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Looking like a big day out saturday with the current forcast.

Going to be interesting what pans out.

 

Looking forward to getting back out there.

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Windguru has about 20 gusting 30 through most of Saturday with it being east at 9am and gradually coming round to the south as the day goes on, then about midnight going past south around to the west gradually through the early hours of the morning.

 

Sounds a little like it could be close hauled heading out into the easterly, then fairly tight coming back into a southerly as well :?

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Well I would say there is big potential for a decent ass kicking out there tomorrow. I imagine shorthaul will be doing coursee 2 which will hopefull provide us with a fast ride to Motuora and a flogging from flat to shag. my guess is flat rock is not going to be a nice place tomorrow. hopefully we get to shag rock before the breeze swings to far south so we get some gear on down the outside of waiheke.

im thinking it will be very puffy maybe squally with over 30kts at times late afternoon but I dont think it will be bad in the morning.

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Viewed from a secret lair in The Tropics, looks like the first cat is just rounding Motuora at 11:40 - can't see much, its misty grey and damp. It was moving very fast and had a square top main, very high aspect ratio.

Can't see any other boats, not because they aren't out there but cause its grey and misty!

 

In other news, my fire is warm and cozy - might throw another log on it while I wait for the short haul fleet to come through Tiri Channel :D

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Reports have Candala (Whiting 29) and Rafferty Rules (R780 tweaked) had a coming together and Rafferty is now rigless. All crews are reported to be OK.

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Reports have Candala (Whiting 29) and Rafferty Rules (R780 tweaked) had a coming together and Rafferty is now rigless. All crews are reported to be OK.

 

 

Bugger......That sucks. Glad everyones allrighy

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Both boats are back safe. Rafferty does not have rig standing up any more. Totally our bad we did not see them at all. Know they were around but the last cross they a lot further ahead and never thought we would catch that fast.

 

We just clipped they back quarter with our prod but must have caught their back stay and pulled there rig down. I think we were really lucky they were not a little further back as I don't think a Whiting 29 going into the side of a Ross 780 would be very good at all.

 

Rafferty did a great job of getting their boat sorted and I would like to send them my apologies for not being more vigilant with our watch.

 

Does that get my an entry in the oh #$!@ awards??

 

Cheers

Candela

 

Ps we were catching bays flyer at a great rate at that point to :(

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thanks for the post james. Its a good thing my wife doesn't know who you are :D :D .

We were cruising along nicely and had crossed in front of Candela on the last cross. We were on staboard and I was just thinking I should have a squiz under the boom. When F$%k me where did they come from. Almost got away with a touch and a bent stanchion when I noticed our leeward runner was snagged on their prod. Mast turned into an auto derig folda mast real quick.

So the damage report is;

Mast snapped just below the spreaders and bent the top section. The lower wire runner and masthead dyneema runner both broken. Small puncture hole in the hull where a spreader punctured , 2 bent stanchions. forestay fitting bent, ripped main.

 

Rafferty Rules will live to fight another day. Although my simrad is screwed and probably my winter series as I have a race next weekend :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

Thank god they didn't T bone us. Hats off to the guys on Candela they immediately pulled out of the race and stood off to make sure we were ok while we tidied up.

Gotta be more vigilant on those port/starboards!!

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After the debacle at the start of the last race I noticed the race committee had wisely laid the line with a heavy bias to the pin end to avoid another pile up at the committee boat.

We opted for a leeward pin end start and got away cleanly with a good start below but advanced on the fleet. We had the fractional code zero (FRO) set and were a bit underpowered but had done this deliberately so we could do an easy peal to the masthead gennaker through Motuihe passage. We actually peeled to the masthead gennaker slightly earlier than I had though just after Islington beacon and sailed through the passage with a nice angle. The breeze then went right forward and we struggled to lay the next point but just got around and then peeled to the masthead spinnaker for the run down to tiri. I thought that if the breeze was currently the most ‘right hand’ that it would be there was a chance it was going to swing back to the left (east) so I wanted to get a gybe in early, it also looked light under rakino so I wanted to avoid that. We were the first to gybe and carried on for about 10min then gybed back. We seemed to make a small gain out of that so decided we would want to be the first to gybe back to port further down and be inside on the left hand turn to Motuora. We did our gybe about halfway down, At first it looked good but once we gybed back Shreks house and pawn broker had made a small gain, hard to tell if they were just faster as the breeze had built slightly to around 10-14kts or if we had actually lost out. Pawn broker was definitely slightly quicker and rounded Motuora first. Us and Shreks house went around together and had a good little battle down the island under tight kites both dropping together and beam reaching towards Flat rock in around 15-18kts of breeze. We had the Fractional Zero(FRO) on which seemed to be working well and we slowly crept away from Shreks house and started gaining on pawn broker who were about 2-300m in front. It was pretty lumpy at flat rock but nowhere near as bad as I thought it was going to be. We went around there a few minutes behind pawn broker with shreks house about the same back from us and all sheeted on for the long beat to Shag island. My plan was always to go right anticipating a eventual and gradual right hand shift and I wanted to be inside the turn. It took us a long time to get into the groove and shreks house slowly overtook us. I was still learning the boat and what makes it go and it seemed with to struggle with the big squaretop main when you were overpowered, easing the sheet then gave lee helm so we took a reef and suddenly the boat was off and felt good. Lesson learnt, only blowing 16-20 but with a bit of a seaway the reef was certainly a gain. We had lost around 300m going slow before that and the Pawn Broker had really sailed away from us. They were Very fast upwind, I think they have water ballast which would have helped a lot to and its a very powerfull boat. We knew we would not catch them but they give us a fair bit of time on handicap so I was not too worried. We carried on way to far on starboard heading towards Corromandel, partly due to mucking around getting the boat in the groove and partly due to a tactical/nav blunder (visibility very low and thinking we were pointing higher than we actually were) but eventually tacked onto port and almost straight away got a 20 degree right hand shift- not ideal.... We lost a bit of time to the right hand boats but not drastic and I felt we needed to cut our losses and get back right so carried on and tacked inside them but still under the lay for Waiheke setting up for more right hand pressure. We tacked just before tiri island. Slowly the breeze clocked right and the last part was an easy lay and being able to press on it slightly. I always wanted to be in close to hooks bay and the waiheke shore as I thought the breeze would be coming straight out of the firth of thames but with big right handers out of the bays along waiheke shore and a right hand breeze out of Waiheke channel meaning you could lose a huge amount if not in close. I think that was right, it was hard to tell in the dark but I did see a few boats further out that were low and had to tack back to shag, where as we actually eased sheets into shag and tacked right on the island. That section along waiheke shore was pretty uncomfortable with a very lumpy sea and some big puffs coming off the shore. Probably still under 22kts breeze but wind against tide. We decided to set the fractional gennaker for the leg back down to Thumb point which was the wrong call initially as the breeze had lightened but I think it worked out Ok as it tightened up and we carried it right across hooks bay and peeled to the FR0 for the reach across to rakino. Our wind gear had died long before but I guess the wind was around 16-18kts and 60-70TWA. A reefed main and FRO seemed to be working well and we caught up a big cruiser in front and extended from the chasing pack of boats. The breeze slowly headed and built and we were quite overpowered, in hind sight we should have gone back to a outboard sheeted jib earlier but hung in with the FRO maybe a bit too long. Dropped that and went back to the jib under Rakino and set up for the beat to Rangi light, at this stage the wind was probably around 16kts. We had both the hanse 40s steadily gaining on us on the reach and now starting to mow us down, its always disheartening to have boats gaining from behind but once we worked out who it was we were pretty happy, they seemed to be having a really great close race exchanging tacks and never more than a few boat lengths apart. It was good to watch in the middle of the night after a long race, they quickly sailed away from us. The tide was just about to turn and start coming out so I thought the rangi shore would be the best, we chucked a few tacks in left and came out right on rangi light and tacked into the harbour. I think this was good but it was hard to tell with no one around us. We laid right through just above bean rock and went right inshore out of the tide which was starting to flow pretty strong now. From there we laid into the finish. We knew we had gone OK against the rest of our fleet but were not sure how far ahead Pawn Broker was. Final results have us 2nd on line and 1st on handicap. A good result which puts us first in our division with a 1st and 2nd.

For me the notable performer in our fleet was Damon on the Motorboat once again. It was a big boat race and they sailed very well to take a 3rd. Now we are only 1 point ahead of them in the series, its all on for the last race!

Not sure if I still want to lend him my big kite for the last race now.....

Massive thanks to the SSANZ team who had a very late night on the committee boat.

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Couple of shots of Gale Force kicking our butts after the cow and calf. Nice boat and well sailed. Bit of a moment after Gannet boys?

 

Man, thats an old chute! That was new when I sailed on it about 10 years ago! Still looks ok mind you...

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