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Christmas Lunch Cruise

December 13th 2009 will be the Christmas Cruise and Lunch.

Full details can be found on the Club Website

www.cvwoc.co.uk

Contact Angie Moule to book

This replaces the usual evening dinner/disco evening this year

Cost will be subsidised by £5.00 as long as you produce your

current membership card on the day

CVWOC Roseland Cruise 2009

Paul's Bay it its new colour scheme for 2009, nice one Jakie

Ok the posts are out od Synch as the Cruise took place before the Swapmeet but, as you will see from the photographs the weather was also kind to us on the day too.

We all met on the outskirts of St Austell and once assembled our lead vehicle Wayne in his 1966 Split Screen set off and like the pied piper soon had a long stream of VW’s following him down the road. Our destination was a good few miles off and, in true fashion, by the time we reached the outskirts of the town we had become very frgmented.

The lead gorou of around 2o vehicles pulled off into a long lay by to await the others and then it was realised that they had taken another route, all good plans go wrong after all. We treaveeled right on and passed through the seaside town of St Mawes and gave the locakls something to talk about and then made off to our final destination the National Trust car park at St Anthony on the Roseland.

One vehicle experienced trechnucal difficuklties, a Bay Bus, with sticking brakes that overheated whilst travelling over the hills and dales of Cornwall. Eventually all were re-united and we filled the car park much to the surprise of other people who came along and could find no place to park oops!

Here are a few pictures and a link to the main Flickr site

set.http://www.flickr.com/photos/g4usb/sets/72157615819038590/

St Anthony Lighthouse the Roseland Peninsula Cornwall

Tia & Kevin's Split Screen

George hid his 67 in the shadows

John sir, your winter project is superb young man,very impressed

St Mawes in the haze

As you can see, we could not have wished for better weather, it was excellent.

You can see St Maws Castle in the last photograph. This dates back to the reigh of King Henry 8th and it was built to protect the entrance to Falmouth Harbour in tandem with the larger castle at Pendennis on the peninsula at Falmouth. Falmouth harbour is I believe the third largest natural deep water harbour in the world.

Swapmeet Easter 2009

If you remember in 2008 the Cornwall Volkswagen Owners Club  Easter Swapmeet was held on a very cold day with a bitterly cold easterly wind and eventually snow flurries! Well this year could not have been more different.

The day dawned with wall to wall blue sky and bright sunshine. So lovely was it that all the table space that was booked in the hall remained empty with everyone doing their thing outside in the lovely, warm, spring sunshine.

Attendance of the event seems to increase year on year and this year was no exception thats for sure. Vehicles were many and varied and if you did not take a look around the overflow parking we use at the health centre adjacent to our site you missed seeing lots of interesting buses, vans and cars.

Types ranged from a brand new Beetle Cabriolet to Karman Ghias, Beetles, Baja Bugs, Splitties, Bays, T25’s, T4s, T5’s, Golfs, Bors, Scirocco Type 3s the list goes on and on.

You can find a full picture set on my Flickr page.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/g4usb/sets/72157616681701288/

Here are a few to give you a flavour of the event

Slick Black Beetle

Simon and Kims splittie

Lovely Split Screen

Split on a Bat Door, shiny or what?

Darren's Scirocco, looking good young man

Just to prove good show class vehicles CAN be produced in Cornwall

Very clean and tidy Ghia

Its new but we won't that against it, still nice

John you really did a great job on your Split, well done

Nice T4

Josh plans his escape !

Well that’s enough to give you an idea what you missed if you did not come along. Theres always next year, remember Easter Sunday is the date and the venue will probably remain as the Victory Hall at Roche, St Austell,Cornwall.

Christmas Dinner 2008

We are again attending thre Sands Resort Hotel at Porth Newquay this year

and the dste is December 19th [Friday]

We expect to have a reslly good evening, the meal followed by a disco as in

previous years.

The Hotel are offering preferential rates for overnight accommodation and

should be contacted individually to make a booking.

Full details can be found on the Club Website

Click here —–  Christmas Dinner

Mince Pie Cruise

The mince pie cruise will take place this year on the afternoon  of December 14th.

Cruises will muster at Chiverton Cross and Bodmin and make their way down to

the Falmouth Beach resort hotel.

Full details can be found on the club website

Click here

December Committee Meeting/Social

We will be holding our next meeting on Tuesday 9th December and it willbe held at

The Farmers Arms again this month due to previous beekings at the Blie Anchor

Venue.

See You there

Plymouth Cruise and Visit to HMS Turbulent

This post is to say a very big thank you to our fellow member and friend Jakey alias CPO Foran for what can only be described as an amazing visit to take a look at his working environment on board one of England’s finest Nuclear powered submarines.

Quite a few of us were not enamored with using ladders so moving from deck to deck was quite an interesting process! with effectively four levels ladders were in abundance and even at 5′ 8″ you had to be aware that banging your head was all too easy.

Space, it could be said, was at a premium and personal possessions for the crew could be very limited, bunks were just about an adequate width for sleep and it would appear that even below the waves a certain amount of pitch and yaw was expected as they were all fitted with belts so that you could tie yourself in to avoid being deposited in a heap with your colleagues on the floor.

The chefs must be very meticulous in their work as the kitchen was even smaller than the usual domestic variety but they have to prepare and cook meals for about 130 crew members starting from breakfast then snack for 50% in the morning, lunch, then snack for other 50% in the afternoon then evening meal. The menu is varied but, week on week expect to see the same thing on each week day, week on week.

The question was asked by Mrs Mcclean, ‘what happens to the scraps and the craps!’ well she did not quite say that but meant it. Answer a compacter and a slurry tank that is vented to the ocean to give the marine life a treat.Well she just had to know!

Visibility for the ‘driver’ known as the planesman is to say the least limited. Imagine driving your car around a field at night with your windscreen painted out,m about it just the dials to look at. Must be very scary when you first sit in the hot seat.

The Torpedo Room lovingly known as the ‘bomb room’ to the crew is, compared to most areas quite spacious but we saw it without nearly 30 twenty foot long 2.5ton metal fish in the racks! the torpedo’s are capable of about 70 kts , pretty quick, and can take the scenic route to their target, should it be decided that the prudent course of action is to fire and get well away before the target goes BOOM!

The Officers Mess was quite civilised but not that roomy when you consider that there are 16 Officers or so on beard. The Senior Ratings mess was somewhat smaller and caters for about 60. Good big screen telly though……and no Mrs McClean they cant receive or watch television signals when they are submerged it will be DVD/Video on screen, silly girl!

The toilet/washing facilities are also very compact and bijou so no baths to soak in just a quick shower wash and shave and away there are `50 in the queue so hurry up.

Oh yes, fresh water. No problem it appears, desalination is the name of the game here and fresh air, well, via a very complicated and technical process a whole battery of very high tech machines sucks in the air and re cycled the carbon dioxide, produces fresh oxygenated air and removes the hydrogen which is safely vented to the outside of the vessel.

We were on board for less that 2 hours and all of us marveled at the way the submariners manage to cope with submerged tours of duty extending to up to 6 months. All power to them and hats off I could not do it — ever.

A short trip around the docks on the way out with one stop that attracted the attention of a very security conscious white van driver followed sand then a mini Plymouth cruise that passed Pennycomequick, North Road and the shopping center and through the Barbican to park on the approach to the Hoe. It than rasined again and the event came to a close.

Well done Jakey, keep it up we will sleep more peacefully in our beds with you looking after us —- scary thought really.

Follow the link to the photo set.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/g4usb/sets/72157604647039459/

Norman
Vice Chairman CVWOC

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Next Club Event

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Next evening gathering at the Penhale Round, Fraddon will be on

Tuesday September 2nd at 7.30pm

There is a committee meeting but all members are very welcome to

attend in order to meet the rest of the club in a convivial atmosphere.

This month there will of course be a discussion centered around the
Jamboree and how well it went. An ideal time to out forward any suggestion for
something to be included next year.

Food and drink is available at the Penhale Round so come along for

a natter session.

Norman -V.Chair

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