Chartwell South Africa to Chartwell UK 4x4 presentation

[Bugjuic]

Count me and and the family in

[Mad Manny]

8 members.
Not bad.
But then turn out is always higher at FREE events.

[Bugjuic]

Hence I never miss a funeral or a wedding

[Dirk Schubert]

Would have gladly attended but am regrettably out of town.

[Mad Manny]

I'll see you guys at Base4 just before 09:00 tomorrow morning...

[Erin]

Sorry all, I'm out. Bus pee'd out its coolant yesterday evening.

[Mad Manny]

ahhhh... the travails of those who do not buy Jap vehicles...

[Hedgehog]

Still at work... Will have to sit out

[Mad Manny]

Manny, MikePS, Chas, Peet & family and Ant & Adele are here, as, of course, is AliG....

[Mad Manny]

Manny's Feedback:
What a lekker day!

Preamble:
I must admit, I was a little concerned that it would be boring, humdrum, presentation - boy! was I wrong!

I arrived at just after 09:00, there wasn't a lot going on, but by 09:30 (the official start time) the place was active!

MikePS, Peet Bug Juice & Chas arrived, I saw Ant & Adele & went to say Hi!

Ant introduced me to the guy next to him, he turned & I saw it was Bernie Williams - seems he is still pissed off about us exposing OGATO.

By 10:30 (an hour late) John Ranseman (?spelling) Chairman of the 4WDCSA Club finally got on the mike.
He went through a few 4WDC items, then gave very thorough feedback on a recent trip the Club did.
John then gave a short discussion about the difference between DL & TC.

Then at 11:00 they drew the raffle & then there was a 10min break.
The 10 minute break only ended at 11:30 & John introduced 'Tree'

Finally we were off!

[Mad Manny]

Manny's Feedback:


The Chartwell to Chartwell Presentation:
The presentation was brilliant, well presented & followed a logical flow.
Tree did most of the presentation, but his wife Helen & AliG also presented.

It was super interesting, in fact, the presentation lasted from 11:30 to after 14:00.

Obviously 2 & a half hours is not long enough, but for all that time they kept our attention.

I must say, although I had my doubts & could have done with a morning lie in, I was very glad I made the effort.

Other than the very unnecessarily late start (they could have kicked off an hour earlier) - I cannot fault the day.

BTW: 4x4AG member Alison G's famous pink Landie was the only one of the 7 to do the entire trip (Chartwell to Chartwell) & return (by ship) to SA.
The Forward Control was sold in London, the Blue Landie was given to the owners son who lives in the UK and the remaining 3 are still stuck in Djibouti.

It was a great day and it was also nice to see Ant & Peet and it was lekker catching up with MikePS & Chas...

I also finally managed to give AliG her 4x4AG mug I've been carrying around for months...

[Mad Manny]

The 4WDCSA is a great, long standing club, with a proud history.
But I found two things about the Club interesting:
1. They have 140 members, but only 85 are paid up.
In the 4x4AG if you are not paid up - you are not a member.

2. Their membership fee is R2500, 10x higher than 4x4AG, but they do have stunning facilities.

[Bugger]

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[Mike-PS]

I concur the main talk was extremely interesting and woke up those longings to do true off the beaten track over-landing. It was really worth the trip out there.

[Mad Manny]

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