Christmas 2009 - happy 2010

**Boatmik** · 25th December 2009, 07:15 AM

Well, I am the first one awake.

We put the gifts under the tree thismorning. The only nauticality about it all is that I am at my Aunt's apartment at Forster Tuncurry and there is lake on two sides and the ocean to the North East a few hundred metres away.

Now it is christmas morning. I am the only one awake.

This is the view out my bedroom window.

The Christmas tree has the gifts all around it and the water in the lake is smooth and grey. Weather is quite warm even though it is early. Some of my gifts are chocolate so I am thinking ... "will they be ok". My Aunt decorated the table last night before she went to bed - colours are green and red (hey maybe it has a little chinese feeling with the colours!). My cousins and their families will be arriving about 10am and we will sit round and one person will put on a Father Christmas hat and give out the presents. A happy time!

A big meal later. Wish you all the best. Thankyou hugely for your various contributions to this forum and the designing and building over the last year. I think most of you had as much fun as I did!

Best wishes for Christmas (or other festivals) and the new Year (Solar Calendar)

MIK

**keyhavenpotter** · 25th December 2009, 07:49 AM

Happy Christmas Michael. ( and everyone else on this lively forum)

That's a lovely view from your window and it's great for you to be there sharing it with family.

I wonder what 2010 will bring?

Brian

**Boatmik** · 25th December 2009, 08:19 AM

more madness

happily

**BobWes** · 25th December 2009, 08:33 AM

Thank you, Mik.

Merry Christmas to you and to everyone!

Enjoy the day with family and friends.

I'm looking forward to the new year!

Madness, indeed!

**robhosailor** · 25th December 2009, 09:39 AM

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010 !!!

**arbordg** · 31st December 2009, 07:21 PM

We had a lovely Christmas. Hope you did too! I've forced myself to slow down a bit for the holidays, so have time to check in here. New Years Eve is upon us. Hope it is full of sweet anticipation for you and yours.

**Boatmik** · 1st January 2010, 02:25 AM

Howdy ... just back from watching the fireworks over Sydney Harbour.

Happy 2010!

**CCBB** · 1st January 2010, 02:42 AM

Originally Posted by Ronald200

I hope this new year will bring something new in all of our lives.
@Boatmik nice pics.

yes, like some Goats and Beths and PDRs...

Weird to think it is already 2010 somewhere in the world.

We were bound for friends, but kids are sick, yet on the mend...and we have snow falling.

Anybody have boating or boatbuilding resolutions they'd like to share?

One of mine is to do the Blackburn Challenge ocean rowing race this July and get in shape via rowing...I already started on my erg so it is a pre-New Years resolution!

**Boatmik** · 1st January 2010, 12:22 PM

This is me and Chuck demonstrating how to drive into a new year.

Thought it was a couple of months ago it demonstrates the principle.

MIK

**woodeneye** · 1st January 2010, 03:04 PM

Happy New Year to all fellow forum members.

My New Years resolution is to go sailing in my Goat, which at the moment is just a pile of sticks.

My second New Years resolution is to teach SWMBO the parts of a boat. Aparrently she was on the phone to mother the other day and mentioned to her that I was "out the back rubbing down his shaft". (I was sanding the yard)

**Boatmik** · 1st January 2010, 04:14 PM

good incentive to get the job finished before the rumours spread further.

MIK

**arbordg** · 1st January 2010, 07:02 PM

Time for quick action, I'd say

**StephenR** · 2nd January 2010, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by woodeneye

Happy New Year to all fellow forum members.

My New Years resolution is to go sailing in my Goat, which at the moment is just a pile of sticks.

My second New Years resolution is to teach SWMBO the parts of a boat. Aparrently she was on the phone to mother the other day and mentioned to her that I was "out the back rubbing down his shaft". (I was sanding the yard)

He, he! My first NYRes the same as yours. I`m currently sitting at the beach house watching the rain chucking it down - wettest New year here for ages - 36 hours of non-stop rain and the whole of Brazil seems to be washing away. Some really nasty landslides with people ( and not just the poor shanty dwellers) losing their lives. This house is at the top of a steep hill so I am nervously checking that the drainage is OK.... Last week was gorgeous though, and there was a great big classic wooden (topsail I think) schooner out in the channel making the most of the wind. Determined to find out name & designer as wooden craft of that size a rare sight round here.
Dying to get back to my sanding, epoxying, (the grit your teeth and get on with it stuff) and the much more fun part of measuring, cutting and planing to size - which sometimes actually goes to plan - and make some solid progress so I can get the GIS on the water this year.

A Happy and hopefully drier New Year to GIS builders everywhere.

Steve

**Boatmik** · 2nd January 2010, 11:04 AM

Nice to hear from you Steve! This will be the year barring acts of god!

MIK

**pdr311** · 2nd January 2010, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Boatmik

more madness

happily

Happily mad? Like jumbo shrimp? Or government intelligence? Or normal boatbuilders?
Madness I say!

Happy New Year, from Canada.

Rick.

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