MM Brings Runners and Sailors to Hunters Hill
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A baptism of fire! Not only was the new Committee left with no money in the bankbut also no Runs planned in advance. I doubt that our President will be providing funds to sponsor our adventures but he immediately jumped into the breech to set Run No. 2413.
What a man! All you slackers should feel embarassed.
Fortunately Music was clever enough to encompass an entirely new area to that of the Harriettes 1800 we ran just five days before. After surmounting the first challenge of sending the entire pack down a long private driveway unmolested, we entered into the very beginning of The Great North Walk – another of those narrow, bumpy dark trails that your scribe complained about last week. All was soon forgiven however as the track opened up to grassy knolls, private roads and long meanders beside quiet waterways like Tarban Creek on concrete paths.
I am regularly astounded at the amount of parks and bush that Sydney has so close to town. A beautiful Run well marked with more flour
than your local bakery uses of a morning. Maybe a Summer Run in Winter next year.
Having already agreed to help Music set the Run, MOISHE, as Trailmaster, was obliged to go round again. Tough job that didn’t rank a mention or a Down-Down. Worse, he thought he was back-of-the-pack so marked of all the checks much to the chagrin of GOON SHOW.
Not only did Music set a fine Run through Hunters Hill but he secured special access to the prestigious local club who quietly complained that SBENZ’s shirt tested the ‘standard requirements’. Since most of us have at least 18 shirts in as-new condition, those few close to S‘s size are asked to provide one to him, perhaps on a rotating basis each week.
The only other Down-Down was for our visitor SPIDER, a keen sailor/nautical enthusiast and a friend of Music’s.
Decorated appropriately and complete with themed music, the lofty nature of the Hunters Hill Club enticed Americas Cup principals R J Hawke and Alan Bond from 1983 to join us along with Jimmy Spittlle the 2013 winning skipper.
Ben Lexcen’s nephew E-Shit , who also changed his name (from Peter Stephinson), displayed his rudder technology which the Hamilton Yaught Club announced that they will be introducing when they make the next Cup challenge in 2016. Mr Foes should do very well with that, maybe even sell it for more 0’s than son-of-XXXX has been offered
for his company (although that’s lot of ‘0’s)
KL
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