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World's Biggest Tri

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Banque Populaire has been launched. At 40m this beast defies description. Read a full story on the launch with pages of detailed photos at BYM here.
28:08:08

KORC Meeting

Considering the pages of discussion in the forums of late on some of these issues I think it is worth reprinting this notice from the latest YNZ Briefings:

Open KORC Meeting Agenda
A reminder that an open meeting of the KORC Committee will be held at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9th September 2008. The meeting will be held upstairs at Yachting New Zealand at 85 Westhaven Drive, Westhaven Marina, Auckland.

The agenda includes the following…

1. IRC
a) IRC Nationals, (Format, Venue, Presentation by RPNYC)
b) IRC Owners Assn

2. PHRF
a) How does PHRF work?
b) Walk through Questions and Answers
c) Quality Assurance of PHRF
d) Free Software available to clubs
e) Any other questions

3. Regatta Sponsorship Confirmation

4. South Pacific Cup

5. Ocean Racing


I'll be there, and I would expect a lot of interest. Of course if you complain about something in the forums, but don't bother to go to a meeting like this, then the label of "full time whiner", which I have heard used, might just apply.
If you have a justifiable reason for not being there but have some questions you would like answered, send them to editor@crew.org.nz, I'll do my best to get an answer.
27:08:08

Welcome Home Tom

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Olympic Gold medallist Tom Ashley arrived back in NZ today with the rest of the NZ Olympic team. Gareth Cooke of SubZero Images was there.
27:08:08

Land Proa?

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While cruising the net tryng to catch up with events I found this photo on Sailing Anarchy.
It's a land yacht attempting to break the land speed record, once again it looks like a proa to me.
Here's a link to the BBC item.
27:08:08

Apologies

The news on the home page has been a bit of a mess for two days now, hard to read and ugly. I've been harassing Zeald for that long as a problem with their servers means I can't go in and fix it. Please bear with us until it gets sorted - TFC
27:08:08

Wheels' New Mast

New to the forums is Wheels. He kindly provided this story of his new "homegrown" mast.
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