Shaggers Grand Finale, The Pirates Lunch

Sunday 30^th August 2015

It is the final day of the Shaggers Rendezvous and the closing function is a Pirate themed lunch at Cape Gloucester Resort.

Phil and Wendy Jobe came across for morning tea, to see what we had done to our boat, as their Hanse 430e is a very similar boat and they are relatively new owners, anxious to see what others have added.

Their boat , Kite Runner, is essentially set up for racing, so they were quite interested in all of the bits we have added for cruising.

The Pirate lunch commenced at 11.30 am, so we went ashore at a bit after 12 noon, and settled into a seat under the trees with Phil, Wendy and their newly acquired friends.

There were pirates everywhere as we arrived

The Cape Gloucester  Resort was an ideal venue for this function. It is very spread out with shade trees overlooking the water, under which they provided tables and chairs, as well as the main dining areas up in the resort bar area.

A live band stage and dance floor was set up in the middle of the lawn, and the band played great 60’s music, which had lots of people on their feet dancing.

There were some brief official announcements, but it was basically a fun day.

Bill came under attack from a couple of young pirates

They have raised over $80,000 for the prostate Cancer Foundation, and one girl, a local hairdresser, earned close to a quarter of that over the past year through various fund raising activities including cutting hair for the duration of the rendezvous and donating the proceeds to the charity. As a finale she had her head shaved to raise more funds, what a great person !

The music was great and kept us there long after lunch, eventually heading back to the boat at 4pm, to prepare to head off to Airlie tomorrow morning.

Our last trip down Cape Gloucester beach on the way back to our dinghy

We had a great time at the Shaggers Rendezvous, and it is incredible that few people thought up the concept of starting the SICYC around 8 years ago, and now see an organization with over 4000 members and have an annual rendezvous where everyone has a great time, and so much of the proceeds go to such a worthy charity.