I actually wore a kilt to the Farewell dinner, but the flash on the digital camera was too challenging for my weak mind and the pics didn't come out. That's too bad, because Bob Crawford from "Black Feathers" wore his kilt along with the full PC kit...it was quite a sight.

Byt the time we got to the actual Awards, the sun had set and it was again too dark for the digital camera. However, we did get some shots of me talking with friends, and the final Latitude 38 Magazine shot has me wearing my Holyrood casual. so here you go.

This is me talking to Connie, wife of Bob Johnston, skipper on Ragtime!. Connie's eldest son is pretty interested in the whole Scottish thing. He grilled me about the Heavy Athletics, and we'll probably see the Johnstons on Saturday at Pleasanton, and also at Ben Lomond.



Here I am yakkng it up with Connie and Bob.



The combined skippers, at the end. I'm on the far right, crouching and chanting SPARKY, SPARKY for our friend and co-skipper Ruben Gabriel, who was dismasted 650 miles from Hawaii. Ruben is due in around 6:00 PM this evening, Hawaii time. He set up a jury rig and kept on going. The guy has some serious personal and physical and spiritual resources that I'm sure he never knew he had, before this.



I will bang together a little website about the trip in the next few weeks and make it available, but there won't be a lot of "kilt" stuff in it, so I'll put it in the "Off Topic" forum.