Coe Hill 2015, Sept 4, 5, 6, 2015

[Robin Craig]

I'm getting set to be there, will anyone else be there on Thursday for supper?

Any of the Oshawa crew?

R

[Mike Gray]

Robin, Bill Widger driving up from Stirling with his 43' MB on Thurs. We are going convoy from here Friday a.m. Long range forecast says extremely warm for the week-end. Severe meltdown actually. Plan accordingly.
M

[Robin Craig]

Getting ready to receive armour on Thursday.

Am packing all modern conveniences on wednesday.

Looking forward to the event, going to play with my big mast thingy and maybe even get it up, if you know what I mean.

Robin

[Ontario Regiment Museum]

We sent our first two floats up to Coe Hill yesterday and will be continuing to do so throughout the week. Were looking forward to a great event as always, and cant wait to see you all there .
Regards.

[Robin Craig]

Had a grand time.

A few familiar faces and vehicles.

I took my luxury RV to the event, I have no tent currently serviceable and Coe Hill has caught me out before with weather, the trailer was an improvised solution.

Thanks to the Bennett brothers and Mr Fanning for the luxury tent berth for one night.

Thanks to Al for allowing me to help with his CVR(T)s and a memorable trail ride with a different kind of ending.

Robin

[Robin Craig]

I really wanted to attend this year with my 1 Tonne Land Rover but the time bandit has conspired against me this year.

I went up on Thursday to unload the two Scorpions that Rich Bennett had loaded in Oshawa earlier in the day.

I made good time and had an hours social time before they rolled in.

I'm just a bit tight in the gun tank versions of the CVR(T) these days, I need to slim down!

Both of these are fitted with a very slick oxy propane system and make quite a bang when fired in the deactivated barrel. Repeated firings at will, just press the button.

[Robin Craig]

On the Saturday afternoon trail ride we mounted up on the M8 and set off with all the jeeps and other small things, we became a slow lumbering participant and after about 7 kms we decided that we were holding everyone up and elected to turn around and head back.

After a spirited short drive my nightmare came true, we were running solo in a poor cell phone reception area, 3 backfires in quick succession and we came to a slow halt in silence.

Despite a number of attempts to restart it refused.

Now the real work started.

The locals were colourful and all came out with libations in hand and many smiles and comments, all looking like members of the cast of Duck Dynasty. We all commented that we could swear that we could hear duelling banjoes playing, it was surreal.

An offer of a ride back to the main site saw me hitch a ride in a car.

I rounded up help in the form of Phil Whitehead (jr) and some tools and Jamie the tent guy with his daughter Lily.

Despite some valiant attempts to diagnose the problem we also worked on plan C which was to be a recovery.