Attached please find the February issue of the Errol Flynn Marina Newsletter, “Docklines”.
Dale B. Westin
General Manager
Errol Flynn Marina
Box 188 Ken Wright Drive
Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica
PLEASE NOTE NEW CELLULAR NUMBER BELOW:
Phones: 876- 993-3209; 876-715-6044
Fax: 876-715-6033 SKYPE: Westin8
Cellular: 876-832-4765
— David DeWitt
I happened upon this site and although there are some inaccuracies there are pictures I had not seen. http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Errol_Flynn_Statutory_Rape_Trial_1942_Errol_Flynn_Hollywood_Bad_Boy__pdf
— Kathleen
When we move The Errol Flynn Blog to WordPress which will be soon… there are some things to consider, according to Domainmonger Support. Please read this over carefully! There will be some difficulties to overcome and we will overcome them… There is both good news and bad in the support reply I received.
The worst bad news is that it is difficult to move comments over to our new home at WordPress! Since this is an essential part of our blog's lifeblood, we are going to move them, irregardless. Please read through this reply to see what difficulties lay ahead and we will figure out how to overcome them before we put an oar in the water or a unfurl a sail…
This is what I received from support:
The problem is with the Blogware export file unfortunately so this
issue would happen whether you move your Blogware site to WordPress or any
other hosting service. Therefore, you can request, and in fact we suggest, that
we do not migrate comments from your Blogware blog to your new WordPress-based
blog.
URL Redirection – You are currently hosting on your own
domain name, so, we will be able to redirect your original Blogware URLs to
your new WordPress URLs so not only will all your old links continue to work,
but you will main your current Google ranking.
All files uploaded to your blog’s File Manager will be
migrated. So if you have uploaded images to accompany your blog articles for
example, we’ll move those images to your new WordPress account.
What will not be migrated?
The layout or Color Scheme for your blog will not be
preserved. The WordPress Theme format is completely different from the Blogware
Color Scheme format, so you will have to choose a new look for your blog. The
good news is that in WordPress there are thousands of free themes available at
the WordPress Themes Directory, or you can create your own custom theme.
Sidebar components are not migrated. If you have created
any custom components for your blog sidebar, you would need to recreate them on
your new WordPress blog using WordPress’ Widgets feature. Neither custom
components nor Favorites components are migrated.
Attachments are not migrated unfortunately as they are
not exposed by the Blogware migration tools. If you have added attachments to
your articles, they will not be migrated to your new account. Trackbacks are not migrated.
Blog Settings are not migrated. Since the Blogware
system and WordPress system are so different, it is not possible to take any of
the settings for your Blogware blog and simply migrate them to your new
WordPress blog. Please check out this excellent guide to WordPress
Administration Settings for information on configuring the Settings of your new
WordPress blog.
Web Pages are not migrated. If you have any Web Pages, a
special type of post which is not dated, you will need to re-create them using
the analogous Pages feature in WordPress.
Permissions are not migrated. Category settings and
permissions work very differently in WordPress, and we are unable to apply any
of the permissions in your Blogware blog to your WordPress-based PressHarbor
account.
User accounts are not migrated. So if you have users
with permissions to your current Blog, those user accounts will not exist on
the new WordPress site. You will need to reconfigure your site using the
WordPress Roles and Capabilities framework.
- Domainmonger Support
This means that all current members will have to rejoin The Errol Flynn Blog, once it has been moved. You will be able to find the blog using the same URL as it has now: http://theerrolflynnblog.com when it has been moved and is ready for shipmates, again!
At this point, I am as new to all of this as you reading this. I hope there will some expert advice over at WordPress about how to reassign comments to their original owners! And about how to keep our attachments which are so vital to some of our posts!
I will be writing to WordPress for some advice regarding all of this! Nothing is happening immediately, but it will happen soon from the sound of things…
— David DeWitt
A very rare copy of Errol Flynn's novel “Showdown” exists which was signed by Errol Flynn to his parents in May of 1946. The book was a gift to Marguerite Gauron of Port Antonio, Jamaica, by Flynn's widow, Patrice Wymore and is now about to be sold privately.
My friend writer and editor Dennis Mullen who recently returned from a trip to Jamaica and met both Pat Wymore and Marguerite Gauron while working at the Errol Flynn Marina doing some rebranding and editing work has been given the go ahead to offer this extremely rare autographed book for sale and he expects the book to sell for up to ten thousand dollars…
Inquiries may be sent to:
I will provide Dennis phone number to anybody who is interested in more details!
Email me at: zacapublishing@gmail.com
— David DeWitt
The Belgian magazine states inside that for the promotion of his new film “The Master of Ballantrae”, Errol has offered them such a beautiful photo that they had to post it on the frontpage…
— Inga
Take a look at the attached photo and tell us what is peculiar about it. So far, I have no answers, as I don't own the photo and can't properly analyze it at it's prohibitively small size.
R
— Robzak
……and in Blu-Ray, no less:
http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/16858/THE-ROOTS-OF-HEAVEN-1958-PRE-ORDER/
— Robzak
Part 2 (Jan 15 to 17, 2012)
first I assumed my last post would refer to Monday, Jan 17th, but today there was a little more to report. Unexpectedly I was given the street address of the former Sydney Bulletin building by Tim Griffiths . As we know, Errol wrote articles for the Bulletin from New Guinea and most likely had to pick up his pay-check from there and , as he states in MWWW, he once entered the building with a couple of savages from New Guinea. The Bulletin is history only for 4 years now, so the building is still there. It’s now occupied by a posh restaurant/bar. Still, the columns in the hall are amazing.
After this short stop-over I took the ferry from Circular Quay to Manly; 30 min north-east. You pass the Sydney Heads on your way, a rock formation, that marks the passage to the open seas. The Sirocco took this passage in 1930 to get on her way north.
But let’s get back to the 15th.
I took the ferry to Neutral Bay. According to J. H. Moore the bay, where the Sirocco was harboured. It’s only a short ferry ride from Circular Quay. On the way I made a stopover at 54 Carabella St., Kirribilli. There’s still the brick house Errol’s maternal grandmother lived.
On 16th I took the bus to Bondi (Junction). Here at 65 Ebley St. is the former Cinesound Studios, where Errol’s first movie “In the Wake of the Bounty” was produced. Today it’s a store & a self storage (in the basement)
Then on to famous Bondi Beach. Just a very short stroll from the beach is 28 Brighton Blvd., where Errol’s paternal grandmother used to live. Who know’s how much the building has changed during the years? My last stop that day was Coogee Beach. That’s supposedly the location where Errol was spotted for his role in “In the Wake of the Bounty”
Well, what I saw today, I’ve mentioned earlier.
That was most likely the my last entry in my Beam Ends travel diary. Tomorrow I’ll depart for home. For me personally it’s a pity I had to skip some interesting locations like Cooktown or Lizard Island in the far North ( not to speak of New Guinea !), Port Alma, some places in Sydney like Errol’s school, the Sydney Church of England Grammar School or Avoca St. in Randwick, Sydney (another address of Errol’s maternal grandmother)).
I realized the very best way to relive Errol’s experience is by boat ! Isn’t it ironic? Well,Robert Florczak is working on this issue !
Anyway, I’ve had a great time posting and I can only apologize for inadequencies, mistakes minor or mayor. Still, I hope the silent majority (?) of the blog reader’s enjoyed the postings, too. I don’t know, if Rory Flynn has been following these posts. If she has, I hope she has had some fun reading.
Thanks at the end to Steve Randell for his support in Hobart, to David and Robert for their “behind the curtains” advice, to Tim Griffiths for his valuable tips & to Tina, Inga, Tassie Devil and all the others for their encouragement and kind comments.
Any comments positive or negative are still welcome.
Volker
— Volker
