Wild Dingo
07-26-2005, 09:04 AM
From our mate TonyH in Sydney... a package of scans of old Rudder and MotorYacht magazines!! Bloody brilliant thank you very much mate you made my day! cheers :cool:
Now it was interesting for one single sheet contained within the many sheets of old boat designs... one sheet of numbers of a "26ft Luggar"... now I looked at these and wondered "geez thats the first Ive heard of someone designing a 26ft pearl luggar theyre usually around 50ft" and takin a closer look I was reminded of the many months I spent a fair while back drawing redrawing and redrawing then measuring and checking the down sized drawings I was making of the 50ft Trixen in the West Aussie Maritime Museum that one TonyH had sent me some time before then the weeks of makin that terrible model from ****e balsa then a more recent memory of the hoonberrys scuttling her in the pond :rolleyes:
Now these drawings and numbers I gave to Tony when I finally got to meet him in Freo unfinished and rough since Im a writer not an artist and definantly not a NAs earhole... but I gave them to him along with several chunks of Tuart and I think Sheoak? maybe Jarrah to take back with him to enjoy... never expected to see them again...
But I had had a blonde moment and given him the total package and not made copies for myself! :eek: but I was happy with that since he had sent me so many scans of so many fine old boats and I reckoned I could redo them if I wanted as the numbers were all on the computer no worries...
Now not bein one in the know with the ol fella upstairs I wasnt to know that a few years later he would pour water all over all my plans and books and such and in the process drown the computer... and so was quite totally unprepared for the loss of the drawings and numbers of the lugger I had spent so many long hours pouring over
Then it hit me!! These were my numbers!! I knew this cause there in the top right hand corner was my hand writing saying "Tonys copy"
So was it karma that caused Tony to include the sheet? or was he aware of putting them in there as a surprise? Or was he totally unaware that he had done it? Who knows (well aside from Tony perhaps ;) ) but I tell yer what mates
This was a wonderful gift from one of our best shipmates here
Thank you TonyH yer a flamin legend! :cool:
I owe yer one mate!! Let me know when yer coming back this way and I will shout yer a beer at the rubbetty ;) Hey!! Theres a new fangled harbor pub here in Bunbury overlooking... the ROSE F!!!... so maybe a beer an a yarn with the owners if I can ever find em at the Rose no sign of them in all this time... maybe Im just goin at the wrong time eh? Anyway mate I owe yer one!
Now it was interesting for one single sheet contained within the many sheets of old boat designs... one sheet of numbers of a "26ft Luggar"... now I looked at these and wondered "geez thats the first Ive heard of someone designing a 26ft pearl luggar theyre usually around 50ft" and takin a closer look I was reminded of the many months I spent a fair while back drawing redrawing and redrawing then measuring and checking the down sized drawings I was making of the 50ft Trixen in the West Aussie Maritime Museum that one TonyH had sent me some time before then the weeks of makin that terrible model from ****e balsa then a more recent memory of the hoonberrys scuttling her in the pond :rolleyes:
Now these drawings and numbers I gave to Tony when I finally got to meet him in Freo unfinished and rough since Im a writer not an artist and definantly not a NAs earhole... but I gave them to him along with several chunks of Tuart and I think Sheoak? maybe Jarrah to take back with him to enjoy... never expected to see them again...
But I had had a blonde moment and given him the total package and not made copies for myself! :eek: but I was happy with that since he had sent me so many scans of so many fine old boats and I reckoned I could redo them if I wanted as the numbers were all on the computer no worries...
Now not bein one in the know with the ol fella upstairs I wasnt to know that a few years later he would pour water all over all my plans and books and such and in the process drown the computer... and so was quite totally unprepared for the loss of the drawings and numbers of the lugger I had spent so many long hours pouring over
Then it hit me!! These were my numbers!! I knew this cause there in the top right hand corner was my hand writing saying "Tonys copy"
So was it karma that caused Tony to include the sheet? or was he aware of putting them in there as a surprise? Or was he totally unaware that he had done it? Who knows (well aside from Tony perhaps ;) ) but I tell yer what mates
This was a wonderful gift from one of our best shipmates here
Thank you TonyH yer a flamin legend! :cool:
I owe yer one mate!! Let me know when yer coming back this way and I will shout yer a beer at the rubbetty ;) Hey!! Theres a new fangled harbor pub here in Bunbury overlooking... the ROSE F!!!... so maybe a beer an a yarn with the owners if I can ever find em at the Rose no sign of them in all this time... maybe Im just goin at the wrong time eh? Anyway mate I owe yer one!