Clean Sweep: Jack's CITO Coin

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Owner:: Jack Aubrey Message this owner
Released:: Monday, May 22, 2006
Origin:: United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:: Unknown Location

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Current Goal

By the sea,
On board ship
Or anywhere there's a "clean sweep"

About This Item

In the days of Nelson's navy, a ship was cleared for action by stripping down all the partitions along each of the decks. The cabins - even the Captain's quarters - disappeared to create a "clean sweep" from stem to stern.

And the naval passion for a "clean sweep" extended to a positively obsessional approach to "housework". Each morning the decks of a naval vessel would be cleaned with abrasives ("holystones") and water, thus revealing a fresh layer of timber.

Thankfully, modern CITO events are more sensitive to the balance in the environment!

Do you have stories about strange things found when cleaning up your local patch?

Or do you just want to log the coin and move it along?

Either is fine!

Tracking History (126.1mi) View Map

3/13/2007	Jack Aubrey retrieved it from Historic Ayr re-born and re-located	Southern Scotland, United Kingdom	Visit Log
Died with the original cache apparently.
10/22/2006	Flyfishermanbob placed it in Historic Ayr re-born and re-located	Southern Scotland, United Kingdom - 78.53 miles	Visit Log

10/15/2006	Flyfishermanbob retrieved it from Cromwellpark	United Kingdom	Visit Log
Cromwellpark hadn't been visited for a wee while...so not many chances to move on.... Lets see where we end up next...?
6/7/2006	Billy Twigger placed it in Cromwellpark	United Kingdom - 47.58 miles	Visit Log

5/28/2006	Billy Twigger retrieved it from Scotland's Fourth Annual Cache Bash - 2006	United Kingdom	Visit Log
I've not attended a CITO event, so should feel a bit of a fraud picking this up. But I don't, because I'll slip it into a Bute cache when I am at the Beachwatch Bute cleanup next weekend! 👍
5/23/2006	Jack Aubrey placed it in Scotland's Fourth Annual Cache Bash - 2006	United Kingdom	Visit Log

5/23/2006	Jack Aubrey grabbed it		Visit Log
Grabbing this back to drop into the Cash Bash
5/23/2006	roolku discovered it		Visit Log
Found two broken fish/eel/watersnake traps in the Water of Leith at the last CITO. Did people actually catch anything in them, I wonder?
5/21/2006	Firth of Forth grabbed it		Visit Log
Strange things picked up while clearing the local patch, eh? Funny you should ask.. At 'Scotland's First CITO Event', a short distance from my doorstep, I picked up several bags of rubbish. I also found a handsome, single, intelligent, sensitive cacher. His name is Jack Aubrey. (We're going to have to stop this cheesy stuff, Jack. Other cachers must be completely hacked off by our incessant smoochings :))
4/22/2006	Haggis Hunter discovered it		Visit Log
On any CITO you are extremely likely to find a shopping trolley, as we did on the first CITO in Scotland. On the second CITO in Scotland we didn't just find a bed, but we also found the ensuite bath to go with it! 😁 HH
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