Guest Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Anything of interest for Kiwis in this years event? Link to post Share on other sites
Marshy 30 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Outrageous Fortune from NZ has headed across the ditch to do the race? See latest boating Magazine. Otherwise there are as per usual alot of Kiwi's heading over to sail. Booboo from Norths, AP from Doyles and plenty more... Link to post Share on other sites
B00B00 310 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Yup AP, brooker and I are sailing on the TP52 Freefire from Hong Kong. the owner has brought a new one for Asia and sent the old one downunder. A friend of mine is chartering it for the hobart race. Im off very early tomorrow morning. Cheers Josh Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Have a good one brother! and all the best to the O.F. team! Link to post Share on other sites
smithy09 50 Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Good luck Josh! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I am sailing on the Beneteau 45, Victoire Link to post Share on other sites
203 0 Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Bugger, Cant even follow it this year In fiji for new years and have no internet. Guess you lot will have to put all the updates on here so when im back I can read them Link to post Share on other sites
B00B00 310 Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 I am sailing on the Beneteau 45, Victoire Nice one, you guys are just down the dock from us. Come and say hi, I'm the big guy on the boat. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 23, 2011 Share Posted December 23, 2011 i know who you are booboo, doesnt everyone? I am not at the CYCA until the race morning, have been there enough lately, will be on the boat about 730 race morning, come say gday. Scott Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 From Outrageous Fortune: "found a crack in the starboard spreader, reinforcing with ali strap - hope it holds or we will lose the rig" Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 http://tvnz.co.nz/sailing-news/outrageous-fortune-boat-set-hobart-after-repairs-4668525 update: "All fixed, Boyd used 3mm alloy and riveted it round the spreader. Strong as bro. Have found cracks on all spreaders. Apparently it is a Beneteau problem. They solve it by putting boots in." Link to post Share on other sites
Marshy 30 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Not an uncommon problem with those masts. If i remember rightly Northern Rebel had the same thing when it arrived in Vanuatu and Beneteau replaced the spreaders. Its the way the spreader bars are setup and it cracks the bolt holes. Seems like they have the fix sorted now so go hard boys! When they first got there i put them in touch with a local rigger who looks after VicSails Beneteaus and he was going to do a rig tune etc so hopefully he helped get it sorted. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 I'm sailing on Minerva tomorrow. I wish all crew.org members competing good luck - except skipper_nz, ony because we're really sick of looking at Victoire's stern! The forecast is for quite a tough race - initially heaps of breeze - then none. It's good always to have heaps of kiwis doing the race, even if there is only one Kiwi boat. Merry Christmas everyone. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 There is live coverage of the start which is going to be awesome. I havnt found a link as of yet but heres the paragraph saying that it will be online Seven’s live coverage begins from 12.30pm AEST Boxing Day and for the fourth year in a row, the event will also be webcast live via Seven’s online partner Yahoo!7 worldwide. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 OKAY. I think this is the link to watch it live. http://au.sports.yahoo.com/videos/live-stream/ coverage starts at 2;30pm kiwi time Link to post Share on other sites
chic014 0 Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 I think this is the direct link to the stream. Hasn't started yet though http://au.sports.yahoo.com/videos/watch ... /11030897/ Link to post Share on other sites
ballystick 73 Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 It looks like Ffreefire is 1st on IRC 1 at present - Booboo's and AP's ride?? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 A flying Fifteen leading, how unusual! Link to post Share on other sites
Quarter Pint 0 Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 The OF guys doing quite well! Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 wild thing retired... Link to post Share on other sites
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