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Jesus, your entry almost drags me out of retirement Adrian.... almost

Go on, bring the Family bus out to take on our Family house bus (we're living aboard at the moment). The boat is still in full Island cruising mode - 400L of Fijian diesel, paddle boards, kayak,dive gear, dinghy, far too much crap, etc 

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Updated entry list below, plan is to have course and start times posted tomorrow night.

 

Timeout Young 88
Anarchy YD37
Atamai First 44.7
Knee Deep II Farr 49
Kia Kaha Vision 40
Team Sex Magic 25
Duty Free Farr 1220
Hotdogger Ross 930
Lady Nada Lavranos 44
Serene Townson 26
38 Special BBW 38
Fun-n-Games Mt Gay 30 (m)
Motorboat II Elliott 10.5
Transformer Elliott 12.8
Chain Reaction Elliott 1050
Sweathog Whiting 26
Bondi Tram Ross 930
T Rex SR26
Cool Change Ross 850
Bizzarre Senior 11.3
Thor Young 11
Force Eleven Young 11
Placido Farr 1220
Lightning Elliott 7.9
Sign It Magic 25
Innismara A class
Fast Company Ross 930
Carpe Diem Elliott 10.6
Elliphunk Elliott 935
Enigma Magic 25
Morgana Townson 10
Systems Thunder Takei 55
Stinger 1/2 ton
Atomic T750
Strike Free Strike 18
 

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Anyone need 2 more crew on Wednesday? 

We're two 30-something cruisers from Seattle visiting NZ and are in Auckland this week. We left our boat on the hard 3 months ago, so it'd be awesome to get out on a boat in the city of sails. We have lots of cruising experience and a bit of casual racing experience.
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Hi people

 

A bit of a mixed forecast this year.  15kts from somewhere between west and north west which is certainly a positive, though some mention of rain, hopefully that's a tiny bit late.  Be a little aware there may be a touch more breeze than the forecasts would have us believe, hopefully not though.

 

Different courses again this year, the short course comes in at about 8.2nm and the longer course 11.5nm.  Am going to try something a little different this year, as you'll see, this year boats will be finishing traveling in an easterly direction rather than the ever popular but rather boring west.

 

As usual, for those starting last on the short course or first on the long course, if you particularly want to sail the other course, let me know and I'll see what can be arranged.

 

 

Short Course :

 

8.2nm:  From the start rounding Orakei to starboard, Resolution to starboard, Bayswater to port, Chelsea to port finishing in an easterly direction between the ODM and the tower.

 

Long Course :

 

11.5nm:  From the start rounding Northern Leading Buoy to starboard, Resolution to starboard, Bayswater to port, Chelsea to port finishing between the ODM and the tower in an easterly direction.

 

The start line is defined as a line from Westhaven tower to the outer distance mark (ODM), the finish line is also a line between the tower and the Outer Distance Mark.

 

Start times shall be signalled with number boards on the tower and we will endeavour to broadcast each start time on VHF ch77.  We expect to coordinate start times using GPS time so starting on your GPS time should work well.

 

Keep in mind people you are sailing under Collregs which do require a higher degree of caution while navigating in close proximity to other vessels.  There are also insurance implications so if close to other vessels, throttle back the racing enthusiasm, no one wants a damaged boat just before their Christmas cruise.

 

Also take care going through the bridge, head versus boom is never fun and the boom usually wins.

 

Any questions, please email me at mmulcare@xtra.co.nz

 

 

Start times, as at 06:00, Tuesday 18 December :

 

8.2nm course :

 

17:48     Serene

17:48     Stinger

17:50     Lightning

17:52     Timeout

17:53     Sweathog

17:57     Bondi Tram

17:59     Hot Gossip II

17:59     Morgana

17:59     Cool Change

18:00 drop dead fred

18:01 Young Magic
18:02 Arohia
18:02     Hotdogger

18:02     T Rex

18:02 Sailor Moon
18:03     Elliphunk

18:03     High Spirits

18:04     Strike Free

18:04     Kia Kaha

18:05     Carpe Diem

18:05     Duty Free

18:05     Placido

18:05 Legacy III
18:05     Thor

18:09     Sign It

18:09     Fast Company

18:09     Chain Reaction

18:09     Team Sex

18:09     Enigma I

18:10     Fun-n-Games

18:10     Waka

18:11     Atomic

18:12 Extreme

18:12 Lady Nada
 

 

 

11.5nm course :

 

17:45     Lady Nada

17:45     Transformer

17:45     Motorboat II

17:46     Bizzarre

17:47     Atamai

17:48     38 Special

17:50     Innismara

17:51     Force Eleven

17:53     Black Pearl

17:58 Mojo
18:02     Systems Thunder

18:04     Knee Deep II

18:04     Anarchy

18:11     Ran Tan II

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Yep, such a fun race. One of these days we'll have to start on time. If anyone picked up our inflatable parrot MOB PM me

We passed it off Devonport wharf, during one of our hundreds of fn wide angle tacks. Considered picking it up, but time was against us- we were already last, and I had an early start this morning.

 

Also, pretty sure it was a corpse by then, wasn't doing much swimming

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