Deep Purple

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Results to date are up https://www.ssanz.co.nz/results/

Other fleet elapsed times

Handicapper hates us

Short course elapsed times. Excludes cruising

Overpaid, over sexed and over here. Hard to maintain morale in the trenches where a bunch of yanks are porking your girlfriends back home

Deep purple is ready to go but my mainsail is at north's for a touchup. If they haven't started on it, I could use it as is. Otherwise I need a few days at level 2 or 3 first before level 2 racing

Except you can read a tablet/iPhone with the light out so as not to disturb her indoors

Take the pin out and lower the sail. When you lash the reef point down make sure you take a turn around the mast to stop it pulling out the track

I doubt it. They didn't last year I have my boat but my mainsail is at North's for a tidy up

Why couldn't you lower the sail any more? You may have to take out a slug if that's what holding the main to the mast

........and likely off

Chance in a million

Ahhh bugger, we were too far back to see by that point

What were you on? Yeah the Rogue 2 went awesome upwind. I couldn't believe how they pulled away from a Kerr40

Deep Purple's Race Report Watching the weather forecast every few minutes all week isn't going to change what happens. Breeze-on. Memories of last year NE pounding at the fore but at least this year South-West and calmer seas or so I we thought..... We launched at Bucklands Beach and timed our arrival at the race area to be just in time to start. Reefed main, #2 Jib (really need a #3 for these days. Safe start and hauled the fantastic #willissails fractional and good speed clearing clearing our fleet and across to mix it with the big guys. Crossed gybes a few times with the Rog

4 clubs and pissed off no end actually. Totally unfair system. Obviously you should be able to nominate a club, that club collects your levy seperate from their subscription and passes it on to YNZ. YNZ have the data already. Here's my APP info although 2 clubs don't appear on it for some reason. Squaddy and SSANZ. Note I have a different reference number for each club. But how do you make a change. Half a dozen clubs control the voting power of the AGM and they probably don't care. The 3 little clubs I belong to that struggle the most to retain members at a reasonable subscription l

In a similar vein..... Included in each car/motorbike registration fee is a charge for ACC. If you own 3 cars you pay 3 levies yet you can only be hurt in one car at a time. Should you refuse to pay the ACC content of the other 2 cars?

Yep Loaded up and ready to roll tomorrow #breezeon Not quite as windy a forecast as last year and SW instead of NE

Card??? I have an app. Even Morgans now have an alloy chassis

No you have a YNZ issued CLUB membership card Generally only clubs are members of YNZ but you can if you so wish become a personal member. You will still have a join a club though

Yep, the club's levy, not the members

Standard response is that members aren't levied. The club is levied and that it pays loosely based on its membership. As an individual, you aren't a member of YNZ, the club is. Good luck with changing that

Well that was pretty forgettable 470 sailing would have to be the most stupid looking sport at the Olympic these days.

Isn't that round the wrong way?