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USA might get one or two but I reckon LR fairly easily. Inios-LR might be good though.

I see Inios used their brainjs and chose alingi.best of so shouldnt be hard to win 5 nil Prada and Usa could be interesting Be a Prada/Inios final

I all, hope this is ok to add. PCC and KBC are having a fun family friendly event over Labour Weekend. This event is not designed to compete with The Coastal Classic, but is for those who would like to do something over the long weekend who will not be racing up to the Duke. Or, if you are coming back down the coast pop on in. Please see attached. Cheers Tom KBC Club Secretary LABOUR WEEKEND SPRING SPLASH.pdf

You have to log in to YNZ site to access the cat3 registration . I wasted 30 mins going round in circles until I realised that important step. Otherwise it was straightforward if a tad more expensive than in the past .

Apply through YNZ and tick Graeme as preferred inspector https://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/racing/safety/safety-inspection-process

Good to hear Graeme is still doing it after the changes, he did our last cert. Will give him a call, was great to deal with last time.

Can go anywhere however now we get paid through YNZ I get quite a bit less per boat Ill drive up if you can arrange 3 or more ideally but otherwise Graeme Brown is up your way

Was thinking of giving you a call Jon. Would you come up to the Weiti Boating club or not your area?

I did one Cat3 for coastal last week, two yesterday and one next week booked Seems rather quite

We are planning on it but still trying to get sorted with Cat 3.

Are you in the northern hemisphere?😁😁

But isn't that life? Lots of sporting contests that are built up to high expectations turn out duds. But, that makes the humdingers even better, especially when they are unexpected, when there is a great comeback etc. I am getting a bit philosophical now, but I find this a real concern in modern life is that unless every event, sporting or otherwise is some surreal exciting experience, then it is labelled a dud. And that is what I was getting at in my earlier T20 v Test Cricket analogy. T20 tries so so so hard to be an awesome super duper crackerjack experience - but now that the novelty

Yacht racing is a bit like watching test cricket, its not very engaging unless you know the game. The foiling version is like T-20 and gets delivered in small helpings that don't test the attention span too much. F1 has something similar going on, it's not that exciting unless you know the rules, the teams, the personalities, the grudges, the history, the technical side etc, and the more you get into it the more interesting it becomes. The short version is that the AC is the same

This must have been exciting: /Martin

I can relate, but holy sh*t thats dull. More exciting racing on a wednesday night race

While we are waiting for the next round, I was watching one of the old AC races and this is an example of what I think "we" ordinary sailors find exciting yachting and can relate to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypbyJHtmnx4

Maybe its still early for people, but 6 weeks out feeling like coastal entries are pretty quiet? 26 PHRF entries, 4 for short handed, 5 multis and 1 in the rally?

Must have the aerial upside down

Blue water again. I'm taking a leaf out of the Bad Kitty playbook and using starlink to piss people off

I went for a spin down to izzy bay on it. Super cool boat. Impressive tech and great to see it being designed and built here.

Cool. The 19m version seems... ambitious but I hope they pull it off.

We (NZ Multihull Yacht Club) were lucky enough to get a tour of their factory recently. They are the real deal and are building a very clever but simple boat. They are doing it the Kiwi way and are increadly knowledgable on what they are doing. They ended the night by letting us raid the Carbon scraps bin - best "Party Favour" ever for a bunch of DIYer multihullers!

They have now added the cabin, and got more funding from San Francisco... Vessev’s hydrofoiling e-boat takes to the water, attracts US backer https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/watch-vessevs-hydrofoiling-e-boat-takes-to-the-water-attracts-us-backer/AXARARBTYJGCHPGCK7R5MLNGQ4/

Hi everyone. I am a 44yo male looking to help out on the crossing from Fiji/the Pacific to NZ in 2024. Will pay my own way and can be available at short notice. My experience: RYA Day Skipper, learned to sail on a 40ft Benetau in the Bay of Islands; skipper of a Leopard 45 cat for a total of about 4 weeks in NZ, including the Bay of Islands, Great Barrier Island, and Hauraki Gulf; skipper of a FP40 in the Ionian islands for two weeks; and earlier this year I was co-skipper of a Hanse 575 for a month and a half around the Caribbean, including a 5 day crossing from St Martin to Bermuda in c

To be fair you need to combine both NW 1 and NW 2 divisions in 2024 to compare with NW1 entries in 2023 if you do that results aren’t that different in terms of numbers. The reasons for PHRF have already been mentioned in other posts. PHRF like any other system isn’t perfect but it’s the best we have and the more races that use it the better it will be. Interestingly if Sculpin’s PHRF hadn’t changed before the last race they would have finished 14th in the race and 3rd overall in the series. I suspect as Sculpin was at one extreme of the PHRF range in the division they