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(7/22/12-7/29/12)

Name of the Week: Chonway "John Wayne" Tram

Chonway Tram was a contestant on Wipeout who's dad was a big fan of Western Legend John Wayne. When he said John Wayne it came out "Chonway" which earns him the designation of Name of the Week.

Honorable Mentions:

Ving Rhames - Actor

Mavis Malbunka - Wildlife Photographer

Taco Stein - (Jewish?) Governor General of Aruba

And You Thought You Were Having a Bad Day:

A 25' sailboat is attached to a mooring made for multiple boats. It has a bowline around it's cleat and to the pennant. A 40' sailboat ties up with a bow and stern line but no spring line to the 25' boat. Both boats are now attached by a line suitable for the 25' boat. Then a third 40' boat comes and ties up to the 40' boat. Now 105' of boat are attached to a line looped around a cleat of the 25' boat. The boat island swings and the line falls off the cleat and half a million dollars worth of boat drifts towards the docks...

harbormaster to the rescue!

We fell asleep and woke up to the cats chasing a raccoon around in a circle around the house. He had gotten in through the cat door and ripped bags of flour. He left the way he came.

Only Watch if you are a Scamper Aficionado
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&feature=vm-privacy&video_id=EgjlDOxLbnc

The Week in Pictures:

 Martlet's sail gets clipped and ready to go

 Addiction: Know the first sign

I've been away all weekend at the First Annual SAS II Reunion!

10/24 of us made it back to Falmouth to catch up and have a good time

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Week 7/14/12-7/21/12

Name of the Week: Richard Ricci

"Rich" is a higher up in Barclays Corporate Bank who was recently involved in a scandal about fixing the inter-bank loan rate. He wins our name of the week not only because he works for a bank, but because surreptitiously he was making himself a little more Rich Ricci in the process.

Honorable Mentions:

Talmadge T. Nunnari - Vice President of the Pensecola Blue Wahoos Baseball Team

Tinne van Loon - Photojournalist in the West Bank

Jess Gysin - I'm not sure exactly what she does but I'm just guessin' its pro beach volleyball 

Cherry Cevapravatdumrong - Story Editor on Family Guy

And You Thought You Were Having A Bad Day

This Week in Scampering: Scamper Fever (the scamper hits the street then the beach)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPJoAWBMrg

Nautical Nonsense: Ghost Ship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yib6hZqPHVw

Survived another Monday at the office

 What I accidentally kicked last week

uncle & niece

 Sunset Cruise with Kira

Before

After

 

White Heat

Good Idea Bad Idea?

Retro Spray Suit

My Girls

Malcolm discovering seaweed

Everyone run there's a new sheriff in town

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(7/7/12-7/14/12)

Name of the Week: Alice B. Toklas - ironically she actually was toke-less, being the inventor of the cannibis brownie. This is what earns her the honor of name of the week.

Honorable Mentions:

LeRoyal Tutt: Contestant on Wipeout

Darwin Barney: Chicago Cubs first baseman

Antti Leinonen: Photographer of wolverines

Edvald Hagen: Team Sky Tour de France

And you thought you were having a bad day

That's a Great White sighted off Cape Cod, you better keep paddling...

The week in Scampering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X-VqufkXiE&feature=plcp

EXTREME SCAMPERING - next week we're going for a more urban kayaking theme, stay tuned

Paddle? Juggling? Head Stands? We have it all 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd7VUGHkkTA

Famous Person Sighting: Arlo Guthrie near Chilmark Store
In honor of the man himself, I thought I would provide this inspirational quote:

"I don't know if you uhh.. I don't know if you can like dig how many people there are man... like I was rappin' to the fuzz.. can you dig it? Man there's supposed to be a million and a half people here by tonight, can you dig that? New York State Thruway's closed man nhuhhh" - Arlo Guthrie 1969

The Week in Pictures

Even our stand-up paddle boards are reminding us to get out  and carpe all you can out of that specific  diem.

 because it's beautiful out there...

Something less beautiful: sailing is a dangerous sport, watch where you step! ouch...

Which way is the wind coming from?

Summer Time, and the livin's easy

It was 4 1st place finishes for Team Shipway on the day!

Another one all waxed, cleaned, equipped and ready to go.

See You Next Week!

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WEEK 2 ( 7/1/12-7/7/12)


Name of the Week: Rigaberto Lopez

Rigaberto was a contestant on Wipeout, the armed forces edition. He was unfortunately unable to complete the preliminary course with a qualifying time, but on any day his name can chalk one up in the Win Column.

Honorable Mentions:

Arnoldo Falcov: Master Diver in St. Thomas
Clayton Stoner: Minnesota Wild
Cappie Pondexter: WNBA
Liriq Bent: Actor on the show Rookie Blue
Pantylus*: The correct spelling of the unfortunately named dinosaur

And You Thought You Were Having a Bad Day

I assure when the owner of this Hereshoff sees what has happened, his will be worse. The boat's name is J&H which could only be a clue as to what happened here, Jaws and Hull?
Another Angle:

This Week in Scampering: Beach and Public Art

Scampering effectively at a public beach is not easy. First, we had to clear customs in order to even get into the parking lot. This was easy enough with some payment under the table but we had to wait for a guard change to get the Scamper from the lot down to the beach. Once at the beach we waited for a set of waves to end before launch but were not quick enough on launch. We got stopped by the second layer of border patrol. The Charge: no kayaking at the beach. We smooth talked our way out of it, claiming it was a stand up surfboard made of foam (a claim I had to back up later when paddling out). The guard radioed to a higher up who gave us clearance, a higher up being held hostage until he let us through. And thus commenced a day of free scampering at the beach.

Later in the week we spotted a perfect place for Rural Scampering: Public Art. We passed this stairway to heaven and decided it had to be done, boom.
Before and After

 

Only one problem, again we got caught, catch full footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsFWiN6pVGc

Luxury Makes You Weak: Modern Comforts Eliminate Toughness In sports
The Islander filed this report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDhkwuZEJM

The Week in Pictures

 David Silva enjoying some R&R post Euro Cup celebration, congrats to Spain! I need a haircut

 Sanding and waking the daggerboard, this and the hockey stick hiking stick make a deadly combo #strapped

Spotless, it sure didn't start that way though

See you next week

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Some weekend quickies:

Name of the week: Hampus Lindholm

Hampus is the6th overall pick in the 2012 NHL draft by the Anaheim Mighty Ducks

runners up: Pantilus (check spelling) the aquatic dinosaur, Nail Yakopov, and Bastian Schweinsteiger

Inspiring Lyric of the Week: this time from the man himself, Lil Wayne (From "Always Strapped")

Im the hottest s*** jumping out the coffee pot

man I'm just tryin to get my spot like a polka dot

lil kush make my eyes and my shoulders drop

lil syrup and I can make the soda pop

keep talkin I can make my soldiers pop

real n****z ridin wit me till the motor stop 

I got these hoes straight livin out the soap op

I got a couple like a coat top, ok?

#art

A Note from Conspiracy Theorist: Where we take circumstantial or incomplete evidence and draw definitive, concrete solutions proving that the government and/or your family are out to get you.

On the subject great of names, last week the Shipway Clan gathered in full to celebrate my dad's 70th birthday. We got talking about great names and Dave Miller regaled us with the saga of an Indian guy he knew at Johns Hopkins named Sukdith Punjastikul (supposedly pronounced Sukdik Poonjesticle). He swore this was the truth and that every one called him "Suky" for short. According to the Internet, Sukdith is now works in the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at some no name school in Massachusettes called Dartmouth College. A likely story. He even has Facebook... with no picture and no friends (see below)... interesting. This is where things get fishy. We looked up other great names on the Internet which were things like Ana Molly and Tyler R. Swing (Ty for short) which Miller scoffed at because they were obviously fake. He apparently knows a fake when he sees it. He also claimed that old Suky changed his name to be less hilarious to the average American after we looked him up and noticed that the spelling he had and the written spelling were different. Now, it is obvious to me that Sukdith Punjestikul is a creation of College graduates designed to poke fun at the ignorance of those without higher education. This is proof that people with college educations from big name schools including Barack Hussein (try telling me he's not an Arab) O-bomb-a (that just gives it away) are poking fun at us. It makes you wonder what else they are conniving in order to trick us. Global Warming? The Holocaust? A debt crisis overseas that somehow "affects" us? (In case you haven't noticed, there's a lot of water in the way!) What they don't know, is that I am on to them. Don't believe me? email old Sukdith yourself and let us know how it ends: Sukdith.Punjestikul@Dartmouth.edu

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php? id=100000692547783&sk=friends&ft_ref=mni

And Now the Week in Pictures:

 A van I'm borrowing from a client and portable toilet seat

 Power-washing Southwind before bottom paint

 Before

 During

 After (I have some blue hair too)

 Isn't she lovely? that's not a mark its a reflection on the paint's shine

 off to the landing for launch

my teaching vessel has arrived!

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