Mit ein Cloak? A fool's challenge!
The 1st of April will be a good day to be out at the Cape Gliding Club in Worcester:
A rather unusual competition will be taking place (two actually, there will be something for everyone); We’ll be having a club social afterwards (and a Potjie - let Wally Tamsen know – see detail below); More than one person might make a fool of themselves; With this you get a free ticket to watch the world famous Cape Gauntlet Provisional Results Show! . . . .and a lot of people will be staying over (to recover and/or more flying on Sunday).
For the more backward amongst us - an unusual competition!
So you think you are a good driver? Why not try to see if you can reverse a trailer around the course we will lay out? No pressure, but there might be one or twenty people watching from the balcony . . . AND the best thing is that the hotshot Gauntlet pilots will most likely have to do it after flying – let’s see how good they are without wings! Join us for a good laugh – at some fool’s expense - and a beer on the balcony at 18h00.
Pick up fewest faults and best time and win the Pilot Reversing A Trailer Trophy! AND – get this folks! – the lucky winner might even invite be invited on a real honest to goodness live all action glider retrieve (and they can bring a friend)!
There is a rumour that there may be other fun tasks on this day, but you never can tell.
And another unusual competition
No, I am not repeating myself. This one is the Cape Gauntlet-with-a-difference! Briefing is still at 9:00. Attendance is mandatory, but you may only attend briefing if you are wearing either a cloak or a mitt (this is the Cape . . . . Gauntlet after all). In honour of gliding’s deep debt to continuing German innovation, and not wanting to go too far from the Cape Gauntlet theme, we will be calling this comp – for one day only - “Mit ein Cloak”.
Please don’t try jumping off the balcony in the hopes of emulating a super hero. Regular flying antics only please.
You can also choose to issue a challenge or jibe to or ‘flame’ a fellow pilot or competitor at briefing, but you guessed it, this should be via limerick. Don’t be embarrassed – everyone listening will be wearing something odd – so it may not be YOU they are laughing at! Each ‘poet’ gets to recite one limerick only (no relights). Maybe some of your rhyme will stick to their wings.
Published rules apply, but we may temporarily waive rule 30 if the wrong pilot wins (we DID say certainty was a rare luxury!).
A Gauntlet on the 1st of April – choke!
Last time certainly wasn’t a joke
Find a cloak to wear
Or a glove to bare
And we will call it “Mit ein Cloak”!
The social evening:
Join us for a Potjie on the Saturday evening (still 1st April) – the cost will be approximately R40 – let Wally Tamsen (click his name to email him) know if you want to be fed!
Please try to wear SOMETHING silly. And we’ll really TRY to notice, honest.
Fools?
Well, we usually manage that anyway, but the 1st of April is not to be missed out on. Foolish is OK provided it is safe!
You are expecting more? (there will be) but isn’t that enough?
Challenge your friends to strut their stuff and show us they are the pilot we always hoped they’d be.
Be there, fly, fill your face, fling insults at your mates, . . . . . . . . or take up tiddlywinks.
A rather unusual competition will be taking place (two actually, there will be something for everyone); We’ll be having a club social afterwards (and a Potjie - let Wally Tamsen know – see detail below); More than one person might make a fool of themselves; With this you get a free ticket to watch the world famous Cape Gauntlet Provisional Results Show! . . . .and a lot of people will be staying over (to recover and/or more flying on Sunday).
For the more backward amongst us - an unusual competition!
So you think you are a good driver? Why not try to see if you can reverse a trailer around the course we will lay out? No pressure, but there might be one or twenty people watching from the balcony . . . AND the best thing is that the hotshot Gauntlet pilots will most likely have to do it after flying – let’s see how good they are without wings! Join us for a good laugh – at some fool’s expense - and a beer on the balcony at 18h00.
Pick up fewest faults and best time and win the Pilot Reversing A Trailer Trophy! AND – get this folks! – the lucky winner might even invite be invited on a real honest to goodness live all action glider retrieve (and they can bring a friend)!
There is a rumour that there may be other fun tasks on this day, but you never can tell.
And another unusual competition
No, I am not repeating myself. This one is the Cape Gauntlet-with-a-difference! Briefing is still at 9:00. Attendance is mandatory, but you may only attend briefing if you are wearing either a cloak or a mitt (this is the Cape . . . . Gauntlet after all). In honour of gliding’s deep debt to continuing German innovation, and not wanting to go too far from the Cape Gauntlet theme, we will be calling this comp – for one day only - “Mit ein Cloak”.
Please don’t try jumping off the balcony in the hopes of emulating a super hero. Regular flying antics only please.
You can also choose to issue a challenge or jibe to or ‘flame’ a fellow pilot or competitor at briefing, but you guessed it, this should be via limerick. Don’t be embarrassed – everyone listening will be wearing something odd – so it may not be YOU they are laughing at! Each ‘poet’ gets to recite one limerick only (no relights). Maybe some of your rhyme will stick to their wings.
Published rules apply, but we may temporarily waive rule 30 if the wrong pilot wins (we DID say certainty was a rare luxury!).
A Gauntlet on the 1st of April – choke!
Last time certainly wasn’t a joke
Find a cloak to wear
Or a glove to bare
And we will call it “Mit ein Cloak”!
The social evening:
Join us for a Potjie on the Saturday evening (still 1st April) – the cost will be approximately R40 – let Wally Tamsen (click his name to email him) know if you want to be fed!
Please try to wear SOMETHING silly. And we’ll really TRY to notice, honest.
Fools?
Well, we usually manage that anyway, but the 1st of April is not to be missed out on. Foolish is OK provided it is safe!
You are expecting more? (there will be) but isn’t that enough?
Challenge your friends to strut their stuff and show us they are the pilot we always hoped they’d be.
Be there, fly, fill your face, fling insults at your mates, . . . . . . . . or take up tiddlywinks.
posted by CGC Reporter at 12:40 PM
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