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Dear Jen Your Dad was a wonderful man that I was lucky to spend time with on 3 different occasions when I took the long journey over there to visit and fish with him at Port Eades. My condolences and best wishes to Elaine and your family. Between Steve and myself we will email you with our memories....

UV, this is a message from Stephen Griffiths:



Memories of Another Joy, The Prop Stop Inn, Port Eades and Uncle Vic will be with me till the end, love you lots Uncle Vic

Cheers
Hula Hoop Steve.



STEPHEN GRIFFITHS
CAPE TOWN
SOUTH AFRICA

Dear Uncle Vic It was 13 years ago and I was refitting “Apple Pie”, the only Bertram 31 in Southern Africa. On trawling the Internet looking for help in answering my questions I found you. Cap’n Pat found us on a boating board “in amongst howdy boaters and blubliners” and invited us to joi...

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Trey

My sincere condolences on the passing of your Dad. Our thoughts are with you

Regards
Chris

Well UV, on reading all the posts and looking at the pics Andre sent me, it seems that a great time was had by all. Did you take a bottle of "The Fatal Shot" with you to initiate UVII newcomers ? Looking at the TSL website and fishing report I saw the staff names Hennie & Ursula Marais, which sound ...