Te Kouma race over the weekend

[Guest]

One of the more interesting races in a while. Looked windier than it really was for the start, a lull and the rain stopped for a while tempting people to change up. Then a good 25+ line squall with rain and a steady 20 for the rest of the way to the finish. Some of the biggest waves I've seen for a while.

Well Done to Daggy and crew on Zero Tolerance. They smoked it. And Les on House of Elliot even changed up a size on kites on the run. Otherwise crews were sailing pretty conservatively.

We put in a reef for a little while, and had a great sail. Apart from the fact the crew had drunk all the rum and there wasn't any on board for the coffees.

[Guest]

You ran out of RUM???????????

[Murky 1]

And while it was still coffee o'clock, by the look of things. I am amazed that any boat would continue racing on that basis. I'm sure there have been mutinies for less.

[Duty Free 2]

So is that why you went home Jono--we had the rum --you could have come over in the rain (vertical lines of it ) and had some of ours .

Yes --an interesting sail which my all women crew handled really well ,even if we werent competitive --we all learnt a lot especially how well a 1020 goes with a reef and the number 3 (thanks a to Mike Lanigans advice on that one )--l will need to use that combination more often and its a pity l didn't have this combination going down --it was far windier coming home with a small vicious chop between waiheke and Browns island !!

[Guest]

Daggy couldn't make it, but we enjoyed the race anyway... Few of the boys were a bit pale after sitting downstairs through the light stuff in the Motuihe Channel.