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RaceTrack
- unofficial NZ boat ranking
All available T30 results from the New Zealand. RaceTrack is
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on how much quicker (or slower) one yacht is to her competitors.
RaceTrack list include
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T30
"Demonstrator" - New Zealand
"UnderWorld" - New Zealand
T30 Proto
"Wairere" - USA
"Drinks Trolley" - New Zealand
"Foundation"- New Zealand |
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25/1/2008
- T30 Proto "Wairere" finished 2nd in the PHRF 1 at the Key West 2008
Pete Hunter: "...the extra upwind leg is killing us against
the longer boats. 1st race we were fouled by Farr36 at finish,
would have finished 1st in that one. Boat is still considered
by many to be one of the coolest boats here."
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10/1/2008
- Xmas 2007 "Demonstrator"
Cruise
 "We've
just had a bloody good time away on the boat so I've written
a little missive about it with some photos."
The Christmas cruise came about as the result of a nice piece
of subterfuge actually. The skipper of my partner's girls team
she sails with made a quiet suggestion a few weeks before Christmas.
"Why don't you bring 'Demonstrator' up to Kawau for New Year"
she asked, "Then maybe we can race the boat in the New Year's
Day regatta??."
Ah Haa! The plot thickens. I thought it was a great idea so
with a bit of fevourish activity unloading racing sails and
loading up with food, booze, bunk cushions, booze, dinghy, outboard,
booze, boom tent etc and, as an afterthought, some booze, we
were sorted.
We were headed for Kawau Island, about 30 miles north of Auckland.
Kawau is just one of the many islands we have in the Hauraki
Gulf and an absolute jewel. Bon Accord Harbour is a deep cove
lying approximately East/West and is deep enough to take many
hundreds of boats at a time. Anchor holding is pretty good in
all weathers except a howling westerly but there are enough
'hidey holes' to shelter in.
I was initially skeptical that all the gear we had brought would
find a home but staggeringly it did, eventually. I do remember
many years ago looking at the pile of gear lying beside our
16 foot Hartley trailer sailer and thinking the pile was bigger
than the yacht but it all stowed away.
We originally had planned to stay away for maybe 4 days so we
catered for 6 - then stayed away for 8 days in all, due to the
fabulous weather we experienced. Often at this time of the year
the summer weather patterns haven't settled but this season
continues it's strangely quiet characteristic. This period's
newspaper and tv headlines are usually all about windblown tents,
washed out camping grounds and dragging anchors but not this
year fortunately!
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crew comprised myself, my partner and our not-quite-8-year-old
daughter, a scurvy crew indeed. We had a glorious sail with
the wind aft of the beam all the way up, covering the 30 miles
in a bit over 3.5 hrs under full main and just the #3 jib -
not wanting to overexcite the wee girl. She has done quite a
bit of sailing but so far we've been easing her into the fact
that boats do jump around a bit when the breeze gets up a little
and making sure we don't scare her off. I remember as a little
tacker on our 22' double ended Woollacott being terrified out
sailing on the Waitemata Harbour, the waves were all huge and
I would have sworn we were going to capsize every minute or
so. It's a wonder I finished up doing as many miles as I have
to be honest.
We spent most of the time based in Bon Accord, doing day trips
to beaches at Bostaquet Bay on the south coast, Vivian Bay on
the west and Sandy Bay, round on the east coast of the island.
We were traveling with friends, and their 2 little girls (my
girl's "sisters") aboard their 13.5m pilothouse cruiser so most
of the entertainment involved beaches, bush walks looking for
wallabies and swimming - when it wasn't all about hair, makeup
and dolls, no boyfriends yet!
The boat handled the cruising environment with ease. The cooker
did its job well, we had plenty of battery power and with the
drop down table making a good sized double bunk it was very
cosy. Little girl took up residence in the starboard quarter
berth and rattled around in there with heaps of space for her
'family', books and as many toys as we allowed her to take.
The only real excitement we had was on New Year's Eve. I was
still up and around luckily for at about 3.45 am there was a
loud CRASH from the bow. I raced outside to find a 32 foot launch
wrapped around our bow. The breeze had picked up rapidly from
the east with a fresh little line squall with attendant rain,
nice! My partner and I are there busily fending them off and
trying to wake the owners. Eventually they arrived half awake
wondering what was going on but after my girl had given them
both verbal barrels they got their act together and started
the motor. Once we'd pushed them off I started our motor just
in case, which was a good move as their boat had indeed torn
our anchor out of the mud and we had to re-lay further up the
bay. Luckily we had no damage to our bow and all we missed out
on was an extra hour's sleep, which I could rather have done
with considering the race we had coming up later in the day.
The race itself was a lot of fun, the breeze which, while quite
fresh for a short period earlier, had settled to about 10 knots,
just enough for our shorthanded crew of 4. The race was around
Kawau Bay, between Kawau and the mainland across to Snell's
Beach, Algies Bay and Sandspit, the closest ferry call to Kawau.
We finished second behind a forty footer so we were very happy
with the day's sail. Nowhere on handicap as usual, I don't know
where the bags of gold bullion I send to the handicappers go
to, although I must say they all have very nice boats. Is there
something I'm missing?
 After
all this time it became obvious we were about to experience
a very deep and meaningful human tragedy, yup we were just about
out of coffee. Oh, the inhumanity! Although the very good Kawau
Island Yacht Club with its fuel and water dock, bar and small
caf? did a very nice long black with milk on the side and one
sugar please, we were just about tuckered out with all the activity,
necessitating a trip back home for a rest.
We had decided to stay an extra, extra day as the breeze outside
was virtually nothing, and all from the south i.e. smack on
the nose. This would have meant a long boring day motoring or
ghosting along under sail so, as the forecast for the next day
was a 15 knot easterly we decided to stay overnight. So it proved,
the following day did indeed cough up the said breeze which
gave us a beam reach across to the channel between Tiritiri
Matangi Island, off the tip of the Whangaparaoa Peninsular,
where we had a small right hand turn for the slightly aft of
the beam 2 sail reach all the way in to Auckland.
All in all a fabulous week away, the boat went very well, Mummy
and Daughter had a wonderful time, great weather, a fun race,
yummy scallops but no decent sized fish, alas. We advertise
the T30 as a boat you can happily go camping on and it's all
true, you can, and thoroughly enjoy it! "
I've got heaps more shots of the cruise but these show a
bit of mummy sailing the boat (see it's easy), the
boat at anchor (note extremely hi tech boom tent) and a
messy interior (damn - the maid's late again!!) shot. |
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| 19/12/2007 - "Demonstrator" New Interiour
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Wally T30NZ "Demonstrator" - New Zealand: |
17/11/2007
- Brin Wilson Memorial Race
 The
Brin Wilson Memorial Race, race 3 of the 2007 Nexus Gold Cup series,
is a 60 nautical mile night race around the inner islands of the
Hauraki Gulf outside Auckland. Starting at 7.30 pm, it was an
ideal length course to introduce my young crew to the intricacies
of night sailing. As we had already competed in the 2007 125 mile
a few weeks earlier it may have seemed a little late but during
the it was apparent that the young 'uns needed a little tuition
on both diet and how to stay awake and alert!
The course took us north to Navy Buoy in Whangaparaoa Passage,
about 15 miles out from the start off Orakei Wharf in Auckland,
back up towards Auckland leaving the iconic volcanic cone of Rangitoto
Island to port, then heading east down through Motuihe Channel
between Motutapu Island and Waiheke Island leaving Waiheke to
starboard. Up through the 'Bottom End' of Waiheke through the
Waiheke Channel leaving Passage Rock to port and back home in
a westerly direction into Auckland Harbour to the finish off Westhaven
Marina.
The forecast looked as though we were never going to have much
breeze, and so it proved, with a maximum of 10 knots during most
of the race - and a minimum of not-very-much-at-all in the wee
small hours of the morning. Mainly from the south too, which is
not a usual direction for us here. Our prevailing wind is southwest
and at this time of the year (Spring) we can expect plenty of
fresh conditions. This year has been unusually light, with breeze
from all directions.
We had a cracker start, on the windward end of the line with good
speed and clear air above the big boats in the fleet. It was apparent
early on that we were going to pace the big boats quite easily
so we were extremely pleased to find ourselves leading the fleet
under masthead genniker halfway out to Whangaparaoa. The leading
boats comprised 'Carrera' (Marten 49), 'Power Play' (Cookson 39),
'Lovealuck' (Elliot 12), 'Kiwi' (Jim Young 42) and the much traveled
'Starlight Express' (Davidson 55). I raced on 'Starlight' for
several years, including the 1994 Sydney to Hobart Race. We also
knew we were likely to be pushed on handicap by the Davidson 36
'Stratocaster'. 'the Strat' was built many years ago by Tim Gurr
(lately chief boatbuilder for Alinghi) and has always been a good
performer in light conditions. As we like to enjoy ourselves while
racing we celebrated by hoisting a couple of coldies from the
icebox - mainly to reduce weight of course and after all it was
Friday night. Further up the breeze headed us slightly and increased
which worked well to lay us down towards the mark. At this stage
'Carrera' slipped past us but we were still second boat to Whangaparaoa,
and very happy we were too!
On the wind back up towards Rangi gave the big boats a chance
to crawl back into us, which they did, but we had good boatspeed
and it took them all quite some time. 'Carrera' seemed to have
taken off as we lost sight of them in the blaze of lights surrounding
the city and suburbs but we still had a good sight of the rest
of them. Behind us we couldn't see any of the rest of the fleet
doing much to us on the wind so we knew we were going pretty well.
Once we got to windward of Rangitoto we hoisted the masthead genniker
again for the run down to the western end of Waiheke through Motuihe
Channel. When we passed the end of Waiheke we had a small right
hand turn which gave us a very shy reach, still under masthead,
for the next 8 miles down to the turning point at the eastern
end of Waiheke, leaving the gannet colony on Gannet Rock out to
port of us. Gannet Rock was a radio call in point so we were keen
to find out who was behind us, and how close they were. Unfortunately
we couldn't hear from anyone. We had 2 lights way back in the
distance and we knew we were likely to be walking away from anyone
back there while the boats in front weren't racing away from us
either. We thought at this stage we might be right in this race!
 By
this stage it was after midnight but the boys were going very
well and we were rotating the helm and trim to keep everyone involved.
This is a sure way of keeping the crew alert as I have often found
racing longer distances, especially at night. We had to wriggle
our way up through the Waiheke Channel fighting a dying breeze
and outgoing tide. We were down to 1.5 knots on the GPS but never
saw the 'row of eggs' at all. We figured one of the two lights
behind was the 'Strat' but couldn't quite work out which was the
other. It turned out later it was 'Zora', a new Salona 45 cruiser/racer
from Croatia. It was a long night getting up to the turning point
inside Passage Rock, rounding just on daybreak in to a glorious
morning. We had the common occurrence of "look! There's a white
light right behind us!!". Ah no mate, that's Venus. "Eh?"
Venus, you know? the planet? ??.."..oh". I couldn't quite work
out if the look on his face meant he thought I was a guru - or
an idiot. I've been caught by that one before as no doubt many
have - and will in the future. Just to make sure, while I was
visiting Auckland's Stardome Observatory a few days ago I asked
if I was right and was much relieved to find I was in fact a guru
- not the other one!
We were warming up rapidly after a cold night, shedding clothing
in a jumbled heap on the cockpit floor. I feel like their mother,
constantly picking up after them. We were on a 2 sail reach with
outboard sheeting for a while when we decided to try our new weapon.
Doyle Sails NZ are trialling a new Stratis sail on my boat in
the form of a "String" (fibrelay) genniker. This will work well
on superyachts in the future, being immensely strong, much stronger
than a spinnaker nylon. This sail, the first one they've done,
is rather overbuilt for my little boat, we refer to it as ' the
light # 1 jib on the prod' but was worth its weight in gold for
this race, adding over a knot of boatspeed. I had the binoculars
out checking for boats around us. I could just see, in morning
haze behind us, a boat popping out round Waiheke but they weren't
going all that quick. It later proved to be 'Stratocaster'. Looking
out in front I was overjoyed to spot the big boats only a few
miles in front! Talk about gee up the lads, this was looking good.
Once we got abeam of Brown's Island, with only about 10 miles
to go, I could see the all five big boats beating, in no breeze,
up towards the last rounding mark off Orakei Wharf before the
last 3 miles up the Waitemata Harbour to the finish. We sailed
straight up to Orakei with a gentle breeze on our beam and still
carrying the little genniker. Rounding Orakei Buoy gave us a chance
to go up to our fractional 80 sq m genniker and head off towards
the finish. The leaders had a light breeze at this stage and we
were still sneaking up on them. The wind swung aft just enough
for us to go to the masthead genniker for a short while before
we ran into the morning southwesterly gently starting to roll
down the harbour which meant untangling the genniker from around
the rig before we could hoist the jib. We finished 25 minutes
behind gun boat 'Lovealuck', with, in finishing order, 'Power
Play', 'Carrera', 'Starlight Express' and 'Kiwi' just 15 minutes
in front of us. 'Stratocaster' along with the others had run out
of breeze and came trickling in 2hrs40 behind us. 'Zora', which
was beside 'Strat' at Passage Rock, didn't finish 'til 3 hours
further back.
The result had us winning by 15 minutes from 'Kiwi' so we were
very happy campers indeed. I was most impressed with the way we
were able to keep moving in the light breeze and to hang on to
the big boats overnight. We may have been lucky with the breeze
but to balance that we were able to put ourselves in a position
to take advantage of the luck available, which I feel is a good
testament to the abilities of the boat all round.
Wally (Mark Wallis), "Demostrator", NZL 9130
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22/10/2007
- Auckland to Russell in the Bay
Sprint
 The
, from Auckland to Russell in the Bay of Islands in the Northland
region, is a 125 mile sprint up the East Coast of the North Island
of New Zealand.
Held every year since 1982, this is New Zealand's most popular
coastal race, consistently attracting entries in excess of 200
boats. Conditions can be anything from light to extremely fresh,
upwind to flat off and you never really can tell until the morning
of the race! The weather can be severe enough to offer plenty
of challenges with capsizing multihulls and gear damage aplenty.
With a 100 mile leg to Cape Brett off the Bay with a course to
steer, with 2 small 10 degree changes, of 350-320 degrees and
a prevailing wind from the southwest you generally, in the early
spring, can expect a run for about 30 miles then a long, boring
2 sail reach to the Brett. Occasionally we get a race where the
breeze can vary in strength where we get to do quite a few sail
changes. After you round the Brett you have a 7 mile lay through
to Red Head off Okahu Island, another 6 odd miles across to Tapeka
Point then a short hop around the corner to the finish line in
Russell. Russell (Kororareka) was a whaling town back in the days,
and a bit of a hard town it was too by all accounts.
This year we had a southeasterly breeze of around 20 knots forecast
which would give basically a flat run to Cape Brett, not the most
favourable breeze for the prod (sprit) equipped boats but definitely
enough breeze for us to be able to sail low angles.
Conditions for the start of the race at 10.10 am, Friday 19 October,
2007 weren't too far from the forecast, quite an amazing feat
really. The breeze was indeed from the SE but only blowing around
10 knots, and less once we cleared Rangitoto Island. "Rangi" is
Auckland's latest volcanic cone, one of 66 in the area and only
about 850 odd years old. Rangitoto dominates the skyline and is
symmetrical in shape, so it appears the same from all angles.
The start was crowded as usual but we were able to weave our way
around the bigger boats in our division and were 2nd boat past
Rangi Light behind 'Positive Touch'. 'Posi' is a Jim Young Rocket
31, built around 25 years ago and now sporting a new carbon rig
and new foils. With little lead on the bulb, relying instead on
crew weight on the rail, PT is very fast downwind so we were very
happy to be in touch with them from the start. The other boats
we were expecting to have good competition with were; 'Force 11'
(turboed Jim Young 11 with new carbon rig, new foils), 'Waka'
(Thompson 850), 'Blackout'(Murray Ross 30'), 'Frenzy'(Lambert
36). The spread of our handicap division saw the fast 28 footers
racing against slower 45 footers and anything in between. All
the above boats are New Zealand designed and built.
The sea state was quite lumpy for such a light breeze and we could
see from the start PT was uncomfortable enough for us to be slowly
rolling down over them. This was while we were slowly walking
away from the other boats. My main opposition in size and speed
is Blackout, usually. Blackout has a slightly bigger rig and more
lead but 'Demonstrator', my T30, is much finer in the bow and
tends to be quicker downwind, and upwind in a choppy sea. This
was proving to be the case as we were obviously leaving them behind.
After passing outside Tiritiri Matangi Island after the first
15 miles PT gybed back in towards the coast while Blackout came
out with us. Most of the division gybed in leaving us to follow
some time later. Noone except PT had done anything to us so we
felt comfortable with our position. The forecast 20 knots hadn't
arrived and the breeze was dying slightly if anything and was
quite boring for some time. The first half of the race was slow
enough to put any thoughts of race records for the leaders out
the window.
The next 20 miles was a fairly tedious procession as we gybed
back and forth staying in breeze lines and slowly "beating to
leeward". The boats with spinnakers running flat weren't racing
away from us so we were still pretty happy. Anyway it was a sunny
Friday and this was better than being at work! After we passed
Cape Rodney life got a little more interesting. Waka had been
right beside us but gybed back into the coast and when they gybed
to come back out we knew we had got the jump on them so we carried
on heading out to sea, on starboard and about 40 degrees high
on course. Force 11, Frenzy and Cosmic Cruise (Beale 42) had sneaked
away down to leeward, laying Cape Brett on port tack with spinnaker
poles braced right aft. Waka reached their line and gybed to stay
with them but our gybe angle back in was, by now, putting us well
behind so we elected to stay as we were and come back once the
breeze shifted. The further offshore we went we found the breeze
shifting round behind us and increasing. We could see the boats
inshore still weren't improving against us so once we reached
the 'point of no return' for the gybe back inside the halfway
point of the Hen and Chicken Islands we elected to stay outside.
This would be the first time in 13 or so "Coastals" I've done
that I've been outside so we definitely were taking a punt.
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was about this stage that we needed to gybe and, as the breeze
had been steadily increasing, change down to our 80 sq m fractional
genniker from our masthead 110 sq m sail. We set the new sail
up on deck, got all ready and it was "Ok, blow the halyard!"????.."Blow
it guys, dump it now!!"??.."It is??"??."No it's not"?.."You're
standing on it?.." and the guys on the front were pulling and
tugging, and tugging and pulling - and it certainly WASN'T coming
down.
"Oh great - it's jumped the sheave " was my first thought. I called
for the young (he's 17) bowman to grab the harness and get ready
to go up the rig. I figured seeing as I'm nearly 50 it's about
time I quit that sort of behaviour when there are youngsters aboard!
Just as he was reaching for the harness the sail freed itself.
Talk about a huge collective sigh of relief! Once we pulled the
sail in it was obvious what the problem was - the halyard had
the whole sheave box attached to it. Time to go and have a quiet
chat with the sparmaker seems in order?
By now the breeze had definitely kicked in quite hard. As soon
as we had set the smaller sail we were off at a great rate of
knots. Blackout had come outside with us and I could see they
had set their smallest genniker but were still some distance behind
us and night was approaching. I didn't hear it personally but
apparently one of the young crew, in his first overnight coastal
race, was heard to ask what we did when it got dark! The reply
went unrecorded. This would prove to be the wettest, fastest,
most exhilarating part of the race for sure. The boat was sitting
consistently on 13-14 knots with bursts up to 17.2 tops. I had
helmed for some time and handed over to one of the others to check
our position. I knew we were blasting but it wasn't until I sat
on the rail that I experienced the full sensation of how fast
we were traveling. I've many years of experience in multihulls,
including 5 Coastal Classics and while this wasn't as quick as
cat sailing, it wasn't too far off! We were bursting over waves
and launching into the wave in front, at times dipping the bow
into the water so we had a wave 6 inches high doing 16 knots washing
back across the deck. The good thing with these boats is they
don't slow down when this happens, the bow pops back up and away
you go. Awesome sailing, the boys were yipping and yahooing and
having a great time. We 'threw it down the road ' occasionally,
as one does, but the boat has such good stability all you had
to do was dump the sheet, the boat bounds straight back up, sheet
on and off you go again. Though it was night the sky was clear
and we had a small moon so it was a magic ride.
Just before the breeze kicked in I was trying to encourage the
crew, most of whom are aged 20 or less with only 2 of them with
any coastal or night sailing experience, to eat properly to keep
the strength up and to keep warm. Unfortunately it seems that
young men these days believe that lollies(candy), potato chips
and "V" drinks are a food group! Ah - no boys, it's merely a sugar
'rush' right? It's quite funny at times, I have to try and pass
on more than 30 years of experience in such a way that I don't
sound like their parents. Anyone got any bright ideas? I think
they figured it out eventually. Of course I always listened to
my elders didn't I? Yeah, right!
So there we were, hooning along at high speed going not quite
in the right direction but close enough, and we had to work out
when to drop the genniker and set the #2 headsail up to reach
back into Cape Brett. I think there were a few boats that were
as far offshore as us but I've got a feeling we probably left
the turn in much later than any of them. This worked in our favour,
as the swell had built up from the southeast so we were surfing
in at 12 knots under jib. As we closed the coast we began to pick
up a whole bunch of green lights up to windward - and there were
many more behind us than in front. We had radioed our position
just before the Hen but hadn't picked up any transmissions from
other boats so weren't too sure just where the opposition - excepting
Blackout behind us - was. I had switched on my handheld VHF, after
retrieving it from one of the cockpit bags where it had been getting
drowned all night and finding it still worked, to listen in to
the yachts calling in after rounding the Brett. The first boat
I hear is 'Starlight Express', a Davidson 55 aboard which I raced
in the 1994 Sydney to Hobart. This was excellent news, we were
only 3 miles behind them!
As more boats called in it appeared we had done very well indeed.
After we sailed through the gap between Cape Brett and Piercy
Island I called in our position and by now we had boats all around
us. Piercy Island is the location of the "Hole in the Rock", a
popular tourist destination whereby the tour boats motor through
the huge hole in the rock - hence the rather obvious name. Right
behind us came the Davidson 10.5m 'Jive Talkin'', a very good
35 footer from the Bay of Islands. We were thrilled, to say the
least, as 'Jive' had started 10 minutes ahead of us! Less exciting
for us was hearing Waka call in about 5 minutes ahead of us. They
must have had a slightly better angle in to Cape Brett from their
inshore position, but there wasn't much in it, and we were still
in front of Blackout. The breeze, on the leeward side of the Cape,
was much less than we had been sailing in further offshore but
we carried on using the same headsail. On my boat the size difference
is minimal from the #1 to the #2 so we still had target boatspeed
on the lay across to Red Head. We stayed close to Red Head as
just a mile offshore lies Whale Rock, which lurks about 1m below
the surface at low tide and has taken more than its fair share
of hits. One of the multihulls, the 35' 'Free Radical', hit the
rock with a centerboard and did a good deal of damage. The crew
described the incident to me the next day and it cracked me up.
They had a large television screen linked to the navigation computer.
The navigator was watching the course over the ground line converging
with Whale Rock and passed the information on to the crew. So
they sat round watching the screen didn't they? And they thought
they'd clear over the top of the rock didn't they? So they smacked
clean into it while admiring how accurate the GPS was didn't they?
Definitely a Homer Simpson moment - D'oh!
While this was going on I'd been following on the radio the emergency
playing out between the rescue services. It appeared one of the
fast catamarans, 'Silver Raider', had flipped some way off the
coast and the crew were in dire straits. It transpired they were
executing a gybe down a large wave and caught an override on the
genniker sheet, flipping the boat clean over. The crew had been
in the water for over an hour before being rescued and the skipper
was in deep trouble with hypothermia with the medics struggling
at times to find a pulse. We were all relieved to hear later that
the patient was comfortable and sleeping safely on board the rescue
boat. It highlighted to my crew the need for constant vigilance
as even a coastal race can finish in disaster. The boat was not
found the next day and is presumed to have broken up and sunk.
Once we'd passed Red Head we had a short beat up to Tapeka Point
and didn't do too badly, with just a few 40 footers passing us,
and putting a bit of time back on Waka. Around the corner into
the finish off Russell we head along with another Davidson boat,
the 42' 'Outlaw', finishing just 30 seconds ahead of us. Jive
Talkin', which had slipped past us upwind, finished outside the
finish line and had to return to finish correctly putting them
10 minutes behind us, not a good day for the Jive at all.
We had just cleared the finish line and who do we see behind us?
Positive Touch! We'd lost sight of them as they disappeared out
of sight up the coast inshore of us before nightfall. They had
fitted a new rudder, one third of the weight of the old one, before
the race. The blade had cracked and delaminated and the guys on
board did a magnificent job of repairing it while underway, using
whatever they could find on the boat. Right behind them was Blackout
so we were very proud of ourselves indeed. Out of the fast 30
footers we were only beaten by the Thompson
T850 "Waka" and felt very happy for those guys too,
they'd sailed very well. We were 5th across the line, just 11
minutes behind gun boat Force 11, and finishing up 4th on handicap
with Waka taking the honours. Go the Tboats!
The rest of the weekend in passed without incident. As the wind
for the trip home was currently blowing over 40 knots we decided
to leave the boat at the fabulous Opua Marina and return later
in the week once the breeze had died down.
So the '07 Coastal for us went very well, the boat stood up in
good order and the crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and were
rightly proud of their performance. I am having a marvelous time
with the new boat and the crew are extremely keen to do more long
distance racing including night sailing so I have entered the
boat in the Nexus Gold Cup series of 60-90 mile races over the
summer period. ...
Wally (Mark Wallis), "Demostrator", NZL 9130 |
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25/6/2007
- "Wairere" wins Screwpile Lighthouse Challenge Regatta
Results PHRF Class 2
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USA, T30 "Wairere": |
| 4/6/2007
- "Wairere" wins SBRW "Boat of the Week"
Pete Hunter, and the "Wairere" crew came up out of
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, and won a tie for first place
in the PHRF A fleet, taking home "Boat of the Week" honors and
the Black Seal Cup.
Wairere had a finish string of 1-2-2-1. The final day of racing
was cancelled when Tropical Storm Barry made his brief Hampton
Roads appearance right smack dab in the middle of the scheduled
race time yesterday. Conditions were bad and deteriorating,
so a cheer (and Bloody Marys) went up from the racers when the
decision to cancel was made at 0800.
On Friday and Saturday, the race courses were bedeviled each
morning by light, fluky air, but saved each mid-day in time
for a second race by a moderate sea breeze. Entries numbered
80 for the event, one more than any previous Southern Bay Race
Week, setting a new record for number of entries in "recent
history".
RESULTS: PHRF A (18) 1. Pete Hunter, Wairere (Thompson 30) ;
2.Sledd Shelhorse, Meridian 2 (Farr 36); 3.Lloyd Griffin, Cash
Flow (Hadley 40); 4.Dave Eberwine, Sea Star (J36); 5.Bob Mosby
, Cyrano (Frers 36).
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USA, T30 "Wairere": |
25/1/2007
- "Wairere" wins the Key West PHRF Class 1
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Boat
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