Antipodean Boats Connection

[johnno]

Re: Oz Connection

I'm up for any EBS that's going, provided someone tells me what an EBS is..actually, I'm up for it anyway.

[Duncan Gibbs]

Re: Oz Connection

Elbow Bending Session: That thing you believe we've done before. Your face does look very familiar John... Maybe at POG and Brits' house on Straddy? Maybe at a crit sesh?

[johnno]

Re: Oz Connection

Ah, of course...an EBS..how could I have not got that! Perhaps I need some practice..better come down then..Jan sounds great. I taught at UQ from '85 to '02 so take 15 years off both our faces and hips and we'd probably recognise each other better. It's your name that's very familiar to me. Probably crit sesh, sumer exhib, or maybe with ms Woolley, she's an old friend too.

[RFNK]

Re: Oz Connection

Duncan Disorderly - I like that! OK, I like the EBS in January idea too!
Rick

[skuthorp]

Re: Oz Connection

Hmm, all that holiday traffic and full accommodation, not for us I'm afraid but we may well get up as far as Rick in march/april.

[WX]

Re: Oz Connection

Hey! Let's have an EBS!!!

John Little (who I'm sure will be along to say hello soon) is coming up this way at the beginning of January. Rick is coming to collect his timber in January...

Greg's said he's in: I have EBS ESP!

John rang me and we discussed the Tweed as a sailing option for when he comes up. I suggested the Richmond, which was his first choice is the more exciting one. An EBS in January sounds like a very fine idea.

[WX]

Re: Oz Connection

I have a sofabed if someone wants to come to the EBS but needs a place to kip.

[RFNK]

Re: Oz Connection

John rang me and we discussed the Tweed as a sailing option for when he comes up. I suggested the Richmond, which was his first choice is the more exciting one. An EBS in January sounds like a very fine idea.

Well, let me know when John is planning to venture north and I'll try to arrange the timber pick up for then.
Rick

[PeterSibley]

Re: Oz Connection

So where are we doing it ?

[RFNK]

Re: Oz Connection

I don't think I've ever even touched a Ferrari! Good luck with it - love to see it sometime!
Rick

[Larks]

Re: Oz Connection

I'll stick my head out and say that I don't think they need specialists to work on them. Everyone says that about the S38 engine in my M5. I rebuilt it myself and have over 50,000 km on that rebuilt engine, including four track days. I've heard of plenty of others worked on by supposed specialists that have had troubles.

I was talked out of making some "improvements" to my engine by a mate who is an engineer who did a lot of development work for Ford and Aston Martin. His advice was to follow the book religiously... which is what I did. Not wishing to knock your mates, but specialists often seem to develop their own "knowledge" where they think they know better than the factory engineers - and they often don't follow the book as a result.

Shock horror!! You're not saying "don't trust a specialist" are you Ian?

[RFNK]

Re: Oz Connection

Unfortunately the book's in Italian.
Rick

[Larks]

Re: Oz Connection

I'm just thinking how often I have wanted to flip a car over on its side like that to work on it!

[Larks]

Re: Oz Connection

Gee the bottom is dropping out of the boat market , well in the Scandinavian and European market at least , particularly for wooden boats .
From my experience its not too hot in Australia either.
But how about this one . They have just spent an absolute fortune on it , held their price for a while , and are now trying to unload it for $78,000 Aust , or make an offer.
Its in Italy at the moment I believe , which probably gives a hint at what has happened.
Anyway , check the photos !. http://www.hbs.dk/Colin-Archer-42 .
Its too much boat for me , and I don't think I could get a crew too often , but gee , it would be fun !.
Rob J.

That's a lot of boat for $78k Rob. How's the price now on that other one that you are looking at? It could be worth a ridiculous offer.

I've just had a mate tell me that he has bought a business for next to nothing that he tried to buy a few years ago for $12mill. This was his fourth attempt, the second he went back with $6 mill, the third down to $1.3mill and this final one was obscenely less than that after submitting a ridiculously low (and barely serious) tender to purchase through liquidators. To top it off, after the liquidators called him in to do the deal they started removing plant items from the tender sale so he told them to jam it and walked away with an over the shoulder comment to reduce his offer by half if they wanted to try talking to him again. They called him 2 minutes later before he left the car park, the final deal was 50% of his tender offer, the liquidators just had to be shot of the business.

[PeterSibley]

Re: Oz Connection

A bit of fun really, but Ron and Bruce from Leda Suspension were amused, and Ron dropped what he was doing to do the job.

I won't say what the job cost as Gentlemen who own Exotic Cars don't discuss money.

You had me worried !