Auriga_crew

True that. After we got away from the park up at the start we had a good sail up to Kawau, boat loping along just as it did 45 odd years ago with wind a little forward of the beam. We had been watching what was happening ahead and Predictwind was telling us that when we got to Cape Brett (4.00am-ish) we could expect wind in the high 20s with gusts in the high 30s and rain. We also new that there would be a big confused sea running as it had been blowing easterly for some time. And so ... four guys with average ages closer to 70 than 60, after much discussion, said: "You know what, we have no n

Ok. I will flesh this out when I have more time but the gist of the story is: Auriga was built in the front yard of a family home in Glendowie - bare fibreglass hull built by Keith Eade I became connected after it was launched as my family and their family spent Christmas holidays in the same camping ground in Coromandel After sailing back from Coromandel to Auckland I was invited to join the crew for Wednesday night racing in Bucklands Beach One thing lead to another and the team ended up, over the next few years, sailing the boat to Gisborne, then Suva, Port Vila, L