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Thank you for a fantastic event everyone.
I come home each time with fond memories.
The wind vane you built to remember our past Commodore on Crockett Rock, is a credit to you Paul. 
These are John Holgates pic's.
Sunset over Woody Island from Le Grande national park.
Thistle cove Esperance
The cliffs Great Australian Bight. Taken with camera on a kite. "KAP"
Our arrival at Crockett rock for Lyndon's memorial service. (Thanks George for forwarding these pics.)
The alignment procedure. That's Paul using his "calibrated eyeometer" to get due South.
George said too do it. 
Your a good sport mate.
Most people wouldn't have seen this as Paul held everyone back at camp till we got this sorted out.
A bit of a blockage when George got off the causeway to let Adam sail his yacht past and he disappeared into the mud. The right hand rear wheel was completely buried and the front wheel was off the ground. The power steering system, was just blowing it's relief valve and the front wheels couldn't be turned.
I had 12 tons of pressure 13,000 lbs WARN winch (through a pulley block) doubled back onto the front of him and I couldn't hold my Nissan with it switched off in low range 4 wheel drive and hand brake on. I was still pulling forward, so got Scotty G to bring up his Prado and hooked onto the back of me with a 10 ton tree protector strap, to hold me firm.
There was Vic's (another GU patrol) on a snatch strap holding George's, Nissan Navara upright (as it was almost at the topple point) from the back as well. The more I winched him forward the more the drivers side bulldozed into the surface of the lake. Vic kept the weight on him and kept the Navara firmly upright.
The guys hanging on the side were rocking it to get some traction on the front wheel you can see the smoke coming off his front wheel when they got it to touch down.
Now just a big clean-up job for George when he returned to Kalgoorlie.
I could then use Georges Navara to winch myself forward (where I had eased back to get more room to pull George onto the causeway.) and the rescue was complete.
Thank you everyone for being so patient while we sorted this out. We could all then go sailing.
Thanks kindly George for the pics.
