{"id":23592,"date":"2024-04-24T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/?p=23592"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:26:38","slug":"a-fanshawe-misadventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/a-fanshawe-misadventure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fanshawe Misadventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mostly by Bob Magill<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come gather round beside me boys and listen to me song
It\u2019s got a thousand verses but I won\u2019t detain you long
Concerning\u00a0 me adventures as I sailed the raging foam
Out on the Sea of Fanshawe, two thousand feet from home
\u00a0
Now I never would mislead you boys nor would I tell you lies
But sailin\u2019 on Lake Fanshawe is not for timid boys
When the cold winds \u00a0howlin\u2019 from the east and the waves are getting high
Wiser men would stay ashore, but not the Fanshawe guys
\u00a0
And so it was a Wednesday, the hour it was three
The winds were light, about eight knots, a-blowing from the east
The weatherman on channel ten had on his happy face
So we all cast off into the fray for our weekly sailing race
\u00a0
Now Mr. B had set the course, on Fanshawe he\u2019s no beginner
We\u2019d round number three, then up to five and finish in time for dinner
The buzzer buzzed and off we charged, all fighting for position
Through A and B to number three like we were on a mission\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We soon were on a lovely reach in a northerly direction
Side by side past the Burgess dock, a magnificent sailboat collection
With gleams in our eyes and bones in our teeth, we fought with all our might
\u2018Till number six was far astern and five would soon be in sight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0But then, a sudden fog rolled in, a fog so thick and profound
I couldn\u2019t see the front of my boat let alone where it was bound
Into that gloomy grey we forged, the air as thick as glue
All sure that good old number five would soon come into view
Well dinner time it came and went, and still we struggled on
Quitting a Fanshawe Yacht Club race is a thing that\u2019s never done
For doggedness , the Fanshawe men are very highly rated
But the mystery of number five, continued unabated

Now I\u2019d like to say that on this day, when that glorious race was done
We crossed the line all side by side and all of us had won
But I\u2019ll hang my head and tell the truth with all the shame it carries
We all ran aground in a nice little town a bit further north called St. Marys<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mostly by Bob Magill Come gather round beside me boys and listen to me songIt\u2019s got a thousand verses but I won\u2019t detain you longConcerning\u00a0 me adventures as I sailed the raging foamOut on the Sea of Fanshawe, two thousand feet from home\u00a0Now I never would mislead you boys nor would I tell you liesBut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23593,"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23592\/revisions\/23593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fyc.on.ca\/wp-v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}