[Public-List] Whitby Ontario

[Gordon Laco]

Hahaha.  Sorry about that.  I guess I could blame autocorrect on my iPhone... but I could have proof read before hitting ‘send’...

So much for getting sentimental...

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> On Aug 10, 2018, at 8:01 AM, Dominic Amann via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> I love the idea of mice people toiling away in the original Alberg shop in
> Whitby. I bet they do a great job of rigging.
> 
> On 10 August 2018 at 07:56, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
>> Good morning gang
>> 
>> Well here I am in Whitby Ontario, where our boats were build, standing
>> outside the very building.   I’m here to meet HMCS Oriole (google her) to
>> work with her trainees for the day.
>> 
>> There’s a boat repair business still operating in part of the building;
>> mice people, I think I’ll say hello while waiting for Oriole to arrive.
>> 
>> Lovely cool morning... I’m imagining Oriole gliding on the nw breeze
>> reaching across the lake... watches about to change, breakfast being
>> rustled up in the messes...
>> 
>> And also thinking of what a busy boat building town this was... Whitby
>> Boatworks was here, Aloha Yachts, nearly twenty more in the general area.
>> All closed during the 1980’s    I used to call that time ‘the great age of
>> extinctions’.   What did it?   Market saturation? Higher interest rates?
>> Dumping of cheap US built yachts onto the market without regulation?
>> Higher costs for resins connected to oil market dips and surges?   All
>> those things I guess.  What a time that was... I was just out of school and
>> in my first full time job... we couldn’t build rigs fast enough... for a
>> while.  I just caught the end of the glory days.
>> 
>> Gord
>> 426 Surprise
>> 
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