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  • Several Regions have held meetups already, but others are being planned or are evaluating the interest. The Ontario GTA West area meetup is planned for Saturday April 26th at Greasemonkeys shop in Aylmer Ontario. If you are interested and haven’t signed up yet, click here! Arbutus has also explored interest in a Fraser Valley meetup but it seems members either missed his thread or had other plans. Let him know if you are interested in a meetup later in the year by posting here! Slowpoke is trying to pull together an Ottawa area meetup later this summer. No date has been selected yet, so let him know if you are interested here! We are not aware of any other meetups being planned this year. If you are interested in doing something in your area, let everyone know and make it happen! Meetups are a great way to make new machining friends and get hands on help in your area. Don’t be shy, sign up and come, or plan your own meetup!

New guy from the prairies

Thanks for the warm welcome. Looks like a nice site with well informed and helpful people.
 
Sorry Brent, I didn’t see the sailing question. Being from the prairies everyone asks how did you get into sailing. The largest contingent of conscripts to the navy during WW2 was from the prairies. This included my Dad and uncles. My Dad said it was because one: we were used to the loneliness of the prairies, two prairie boys had uncanny sense of direction and third we had no idea how bad it was out on the ocean. So I was brought up sailing and I brought my kids up sailing. We have been to many places and closer to some of you would be Kingston and Cork Volvo Worlds. We spend a lot of time on the west coast as one of my daughters lives on the island. Sorry that became a bit long didn’t it.
 
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