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any one run the predict wind routing ? with the current weather ?

as part of Oracles (32 foot local version) getting back into competitive racing (after winning the recently finished RNZYS wednesday series) we're doing the Tauranga race this weekend, Easter. looked at the weather maps this morning and it still looks like a hard (wet) beat to channel island, then a leisurely reach down to coast to TGA in some nice swells..Looking forward to it !!

yup..... all the above sums it up. oh for a code zero.

more entries, i see that Anarchy is entered single handed now, going to hard to get first online now. looking forward to it.

shaping up to be a good fleet for the Route1. 28 entrants so far ? heaven n' hell and oracle might be pushed to get it online this year. just remains to see if its a SW 10 or NE 5 ?? Communique (Farr 9.2), Wild Oats (Ross 930), Unitec II (Elliott 8.5), Real Deal (Elliott 770), Cool Change (Ross 8.5), Revolution Blues (Ross 830), Voom (Open 8.5m), Sunfast 3600 Racing (Jeanneau Sunfast 3600), Berenice (Mitchinson 39), Taboo (Mckenzie 8.5), Space Station (SR 26), Cordite (Marauder), Wild (Farr 727), Tack Hammer (Tiller 6.5), Oracle (Nelson 32), Waimanu (Townson Twilight), Flojo (Elliott 13.4),

Oracle is in. first solo race for me this season, lets see if i can keep up with the big boats? maybe if the wind turned around and we had a change of getting up big blue? just need someones else's crew to drive my crew car home on sat morning. call glen 027 2232 597

looks like tuesday next week is a good time to not be out

anyone have crew that need to get home after the race and can drive our car back to westhaven? on saturday morning call glen 027 2232 597

josh, solo or fully crewed ?

oracle is going up, just me and the kids, so essentially solo. or even negative solo. see you on the start line, with big blue up.

had a regular crew member pull out with injury for tonights race and require someone capable of keys or mast to come onboard, leaving from westhaven at 1730. call. glen 027 2232 597

thats getting close to an Oracle forecast, needs a bit more puff still and we'll be in.

arrrhh yer me too, instead im building the third floor of my house looking out the window...

looks like a small black boat is coming past now... except it has a real short rig.... oops..!!

HnH about to roll over the cat. and sail out of view from us, however the rest are coming into view now he's smoking... must be averaging 12 knots....

Someone with a blue kite has wrapped it around the forestay. 2 other blues kites now down, HnH still holding his kite making good ground on the others.

just watching them come past east coast bays now.... guess who is in front?... yes heaven n hell as per usual... running a shy blue kite holding it well at the mo...... quite a few ones behind him are making good flags out their kites....

unless anyone has a Raymarine st4000/6000 ram sitting around i could borrow im out for this weekend also... after 8 years great service it broke coming home last friday in 30 knots coming up the harbour. (plastic end cap coming in from aussie next week) So this weekend im working on the house again, architraves and skirtings to be ready for plastering/painting

great work, good to see people getting into doing stuff like this....

Yer its in Oracles future some time aswell....just got a RNI and RNZ to get out of the way first..(once i finish building this house as well) infact my little brother is leading the way .. has spent the last 7 years working towards it. left for tonga last week and is half way there now. remember he used to own race GBE akarana express, that weighed about 900kg, well now he owns a tayana 55 that weighs 30000kg. sold the house and cars and is doing it..!!

great to see all this getting planned and talked about .... real keen on RNZ, on Oracle or something else by then. but isnt solo tasman in 2018 too?. bit of a clash there or is the thinking that those mad enough to do the tasman solo wouldnt want to do RNZ?.. what about 2019 for RNZ. I don't think i have ever planned that far ahead in my life..!!

before and after pic's ?

Your right about boating families.... and priorities when the kids start, we didn't sell the boat. kept the mighty oracle as is a good all round racer cruiser,...but to get into a bigger house we brought an old shitter and have now spent 5 years doing it up.... while cutting out yacht racing but still doing the cruising. (though less than previously.) we are approaching the final stage of the house, third floor and my/wifes bedroom in march next year, thus we are going cat3 racing this year again. i.e. coastal classic etc. like booboo, we have mostly second hand house stuff and the worlds sm

Hey Josh, your right ont he 10m thing, thats why we have stuck with Oracle all these years, she is 9.75 long and 3.5 wide so packs a mighty punch cruising and still keeps up with 1020's racing. i am still thankful i brought her almost 14 years ago now. like you now that my boys are getting older we are looking further afield again. the modifications are still happening too we are currently rebuilding the old rudder. and the next RNI is on the cards again.

good to see you still going. was wondering with no posts for a while. you have taken that boat a few steps further than i did or will with Oracle.... mind you is there a new keel/rudder planned ?