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news, stories, gossip, how much bail money was needed?

 

Was a great day on the water, pretty straightforward. Light to moderate breeze. Sun, dolphins, rum.  Hard to beat really. 

 

We had 10 div 1 boats and 14 div 2 boats on the NZ Rigging longhaul course, so a fun start and lots of boats to play with.  Wired disappeared pretty quick, but rest stayed close enough so we could most people most of the time.  In Div 2 Katana (sunfast) and us had a good battle on the beat, we both went left and hooked into a great lift which really helped our position at Tiri Navy Buoy.  They got there first, not by too much. Once kites were up we had a few ups and downs to break through, and then managed to hold the lead till the end, although there was always boats worryingly close behind.  Whole div was pretty close together, so we got a disappointing 7th.  Well done to Rob and Sally on Copelia for the handicap win followed by Spearhead and then Truxton.

 

No gossip, no bail money need.  Just panadol for my head this morning.

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Had a rush over the last month getting the boat ready for the first race since I’ve owned her. Spent the last 2 years replacing the centreboard & rudder as well as tidying up various other bits and pieces. Entering gave us a deadline and provided some focus while keeping the pressure on. Couple of days on the water in the week before and we were as ready as we could be.

 

Got a great start and led the Baltic fleet in a 2-sail reach down to end of Motatapu where we started to catch the tail enders of the start before ours. Some short racking up the eastern side of Motatapu out of the incoming tide saw some good gains over those that stayed out wider.

 

Looking ahead, most of the bigger boats were putting in a long tack over to East Coast Bays and we thought that seemed sensible so followed suit. After dodging the large ship coming out of port we hooked into a nice 30 degrees left ahift and further gained on those behind.

 

By the time we got to Navy Bouy the bigger boats from Baltic 1 had got ahead but on getting the m/head genneker up we started to haul them in pretty quickly and had caught all but one by the time we got to the Noises. Some good surfing conditions with 13.3k recorded as top speed (but we think this is reading a little high).

 

A few light patches behind the Noises which we managed to navigate pretty well and pass the other boat in front which parked for a while. Two sail reach back from there to home into a good breeze and managed to avoid the worst of the rain.

 

Great first race and awesome to get the line and handicap double.

 

Thanks to SSANZ for putting on a great event and looking forward to the next one

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Tough day for team Freedom.

 

we were going really well until our main delaminated and a 1 metre rip appeared. 

very tough to watch Hooters and Attitude sail away from us upwind. 

 

A wee vid of the day. 

 

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