I was thinking that starting at this years 2009 Conference we will start giving out the Purple Sinker Award to anyone that sinks due to combat damage. What do you all think? I can go out to Dick's Sporting Goods (R) and get a bunch of sinkers and paint them. Steve Milholland usde to do this years ago. Thanks,
Don't forget the Rubber Chicken Award, for the most silly/humorous/embarrassing happening of the meet. Forget to turn your pump on, dive-bombed by a B-1 RD, sunk by an unarmed merchant, etc. are all fair game.
How about this: 2009 Ausbg national battle this weekend, both sides deadlocked for point, Blue team needed one more merchant run to win. All seemed lost till the Cairnross entered the course, and Rodney rushed to her defence. John Ritch was doing a sterling job of ducking and dodging the evil Red fleet, while Rodney dealt punishment to the attackers, but somehow the Cairnross ran aground on floating debris. In attempting to push the merchant free from floating debris, I managed to get tangled in a float line, winching Rodneys stern underwater, and sinking her. This actually did free the trapped merchant, but to no use, as she drifted helplessly across the pond, out of power. Have I earned my purple sinker? Or do I get a rubber chicken?
