I should hasten to add Cynthia was retired at this time!!
(but not so the American conference delegates we were hosting... )
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 12:34 pm
by G-CPTN
Were you connected businesswise?
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 12:43 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
Flieg's Houses of a 1001 Recherche Pleasures!
Diner's Club and Amex accepted too!
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 12:46 pm
by EA01
I had NO IDEA who she was at the time G-CPTN!...someone tried to explain her...then it was my job to 'escort' her...for want of a better word, around the premises and to her room...it's only in the last few years do I realise who she was! You tube / Wikipedia etc....still a funny thing I think....
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 3:23 pm
by OFSO
OFSO at lunch today, having forgotten that it's imposible to order a glass of wine in the Portal de Galliardo: nothing smaller than a bottle is served. About the same price anyway.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 3:43 pm
by tango15
Yours truly, while relaxing one of our 125s in my jet-selling days and on someone else's yacht in The Aegean during my Merchant of Death days:
Yours truly, while relaxing one of our 125s in my jet-selling days and on someone else's yacht in The Aegean during my Merchant of Death days:
You are Dr No, or my name isn't Goblin...
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 6:14 pm
by G~Man
Along the same lines.... Yours truly about to go fly back and forth to Catalina Island all afternoon last weekend, and skippering a boat in Croatia in 2019 pre-Covid:
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Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 6:17 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
The Dude (may he abide) and Dr No...
With a crew like this we could fight a frigate Mr Lebowski...
With a crew like this we could fight a frigate Mr Lebowski...
We certainly could....I am maybe seeing a joint sailing trip or something in the future..... (Actually trying to book a catamaran in Tahiti right now, it has been 3 years since I was sailing there)
With a crew like this we could fight a frigate Mr Lebowski...
We certainly could....I am maybe seeing a joint sailing trip or something in the future..... (Actually trying to book a catamaran in Tahiti right now, it has been 3 years since I was sailing there)
Amen to that.
Good to hear you are back on the water.
Good Saffer mate of mine now living in Florida, plies his way up and down the Caribbean and the Med, working delivering yachts when he is not working as skipper for some US congressman. He has managed to keep working throughout this contagion and persists in tormenting with photos like these...
Good Saffer mate of mine now living in Florida, plies his way up and down the Caribbean and the Med, working delivering yachts when he is not working as skipper for some US congressman. He has managed to keep working throughout this contagion and persists in tormenting with photos like these...
Good Saffer mate of mine now living in Florida, plies his way up and down the Caribbean and the Med, working delivering yachts when he is not working as skipper for some US congressman. He has managed to keep working throughout this contagion and persists in tormenting with photos like these...
Jack Nicholson's a Saffer?
Well I never
He does look like him doesn't he. He is Willie Stoltz (aka Ireland), Wilson to his friends, once winner of the Roof of Africa Rally, car and bike stuntman, sailor, pirate, and all round good bloke and friend.
Relaxing in the Cu Lodge Takikawa after a day's Towing. Taken in 2017.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:56 am
by EA01
Fancy thongs Pinky!! ;0
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:05 am
by EA01
Sucking back Carlsberg beers at 10:00am with the guy that once owned this beauty the 'Dukling', in (the unmistakable) Victoria Harbour....a few years back now...we must have sunk 12 beers each by the tme we got to Aberdeen, and he wanted to keep going!... :/ ....I didn't have the $ for it so had to feign Sons illness to make a break, but a fabulous morning!!
Sucking back Carlsberg beers at 10:00am with the guy that once owned this beauty the 'Dukling', in (the unmistakable) Victoria Harbour....a few years back now...
The Dukling looks like a load of old Junk...
Is the Dukling deep sea going? I remember there was a junk that used to sail around the world. I went down to the Royal Cape Yacht Club in Cape Town to see it.
Hong Kong's last authentic junk boat is struggling to stay afloat due to a lack of overseas tourists.
The Dukling normally takes foreign visitors on scenic trips around its bays but these have dried up due to travel restrictions.
Its owner says it is fighting to survive and having to focus on local citizens during the downturn.
Junk boats have a long history in the former British colony dating back to the Han Dynasty.
"The Dukling is the icon of Hong Kong, I am not only running a business on it, I am trying to maintain this treasurable piece of antique for Hong Kong," owner Hazen Tang told the BBC.
"We keep struggling to survive, and we will survive in this tough year," he added.
The Dukling is believed to be the last authentic junk boat left in Hong Kong's waters. Other junks exist but they are replicas.
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:34 am
by EA01
Twas indeed a fabulous junk!....very much appreciate I was able to do that, also appreciate I have lost count now of the amount of times I have been in and out of HKG.....I know the place like a second home, but perhaps I will never now go back....sad
Re: Photos of Everybody
Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 11:38 am
by EA01
Hey look at this...
Yeah,....shame....my Brother in Laws eldest Brother (Based in London) owned it for a period of time in association with another Aussie chap, together they had some rather large drinking establishments as business concerns I understood.
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