M1 Re Launch

Thanks to Lesley Haslar

She's back in the water - Black and beautiful. Clean white decks - black mast with spreaders raking aft. Some interesting changes can be seen from the work done by boat-builder Craig Partridge. The tiller's gone - replaced with twin wheels. Both the mast and the keel are further aft to re-trim the boat. M1 will surely be a pace-maker in the Bay of Islands.

There are three shareholders: Craig Partridge - Aksel Jepsen - Dave Austin (known by many as 'Doctor Dave'). Jensen admits freely that yacht Racing is a brand new experience for him. What a way to learn as share-holder in a very fast M1.

Simon Hull, the previous owner of M1 had one special comment about his 20 odd years racing on M1 "She just gets up and boogies, particularly down hill. Watch out Kerikeri". Hull and crew did multiple races both off shore and local. Partridge and Austin plan on doing the two man round-NZ race in 2011. Partridge also mentioned the Auckland/Suva Race next year. M1 will be welcomed back into the fast- racing circuit.