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This Weekend.

Spent the best part of this weekend at home and discovered 3D band saw models. The first to wet the appetite was a rain deer out of Victorian Ash. Gaye was delighted with this and furiously sanded it to a beautifully smooth finish. We figured that it was destined for the mouths of one or both of the grandchildren so rather than give it a quick lick with the tried and true Danish Oil, searched the net and the Woodwork forums for the best child friendly application. It turns out that the age old Shellac is deemed the best. So off to Bunnings to buy some shellac flakes. To cut a long story short - a very distressed gay arrives in the workshop with a very stained rain deer. When applying the shellac with steel wool (as was suggested in the instructions, the steel and the resin in the wood reacted with the shellac causing a nasty stain. A bunch of sanding later had restored the rain deer, and application of wax had it looking beautiful and smooth. Will have to wait until the grandchildren are less orally inclined or find out how child friendly the wax is before letting them at it.

By the end of the weekend we had a whale, a camel and a coyote/cactus. The coyote and cactus are the same carving. Just different sides.

Peregrine - The Giant Killer

In the pic:
Peregrine got Second in IRC Div 2. Ryan here collecting the wine on behalf of his Dad, Barry, who'd had a late night on the Friday watching the Cats (and vivid memories of how last years celbrating finished up)

Last weekend we sailed Peregrine from Melbourne to Geelong in the last race of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) Winter Series. This used to be the Melbourne to Hastings Race, but due to their size many of the larger boats couldn't stop at Hastings at the end of the race and had to turn around after a 6 - 8 race and return to Melbourne.

Peregrine was defending boat in the IRC Division Div 2 as she won it last year.

Barry is not shy when it comes to a gutsy start giving Logs on the bow a grat view of the action.

The photos showing the size of the boats around us would suggest we were punching well above our weight.

Impeccable timing had us at second boat from pole position on the line and plenty of water under us. The boat above us in the pic is Ninety Seven. Great close up shot of her with the start boat in the background. The gold painted boat - Goldfinger was early and called OCS and had to restart.

Our great start delivered us first boat around the top mark in our division. In the pic bow to stern: Logs and Ryan sorting out the pole, Charlot sorting out the safety lines. Russel waiting for Geoff to get out of the way.

Popped a spinnaker, kept that place for the 5 mile down winder.

In this pic, Barry on the helm and Tim on main sheet.

We were pointing higher and footing faster on the third leg (a 10 mile beat up into Altona) and covered the next three boats behind us. Over the last 1/2 mile we were caught on the right side of the course with a 20 deg shift to the West. Not good. This allowed 3 boats who were originally well behind to catch up. By the time we got to the top mark we had lost three places and about 5 minutes. That dashed our hopes for a back to back wins. We slugged it out with the other Sydney 36 for the rest of the day and clawed back some time cutting it close to the muscle beds and staying left up the Portarlington side of the course. Finally finished 2nd IRC and 18th on Performance Handicap. How about you buy the handicapper a beer Barry?

Full Results here:

http://www.orcv.org.au/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=312

A Submission from Vic

Update; see if you can match the caption with the Pic:

Cheeky chipmunk
Car keys soothe the savage beast
Animal lover, first patting an echidna and then a python
Hanging out with mum

Victoria is our special guest columnist today with a report on their trip to Port Stevens.

Hi everyone,
I hope this email finds you all happy and healthy.

I've finally found some time to download some pics and write an email. So here is a quick update before I head off to bed.

Maddie celebrated 10 months on the weekend. Its so hard to believe how quickly the time has gone by. We decided to get out of town and headed up to Port Stephens for the weekend. For the first time in a long time it didn't rain. We had a lovely time lounging around in the sun, swimming at the beach, a short hike up the closest tall thing we could find (Tomaree Point). It felt like we were in Qld not 2 hours north of Sydney.

We picked the right weekend...we stumbled into the Jazz, Food and wine festival. There were lots of wine stalls with generous portions so we both went home a little happier than when we arrived. Maddie was very patient with us and thankfully entertained by the jazz and all the attention she received for being so cute. Every other baby we saw was sound asleep, but not not our Maddie!! She didn't want to miss a second of the action.
(Ed: Just like her Mom)
The apartment we stayed in had an internal set of stairs which Maddie found hugely entertaining. She climbed those steps so quickly, so many times, and was extremely proud when she reached the top each time. Unfortunately she didn't master the descent, attempting to go down head first. (Ed: Just like her Mom at that age)

John is still at home and loving it. No 45 minute commute to get to work!! He still has another 4 weeks to go, so we'll have to make sure he fits in as much fun stuff as possible. Its particularly nice that I don't work Fridays so we have long weekends together - every weekend!

Work is going well, very busy though. Its nice to be able to walk in the door and find that Maddie is already fed and ready for a bath. I always get big smiles.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the end of the month. We arrive on Wed 29th Sept and leave on 5th October.

Well its time for me to get some sleep.

Chat soon.

Love Vic xx

Fiji Pics for Sheryl and Tony.

Some More Pics from the Fiji Holiday

Trip to Shepparton

Last weekend we travelled to Shepparton to visit Steve and Regan and Owen in their new apartment. Steve got a new job with Broadcast Australia and moved up several weeks prior, while we were in Fiji. Sorry Steve that we couldn't help with the move.

Anyway they are all settled now. No pics of the apartment, but here are a few of a very happy Grannie and her grandson.

Hi James and Kelly

Gaye said you guys were keen to get a couple f family photos for your calendar. She sent them via facebook, but I thought that the resolution at facebook may be too low for your purposes. So, here they are again. Just click on the thumbnail and then save the larger picture.

In the main pic:

Backrow lft to right: Steven Regan Owen Madeleine John Gaye and Geoff.

Front row left to right there are Susan and Victoria.

Cheers Geoff and Gaye.

Oh; and if the res., is still not good enough let me know and I can send the originals at 3 mb.