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Got any good<br />
scuttlebutt?<br />
Tell us the gossip for the<br />
Scuttlebutt section of <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Cutlass</strong>. Email<br />
info@lbyc.org.nz, or ring Katie<br />
on 04 479 4913.<br />
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Scuttlebutt<br />
Judy (Jigsaw) found out on a sailing course that some people are<br />
used to sailing with children. Approaching the mark, Wendy’s<br />
(Flashwave) commentary went: “Preparing to tack … … … Ready<br />
to tack … … … … … … … Tackiiiiiinng … 3, 2, 1 … … … NOW!”<br />
John Lord (Joint Effort) took his inaugural ride with the LBYC Motorbike<br />
Adjunct on his spiffing yellow Ducati, but his lady pillion who was new to<br />
motorbikes got motion sickness going over the Rimutakas. For the return<br />
journey she ditched John for Gordy’s (Sika II) BMW tourer. John<br />
plaintively asked: “Was it because of me or the bike?”<br />
We won’t venture to comment on the reliability of Harley<br />
Davisons, but suffice it to say that the King of Toys, Kim Naylor<br />
(Shariba) is a wee bit grumpy as he had to abandon his Road King<br />
in Hokitika on a South Island tour last Labour weekend.<br />
But Kim was hero of the day for rescuing an Am Meer crew member,<br />
Masha, who was knocked off her motorbike on the Port Road roundabout<br />
by a Peter Baker Transport truck. Kim was there in 5 minutes with a staff<br />
member and trailer to ferry the bike to the workshop in Wellington.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bar tab at the launching of Clive Lewis’ Farr 35 must have<br />
been very generous, because by the time the club bar officially<br />
opened at 4 pm, the stayers were only interested in rehydrating<br />
on soda and lime and so the bar closed early.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Royal Port Nicholson yacht club race to Ship Cove ended with an<br />
incredible two-hour wait for Furneaux Lodge’s runabout to take people<br />
ashore for the party. <strong>The</strong> young buck driving the runabout was more<br />
interested in taking people away from the wharf back to their boats and<br />
returning empty-handed than he was in getting customers into the bar to<br />
increase his boss’s profits.<br />
<strong>Lowry</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> men are being taken in hand by their women, with<br />
some sporting new shorty beards. But they clearly haven’t<br />
cottoned on that it’s really a ploy to stop them being attractive to<br />
other women.<br />
Which crew member took recycling just a teensy weensy step too far,<br />
shipping all her empty wine bottles collected in two years overseas on an<br />
island that didn’t have recycling, back to New Zealand where she’s now<br />
gradually releasing them into the weekly recycling collection?<br />
Rick Leckinger (Jigsaw crew) borrowed a Nova 28 for a Christmas<br />
holiday in the Sounds. After taking 14 hours to cross Cook Strait,<br />
he got the mask and snorkel out and quickly found the reason why<br />
it was so slow: there was a mussel farm hanging off the keel.<br />
Weirdest things found on other people’s boats: a roll of weed matting,<br />
and a box of chocolate-flavoured condoms. Why, why, why? And,<br />
though I really don’t want to know the answer, why on the same boat?<br />
Big ups for New Zealand wildlife: in a four week sojourn in the<br />
sounds, Am Meer spotted orca twice, and dolphins five times,<br />
including a pod of the rare round-finned ghostly Hectors dolphins.<br />
Lucky, lucky John Lord was made an offer he couldn’t refuse for his yacht<br />
Orca while he was on holiday on her in the Sounds. He sold up there and<br />
then, and is now the proud owner of Joint Effort.
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