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What a wild five years I've had 😃 but it's time to turn my focus to something new. Boat's been listed on Facebook-land for a few weeks but I've had a few recent messages saying they hadn't seen it, so expanding the reach of my listing to make sure I'm capturing the NZ market without paying exorbitant TM fees. I'd love to see the old girl stay in New Zealand waters but it is not looking good. If you're keen to keep the multihull spirit strong in our fair country, please reach out! https://www.facebook.com/groups/196548290924954/posts/1550698342176602/

Fervently hoping one or more inspectors stay on in northland for raceboat inspections , hell any of the regions outside of Auckland for that matter .

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Had a conservative start but were looking good until the mass park up event. At one stage we were drifting backwards towards rangi light... Phil on Feedom sailed up close enough to give us some banter before they too ended up parked 😅 Then it was a couple of hours of Snakes and Ladders, instead of holding one type of sail and chasing breeze all over the place we opted to aim straight at Haystack and just keep changing sails as the breeze did it's thing. It paid off with us smoking into the mark with masthead Genny up in front of our fleet before having to douse the kite, aim tow

This one is a shocker

Talk us through your day Nigel. I jumped on Serena to fill in for one of the owners who couldn't make it. Bloody cool boat and we managed to win the long haul division. Big park up under Rangitoto that took a few hours to negotiate but overall a really nice day on the water. Thanks to Brendan on Kick (Kick ass) for taking my 14 year old as crew for this series.

Or not 🤣

I've done the "just go sailing" vs the "refit" recently-ish.... We bought CT in what could be described as bloody tired but not yet dead condition. It was the biggest boat we could afford at the time (family of 5) that was structurally sound and had a good few of the expensive parts replaced. She was bloody ugly thou... but we had a boat that we could take the kids away on and make family memories. Our first trip away was 11 days over Christmas/New Year up to the BOI's and included an overnight at the Hen & Chick's where the snorkeling/ diving was epic. It may not sound like much of a

1971 One Ton Cup in Hauraki Gulf Syd Fischer, Alan Warwick...Stormy Petrel, Young Nick etc