40 years Coastal Classic stories

[GH1 1]

Hi All, we The NZMYC  are after  stories photos  from the last 40ty years of the coastal Classic .

 

[Suspect Device 12]

what kind of stories? 50kts upwind with crew being taken off with split heads and broken ribs? losing the rudder off sail rock? naked sleep walking through the duke of marlborough? that time a disgruntled local stormed out of the pub to go get his shotgun cause he didnt like the place being over run with yachties?

[Jono G 41]

Here's a few. Calling in to say we had broken our rudder. But it was no issue we had another one (GBE). Getting knocked down by a big wave, the mainsheet hand goes through the leeward lifelines. Fortunately he was still holding the mainsheet which rounded us up head to wind and we dragged him back in. Same race, finished and all so wet and cold 3 of us huddled together under a wet kite to try and warm up. Doing 25kn in a Ross 930 going into Tiri Passage. Asked the owner do we keep pushing or drop the kite? Keep going was the answer. 5 minutes later we had a broken transom. The next Ross boat came through an hour later. What about having enough water down below we had phosphorescence glowing. Most recently being off Flat Rock at 4pm and telling the crew we still had 24 hours to go.