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From: PeterO <rebyl_kayak_at_iprimus.com.au>
subject: [Paddlewise] FW: Holiday Displays
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:55:36 +1100
Jackie wrote:
>What I wanna know is... do you have pictures?  :-)
Marv wrote
>I've always wondered about how the boat handled in the wind???
Sandy wrote
>any Fairy Penguins on the bow?????

G'Day,

Sadly no picture unless Marvin has some. In later life Brutus became less
luminous, very much more disreputable and finally went to pieces in a fierce
1 knot wind. He was laid to rest appropriately, outside the very hotel where
he had startled so many patrons.

All the best, PeterO
(The Commodores still remember Marvin and wish he would visit again!)
(I'm considering knitting a 4 foot pink fairy penguin)

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From: Alex Ferguson <a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] FW: Holiday Displays - penguins
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:56:49 +1300
>Sandy wrote
> >any Fairy Penguins on the bow?????

>[PeterO]
>Sadly no picture unless Marvin has some. In later life Brutus became less
>luminous, very much more disreputable and finally went to pieces in a fierce
>1 knot wind. He was laid to rest appropriately, outside the very hotel where
>he had startled so many patrons.
>
>(I'm considering knitting a 4 foot pink fairy penguin)

One of the sea kayaks produced by Q-kayaks is the Penguin. Also available 
in NZ are inflatable penguins so it is not unusual to see a penguin in a 
Penguin in a shop. Max (the designer) was at one sea kayak forum with the 
inflated penguin on the aft deck of his kayak. They are not fairy / little 
blue penguins we comonly paddle with but the larger emperor(?) penguin. 
(Might even remember to check exactly which breed they are). The 
inflatables would be at least 3 foot high.

Alex
.
.


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From: Marvin C. Leister Jr. <mcl_at_uark.edu>
subject: RE: [Paddlewise] FW: Holiday Displays
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:13:51 -0600
Jackie, if this gets too "technical", let me know:

Actually, I think that I do in fact have a photo of "Brutus" (thank you
Peter, for the memory refresh).  If I remember correctly, I believe
he/she/it??? was "memorialized in photo" at the "Health and Nutrition
Station" that all of the Commodores and warmly welcomed guests "jogged" to
after their grueling paddle!  I'll check my photo archives and get it
posted.

Marv


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Jackie wrote:
>What I wanna know is... do you have pictures?  :-)
Marv wrote
>I've always wondered about how the boat handled in the wind???
Sandy wrote
>any Fairy Penguins on the bow?????

G'Day,

Sadly no picture unless Marvin has some. In later life Brutus became less
luminous, very much more disreputable and finally went to pieces in a fierce
1 knot wind. He was laid to rest appropriately, outside the very hotel where
he had startled so many patrons.

All the best, PeterO
(The Commodores still remember Marvin and wish he would visit again!)
(I'm considering knitting a 4 foot pink fairy penguin)



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