[Public-List] Thanks George

[George Dinwiddie]

Wonderful, Gord!

Please tell Bill that I would be delighted to put on the website any 
stories he'd like to share.

  - George

Gordon Laco wrote:
> George - 
> 
> Thank you very much for putting those photos of TOUCH WOOD  and SURPRISE on
> the Association website.  Last night I received a wonderful phone call from
> William Selkirk, who owned TOUCH WOOD in the 1960's, was a party to the
> genesis of the A30 class and whose daughter now owns their A30 #533.  He was
> a personal friend of Kurt Hansen's.
> 
> Bill told me that he has a clarification to offer that he will send me in
> writing, and I will share with you.
> 
> It was wonderful discussing memories of TOUCH WOOD (who still had her Danish
> name ZANNE while in Bill's ownership)  I finally heard the story of why she
> has doubled ribs in her starboard bow; and we both expressed our
> satisfaction at her speed close reaching.  Bill told me that in one five
> year stretch she won 60 races... I told him that while in my ownership she
> won enough pennants to stretch from her bow, up to her masthead and most of
> the way back down to her stern.  I added that it took me 20 years to do what
> he did in five!
> 
> So George, thank you for putting up that wonderful site.  It put me in
> contact with a man whose shadow I always sensed in TW.  What a pleasure it
> was to discuss our common interest in a very good yacht.  I have often told
> people that I could close my eyes and visualize any plank or rib of her,
> inside or out.  Despite not having seen her for over forty years, Bill
> seemed to have the same ability as I.
> 
> Bill is writing a piece about the beginnings of the A30 class and some
> stories about early races, boats and their owners. I will share it with the
> Great Lakes Association and with you.
> 
> Cheers - Gord Laco 
>


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   When I remember bygone days                         George Dinwiddie
   I think how evening follows morn;            gdinwiddie at alberg30.org
   So many I loved were not yet dead,           http://www.Alberg30.org
   So many I love were not yet born.
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