Postcard sent to me from Qe2
Originally uploaded by MagicTyger

A postcard I received Rob Lightbody while he was on his QE2 Mediterranean cruise in August 08.

I’ll never get to cruise on QE2 myself, so someone sending a card to me while they were cruising on her is about as close as I’ll get.

Thanks Rob, for letting me vicariously share a bit of history with you.

My boat (Myuna II) sank this afternoon.

I’m not sure why – we’d had a lot of rain and the marina manager said she went down pretty fast.

A salvage crew is going to try to get her out of the water tomorrow.

We had a lot of fun on that old boat – sailing many times to Moreton Island, and I’m really sad to see her go like this.

She was built in 1967 and did a circumnavigation of the world in the early 70′s. Pretty amazing for such a small vessel. Ironic that she could go all the way round the world, and still end up under water in a marina after a moderate storm.