Cape Pillar

THE HISTORY OF THE CAPE PILLAR HASH HOUSE HARRIERS.

Background:

• The Cape Pillar was launched in 1963, the second of three lighthouse supply ships (the others were the Cape Don and the Cape Morton) built for the Department of Transport. During a life of 30 years with the Department the ship took on a variety of contracts such as survey vessel (Natmap & Navy), surveilance vessel, examining fish stocks with the Dept of Fisheries, Seismic work with BMR, Dept of Meteorology etc.
• During this time the ship travelled in exess of 1 million kilometres or an average of 92 km for every day of its life with Transport.
• This once proud vessel was sold by the Dept. of Transport to foreign interests in May 1992 and is presently moving livestock between Darwin and Papua New Guinea.
  
• The CPH3 was formed by members of the

  Belconnen Hash House Harriers in the Australian Capital Territory, who were working for National Mapping on Bathymetric Surveys.

  ELPHUS 02/05/1995

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS........................ELPHUS 1988.

The Cape Pillar Hash was formed as a result of a very rational discussion which took place in the Stubby Hut in Weipa, or was it the Albatross Hotel, no the International Bar.............

The day following this in-depth discussion, and not being able to remember any relevant details (barring the fact we were pissed the previous day) we set about laying the ground rules for the new hash.

RULES:

• 1. The International Bar (onboard the Cape Pillar) is the home of the CPH3.
  
• 2. No poofters.
  
• 3. Starting time is negotiable providing the run occurs on a Monday.
  
• 4. All runs shall be conducted at sea, and shall be carried out on board (not in or on the water). This rule applies equally to Jesus Christ and all his descendants.
  
• 5. He who shortcuts shall have first shout at the bar, for everyone in the bar at that time (only to be enforced if caught).
  
• 6. The distance traversed by the ship during the duration of the run, shall be included in the total distance of the run.
  

In order to keep the rules within the objectives of the hash (normally no rules) a time limit was placed on this inaugural meeting. The Epoch being the time it takes to consume 1 stubby (Shultz being a none contender). Unfortunately owing to the demise of this high precision time piece ( the contents of which were deposited over the mooring deck) it was decided to close the meeting and adjourn to the bar.
Mark (ELPHUS) Elphick
Tiernan (KOOKABURRA) McNamara
08 January 1988

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It should be noted that most or all of the above is probably lies.

On On Elphus.

DEMISE OF THE CPH3

The Cape Pillar Hash House Harriers was formed on the 8th of January 1988. The first run was in the Gulf of Carpentaria on Monday the 11th of January 1988.

CPH3 RUN NO. 1 DATE : 11/01/88 TIME : 0630 ut
LATITUDE : -14 49'.61 S LONGITUDE : 138 12'.92 E
AREA: Gulf of Carpentaria HARE : Kookaburra
DISTANCE : 2.5 klm
HASHERS : Elphus (Mark Elphick), Kookaburra (Tiernan Mcnamarra), Mos (Steve Hodgkin)

The final run was at Holmes Reef on Monday the 20th of March 1989.

CPH3 RUN NO. 21 DATE : 20/03/89 TIME : 0620 ut
LATITUDE : -17 30.00 S LONGITUDE : 147 58'.00 E
AREA: Holmes Reef Queensland HARE : Ferret
DISTANCE : 8.9 klm
HASHERS : John (Curly) Bray, Sarg, Allan (Sic) Deck, Brad, Chris (Scrumpy) Ferguson, Ferret.

The Hash was officially disbanded in March 1991 when the Department of Transport decommissioned the ship, it was sold to foreign interests in 1992 and is presently moving livestock between Australia and Papua New Guinea.