Guest Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 A couple of shorter ones from leg six. Longer one from leg two coming soon... You can change the quality to HD... but if I include the HD bit in the link it doesn't embed... I guess I can include the HD link below the embedded video... Airship passing Whistler: Gucci chasing Blue Magic: Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Clear Vision passed The Guarantee on the final downwind leg... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Wedgetail went home with their tail wedged between their legs. I missed what happened, but noticed them with the main down heading in... they may have been the first of a series of serious wipeouts... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Andiamo had a skid on leg 2... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 The Guarantee flirted with the idea of doing likewise... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 And the leg two video... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Video from Clear Vision, last downwind run near the bottom mark ... We got out on the race course, and were getting set up when we broke a jib car, less than half an hour before the gun. Went to find the spare which we 'never' take off the boat, but none of us could find it. So we went to rig something else - nothing suitable. We guessed that if we phoned Barton Marine (http://www.bartonmarine.co.nz/) Mike's guys would help if they could -- and they did... Ten minutes later, in 20 gusting 26 knots of wind we backed into the big and very solid wharf outside Te Papa with the full main still up (no time to take it down and get to the start on time!), where after some fairly tricky boat handling a box of 'one of these is bound to fit' options was handed to us via a rope-lanyarded bucket from one of the Barton's team that had run half a mile from the shop to meet us with no notice at all. That's service. Then we scampered to the start line, approached from above the port end of the line about 20 seconds late with the Div 1 boats that had already started heading at us on starboard tack, dipped them and the line and started about a minute late. Reward = downwind run in the vid above. NB For the [other] technical purists: kite setup looks odd because the storm halyard had tangled at the top, so we had to fly our red 'Oxygen' storm kite from the fractional halyard NB(2) Thanks Nigel Sharplin for the geat video, and Oxygen Property Management (http://www.oxygen.co.nz/) for the bright red kite. NB(3) Yeeeeeha. Other vids and blog here: http://www.cv-sail.blogspot.co.nz/ Link to post Share on other sites
flynn 0 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 tidy drop... Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Fantastic video Nessie. And AWESOME service from Bartons... I was gutted my memory stick was full at that stage. Your wake was a MASSIVE cone of white water... Link to post Share on other sites
203 0 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 tidy drop... Second that! Link to post Share on other sites
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