erice 732 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 One awesome way to finish up the summer! A hot fine Saturday afternoon on the sparkling Waitemata harbour. We were only out for a few hours, but chased and almost caught the Green Death Trap on the way home. We saw a top speed of 12 knots just west of the naval dock. Pretty surprising considering the wind was only about 10 knots and the boat needs a scrub. haha i'll chalk that up as our first victory then we did see you coming up the harbor proudly flying your OEM pinhead have just bought Capricorn from Simone + Andrew and yesterday was them showing my how to sail it with close to a combined age of 100? i don't think Cap and i will be racing in the 8.5m class not this first year anyway as she gets optimized for solo use + i remain scared of hoisting the assym solo don't you love those Tucker beams will have to start thinking of selling vindil and finding a good small multi mooring in okahu Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madyottie 82 Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 Haha thats one for ya. It was our first actual family sail where the weather played ball. Not much screaming from the littlies and the eldest daughter actually enjoying it. Baby slept on the tramp wrapped in my jacket for the ride back up. Apparently the old pinhead still has some drive in it, although probably last thing on my job list is shape the battens, even after the gennaker and reef points Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madyottie 82 Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 And congrats on the new toy. Our combined age is soo much lower, only about 80! Hope to see you out there a whole lot more Quote Link to post Share on other sites
erice 732 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 good to see you out there only mentioned the main as thought it was voom from a distance until noticed it was pointy at the top lucky you to get the family out 1 of the reasons i gave up multi speed for keeler comfort was for the family but it seems that what i consider an affordable keeler they don't consider a comfortable one so if going to be saling solo it may as well be quick shouldn't be hard to double range Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex TL systems 63 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 welcome back its always more fun to be able to slow the boat down to 7 knots instead of having that as a almost unattainable target! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
madyottie 82 Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 Funny thing is, family were quite happy in the little 16 foot trailer yacht, being pushed hard, even in quite nasty manukau stuff. I think part of the problem now is the chaotic water thrown up by all the launches and ferries, so once we get past north head things should improve. Especially once I get Gina a drysuit, she's not keen on the "rising damp" when the waves hit the outboard pod. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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