benny14 6 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 From Cam on Twitter... Cameron Thorpe @CameronThorpeWandering Star have suspended racing and pulled into Hick's Bay to resolve engine issues. They expect to resume racing shortly. #2014RNI Looks like they are back racing again now... Link to post Share on other sites
Jon 360 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Finish times Bushido. 01-42-09 Blink. 01-55-54 Focus. 03-45-55 Link to post Share on other sites
Oracle1 21 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 about an hour ago saw white cloud sailing nicely with full sails, going past rangi. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 bugger - from the skeds I see smithy and gav have a broken boom on the marshall law Link to post Share on other sites
Absolution 7 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 bugger - from the skeds I see smithy and gav have a broken boom on the marshall law Bugger... bring out the trisail! Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJohnB 323 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 bugger again smithy and Gavin Link to post Share on other sites
Oracle1 21 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 i wonder how far back they broke the boom.... as pepe seemed to be pacing them all yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 back tracking their yellow brick trace the hour long jumps get shorter form around 0200hrs this morning it's good there all ok and still sailing Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 All that effort to get there and get the good results to date only to be taken out that close to the finish. The Marshall lads must be gutted, hell I am and I'm only watching. At times racing yachts can be a total arse. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 All that effort to get there and get the good results to date only to be taken out that close to the finish. The Marshall lads must be gutted, hell I am and I'm only watching. At times racing yachts can be a total arse. yip it sure can! but Smithy has no excuse with this... Remember the 6 Ps. Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance" on the bottom of each post? Link to post Share on other sites
Grinna 2 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 The problem is, you can prepare all you like but the unexpected is still not expected to happen. Smithy has spent a lot of time, energy and money on spars in the last couple of years and that boom has been looked at by several professionals in the rigging industry, but still ....... Hindsight is 20/20 but the unexpected is still unexpected. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 The problem is, you can prepare all you like but the unexpected is still not expected to happen. Smithy has spent a lot of time, energy and money on spars in the last couple of years and that boom has been looked at by several professionals in the rigging industry, but still ....... Hindsight is 20/20 but the unexpected is still unexpected. Did the professionals crack test it? If many people have looked at this then there must have been some kind of concern. Maybe it was all ok and something freakish happened in the race?. Booms take a beating and huge loads just aft of the kicker tang. Bugger Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 at this mornings sked smithy and gav were just below cuvier is, close to pepe and notorious there traker trace stops at 0200 Hopefully there getting along ok - maybe in by 1800 Link to post Share on other sites
sow1ld 2 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 In some ways its better that it happend now close to home at the end of the rni on a leg where they where kinda out the back door rather than on any of the legs before. The boom may have been 100% fine but broken from a crash gybe gybe or plowing into a big wave all the inspections in the world aren't going to stop the unexpected! And really who knows we arent there! Link to post Share on other sites
Oracle1 21 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Tough on Pepe at the moment by the looks ... so close to home and no wind now?... they have been making slow work in the last few hours. both my son's favorite boat in the race..... yes they follow it every morning and night on the trackers... they wanted blink to win this leg (but my favorite Bushido won..!) Link to post Share on other sites
waikiore 398 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 If Pepe can lay through north of Rangi they may still pip the boat in front in the current breeze..... Link to post Share on other sites
B00B00 310 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 yes its been a a very painful day on pepe..... watching our hard earned lead on div 4 evaporate. nice 8kt northerly now. just peeled from gennaker to spinnaker and soaking down rangi shore inside marshal. Link to post Share on other sites
Oracle1 21 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 yip, i can confirm, just spotted pepe and marshall law from our deck. albeit it still look to be moving slowly... im sure theylll be plenty of rum tonight..! Link to post Share on other sites
eighty8 1 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 so does it look like Notorious has done well up the Motuihe channel ? Link to post Share on other sites
Jon 360 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Finish times Bushido. 01-42-09 Blink. 01-55-54 Focus. 03-45-55 Wedgetail 05-23-27 Laissez faire2 05-35-10 Fiction. 08-05-18 Overload. 08-14-13 Django. 08-22-35 Gale force 09-15-07 White Gold 09-23-27 Coppellia 10-13-20 Truxton 14-12-27 Notorious 19-36-38 Marshall Law 20-41-54 Pepe. 20-48-50 Berenice. 23-58-22 Midnight Express 00-00-32 Montego Bay 3. 00-15-29 Cool Change. 01-29-17 Duty Free. 04-35-53 Assassin. Wanderingstar Link to post Share on other sites
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