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Happy Christmas 2015

  • 22 Dec 2015 01:51
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    Paul Thompson wrote:
    Bryan Tuffnell wrote:but it will be mid-March before I'm unshackled and get to lie with my bride. 
    I sure hope in this case you will lie in your bride rather than with her! :-) and a merry Christmas to you.
    Oops... now I'll spend my Christmas blushing... :-D
  • 22 Dec 2015 00:39
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    Bryan Tuffnell wrote:but it will be mid-March before I'm unshackled and get to lie with my bride. 
    I sure hope in this case you will lie in your bride rather than with her! :-) and a merry Christmas to you.
  • 21 Dec 2015 19:46
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    ...and a big seasonal shout-out from Christchurch, NZ.

    I'm writing this from a stuffy downtown office where I'm carrying out my final months of servitude before the mast.  My pointy-rigged boat is for sale and I'm the new owner of 'Fantail', but it will be mid-March before I'm unshackled and get to lie with my bride.  In the meantime I'm playing Sancho Panza in a Quixotic government department, watching the weatherboard cladding on the neighboring office turn to lapstrake and feeling my desk tremble in the wake of passing buses... sigh.

    All the best for the new year all; see you in 2016!

    Bryan

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  • 19 Dec 2015 00:24
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    ... and may I add my seasonal greetings to everyone, too.

    Tystie has been ashore in Norsand Boatyard, Whangarei, NZ, for what seems like an age now, but was only three months or so. Firstly, working with Annie to make a model of SibLim and then starting to build the Real Thing. Then, taking time off from the SibLim project to scrape off all Tystie's antifouling, which was flaking off, and repaint. And thirdly, changing the rig (Mk 7?) back to a ketch rig, with high aspect ratio sails. Back in the water, with much relief, on Tuesday, and then working my way up to the Bay of Islands for the Tall Ships event, combined with a Superjunket - 10 boats! 
  • 18 Dec 2015 20:44
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    And may I add to the Seasonal Greetings, too.  Good to hear news of what's happening over on the other side of the world.  Down here I'm busy boatbuilding and feeling envious of all my fellow junkies as they get ready for their summer sailing.  I'm taking time off to go to the Tall Ships Junket, however, which looks as though it will have a record number of junks (10) attending: Arcadian, Blondie, Footprints, Grand Pha, (Fr), La Chica (yet to confirm), Lakatao (Fr), Mehitabel , Passepatu, Tystie (UK), Zebedee, (UK), all junk rigged, and Icebreaker and Sweet Thursday, still with pointy rigs.  Should be quite a gathering!

    Anyway, wishing all the best for Christmas and the New Year to everyone in the JRA.

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  • 18 Dec 2015 18:49
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    Hi Sally. Long time no hear, my fault. Thanks  for the seasons  greetings and the same to you and everyone else from Maddy and I. I'm writing this sitting in the departure lounge at Brittany Ferries terminal in Portsmouth UK. We're catching the 2000 ferry to St Malo - overnight, so a cabin is included - then train tomorrow to La Rochelle, where we will rejoin Paradox for several weeks if not for the winter. Quite what we'll do in the Spring is anyone's guess. We may sail to Bilbao direct, then along the north Spanish coast, then south down Portugal then into the Med. Done that before, so we are also toying with the idea of putting her on a lorry to Port Leucate where we kept our previous boat, Matanie, for a decade while working in Germany, as it was then. We can just about afford the cost of that. Need to balance that against the time it would take us to sail there: ages at our usual rate of progress. Probably toss a coin in February... Well best wishes to you both and to everyone else in the JRA. 
  • 18 Dec 2015 11:03
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    HHello to all our JRA friends worldwide. I am writing from a (very) warm English winter where 15/16C seems the norm - a very busy and stormy autumn meant that we had no sailing days this season so, last weekend, we enjoyed a wonderful sail from our summer mooring on an ebbing  spring tide to Newtown Harbour for lift-out at the delightful Shalfleet Quay Boatyard.  One other boat at anchor whilst we stripped rigging and sails to put below as usual; they left after a quick lunch and we were joined by our fellow Freedom 28 (Dragonfly) sailed, as usual, single-handed by Chris Edwards.  Normally he would have circled us with ease and we were surprised when he picked up a buoy some way off so, on leaving the boat, we rowed over to discover he was sweating with a stuck centreboard and had just emerged on deck having freed it of mud and stones - the consequence of too many tides since his last sail!  He will sail throughout the winter; we shall clean our hull off and 'fiddle' ashore until the Spring.   To all of you, enjoy your sailing or your 'fiddling', a very Happy Christmas and Fair Winds in the New Year.
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