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Sitting around waiting
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[Todd Terry] “Sailing…hmmm.
Mick, I have a 30′ Swedish Shipman28 with your name all over it. She needs a new home!”
Shipman!! Didn’t know there were any left in the states. Lots of ’em in the UK. What year is she and why aren’t you sailing her?? Would love to have her but I just stepped up to a ’78 C27 this year. She’s rigged for racing and sails like a dream. Now if only this oppressive heat and humidity would let up I might get her out before 6pm. It’s been way too hot for sailing during the day lately so we’ve been perfecting our night navigation skills. September is coming though!!
Mick Haensler
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Yep Mick… the Shipmans are pretty rare in the states indeed. Quite a few in Europe, but I’ve never seen another one here. Mine is a ’73.
Why aren’t I sailing her? No time, man. I’m one of those guys I used to shake my head at… the guys whose boats never leave the marina. I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t had her out in about four years. Sad sad sad. With slip rental now due (again), she’s become the proverbial “hole in the water you pour money into.” Needs a new home badly.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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When I’m bored and without distractions, or if I just want to lower my blood pressure and zone out, I build airplanes and boats in my head. I like to think about these two boats that I own:
That one is called “Fast Forward”, with the little VCR FF symbol as part of the logo. It’s a 1977 Barnett Butterfly scow, only 12 foot long but huge fun, and car-toppable, like a Sunfish on Steroids. I got her for a song from someone who’d stored it 5 years without using it. Paid for it with overtime money from an Obama gig, so it almost got christened: “Stimulus Package”.
The second boat is a one-meter Kyosho Fairwind, radio-controlled. I’ve built it up from scrap parts over the years and sailed it for about 20 years in the park pond. This one is not mine, but gives a sense of how she looks, she stands about 5 feet height from keel to mast crane:
Nothing more relaxing than tooling these babies around, the big one or the little one. Unless it is thinking about them, working out modifications and whatnot. I have like a million hobbies because I’m a little like Grinner, and I flit between them as it suits me.
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Living in Oz but starting off in the UK – there are many long hauls flights to wait to arrive, depart etc.
I was taught a good long haul trick by an old friend who has many years in the saddle on high end business stuff
“Used to be I’d relax by getting a good wide business class seat. Now I sit in my economy seat, with a drink, counting down the exact amount of savings I’m making by not sitting in business or 1st class………I like to calc it by hour, by day, by minute…..Turns out I can’t earn it as fast as I save it by making this choice. How the hours just fly by…….”
Gav
The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.
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