trouble with small dogs. They invariably attack him, and he, well he treats them as rabbits or rodents and tries to eat them, as you do when you are a Dane. Avoiding other dogs I spotted the local DVD shop which was having a closing down sale and went in with Moriarty. The proprietor was a middle aged nag who was taken aback when she saw Moriarty and became exceedingly agitated when he shook his head flinging slobber everywhere, as you do when you are a hound type dog. She became quite uppity and requested that I remove my dog from her establishment. As I had finished checking out what was for sale I moved Moriarty towards the door.
At this stage a woman walked in with her baby and a little girl following. Everyone was cool until Moriarty came from behind me and the child came face to face with the Moriarty. The Child immediately had a caniption and flung herself into a display cabinet of DVDs. The cabinet, DVD and child went sprawling across the shop.
While the women rushed to the aid of the troumatised child Moriarty and I made a quick exit. At no time did Moriarty touch the child. Simply a case of a frightened child gone mad. Having had four children, three being of the female gender I can speak with experience and know the extraudinary stupid things they are capable of, dontyouknow.
Moriaty and I had a nice walk have and thereafter only fightended small dogs.
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4Seasons
Helmsman
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Posted - 10 February 2009 : 10:55:29 PM
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| Looks like your dog is all bluff and bluster also....Mystery man... |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 12 February 2009 : 11:40:23 AM
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Believe me Eric, you would not want to walk onto our property without me being there. Young Moriarty is a big boy and yesterday took a piece out of the female dog when she tried to pinch his piece of watermelon.
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4Seasons
Helmsman
723 Posts |
Posted - 12 February 2009 : 9:20:29 PM
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| Chris , only a dog belonging to to you would eat watermelon EH |
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 13 February 2009 : 8:14:46 PM
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Eric, I think that you are just jealous. In fact I think that you could use the company of a dog. No answering back, no nagging, always looking for a pat and a word of encouragement and happy with any word of praise. Sounds like a good forward hand.
One of the chaps in our fleet who sails a bluebird takes his bitch out, no not his wife, and he says that she is very good and if it gets rough she just goes down below and curls up.
Anyway have a good sail this weekend and let us know how the Gosford sailing is doing.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 March 2009 : 6:53:55 PM
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Hullo Eric, you ol encrustation you. Are you coming down for the meeting tonight at the Drummoyne YC?
If do not come we will vote in all sorts of trivia into the E26's dontyouknow?
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2009 : 09:02:19 AM
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Last weekend saw Rodney sailing in a timber yacht regatta at the CYC with old David Parsons aboard his Carmen 31, the Cavalier. She is a really nice yacht and we have great tussles with her out on the course in the racing season. Anyway, after the race they returned to the CYC clubhouse for the presentation. They did not win and claim that the CYC handicaps other clubs yachts out of the race. Later in the evening old David was chucked out of the "prestigious" CYC for not wearing shoes!
David's answer was that as he was a yacht owner he could not afford shoes and always sails barefooted. Which he does.
Chris.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2009 : 03:01:51 AM
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Last weekend Rod sailed aboard Dave Parsons Carmen 31 at the CYC and today I was informed that David's regular and long-time forward hand, John Bombardier was killed in a motor accident just up the road from our home at Allambie Heights yesterday afternoon. We think that John was out taking exercise on his push-bike but do not have all the details yet.
John was a really nice person and will be greatly missed by his family, friends and sailing mates.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 23 May 2009 : 02:27:54 AM
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Last night we attended a Club meeting at North Harbour and it was and has continued to be a howling easterly gale. Thankfully the tides have not been too high.
However there is a forty three foot timber ketch which is high and dry on the bricks near Grotto headland where she was washed up in the big seas in the early hours of Thursday. She is apparently wedged in the rocks and is upright but with a number of skin fractures and punctures. A helicopter winched the crew off after sunrise that morning and it will be interesting to see if she is still in one piece tomorrow.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 31 May 2009 : 10:55:54 PM
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This weekend saw no E30 activity due to a combination of inclement weather, sickness and family commitments. So we hope that next week will see a little more activity as well as the some planning for the impending slipping of the Hagar for major repairs as well as her annual cleaning and maintenance.
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Chris Cope
Skipper
Australia
2350 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2009 : 3:32:05 PM
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The 43 foot ketch which went up on the Sydney Harbour bricks at Grotto Point has been slowly being pulled to bits by the thieves and scavengers as well as the big seas. At the end of last week she was on her side and beginning to breakup. The thieves got most of the electronics and the masts have come down. The local rag reported that the owners were going to cut her up. They say that they had no insurance and she will be a total loss.
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tallships
Main Sheet Hand
132 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2009 : 7:12:18 PM
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Chris Help!!!!!!! Our new e24 needs a mooring overnight tonight at North Harbour (can't get out of Sydney Heads), can you help?
Please ring me on 0412 277751 (Pat Marsh) |
Pat Marsh
e26 "Up Spirits"
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What E30 Crews get up to?
