Charlie Evitt

[Charlie Hannah]

Lost a good mate couple days ago, tripped in his yard hit his head died by over bleed.Police were at his place all day.Taken to Newcastle for autopsy,Charlie was at sea for years started around age 16 till retirement.He He was on the home boats then NZ coast finally the Aussie coast.He was 87 years of age. R.I.P. Charlie

[j.sabourn]

Sorry to hear Charlie. A friend of mine well into his eighties but still active, his wife just had a stroke and was in the right temple apparently where the nerve for speech is. She has a 50/50 chance of recovery he was in tears. Has been married 64 years. In his younger days did tours of the states and Canada in a caravan, so has seen a bit of the world, was not a seafarer. It comes to all of us, it was always said that 3 score and 10 was the limit and a lot of us have dodged that, and old Indian fakir in Cochin told me years ago that I would be dead before 40. Suppose Fakir is a good name for them. Cheers JS

[Charlie Hannah]

Sorry to hear Charlie. A friend of mine well into his eighties but still active, his wife just had a stroke and was in the right temple apparently where the nerve for speech is. She has a 50/50 chance of recovery he was in tears. Has been married 64 years. In his younger days did tours of the states and Canada in a caravan, so has seen a bit of the world, was not a seafarer. It comes to all of us, it was always said that 3 score and 10 was the limit and a lot of us have dodged that, and old Indian fakir in Cochin told me years ago that I would be dead before 40. Suppose Fakir is a good name for them. JS

John doctor on the Parthia told me i would be lucky to reach forty,Proved him wrong been around 81 years come December. Charlie my mate was well on with dementia. Cheers

[j.sabourn]

As regards Doctors Charlie . Was on one Norwegian Ship out here for a short period with the usual contingent of Australian Seamen. The Norwegian Doctor who was on board did his own inspection of the foodstores and freezers and started throwing things out as being out of date. He must have been suffering from dementia and forgot where he was, the Norwegian master sacked him and put the stores back where they came from., and had a medic flown out to replace him. The Doctor must have thought he had some control on the vessel and was in Australian waters. The ship never ever came alongside as all crew changes were done at sea. I would say going back 20 years even, the Scandanavian seamen had much in common with the British. It was a pain in the backside bringing in a ship from overseas as all the meat etc. and a lot of the vegetables were declared by customs and immigration as undesirable and did not even examine in some cases, not even if the cow had been exported from here on the hoof and came back frozen. Makes one laugh when they make such a song about imports and exports.
I brought in a ship from Singapore and knowing the score had radioed the Chandler in Adelaide and told him to be on the quay waiting on arrival with a list of stores. The usual happened and he was an hour late, the stores went off the ship and nearly had a riot on my hands as everyone was demanding hotel accommodation and meals. It was incidents like that that got the unions a bad name. I believe in unions but not on threats about walking off, I told them to be my guest as was going to bed and not to be disturbed. It only takes a couple to stir up any trouble on any ship. Your a year older than me Charlie so I bow to your experience as we never stop learning. Cheers all the best hope am still talking to you when your 91. Regards JS