NZ regatta day 2 pics. lots of em.

[John B]

leading on from the other post...
our raft up in the morning
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/p8511ed5278087a1e32457e49a63bdd61/f523a1a1.jpg
Natica, the West Solent , is engineless so we barged her out each morning
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/p104fd36536f71b962526429790c3071c/f523a18c.jpg
We had a terrible start. We decided to put another reef in and were late.
Here's Natica doing the same halfway along the first leg.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/p884f13d67861e4e570e4a7da08fb2e2a/f523a13d.jpg

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[John B]

Kirsty, my wife, is on the bowsprit getting the big jib ready .Mike at the mast. The bow wave is halfway up her leg. LOL.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/p558964d10820a55989491bbae263caa7/f523a16b.jpg

a genuine 9 knot hull wave crests right on the tip of the leeward side of the counter. She sustained it for a couple of minutes and then dropped back a bit with the wave and gusts variation
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/pfcc14b485f2b48c76504e01072202356/f523a15a.jpg

[John B]

In this shot we were watching the log as we surfed the chop and as she crested, I snapped it just as someone called " 10.3!!"
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/p7102fc7a19ac1fab0d7e81bc4f06ab89/f523a11e.jpg
Cassiopea, an Amercan owned cruising schooner gave us big grief on this leg and the reach on the next leg, proving the maxim that theres no substitute for waterline length. As the breeze went on the nose we left her in the distance .
We short tacked up this shore of the Motuhiue Channel against a strong tide and made up some serious ground. About 1/2 an hour after rounding that headland in the photo though, we lost our peak halyard.. a block broke, and we withdrew from the race. Won a bottle of rum for that.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid157/p32c14a74c27e8ea45c4a798f5bc5b7d4/f523a10e.jpg

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[ion barnes]

Beautiful! gorgeous!

[Lucky Luke]

John, what is the spar sitting atop of the main boom???? You do not look like running on storm main with gaff main down, but only on reefed gaff main.
Do you have some "arrangement" for the topsail so that it's boom or sprit can be kept ready, or what? :confused:
Thanks for the pics anyway, as many as you have the patience to post ;) .

[John B]

Thanks Ion. ;)
Hi Luke, yes thats the yard of the jackyard topsail you see. It lives there all the time on those chocks and is captured by the topping lift/lazy jacks. We don't actually use it a lot when we're by ourselves but for racing its good value. We carried it through about 18 knots gusts and we can lug it to windward in about 20. Rawene( if you read both threads and Jase's thread as well) has a more powerful hull and can carry hers through a greater wind range than us.( but we can slip away in 10 or 12 knots or so)

[Concordia..41]

Great pictures, great commentary!

- M

[John B]

How did your sail go Margo?

[Steveh]

You get a bottle of rum for a broken block!!http://www.woodenboat-ubb.com/ubb/icons/icon8.gif
We only get a bottle of bubbly for a broken mast, must be because Spray isn’t a CYA boat. Politics.

And me.. two masts in two weeks. Call me Jonah but bubbly is for the wife. Sends her into a spin then it all comes back up!!!

Sorry no pics but the imagestation is down. Will post some when it’s back up.

And John, well done for the Mahurangi win. Cough cough... I’ve got something stuck in my throat... what was that you were saying

Soooo, whats happening? 01 - 25 2005

Off to mahurangi on friday , sail the course for fun, watch them give the prize to a barge that goes once around the course instead of twice around after hitting the bricks twice because of bad sailing and worse seamanship....all because he’s local.... . But thats the way those events go.

[John B]

So Steve h eh. The typhoid Mary of masts, the terror of oregon pine, the boon of sparmakers and riggers city wide. Is it true that the marine federation is paying you to go on boats now and that the boatbuilders run a sweepstake lottery to see who gets you on which boat?
Nice little earner you’ve got there matey.

About that crewing position ... sorry mate, its been filled.
:D

yes Mahurangi.. what a surprise. all those years we've been going, never won anything there till this year. I'll have to eat my hat.( as they say)