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stuck in an island

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Created by jp747 > 9 months ago, 29 Oct 2008
jp747
1553 posts
29 Oct 2008 12:30AM
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a few months back wrote a topic regarding cuyo island..wind's coming in and season's starting to come..helping out a friend develop a windsports resort..snags left and right regarding dept. of natural resources, fisherfolk, atoll rocks..i.e. red nightmare tape..brought over kit and forgot finskited to test very good..had to stop bldg. bungalows temporarily cuz the folks aren't used to using mahogany and bamboo and A-class design so we have to import from the other island..am here 3wks of the month..7pm all you see are stray dogs and a few lovers..with no income for the municipality at least the best they could do is form a committee to facilitate our needs and not let me run around in circles explaining and doing 'scope of work' and all applications..was invited to the council meeting for question and answer for 10mins and turned out to be 1 hr. worse i got cited for improper clothing but i apologized-who uses long pants and decent collared shirts anyhows[}:)]the wind's blowing for heavens sake let us do our thing and all's well for the community..so for now it's just simple huts for next week..we have one violation now for moving tons of man made atolls(stone fish traps) that are not in use for the last 3generations that i know of..made payao's(fish aggregating devices) in return..have problems with sorry to say a mean little ozzie who doesn't want to give a 77mtr. 3mtr. wide right of way..what the heck sail first do the paperwork latermaybe anyone from seabreeze has a realtime google earth and check if the man-made island about 5mtrs square and 3mtrs. high is visible at the northeast quadrant of this wonderful but too slow a paced levels of govt.as long as i can have speared fish for lunch makes me happy for now

arancini
WA, 373 posts
30 Oct 2008 8:42PM
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thats a hell of a lot of information in a short space........

jp747
1553 posts
30 Oct 2008 10:25PM
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no kidding! just for the sake for others to sail and kite and me to sweat it out..but it's fun i get to do what i want when the labourers are having their 2hr. lunch break

Wet Willy
TAS, 2317 posts
31 Oct 2008 1:12AM
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It must be fun, sailing wthout a fin!

stribo
QLD, 1628 posts
31 Oct 2008 12:57AM
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Id have made a mahogany fin by now

jp747
1553 posts
31 Oct 2008 2:15PM
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stribo said...

Id have made a mahogany fin by now


was thinking of thatand a weedy fin but on tides above .70 should be no problem



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