Absolution 7 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Just wondering who's doing this Balokovic Cup on friday. Anyone? Link to post Share on other sites
Quarter Pint 0 Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 Its part of both the Gold Cup and the Southern 600 series so should expect a good number of boats. Would expect anyone that has points in Gold Cup ensure they are there. Pretty sure we will be the smallest boat! Link to post Share on other sites
Crocket 12 Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 Having not been part of the NZ scene for a while, what happened to the Adams cup that the Balokavic was always a part of? Link to post Share on other sites
Changed 10 Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Any one know the actual start time. The Gold Cup and Southern 600 instructions give different times. Link to post Share on other sites
Absolution 7 Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 There is an amendment on the RAYC website.,, 1930hrs for monohulls. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Soooo....... What happened? Link to post Share on other sites
Rockfield 0 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 After some degree of difficulty navigating that bloody dreadful RAYC web site .. I found this page: http://www.rayc.org.nz/nexus-gold-cup-inshore-series/ The provisional Balokovic results are near the bottom of the page. Cheers. R. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Go the Quarter Pint. Seemed to have done good on H/c and kept close to a SR on line, nice work. Wired did a nice 'BMWO' on the fleet. Haven't fitted 2 Amas have they Pretty varied fleet but looks to have been a few bunches of ding dongs going on working off finish times. Weather report anyone? Link to post Share on other sites
Absolution 7 Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 We had a good run Fineline. It was a tight reach with the gennaker to flat rock in 10-12kts of breeze, we made pretty good speed most of the way which got us there in just over 3hrs. We were close enough to the 40fters to see most of them round the mark. Popped our biggest masthead kite after rounding, straight downwind run to cow and calf. The breeze disappeared for a while but built steadily to 15kts the further we went. Hardly any swell to launch off so no big surfs but still sitting at 10-12kts once the breeze filled in max was 14.7kts in a gust. Saw the nav lights of 4-5 boats round cow and calf in front. Got rid of the kite and then settled in for the beat home. The crew worked hard all the way to hold our own. We caught and passed Whitebait about an hour out. Finished about 40mins behind Outrageous Fortune, Cosmic Cruise and Urban Cowboy which we were pretty happy with. Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 197 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Looks like Quarter Pint had a blinder. Sunstone midfleet. Travellin Man bad result, must have had a problem. Link to post Share on other sites
Quarter Pint 0 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 12:00 and somewhere between waking up and being exhausted from last night! Here's our little trip report. We had a great start courtesy of Mike Smith whom we had tricked to do the last race with us; windward of everyone and right on the mark. Not bad seeing we had missed the warning signal and were guessing on the time. Jib top to about rangi and then onto a -sail which we held all the way to flatrock. To us it appeared a lot of the larger boat had gone high to keep pressure in headsails and we sailed through between them and the mark, in front of at least 8 boats. Down hill to cow was somewhat painfull trying to balance some power in the boat and soaking to the mark, still got down there not too far behind the bigger boats. Had never come that way around the cow and almost found the reef that comes out of the end. Then on the wind fo what seems like eternity.. about 7 hours. Did our best to work the shifts through Tam strt but also pushing tide so sailed fat and and as fast as possible with no 2 headsail. The SR26 suffered badly as wind picked up as they were two handed and we sailed through them, they went to a smaller headsail and hung in there but could not get back to us. Some terrible shifts around browns tacked us back almost back towards passage rock and we were thinking the last 14 hours were in vain knowing the big boats would have sailed straight through with-out 20 knots west and tide pushing the wrong way! Finshed at 1129 with several bigger boats close in sight and the Sr behind us. Best thing about the race and series: Doing well in races that are big boat focused/orientated. Worst thing.. hey..being lonely! Great to have the SR26 with us and hoping more small-ish boats do the series next year! Really good fun! Link to post Share on other sites
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