Guest Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 From Mr roosevelt Monday 21st February, 2011 Finished Leg 1 We finished a couple of hours ago and we're now at anchor in Mangonui harbour. Our result will be OK - there's a lot of boats still at sea and there's less wind out there than outer space. The sailing this evening was nice, with just enough wind and favourable tide to keep us moving. There's an intense full moon which illuminates everything. We're both good. We had solid two hour sleeps earlier on so we're feeling pretty fresh. However, it will be great to recharge the batteries and then set off again. I'll put a full report of the leg up tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites
floatsome 0 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Where do you find finish times etc on the ssanz site? Giving lats and longs is too hard work too.. Link to post Share on other sites
splashprincess 16 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I understand that the last boats finished 10.30 11am this morning and they are processing the results at the moment. Hopefully I will have time to post more updates for finishing of Leg 2 as they arrive in Welly. Link to post Share on other sites
splashprincess 16 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Some more photos of the start. Thanks to the crew of Bad Kitty for giving us a ride! Link to post Share on other sites
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Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 About 0640 this morning Nonstop crossed the leg 1 finish line at Mangonui, shortly after the team on the finish boat realized who had just finished and fired the gun, signalling the fact that Nonstop was first Division 4 boat across the line. Line honours leg 1, a great start for the team. This after Pete had spent the last 18 hours telling me how at least two Div 4 boats had got past overnight. Well done Pete and Mark, by now they'll have their heads down catching all the sleep they can before leg 2 starts. cheers, Duncan Arrived in Mangonui about 7am. Bit of a match race with Non Stop to the finish. Bit jaded but we need a new house battery so must get on with it. Been up the mast this morning to retrieve a halyard and we’re pretty ship shape. Will sleep well tonight. Zen Link to post Share on other sites
splashprincess 16 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Well done Nonstop boys! Link to post Share on other sites
markm 30 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Results now on the SSANZ site http://www.ssanz.co.nz/results.html Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Nonstop: All rested and looking forward to the second leg start Pete and Mark (along with Jenny and Sue) are off to a barby at the boat club. They are now reaping the benefits of the experience gained in the 2008 event, planning rest and work periods to maximize their physical effectiveeness during what will be a tough leg around the top to Wellington. With light conditions forecast, Pete's anticipating most of the day being taken up getting around the top following the 1000 start. With forecast condiitons looking like a lot of breeze on the nose, it will be time fr some of the heavier and longer waterline boats in the fleet to shine. Nonstop will be looking to limit any losses in this mode owever there's been a fair bit of tuning the settings going on lately so don't expect them to give up too much time to anyone else. First on line division 4 and 19th from a fleet of 36 (including finishing ahead of both the Young 11's in the fleet) is a great start to the campaign but as 2008 taught everyone, leg 1 was a sprint, leg 2 is for the stayers. Don't know about you but I'm looking forward to the next few days with great anticipation. cheers Duncan Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Mr Roosevelt Monday 21st February, 2011 RNI Leg 1 Report - An Emotional Roller Coaster Map data ©2011 Google, Whereis®, Sensis Pty Ltd - Terms of Use We're finally away on our big race. The leg we have just sailed was a tricky one. The race overall was a bit of a emotional rollercoaster as we had a succession of wins and loses tactically. The race start was a great occasion. The Devonport wine and food festival was on ashore. The got a really seriously good gun for the start, which had flame and smoke as well as a massive bang. 'Word' to whoever had the idea to use the howitzer for the race. I hope that it made it back to base safely and wasn't stolen by wine festival party goers. For the start, we decided to avoid the mosh-pit at the pin and try and sneak through to leeward. This would have worked well but the tide had us sweeping down much too fast towards the line and we had to hold up bit to avoid being over early. We were stoked to be away, but left ourselves a bit of work to do after the start (Morale Reading MR = OK). Before we knew it we had hoisted the big chute and gybed off down the Rangi Channel. There was very little breeze and it was one of those patterns where no one good get a lead because they'd sail up to the edge of the breeze and stop. This trend continued all afternoon and it was funny to have every kind of boat, from the biggest and quickest down to the oldest and slowest sailing in a pack. The first big decision came as we approached Tiri Channel. The fleet began to split into two groups - one in the east and one, where we were in the west. There was no breeze at all in the channel and we decided to bail out and switch sides. This turned out to be a good call and when the two groups converged we had a small lead over some of our closest competitors. (Morale Reading MR = Better than Average). We'd managed to get through all the sail changes required in the course of the day well. We calculated ten changes in the course of the afternoon. Every choice worked well for us and we were pleased with our work. It was a hot day however and we were ploughing through our water supplies replacing lost fluids. In the early evening the breeze filled in finally and with a good ten knots of breeze and downwind sailing we could sail in a mode that is very good for Mr. R. We carried the big red spinnaker, nick-named Elmo by Emily, all the way up the coast. We seemed to play the shifts well as we sailed past the Hen and Chicks and up towards Tutukaka. We would have been in very good shape in terms of the race overall at that point. (Morale Reading MR = High). Around dawn we started to lose the pleasant breeze that we had encountered and before we knew it boats were coming around us like space invaders. We managed to wriggle away a couple of times, but our luck ran out and a pack of them managed to pick up a private breeze and extend a mile or so out in front of us. This was a blow, because for the rest of that day it helped a lot to be in front. If you were more north you got best and first use of the breeze while the boats behind wallowed a little. (Morale Reading MR = Frustrated). We had to work very slowly up to Cape Brett in a lumpy sea with very little wind. The combination of no wind to fill your sails and the rocking motion of the swells means it's very hard to obtain motion and keep it. We didn't really find a good set-up to get a rumble on - we tried all kinds of set-ups in the course of the day, but we found every time that sailing high, having the pole-forward and keeping the sail strapped in seemed to be the only way we could keep motion on. Some of our competitors seemed to make sailing in these conditions look easy and others looked as out-of-sorts as we were. As luck would have it the wind kept shifting behind us and we were forced to sail all the way across the face of the Bay of Islands at about 3 knots of speed. All the way we had the banging, flapping and rolling motion - which can drive you a bit nuts. (Morale Reading MR = Breaking out the euthanasia kits). After trying everything to get the boat going to no avail we decided that we should eat and drink. After some rocking filled rolls, pepperoni sticks and a cold beer (we carry some for emergencies like this) everything seemed to be better. (Morale Reading MR = Happy campers). As night was approaching we sailed in towards the Cavalli Islands. We could go inside or outside of these. I'd like to say we were very strategic about the decision, but if anything the breeze made up our mind for us as a wind shift made it tough to go around the outside. We rumbled in towards the Cavalli Passage in a little posse of three boats. As we got in there the other two lost their nerve and tried to tack away. We kept going and we quickly got a little break on them. The wind died as we got to the channel but the tide was flowing through and we had the good fortune of being sucked through on a little 'river' of flowing water. With a nice hot meal, a spectacular combination full-moon-rise and a sunset, plus a small gain we felt that we'd got a lucky break. (Morale Reading MR = Confident like we'd just walked out of an Anthony Robins Seminar). As an evening land-breeze filled in the settled conditions meant we could have some watches and get some decent sleep. We managed to crank it up along the shoreline with our code 0 sail on. When the angles and breeze are right this is a quick set-up and we were really happy to chew up the last few miles. (Morale Reading MR = Stoked and Rested). The finish at Mangonui was a bit of a mine-field for us as we had a few mis-steps trying to pick our way down the shore to the finish. There are a couple of reefs that ended up right in our way and every time we tacked to avoid them the breeze dropped out or changed direction suddenly. We finally made it into the finish around 4am. (Morale Reading MR = Relieved and Pleased). In the wash up we were right in the middle of the fleet. When you consider the ups and downs we had during the race we were pretty content with where we ended up. We now have a benchmark and three more legs to prove to ourselves that we can do better. On the boat we are enjoying a high standard of amenities and catering. Our crew favourite, bacon and egg pie is going down well. We consume mental quantities of chocolate and fruit. The standard of humour is high and we haven't had to repeat any sailing stories yet. I'm writing this at anchor in beautiful Mangonui harbour. We've had a great reception here from the locals. We also had a fortuitous hook-up with Andrew, Jodie and Jack Thompson - friends from Australia who are coincidentally holidaying here this week. Tomorrow we have a briefing at 7am and the race starts again at 10am. We'll have a good sleep tonight and make sure we're ready for a big few days ahead. That's all for now from the good ship Mr. R. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Fineline Fineline Yacht Racing Anchored at Mangonui in time for breakfast. Very slow sailing for the past 24hrs. We got parked up quite a lot and only had 5-6kts of breeze the rest of the time. Lots of sail changes! Not a good result for us but that's only the first leg. Looking forward to rounding North cape in Leg 2. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Mr R 2.5hrs after the start which was a huge 5nm north of Nth Head. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 And a couple of others showing the massive breeze they were contending with. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 couple more, can't leave a 930 can I... even if it is a mongrel rather than a pedigree one Link to post Share on other sites
wal 27 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 So the weather for this leg looks like.... On the wind to Nth Cape On the wind to Wellywood And if my metvuw has it right and they start oooooh Monday night? Tuesday morning? it's On the wind to Napier? Oh what fun for the little boats Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Zen: As usual, fantastic hospitality at Mangonui Cruising Club. There is no other race that brings people together like this one. Everyone’s getting to know each other well and by Napier we’ll all be friends. Stayed with Roger Hall and Nancy who live in Mangonui. Helped Roger in the Mangonui hall fixing sails all day yesterday, Some of them were bigger than the hall floor. It’s all on for a 10am start once we untangle all the boats. Lots of issues last night in what is a very crowded anchorage and the king tides caused problems. We ended up on a mooring. New bag of salt ice for the fridge, gennaker is fixed and have a new house battery. The forecast looks a bit gnarly but as long as that tropical low sticks to the east coast we should be safe. Time to clean off all the shag sh*t and get cracking. Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Great write up from Mr. R!! Keep them coming! Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Report from Overload Leg 1 Auckland to Monganui hi all leg 1 of the round the north island started 19th of feb. overload came of the line low but on time leading out with the front bunch. the race started in a south easterly getting just past Rangitoto before becoming becalmed. The fleet closed together and was sitting waiting for wind, at this stage we knew we were in for a long night. a light 6-8 knot breeze filled in from the south west and the race started again, a group of 4 or 5 of us broke away. during the night we had little sleep each making the most of 20 minite power naps, sail changes kept us busy the whole time with every gennaker seeing the light of day a few times. day break came and we were working a westerly up towards the brett. we spent the whole day crossing the bay of islands and reaching the cavallies just behind karma police, this was the breaking point of the race, navigator matt decided cutting through what looked like a large gap on the gps turning out to be a very little one was a huge gain for us on karma,we were heading to this gap doing 8 to 10s with what we could see white water all the way across,chickening out we pulled the gear down spun around and head back out around the island at this point loosing the possibility of beating the karma police, very disappointing for us but a large learning curve a few WORDS were said and we carried on focusing on making up some time. We finished leg 1 158nm at 18.15 on sunday the 20th being 3rd boat out 40 across the line. we are now well rested and ready for leg 2 starting 10.00 tuesday, unfortunately the weather forecast is not looking good for us with a 20 knot southely the whole way. We would like to thank Kerry Lilly and Paul Young for there help at the Monganui stop over as we couldn't have done it with out them. Also a big thanks to our sponsors, AES (Auckland Engineering Supplies) and PPG paints. leg 2 update to come Thanks from the crew of Overload. Matt & Scott Randell Link to post Share on other sites
Flatkat 1 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Truxton were stoked with their first leg and their on-line position came down to a lucky break at Tuts where they managed to get away a bit from the others. Luck was on their side during the leg but not so much after with a wee hadicap adjustent. Stink, no more bragging rights for me. Better make the most of it now For full reports from the story teller himself and some vids check out fyfesails.co.nz after the conclusion of leg 2. Link to post Share on other sites
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