Many times the Percy family played host to Association activities, ranging from welcoming us into their own home, onto more than one of their boats for days on the bay, early workshop days at the Yatala workshop and even into their camp for dawn on one particularly long midnight to dawn Observation/Navigation Run.
Ernie
was always eager to help members with their mechanical problems, disappearing
into the depths of the workshop, or under the house, to reappear shortly
after with a bit to solve the problem, or the broken part fixed. He showed
one of those Australian traits of never letting a problem beat him, the
solution was at hand, if you looked and thought.
On behalf of all of
our members, I extend deepest sympathies to Elaine, Lach and Leon on the
loss of their husband and father and hope that they can gain cheer from
the positive memories and influences that Ernie was to all of us.
