Needless to say, there was a slow start to Wednesday, nonetheless we started the day with bacon and cat eggs. Pete has now perfected the art of cat eggs! Ruth and Pinga did a trip up the mast to retrieve the spinnaker halyard and mouse the Genoa halyard that we had broken. Whilst up there Ruth […]

It was a cooler day, more cloud than blue sky and still blowing as we woke to face the last days racing. All were jaded by this time, poor old Trent was really under the weather and then we were told we would be doing 2 races. The first was to be windward leeward, which […]

Winners are grinners. Yes, we are. Round the island worked for us, 20-25 knots, apart from the lumpy stuff after rounding the last Cardinal (when we probably should have reefed) we did great. We were close enough to the fast boats and far enough ahead of the slower boats to be in the results sweet […]

Another glorious day, no wind. Everyone emerged slowly, and we had a lazy breakfast of croissants and coffee and we discussed the days festivities. Most of the crew were going to head to picnic bay to view the beer can regatta, but Pete and I were going to stay at the boat. Pete ended up […]

Another glorious day, begun with bacon and egg rolls – breakfast of champions! As we headed out for the start, there was debate about whether there was enough wind, and sure enough, the committee boat postponed the start. We drifted about, put on some music and got a bit revved up, dancing on the foredeck, […]

Day dawned beautiful warm and sunny. We slowly got organised and left the dock around 10 am to head out into Cleveland Bay and make some water. We pootled about and put some sails up then got a bit excited for the start and BANG! BANG! General Recall! In any event our second start was […]

Tuesday was another morning of work for me, cleaning the stainless steel, clearing out the the storage cabin and generally getting the boat ready for Pete’s return and racing.  Lunch was aboard Pilgrim, a fantastic plough mans lunch on Clare’s special handmade planchet! After lunch, I dropped Paul at his shed (which is awesome), then […]