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Abel Day at the LBT
On Thursday the LBT was privileged to host Chris Abel and his Barbershop Choir from the Sunshine Coast. They are in Tasmania for a singers gathering. Chris is the great-grandson of Tucker Abel who built the Nancy, and this was a long awaited, and emotional, opportunity to see the boat. We were able to give him two for one, as Dave Conway brought Eva Blanche, another Tucker Abel boat, up to the pontoon. That's Chris in the orange rainjacket in the pics below. The choir gave us a couple of tunes, and then we we were off for a cruise in company around the Egg Islands and back through the canal. We topped off the morning in the Shed with cups of tea, slices of Tess Hallinan's cake, and conversation with the restorer of Nancy, Martin Krynen - see final pic. Who'd be anywhere but Franklin?       |
Where's Wally?
We tracked him down (Peter Laidlaw that is) in the bowels of Mistral II, a project boat being restored for the Windeward Bound Trust. Pete and David Nash are the supervising boatbuilders - see https://www.windewardbound.com.au/mistral-ii for more details. As is apparent from the second pic below, Mystral II is berthed just behind the May Queen in Constitution Dock.   |
The Great River Race
Barb Dawson draws attention to this race on the Thames - see https://youtu.be/WXyHbw-w5uM . Maybe we need to enter a crew sometime in the future if we can organise borrowing a boat: it looks like fun! 'The Great River Race is an annual competition held on London's River
Thames. Any traditional-style coxed boat propelled by oars or paddles
can take part. The competition was started in 1988 and covers 21 miles.'  |
Monday sailing, 2pm Sept 16th
Rain is forecast to clear and moderate breezes forecast to arrive. Let's get down to the pontoon and get sailing this afternoon.  |
LBT Committee meeting Wed 18th Sept
There is a draft agenda (still being worked on) at https://tinyurl.com/y2rnz6be . Send any extra business to sec@lbt.org.au.  |
World Skiffies short video
Karl Gallienne alerted to this one, which captures the spirit of the event pretty well: https://youtu.be/9v4ZO-0EC94  |
Barbershop choir on the Nancy on Thursday morning
Chris Tucker, the great grandson of Tucker Abel who built the 'Nancy', will be bringing his choir down to perform on Nancy on Thursday morning (19th Sept) early: around 8.30 to 9am at this stage. Should be good fun - come down and have a listen! If you are a 'Barbershop' fan you might also be interested in the Barbershop Harmony Festival which they are participating in: www.barbershopconvention.com.au .  |
Posting the news at the shed
Our 'in the shed' correspondent reports. 'The LBT has a new notice board. Design and construction courtesy of the Tuesday group. No more notices being stuck to the windows!'   |
Capricornia sailing this afternoon at 2pm Monday 9 Sept
The forecast looks good. Everyone welcome. Meet at the shed at 2pm.  |
Minutes, minutes, minutes
Lots of organising at this time of year:
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