International Financial Transaction

Helping to bolster the Australian economy (or at least John Ilett's pockets) I've committed to buy a Generation 3 Fastacraft centreboard. Transfer of funds will get me in the queue for the newest iteration. I expect delivery in early June. In the meantime I hope to layup a new rudder using the "JZ" strut section (and a yet to be decided foil section.) So my sailing will stay in hiatus until then. I can only be consoled by the fact that once school ends (June 9th) I will have effectively unlimited time to sail, build, sail, re-build, and sail. The grand plan is to leave for Oregon in mid-July, practice for a few days at Cascade Locks, participate in the North Americans (pre-worlds) and then the '09 Gorge Worlds.

I've added a new poll to this blog: How many home-builds will be competing? Will I be the only one?

Enjoy Men at Work



Down Under (1982)

Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

Do you come from a land down under?
Where women glow and men plunder?
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.

Buying bread from a man in brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscles
I said, do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said,

I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.

Lying in a den in bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the man, are you trying to tempt me
Because I come from the land of plenty?
And he said,

Oh! do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Cant you hear, cant you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover.