wrote:
What would you have thought, had you seen the following posted on April
1st?

Sunday morning the group's president calls YT. The FAA, CAP, AF S&R
have all been up all night looking for AO. Hooboy. YT races back to the
gliderport. IR has already arrived and departed with the CD, pulling
IR's trailer. They return a few hours later, with IR's trailer missing
tailgate and rails, and AO's glider duct taped inside.

And so ends AO's first x/c effort, which YT understands was done
without navigation equipment. Will it be his last?

Not an April Fool's joke, but one very interesting weekend.

~ted/2NO

p.s. Sunday's weather is even worse. Only one pilots starts the MAT and
wins the day ... IR. The others were happy to see him bag 1000 points;
for all his work he deserved 2000!

Ted,

Aero Club Albatross (ACA) held its annual banquet over the weekend.
One of our awards is the Golden Retriever Award, given to the club
member who makes the most in number, most arduous, or most interesting
retrieve(s) during the year. Our winner this year was also a 2 day
retrieve which featured:

- Multiple visits to a local bar
- Looking for "the little guy who talks funny" (aka our Polish glider
pilot)
- A 10 mile hike to a major highway
- Medieval armor (bet that one piques some interest)
- The beautiful wife of the owner of the landing strip (that one too)
- A side visit to a distant airport to borrow a disassembly tool
- Two retrieve crews on the same retrieve with only one trailer

I thought this one would hold up on a national basis, but after your
report, I'm pretty sure you win hands-down.

Congratulations!

Erik Mann
LS8-18 (P3)