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I did a mission down to Rotorua to take my 3.5year old to rainbow springs and the luge. We camped with my brother and cooked dinner in a natural thermal oven, lamb shanks and veges, tasted like a hungi, it was great. Highly recommended. Needed a few hrs to cook though. The young fella loved it. Then back just in time for the SR nationals.

Man there were some loud people at Motuihe on saturday night.....

Ha classic! I spotted Bill out there but didn't know who was on the 2 to tango. You guys were getting along nicely. Shame the breeze crumped out at tiri. Sitting on my bean bag reading the paper and listening to some good music in the shade of the boom tent was pretty nice. Keeping the sun of the kids is also a feature. Mainsails are overrated!

Fitted pressure hot and cold water to the marauder, even have a shower on the back now!!

For starters just play with the forestay. Get a base setting for about 10-12 kts and go 5 turns on for big breeze and 5 turns of for very light, and adjust as nessisary for the in between breeze. You cant adjust while racing but do it between races. Allways know where you are with it, normally you just talk about it as '+1' as one turn on and so on and keep talking about it and where you are at all day. You need to go back to base at the end of the day. Have a small bit of batten with marks on it to line up if you loose where you are. This will make a massive difference to your pointing an

Did the first ever rum race on the SR26 'Motorboat'. Put the boat on the grid at stillwater and changed the prop then sailed the boat down on sunday to its new home in westhaven. Full marks to Bri-ski props for modifying my spare folding prop for me in a day and for very cheap! Got the pitch and diameter reduced and now its PERFECT.

you got any more photos from the finish boat? I saw some one had the camera on us (Rental) as we came into the finish out of control.

Sorry Tim I did promise you photos and a video. Here is all the footage put together. The stuff of you guys doesnt look all the exciting but in many ways i think that is really good, it shows how effortless the boat goes fast and just how much faster it can go, where as my boat looks like its at terminal velocity at around 18-20kts! http://www.youtube.com/user/BooBooNZ#p/u/6/TQRypEWiP_A