In Memory of Barry

[cgutzmer]

Hey Jim, We have shared a couple emails but nothing suggested on that front yet.
Thanks!
Chris

[eibwarrior]

I've been away much too long. And to my great shock, I found out today that we have lost a great friend and great designer, Barry.

I'll have to say Barry meant a lot to me. I used to keep regular contact with him, but over the last year or so we hadn't emailed much. I've been involved in pursuits outside of card modelling and I'd been remiss in keeping up with Barry.

My heart is heavy tonight with much sadness. I'll will greatly miss my ship enthusiast friend from across the pond.

I had helped him with many project (Big E, Agano, LSM 156, Richelieu). Actually the LSM was a favor Barry did for me. He was very reluctant to take on the project, but I had helped him with so much photo / drawing reference for his projects that he felt he owed it to me to design that old pig. :-) I can only smile at that thought. Barry really enjoyed designing that old pig once he got into it. It just goes to show how truly selfless and generous he was. He brought great joy to the veteran that we designed and built that LSM for.

Any way, I've not kept up with his recent work so I'm not real sure what was closest to completion in his designs. I know Agano was something Barry was really interested in finishing, so I suppose Agano would be the most up to date. I had sent him a long time ago lots of detail drawings and designs.

[cgutzmer]

Hello!
Thank you to everyone in participating in this collection. I wanted to drop a line ot let everyone know that a total of 807 dollars have been collected for the fund! I am just waiting to hear back from the family before I move further. If not preference I will let you know where the money goes!
Thanks,
Chris

[cgutzmer]

Hello all,
I have donated the funds to the Cutty Sark Trust in Barry's memory.

Cutty Sark - Visit the world famous Cutty Sark clipper ship

Thanks all to everyone that participated.
Chris

[Wilfried]

Thank you Chris,

it works for me; thank you for your engagement.

With lovely greetings
the Wilfried

[Darwin]

A very fitting memorial. Barry would approve.

[billy.leliveld]

Nice Chris, thanks for doing this

[peter taft]

Excellent choice, Barry will be smiling for sure !

[Gixergs]

I thought that the people that donated to Barry's remembrance fund would like to know that after a 5 year restoration the Cutty Sark,the chosen recipient of the money, will be opened by Queen Elizabeth II tomorrow with the clipper being officially opened to the public on Thursday BBC News - In pictures: Cutty Sark ship-shape once more

[Tapcho]

Thanks for the headsup, now I have to start planning a trip to London.

Tappi