Changed 10 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Unfortunately the CC was a DNF. First ime for a long time. We floated around out there until 4.30 and then pulled the plug. We even tried to get the kite up to generate some go forward but just couldn't get headed to the Haystack. Beautiful day with plenty of fish being caught. WT lookos really smart. Link to post Share on other sites
philstar 61 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 yeah great day. massive gamble by big c and wt that paid off big time. At one point the promised westerly seemed to fill in and we got the genny up following b&g thinking we're off, only for it to go glassy 5 min later. and rr was seriously unprepared with no chilled amber necter on board. bottle shops in manly arn't open at 830am!! It was a long thirsty race. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Bump n grinds race went something like this, put the code zero up some time after the start line, furled it and unfurled approx. 29 dozen times, drifted for a bit, lots of pesky sand flies, lots of dolphins, had a rum and motored home. ( nice avatar Phil, I know how much these crewers like to admire how skillfully those young i14 blokes handle themselves in a bit of a blow) Link to post Share on other sites
203 0 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Bump n grinds race went something like this, put the code zero up some time after the start line, furled it and unfurled approx. 29 dozen times, drifted for a bit, lots of pesky sand flies, lots of dolphins, had a rum and motored home. ( nice avatar Phil, I know how much these crewers like to admire how skillfully those young i14 blokes handle themselves in a bit of a blow) Did bruce use the AUTO JORDAN on that motor home? Hey, Arnt you forgetting something here? goes something like thanks luke for coming out and taking photo's of us in the 14... Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 yeah great day. massive gamble by big c and wt that paid off big time. On a hot day with a slight NE breeze, there's only one place to head, and that's NE! Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Second race this weekend... It's looking light again! fingers crossed We need to get one over that Fish character this time Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 I heard that I better go take all that heavy gear off we had on board for the Coastal. Might just leave the really big sails on board Got to get the kauri log to move somehow Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I suspect being the 'light' boat we'll be a prime candidate for safety checks so we'll be sailing with the full kit. Last race we had 60L of drinking water, a full tank of fuel and the fishbin of tools also! We actaully need the weight if there's any kind of chop to punch through. Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Nice sail today. Some wind at least! Thought we sailed a good race on WT today, won the start, no mistakes, a few sail changes and risky jibes etc to keep the boat going. Although our corrected time result doesn't reflect that! 4th on line, 12th on corrected! Link to post Share on other sites
Atom Ant 0 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 You guys looked awesome off the start WT. Good boat speed, we couldnt keep up under motor, although that is probably due to 6 months of growth on the bottom and prop! I was envious of all you guys out there today. Link to post Share on other sites
The Bump 0 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 186&type=1 Here you go racers - check out the pic's taken from Atom Ant on Sunday...... AND yes the Ant DID leave the marina ha ! who would have thought..... Link to post Share on other sites
Changed 10 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Hope to be back sooner rather than later once the mast issues are sorted. Link to post Share on other sites
The Bump 0 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 ....and my rudder issues.....your not alone! Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Great photos. Good to see the Ant is taking the first steps to being back in the game also! It's just not the same without the red boat out there.... WT doesn't half stand out on the start line! Link to post Share on other sites
203 0 Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 When I was going past the mall up top, Looked out, and your boat is the only one I could actually tell who it was! Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted November 18, 2012 Author Share Posted November 18, 2012 Only a week to go until the next B&T race. The last one was a cracker. Dried the boat out today and cleaned the bum, got to make sure we stay in front of those Gulf Harbour boats. Had a great dual with first priority last time, they got through us on the gennaker run, we came in hot to A buoy and did a style first class drop setting the number 1 for the windward single lay to the finish at Arkles, First Priority carried on under gennaker down to McKenzie bouy, which definitely is not A bouy, but was the mark on the course... We set off in hot pursuit slowly reeling them back in, staying high to get over them, then trying to dive under them just out from the finish as they were holding us up. No amount of ducking and diving could open up a lane and we finished square on their transom. Put some time on Riatia to windward and were chipping into Wild Thing's lead but the runway wasn't long enough, did enough to get both First Priority and Wild Thing on handicap though. Good size fleet, circa 18, and agood wide mix of boats, very good fun racing. How many town boats coming up to the tropics for this one? Sunday 25th, 10am, off Gulf Habrbour this time. Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 I'm looking forward to going sailing although I'm not going to look at the results afterwards. We're going to be making up the numbers again unfortunately. Unless of course it's 20kts, aft of the beam the whole way around. Then we will sail to our handicap. Link to post Share on other sites
philstar 61 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 heard a rumour that a bump was going to try some young wild thing this weekend. Link to post Share on other sites
203 0 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Heard that too... So.. a Young bump? Link to post Share on other sites
Kiteroa 8 Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 Really close racing today. A true 10 mile beat up the harbour to Motuihe kept the whole fleet pretty honest. Everyone was pretty close and with a lot of tactical options available, a few of the left hand boats came out really nicely in that last couple of miles. We weren't one of them! And had to work hard to salvage a bit of time with the gennaker up around the back. That went ok and we got up to 3rd behind a could of the big boats. Ended up 4th I think. Awesome day for a sail! Link to post Share on other sites
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