Vol. XI/4 No 35 XII.2005 Editorial par SECOIN - Mesa Kaprów Polskich

13 THE TORTUGA POSTemprunter la route directe quipasse devant la Cité soleil. Maisil se fait tirer dessus pardes "Chimères" armés quitraînent le long de cette route jouret nuit: Il y a quelques impactssur la voiture et un tir côtéchauffeur à courte distance letouche à la poitrine. Cette routedemeure encore impraticable.Une amie, samedi dernier, en afait la triste expérience: elle a étéinterceptée trois fois. Par chanceelle n'a eu que des impacts sur lavoiture et elle a foncé dans letas… Au même endroit lepropriétaire de l'hôtel du RoiChristophe au Cap haïtien a eumoins de chance: il s'est fait tuer.Nous ne pouvons qu'être desspectateurs impuissants de cequi se passe en Haiti, mais jetiens à assurer nos Frères qu'ilsrestent très présents dans noscoeurs.Orza !Bernard Lefevre dit Brise-GaletsIRELANDA Boucan was held inRenvyle House,Conamara on the eveningof Wednesday 9 thNovember 2005.The evening started with areception at the bar where Frèresand invités were introduced, witha drink and some light food.Then the group proceeded to theCourtyard Room where therepresentatives of the“Northabout”, namely SkipperJarlath Cunnane, Dr. MichaelBrogan and Tom Moran, werewelcomed and praised for theirsuccessful circumnavigation ofthe Arctic from Westport, Mayoto Westport, Mayo from 2001 to2005. The Cruising Club ofAmerica is awarding SkipperJarlath Cunnane the BluewaterMedal in recognition of theachievement. The other Irishrecipients of this medal areCommander Bill King fromGalway, John Gore-Grimes andPaddy Barry who is also a Frère.Michael Brogan and JarlathCunnane took the assemblybriefly through the voyages withslides and commentary.Then, a meeting was held,preceded by the reading by theBosco of the Octalogues. Thebusiness covered the review ofactivities in 2005, plans for 2006,the finances and theestablishment of new Tables onthe other Coasts, and on relationswith Tables in foreign waters.The Grand Frère outlined for theinvités the history and thepurpose of the Frères de la CÛte.The dinner followed, which wasprepared by the award-winningchef Tim O’Sullivan and whichwas exceptional. For my part thegrilled Conamara Oysters on abed of spinach with a bearnaisesauce, followed by the roast rackof Conamara Lamb was the best.The meal led on to toasts to thePresident of Ireland, the Frères dela CÛte, our guests and in specialinstance to Dave Fitzgerald “Pepele Moko”, a pioneer of sailing inthe West of Ireland. All hailed“Orza” loud and clear. The mealended, after dessert and coffee,with a few songs including “TheWest’s Awake” and “Le 31 duMois D’Août”.The assembly then adjourned tothe bar for some digestifs and theoccasional song.Enough said.John CoyleVigie InternationaleMALTAFinally, after two years of"prescribed" waiting as set by the"manual" the MalteseBrotherhood came on board on 8October 2005. Myself and all theMaltese Brothers would like tothank the person who believed tothis Brotherhood more thananyone else and with great spiritcontinued to support us, the "RedCorsair" Hermano Major,Lieutenant of Tavola di Licata inItaly, Girolamo Agati (Momi). Aswell as Momi we would like tothank the Italian Brotherhoodwhich participated to the officialdinner organized in Malta withquite a number of brothersarriving from all over Italy torepresent their different tables.One for ALL as officialrepresentative of the ItalianBrotherhood, Scrivano Maggioreand Vigie International GiovanniBigozzi was present and activelyparticipating with his experienceto this important event in Malta.We would like to thank really allthe worldwide Brotherhood forthe huge number ofCongratulation messagesreceived before, during and afterthe date set for the official launchof "Valletta's Table", hoping tomeet as many of you out theresailing around the globe. To SonExcellence, Jaques Rial manythanks for keeping us in touchand informed all and always....OOOrrzzaaaa, from Malta...Luigi Cacciatore GC Lgt "Tavoladi Valletta" -Malta-.POLANDOn 26th November 2005 PolishBrothers met in Warsaw on aNational Zaffarancho and amongother topics there was anceremonial admission of newBrothers into our Hermandad. Itwas an unusually big number of