Post Rising Farrst 2008
I'm sitting here crying in my beer because the Farr 1104 Rising Farrst will not be competing in this year's Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week. 
'Happy Hammo Crew'
Peter Robbins
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I sold her in April to Tim Osbourne of Airlie Beach and to his credit is continuing to campaign having got third in "Performance Racing" at Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week held in late August.
The good thing is my beer is cold, these days I own a business called the Stubby Cooler Company and are a sponsor of Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, that allows me to still be involved in the regatta without steering the boat, and at the same time become a bit of a social butterfly.
Will I get withdrawal symptoms? And buy another boat? Only time will tell.
In the millennium year I pulled the pin on the corporate world in Adelaide and my wife Ngaio and I became classic sea change people setting up a small manufacturing business in Townsville manufacturing Stubby Coolers for the promotional products industry and Corporate Australia.
We took this plunge because we believed that promotional products are the only advertising you can place in your customers or potential customers hand and in the case of a Stubby Cooler they will thank you for it.
I'm happy to say that it's worked and is maintaining the life style we like to live,
Because sailing is close to the heart the spinoff is that we can personalize Stubby Coolers or Wine Coolers for Boats with a photo of your boat, include the name, and even the name of your crew if you wish, we can put straps with 360 degree swivels on it so you can clip them to the rail allowing them to stay perpendicular and not spill a drop, we call these yachties mate's, the standard run for the corporate world is one hundred but for the boating fraternity it's just ten.
If we can help you business, or show your guests you have pride in your boat, or simply want each crew member to have their own Stubby Cooler, visit our Web site www.stubbycooler.com.auor give us a call on 07-47230502
by Peter Robbins 
Parkdale, VIC
