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2016 Land's End Trial

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Every garage should have one - a Ridge Cannon When we snapped the offside driveshaft on the Candidi Provocatores Allard things looked bad for an entry in this year's Land's End. However, through the powers of social maxima, which is social media for larger than life characters, Lee Peck put me in touch with Brian Partridge. Brian won his class on the Exeter while Binky and I were snapping things so there was no pressue for a new bouncer/navigator. Stuart Crouch was to have obliged as animated ballast but his wife snapped her Achilles tendon and he had to pull out. Regular Engine Punk browsers may remember Stuart and Will enabling us to start at Popham when our coil packed up. I am trying to present this substitution as partly returning that huge favour. Binky, on the other hand, spent Easter at home for the first time in ages. I think Mrs Binky is okay about this. The scaffolding for the solar panels has been dismantled so he can get the Allard in its usual hom...