The continuing adventures of the Laughing Polar Bear Cap....

[RFNK]

Or it just likes a joke

Rick

[Sailor]

I think I figured out what it needs.




And since the LPBC was having one..........



So was I.

[Duncan Gibbs]

Can the original poster please present himself on Deck: If not we'll have to yell out "MAN OVER BOARD" and swing the ship around!

[Jim Ledger]

Meanwhile, on a small island somewhere in the North Atlantic...

[BBSebens]

Jim's hat appears to be just as pristine as everything else.

Seems fitting.

[ben2go]

Meanwhile, on a small island somewhere in the North Atlantic...

MMMMMMM boat jewelry, or as the young hipsters call it,boat bling.

[RFNK]

I have news. These hats have been seen going walkabout - faithless as they are!

Rick

[knottyBuoyz]

I have news. These hats have been seen going walkabout - faithless as they are!

Rick

I thought mine had pulled a similar stunt and gone AWOL in Jamaica. As it turns out the Miss's had packed it away for the trip home.

It'll be back the first time you open a Guinness!

[Duncan Gibbs]

I have news. These hats have been seen going walkabout - faithless as they are!

Rick

You're darn tootin' Rick! This concurrence must be a first for a pair of LBCs... On your head no less!



I couldn't quite believe it when one of them just flew through the air and landed on my head. The relaxing feeling was almost instantaneous!



Of course it just had to assert Hat Dominance:



When Gary's LBC landed on Sibley's head he just started grinning like a madman:



Greg finally got his LBC under control again!



Only to realise after a while it had abandoned his head and flown down to sit astride the bows of Looe ala Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet:



Poor thing didn't realise it wasn't quite a sunny afternoon on the North Atlantic.

[P.L.Lenihan]

So there I was, minding me own business and eves dropping on the cacophonous bleatings outside the office door when,quick as Flynn, a speedy memo lands on the desk before me suggesting I look into "The continuing adventures etc...." thread.

Well....I would be happy to boast how shocked I was or even how I felt a certain loosening of the exhaust valve south of my equator but no, boasting never crossed my mind as I thought of all the wonderful qualities these caps have garnered over the past couple of years. They have allowed grown men to suddenly peal away years of aging, increased their libido, look into the murky future, read minds across oceans of space, deplete global fish stocks, create master pieces out of common woods. Indeed,manifold are the tales of miracles various all due to the magic of the caps. Despite all of that, and more, they have also been called many things, like friend, buddy, secret weapon, chick magnet and even, I shudder as I write, promiscuous!


And this brings me to the above photo. One may be pardoned for entertaining the notion that the photo represents solid evidence of said promiscuity for it does somewhat resemble a veritable,good ole fashioned ménage à trois. However, I wish to only slightly deflate that ballon of hope and call it simply evidence of the fine discernment these caps are endowed with. For what we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is not the brazen behavior often associated with common harlots and cabinet makers. No! Instead, we bear witness to the caps' discerning eye and how quickly it(they) can identify the easy mark at this most august gathering of fine antipodeans! It almost makes me weep for the other blokes in attendance, whose sterling characters I have never doubted.


I rest my case, yer honour.




Cheers!


Peter

[WX]

I say, well said sir!
Here here.

[John B]

Shock horror, the LPBC infiltrates the 'opposition' and appears steathily in that very fine British magazine ' Classic boat' (feb).

look for a foreign object identifying its location.





including the same photo that appeared in our local boating magazine , Boating NZ.

[Larks]

I was right then JB, I showed those pics to my wife when I got the mag' and she wouldn't believe that I could have picked you out from those photos.........especially having never met you.......I told her to never underestimate the power of the LPBC to recognise another LPBC!!!! (even though I wasn't wearing it at the time it was in the vicinity and it's amazing how its power just "radiates"!!)

[m2c1Iw]

The boat looks far more handsome even with the cap.

[Duncan Gibbs]

Ahhh! So, JB, Alan shoved a copy under your nose I take it!

[WX]

That is very well spotted Greg, I am impressed.

[John B]

Ahhh! So, JB, Alan shoved a copy under your nose I take it!

Naw, I stumbled over it in a bookshop while I was browsing through Horoscopes for Boaties Monthly and Weather Forecasts That Actually Happened, And How They Got It Wrong quarterly. Strangely enough, both magazines by the same publisher.

I'm surprised you could pick me/ it out Greg. I don't usually do the relatively tidy and dressed in someone elses clean white shirt look.

[Duncan Gibbs]

Naw, I stumbled over it in a bookshop while I was browsing through Horoscopes for Boaties Monthly and Weather Forecasts That Actually Happened, And How They Got It Wrong quarterly. Strangely enough, both magazines by the same publisher.

As soon as I saw the shots I was thinking which one was JB. "Just look for the cap! Just look for the cap!" I kept telling myself. I seem to merember some shots you had taken from the bow, and there you were on the opening spread, caught in CMYK forever. Damn fine show JB! Damn fine!

Has any appeared in our hosts' publication? Maybe Tom Jackson needs one? He's always pictured helming some replica or another.

[knottyBuoyz]

I actually got some sanding dust on the Magic LPBC cap today. I think Mr. Lemonthumbs (where ever he may be) would be proud of me!

[John B]

I had a terror moment a few weeks ago when I realised I'd begun antifouling wearing the LPBC. Fortunately there was no damage .
Last weekend it assisted in some whale whispering..



seemed to work to a point.



I think once the beastie got a bit closer and recognised the polar bar emblem it had second thoughts.

[snow(Alan H)]

JohnB wearing the LPBC in his role as official on-board photographer on Rawhiti

[Ryden]

My LPBC is making a new pair of oars for my boat, it's amazing the way it handles a jack plane, the shaving are just flying through the air like shrapnel. I just sit back and watch while sipping a cold one.

[Larks]

This is most likely the first ever LPBC to cross the full breadth of Australia from coast to coast:

[Larks]

Just to show that Iyam eddin' west.......sunrise in the rear view this morning about an hour out of Gilgandra :



A couple of shots along the way:



I got stuck behind this guy for about 3 hrs doing 60kph in a 110 kph area, no passing him either way. Anyone coming the other way had to pull over while he passed.




One of many tea breaks



And a sunset shot, ( today's trip was Gilgandra NSW to Port Augusta Sth Aust, 6am to about 9pm)




The wooden box, if anyone is wondering, is just a cover of sorts to secure my gear and double as a bed base to role my swag out on.

[P.L.Lenihan]

A mere 3 to 4 hours behind the wheel and I begin to think chewing gravel would be a better way to pass the time. In fact, I don't like driving at all really and only do what little I do out of pure necessity.

Very impressive road trip Greg and glad to know no harm came to you.......perhaps thanks to the magic powers of the LPBC?


Cheers!


Peter

[John B]

Ah , I see now what Larks has been up to.

Being reduced to tears this morning whilst reading Mr Lemonhands latest missive in his whale of a thread in B and R has reminded me that some adventures of my rather beaten and tired LPBC need to be updated.
Not being risk averse, it found a new friend...



and a couple of playmates



...went a bit nuts



and found some baby chees... er turtles



and , as a bonus activity, did quite a lot of sailing in between

Entering North Minerva reef.



...

...

[Larks]

See!!!!! LPBC = Cray magnet!!! Pity the poor fool who tries hunting cray's without one!

[Ryden]

Le LPBC est dans la belle Paris, laissez le bon temps roulez!

[The Bigfella]

At least the WBF hats get photographed with wooden boats



Yeah, there's a 100 footer (wooden) in the background - and she's for sale too

[Duncan Gibbs]

It's the wrong hat Ian! You've got THE WRONG HAT!!

[WX]

Mine had an airing on Moreton Bay last Saturday. No photo this time.

[Hwyl]

Notice Mary Bauer in the front row, light coloured clothing. LPB hat

[John B]

Smooth lookin thousand yard stare dude in the red shirt right in the centre too I notice.

[John B]

Road trip! Seeing as we were off to the tropics this weekend( a hundred miles norf of home here in Auckland) I thought that perhaps some music other than the song of the XK might be nice . For those that don't know , 100 miles on NZ roads is like to say 500 on a highway, the nurburgring with opposing traffic.


Thanks to the LPBC and something called blueteeth? ( somethin to do with the logo I think) and the LPBC lanyard borrowed to lash the device to the old stereo knobs.... Voila!



....hat was a bit shy and hid behind the camera case for some reason.

[ben2go]

Mine went into the hospital with me on 6/22 but I didn't get any pics.Some cute nurses but I'm sure no one wanted to see me in a backless hospital dress.

[P.L.Lenihan]

Notice Mary Bauer in the front row, light coloured clothing. LPB hat

Oh dear, I don't recall whether all these hats were programmed solely for male heads or not. Having been made aware of a number of male LPBC members near-death experiences with their hats( the irrestible chick magnet versions), I am very much relieved to see Mr.Bauer in close proximity of Mrs. Bauer, who clearly has a the female programmed version! Fabulously fetching, is Mrs.Bauer, and this should serve as a caution to all LPBC members.These hats can work their magic on your women folk too! Be careful!!


Cheers!



Peter

[StevenBauer]

We had a LPBC picture op here at the Small Reach Regatta tonight just before the lobster dinner:

[John B]

Whoa! 3 in one place.
I've just been chatting to Luana at the speed show on a nasty ,wet and windy winters day here in Auckland , So there were two LPBC owners, but no visible hats.

[snow(Alan H)]

Whoa! 3 in one place.
I've just been chatting to Luana at the speed show on a nasty ,wet and windy winters day here in Auckland , So there were two LPBC owners, but no visible hats.

Did he have the black or the red beast with him?

[John B]

He was on his stand Alan.

[snow(Alan H)]

He was on his stand Alan.

Of course, I should have worked that out - really cool blokes stuff http://www.airships.co.nz/

[snow(Alan H)]

Steven B spotted making a new mast step at the Small Reach Regatta 2012 sporting a LPBC

[luana 1920]

Missed you at the Speed Show, Alan. LPBC didn't make it there either but it did make it to the air force commemorations at RNZAF base Ohakea. Here it is inspecting a USAF C17 from Hickam AFB,Hawaii.



Probably the best part of the show was the flying display by restored WW2 warbirds. Clockwise from foreground; P51 Mustang, F4U Corsair, P40 Kittyhawk, Grumman Avenger and in the background two Supermarine Spitfires. I love the smell of Avgas in the morning. Thank you Colonel.

[snow(Alan H)]

Well Rick, look at u - posting photos now

[P.L.Lenihan]

Indeed he is and cutting a rather dashing figure to boot!
Well done,Sir!!


Cheers!

Peter

[John B]

Perhaps we should plan to convene a meeting of the LPBC antipodes this summer some time.... make sure they're all correctly maintained and hydrated... stuff like that.

How many have we... 3 in Auckland ?

[snow(Alan H)]

Perhaps we should plan to convene a meeting of the LPBC antipodes this summer some time.... make sure they're all correctly maintained and hydrated... stuff like that.

How many have we... 3 in Auckland ?

Correct (that I know of) u , me & Rick. An EBS would be a good thing.

[John B]

Who else has one in NZ, I forget? Robbie?

[P.L.Lenihan]

Who else has one in NZ, I forget? Robbie?

It must be something in the water down there in New Zealand as Robbie 2 in BOI NZ is indeed the latest winner of a genuine LPBC. Haven't heard whether he has recieved it yet, but I am hopeful.

Sharp as nails you folks are!



Cheers!



Peter

[John B]

Thanks Peter. ps, you made me sand something else extravagantly the other day.. the rot has set in.

My hat hasn't done anything lately and neither have I , we're stuck in Dismalia, a New Zealand Winter. Wet and cold, apart from last sat when I took the boat for a quick motor to test a gudgeon I've been adjusting... but that was 5 days ago .

So nostalgically I have to look back to may and a more interesting time to find evidence of a faded but reasonably well travelled and used hat.

paddleboarding at Makogai in Fiji...inflatable paddleboarding!



that should rark up a few WBF locals..... but to make amends, to dig myself out of a hole so to speak..


..


but just around the corner from there, which is where I'd rather be right now



camo hat...in amongst the artifacts