Grinna 2 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 hehehehe, that's cool. What a cool way to show off, have fun and psych out the opposition all at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites
wal 27 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Done it already Big Ruby, Y11 Intergalactics in the Bay of Islands, round the islands race. We'd wriggled our way to the front then rounded one of the islands - forget which one - parked up in the lee and the whole fleet sailed by a boat length either side and we sat there... and sat there..... as the rest did a horizon job on us. We passed one boat off Brampton bouy then it was thru Kent Passage and up the river to finish off KCC. We were a little down - not much as the Ruby crew were pretty resilient ( meaning bloody rude ) and as we wandered up the river under kite we felt we needed a Defining Moment L4, I think it was, being bowman at the time suggested the Backwards With Kite Up Maneuver which, after a bit of discussion on how to acshully do it, went extremely smoothly. Ruby also had a rudder that swung right round to avoid tank slapping so instead of creeping round the point with our tails between our legs as the opposition so wrongly suspected we come sweeping in backwards, no main, kite up and all standing on the back of the boat pissing ourselves laughing. Occasionally defeated - never beaten We didn't win the contest but we did get our photo in the boating mag Link to post Share on other sites
Absolution 7 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Classic. Love it!! Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Brilliant!! Link to post Share on other sites
Rental 1 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Done it already Big Ruby, Y11 Intergalactics in the Bay of Islands, round the islands race. We'd wriggled our way to the front then rounded one of the islands - forget which one - parked up in the lee and the whole fleet sailed by a boat length either side and we sat there... and sat there..... as the rest did a horizon job on us. We passed one boat off Brampton bouy then it was thru Kent Passage and up the river to finish off KCC. We were a little down - not much as the Ruby crew were pretty resilient ( meaning bloody rude ) and as we wandered up the river under kite we felt we needed a Defining Moment L4, I think it was, being bowman at the time suggested the Backwards With Kite Up Maneuver which, after a bit of discussion on how to acshully do it, went extremely smoothly. Ruby also had a rudder that swung right round to avoid tank slapping so instead of creeping round the point with our tails between our legs as the opposition so wrongly suspected we come sweeping in backwards, no main, kite up and all standing on the back of the boat pissing ourselves laughing. Occasionally defeated - never beaten We didn't win the contest but we did get our photo in the boating mag And from that day on the joke was always that backwards was Ruby's fastest point of sail Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Done it already Big Ruby, Y11 Intergalactics in the Bay of Islands, round the islands race. We'd wriggled our way to the front then rounded one of the islands - forget which one - parked up in the lee and the whole fleet sailed by a boat length either side and we sat there... and sat there..... as the rest did a horizon job on us. We passed one boat off Brampton bouy then it was thru Kent Passage and up the river to finish off KCC. We were a little down - not much as the Ruby crew were pretty resilient ( meaning bloody rude ) and as we wandered up the river under kite we felt we needed a Defining Moment L4, I think it was, being bowman at the time suggested the Backwards With Kite Up Maneuver which, after a bit of discussion on how to acshully do it, went extremely smoothly. Ruby also had a rudder that swung right round to avoid tank slapping so instead of creeping round the point with our tails between our legs as the opposition so wrongly suspected we come sweeping in backwards, no main, kite up and all standing on the back of the boat pissing ourselves laughing. Occasionally defeated - never beaten We didn't win the contest but we did get our photo in the boating mag And from that day on the joke was always that backwards was Ruby's fastest point of sail rumor has it that bits of red stuff are surfacing through the christchurch ooze to f&^#(n haunt you all Link to post Share on other sites
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