TravelLite Bendigo Navrun 8/9th Sep, 2007

Post by **NavRun** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:43 am

Navruns are on again, its been a little while since the last one back in Gembrook in February.

Just over half full.

4wd standard will be quite easy through the state forests, navigation a bit more challenging,with heaps of gold mining areas/ history.

More info/ entry forms at www.navrun.com.au

Post by **Ruffy** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:56 am

NavRun wrote:Just over half full.

Entry list?

Post by **NavRun** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:46 am

MQ Mayhem William McCarty / Maxwell Brouggy M'Liss McCarty / Deborah Brouggy
Smoothly Racing Steve Crawford / Josef Orden Richard Mckenzie/ Tom Shire
What About this? Andrew Burke / Daven
Getabout 4wd Club Rodney Marks / Peter Chilcott Faye Marks / Dianne Chilcott
Rangie Racin' Andrew Curry / Wayde Griffith Liam Gardener / Peter Dunkin
Team Bilby Jason Tabone / Shane Uldriks Geoffry Tabone / Scott
MHAD Phil Morelli / Paul Hasler David DiCorrado/ Steve Aston
B.J.S. Racing Paul Crichton / James Corneliusen Panos Makridis / Scott Jeffery
GUby2 Kim Hardy / Damion Marshall Dave Rennie / Sharon Marshall
4Skinnin Goldmember Daniel Ryan / Bill Silver Andrew Ryan / Luke Olanda
Smithies Outback Greg Smith / Knarl Knabe Carol Smith / Kathryn Knabe
Flammin' Bills Warren Shipp / Bill Tsausis Alberto Pamintuan / Wally Shorney
Ontrack Waeco Peter Butcher / Peter Mahailoff

waiting for your's Ruffy?

Post by **Ruffy** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:32 pm

NavRun wrote:waiting for your's Ruffy?

Yeah I'm on to it Rudes.... just sussing out Chucky and earning browny points with the girls to get a leave pass.. OR.... Were actually thinking i might navi and Lizzie drive and Chucky navi in his car (Re email) and Tarn drive his car... How cool would that be, winning a navrun with two chicks driving

Post by **NavRun** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:16 pm

hey Ruffy, this is one of the few navruns where the 4wd will be dead dead easy, perfect opportunity to bring the females and kids to enjoy the bush and the history associated with this area.

Post by **angry_beaver** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:33 pm

Ruffy wrote:
NavRun wrote:waiting for your's Ruffy?
Yeah I'm on to it Rudes.... just sussing out Chucky and earning browny points with the girls to get a leave pass.. OR.... Were actually thinking i might navi and Lizzie drive and Chucky navi in his car (Re email) and Tarn drive his car... How cool would that be, winning a navrun with two chicks driving

May have a chance of a win with the girls in charge Ruffy

Pete

Post by **Ruffy** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:46 am

angry_beaver wrote:
Ruffy wrote:
NavRun wrote:waiting for your's Ruffy?
Yeah I'm on to it Rudes.... just sussing out Chucky and earning browny points with the girls to get a leave pass.. OR.... Were actually thinking i might navi and Lizzie drive and Chucky navi in his car (Re email) and Tarn drive his car... How cool would that be, winning a navrun with two chicks driving
May have a chance of a win with the girls in charge Ruffy

Pete

Woooo up there Pete... I said the girls 'driving'.... Not 'IN CHARGE'.. god forbid!!

Post by **angry_beaver** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:25 pm

Ruffy wrote:
angry_beaver wrote:
Ruffy wrote:
NavRun wrote:waiting for your's Ruffy?
Yeah I'm on to it Rudes.... just sussing out Chucky and earning browny points with the girls to get a leave pass.. OR.... Were actually thinking i might navi and Lizzie drive and Chucky navi in his car (Re email) and Tarn drive his car... How cool would that be, winning a navrun with two chicks driving
May have a chance of a win with the girls in charge Ruffy

Pete
Woooo up there Pete... I said the girls 'driving'.... Not 'IN CHARGE'.. god forbid!!

It sould be fun anyway. If it wasn't such a drive we would be there. We have got the NSW navrun not long after. But just remember it is alright to have the girls in charge sometimes!!!!!!

Pete

Post by **kb2** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:00 pm

Hi guys thinking of doing the Navrun in Bendigo i was wanting some opinions on the type of tyre needed to do the event?

Post by **Ruffy** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:57 pm

kb2 wrote:Hi guys thinking of doing the Navrun in Bendigo i was wanting some opinions on the type of tyre needed to do the event?

Theres nothing to serious up that way.. All terrains would be fine. In fact probably more beneficial i reckon. Hobzee was up there this weekend. See wha he has to say during the week. I reckon if you took simex you'd be wasting them.
Cheers Dan

Post by **Hobzee** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:10 pm

Hey guys and the gals with Ruffy ...

Been there done that and all set up ready to go. The go on the terrain is "very easy". The tracks were dry and dusty even. No ruts and no steep hills. Go the all terrains and save the big tyres. Most will do the entire event in 2wd ....

But I can't help my self, can I!!! All the dams and water points have water in them. Me thinks it would be good to get a Navrun Pic in the drink ... Bad move. We have a pic of me winching out and thank goodness for eldest sons .. he even calls "clear winching"..

That one wont be in the notes except the notes we hand out to Ruffy and Hottie...

Anything Subaru upwards will be capable enough. No need either for scratches. Tracks have had little use but otherwise in pretty good nic.

The routine will be pics on Saturday with some tricky nav to keep the Ruffy nuts pre-occupied but on the whole the majority will be gettable. On Sunday you will have 2 navigation courses and you will be pleased to learn there is no reverse stick maps... the bane of ATOC's existance... But bring a compass.

Base camp is in Sally's (Pete Lorenz) farm at 394 9 Mile Rd Rushworth. Terry will be there with catering Saturday night and Sunday b'fast. We will have a flashing light at the gate. Rudes will email all the details to the attending Navsters.

Rudes informs me that we have about 15 teams = 30 cars with talk of a few more teams. Probably cap it at 20 teams so only 5 teams available.

It's gonna be fun fun fun

Post by **hottiemonster** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:38 am

Hobzee wrote:But I can't help my self, can I!!! All the dams and water points have water in them. Me thinks it would be good to get a Navrun Pic in the drink ... Bad move. We have a pic of me winching out and thank goodness for eldest sons .. he even calls "clear winching".. That one wont be in the notes except the notes we hand out to Ruffy and Hottie..:

do we get bonus points?

Post by **dogbreath_48** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:26 pm

EDIT: Have team, will travel

(I think!)

-Stu

Post by **Hobzee** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:09 pm

Here we are, half way through. It's 10pm Sat night and there are 5 rip roaring bon fires. Everyone enjoyed the day. Navigation was harder than expected and no one got more than 80%. Some people were still in camp 2.5 hours plotting before heading out.

Driving was so easy that even the land rover came back in one piece, but having said that 1 car had to winch free .... RUFFY ...

Tomorrow there are combinations of stick maps, written directions, projected points and picture sticks maps ... a bit like stick mags...

By for now.

Post by **Ruffy** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:17 pm

Hey All... We're back, Unpacked, showered, fed and ready for bed..

Congratulations to Smithies Outback (muttering obscenities under my breathe)
Congrats to all who attended. As Hobzee said the driving was a walk in the park.. Yes we did have to be winched.. But i wasnt driving

I was navi!!

That was a good area. Heaps of unmapped tracks. Nav was good, food was good, company was good.
Definite highlight was Rudi's dad, Peter, getting himself pissed silly on a bottle of whisky

Thanks to Stu (dogbreathe48) and Ad's for teaming up. They managed to fix most of my mistakes

. Cheers guys

Thanks to terry roberts and his crew for the tucker

As always the grub the good.
All in all another well organised Navrun..

Good to see lots of noob's there too..

There was one rollover... in a 40km/h Zone

Cheers Dan

Post by **tna racing** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 10:56 pm

yerp, the cars buggerd, blokes shatterd i think

Post by **The_Wazza** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:30 am

Had a great time for our first family Navrun event. Great organization, lots of fun and great food!
It was an interesting area to drive around. Plenty of old mining sites etc..
Thanks to our navy Alberto (great work!) and our 2nd vehicle "Kill Bill & Wally", couldn't of done it without them and look forward to the Rubicon Navrun....!

Mrs Wazza

Post by **dogbreath_48** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:54 am

As with others we had a great time. The tracks weren't spectacular but i think we made the most of of them.

But the dust

, I'm still picking crusties out of my nose!
Nav had a few 'tricks' that saw us touring around way off track for a few hours but we got a grip eventually

Organization was fantastic, camping area was good and company was top notch.

Thanks to all involved in organization, all competitors and to Ruffy for teaming up!

-Stu

p.s. the car was red

Post by **Hobzee** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:48 pm

Yes Doodle Boy is a hard man when it comes to scoring... I would have given the reds but then that was almost all of you so would have made very little difference.

Yes we successfully rolled a car with a 40klm speed limit. That same car also crashed into a tree the day before and was in the only team caught speeding .... twice at that

I hope all is good with the car situation and that those beaut projectional headlights get transplanted into the next rig ... GQ's are pretty cheap these days and handle better than leaf spings.

On the whole everyone did a great job. Well behaved eve. Thanks go to Sally for the property and Pete for the Dunny and for giving us Sally and for the Bolle sunnies (2nd prize). Thanks also to Jason at Travel Lite for the 1st prize drawer system and as always thanks to Terry for the grub.

Sally said it's the first time she has had a mob camping there and the coppers dont get involved...

Onya Smithies Outback (Bundy 4x4 and Hottie)

- Gees a girl driver won and a girl driver came second. Car'n fellas what's going on!

Onya Mrs Bundy 4x4 and Mrs Ruffy ...

Post by **tom_286** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:36 pm

Thanks Rudi, Hobzee and everyone I had a great weekend

From a Navi's point of veiw it was awsome, a good challenge (for the part we did anyway). I was in the team that rolled, in the other car.

Will got home fine, ended up driving it all the way. No one hurt at all so all good there but the car's a wreak... I smell a GQ on the way...

see you all next time, Tom

Post by **mesallee** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:43 pm

hiya everyone

thankyou to everyone for being so clean and quiet while still having fun , i havent heard any reports from my neighbours that there was any problems so alls good. maybe we can do it again huh????

worked out well for me i get the deadwood cleared from the property befor the fire season and have fun in the process.
best part was i could have a bath saturday nite after eating all that dust all day..... ner ner

oh and the disco does need some work done befor bathust (cv joint ) pete says it was already on the way out . i says landy or rangy they gotta break something every navrun !!!!!!! never mind the trusty gq is still here as backup or should i say rescue vehicle.

anyway thanks again for bein great guest at my place and cya at bathurst

Post by **Ruffy** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:48 pm

mesallee wrote:anyway thanks again for bein great guest at my place and cya at bathurst

Thank you Sal. I'm glad it all went well for you! We enjoyed your land

Cheers Dan

Post by **mesallee** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:34 pm

hey hobbzie when did pete give me to u lot ??????
hmmmm must have words with that boy
if you dont understand reread your post

how the hell would he get home if he gave me away .
spose the rangy still moves in 2 wheel drive just not very good in reverse.
but it wouldn't matter if it did move he wouldn't have me to find his bloody keys lol
sally

Post by **Hobzee** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:31 pm

Trenchy needs you more than he realises

Who else is going to throw a tarp over him when he konks out at night ??

And you must really luv him to put up with the snoring !!! We often hear it down here at Somerville and I believe the Port of Melbourne have to alert approaching ships.

We luv ya too Trenchy, even if you do like Rangies and bar tread tyres...

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