Saturday November 13 paddling the Tefauroa, club meeting

These couple of images were from last Saturdays club meet at Emily Bay.  A short meeting to finalise organisation of the Quiz night fundraiser, then into the paddling.  It was a beautiful day on the water, with an incoming tide making for a bit of bounce through the channel between Emily and Slaughter bays.

The Tefauroa has been out of the water this week making adjustments to the seats, lowering them down and some fibreglass repairs to the hull.  She'll be back in the water soon.

At the previous meeting on the 5th November, we made a decision to increase membership fees to $30 to include the insurance.  Student fees are $15 and a Family $75.

At last Saturday's meeting, we agreed to look into the purchase of a second canoe, preferably fibreglass, so that it is lighter and can be carried easily by the women crews.  More on that at a later date

The Quiz night fundraiser is on Saturday 20th at 7pm at the Parish Centre.  We will be running a bar also.  Anyone wishing to offer help running the night or who would like to be included on a table should turn up on the night.  We will be setting up the hall at 5.30pm.  That's it for now.

Showday fundraiser, boat build progress, merchandise artwork

 

Wow, a lot happening this week.  Firstly, next Monday showday is a great opportunity for us for fundraising and also the first opportunity to show off the boat to the general public.  So, lets update you all on progress of the boat as of today!  The canoe is a traditional polynesian shape as you can see from the nose shape in the first image.  The second image shows the seat positions in the boat with a full length view.  The third image shows Jason demonstrating where the outrigger is to attach and the arm that links the outrigger float to the canoe.

 

I asked Jason how heavy it was and how difficult was it to turn it over last week and as you can see, he's lifted one end out of its cradle single handed, so there's not too much weight in it.

In all, it looks fantastic and its not that far off being finished, so its back to the funraising funds to finish paying for this one and getting a downpayment on another.



I have to post this image, as I was so relieved when I first saw our boat that it wasn't going to look like this home build!!  Hope this doesn't offend the builders and paddlers of the boat in the picture!

Anyway, back to business.  Offers for prizes for the chocolate wheel fundraise at next mondays show are coming in which is great.  Thanks to those members who made a quick response.  The Easter Carnival organisers are kindly allowing us to use their chocolate wheel on the day.  We also thought it might be a good opportunity to get a few hats ready to sell, seeing as showday is usually hot and lots of people forget to bring a hat.

So, thinking of merchandising, some of the clubs fantastic artists have been hard at work and this next image is one of George's designs as it will appear on the caps.  We've got 4 designs so far and we will post some more as I get them print ready in the next couple of days.  Hope you have enjoyed the blog!

"Eternal Love"

For those who did not get the opportunity to see all the prizes for the Wa'a Outrigger Club raffle this beautifully detailed bone carved seahorse by John Christian, symbolic for "Eternal Love". This prize was chosen by first place Matt Bigg.

Wal done yolyi en thaenks f all the support.

Raffle prizes update

Hey yorlye, the raffle prizes are now displayed in the Westpac Bank. Even as we were setting up, Westpac staff were selling tickets for us. Thanks to Westpac staff for their enthusiasm. The turtle painting on the left is one of the prizes, donated by Cristina McRitchie.

Tickets are also being sold at the Pump Shed. Thanks to Deb for allowing us to put tickets in there as well. If you haven't got tickets and would like to organise some, please phone Lou on 23181 to arrange.

John is still putting finishing touches to his bone carvings and they should be on display in the next couple of days.

The photocanvas of this image of Bumboras is 1.2m wide and .65m high. Suzanne's language gift pack has a laminated language poster, a copy of her book and a set of memory cards in a woven bag.

Meeting report Norfolk Island Wa'a Outrigger Club

Hey yorlye, well lots of great stuff to report from last nights meeting. Firstly, thankyou to the Norfolk Island government Sporting Grants program for the $1000 grant awarded to the club. This financial input allows us to deposit on the building of the boat. We received quotes for the building of our first boat from 2 interested parties and the committee voted to accept one of the quotes. The good news is, that our first boat will commence building in about a weeks time. The proposed completion being approximately a month, which is great because it means that in October we can start learning/training. Hopefully our return to the beach at Emily Bay will look something like this image I found on the net!

So start thinking about putting together a crew with people that have similar time availabilities as you that you might be able to form teams. Our first fundraiser Art Raffle is up and running with some excellent prizes donated by club members and generous interested others. (Thanks Cristina McRitchie for your turtle painting and Brendon King for the handmade driftwood chair, Thanks Suzanne for Norfolk Language giftpack, John Christian for 2 amazing bone carvings). Doesn't this image look like the paddle through the channel towards Nepean Island? Picture yourself in there!

It would be great if all members could sell 20 tickets. The raffle prizes will be displayed at Westpac Bank (thanks Westpac and staff) from Monday until prize draw on the 17th of September.

17th of September (friday at 5.30pm) is our next meeting at the Sports and Workers Club. Tania Sharpe is co-ordinating the next fundraiser, an U18's disco on Friday 15th October. Venue to be decided. But mark this on the calendar, especially those with kids. Noelene Nobbs has been busily designing a logo and t-shirt design for club stationary and merchandising, so hopefully we can get some product sales happening soon. Remember if you have a fundraising idea that you would like to co-ordinate with lots of help from other members of course, make it your project. We're open to anything that's enterprising and legal!

Last image, you can smell the salt water already! get ready for paddling!

Meeting postponed till next Friday

Hey yoryle, the meeting planned for this friday, 27th has now been postponed until next Friday, 3rd of September, a good attendance would be appreciated. The art raffle permit has now been organised and we will be distributing tickets in the next couple of days. It would be great if all members could sell a $20 book. Westpac bank will display the raffle for us next week and we could look at doing a Foodies stall

on Saturday 11th?? Tania Sharp is also interested in conducting an Under 18's disco as a fundraiser, any offers of help would be greatly appreciated. Will set a date soon for this fundraiser as well. A reminder to all members to please submit their boat building contribution as soon as possible so that we can continue plans and order materials etc it would be great to have a boat in the water by summer.

That's it for now. I'll post another blog after the meeting next week, following the meeting.