Clear Vision's 2011 - 2012 RPNYC Season Results:

Prizegiving at RPNYC was last night, and CV did well.  Highlight was winning the 2011-2012 Division 1 Season Championship on both PHRF and Club handicaps; we were tied for first on IRC for the season as well, but Andiamo won on countback.   


Results:
1st 2011-2012 Season Championship Division 1 Club
1st 2011-2012 Season Championship Division 1 PHRF

1st Sprint Series PHRF
1st Sprint Series IRC
1st Division 1 Summer Series PHRF
1st Division 1 New Year Series IRC
1st Guy Fawkes Series PHRF
1st Guy Fawkes Series IRC
1st Division 1 New Year Series Club
1st Division 1 New Year Series PHRF
1st Autumn Series Division 1 Club
1st Autumn Series Division 1 IRC
1st Regatta Warm Up Series Club
1st Young 11 Line
1st Brothers Island Offshore Club
1st Cook Strait Classic Offshore Club


2nd 2011-2012 Season Championship Division 1 IRC
2nd Spring Series Division 1 IRC
2nd Summer Series Division 1 IRC
2nd Cook Strait Classic Offshore PHRF
2nd Cook Strait Classic Offshore IRC
2nd Division 1 Summer Series Club
2nd Guy Fawkes Series Club


3rd Division 1 Line
3rd 2011-2012 Season Championship Line Open
3rd Twilight Series 2 IRC
3rd Autumn Series Division 1 PHRF
3rd Mana-Picton Offshore IRC

CV wins RPNYC Autumn Series Div 1

We don't normally write about a series win -- but this time the last race had an eventful start, and there's a great bit of video from the final downwind leg that needed a few words to go with it ...

This was the final race of RPNYC Autumn Series; CV won Division 1 with a clean sweep of PHRF, IRC and Club handicaps.

 We got out on the race course, and were getting set up when we broke a jib car, less than half an hour before the gun.  Went to find the spare which we 'never' take off the boat, but none of us could find it. So we went to rig something else - nothing suitable.  We guessed that if we phoned Barton Marine (www.bartonmarine.co.nz/) Mike's guys would help if they could -- and they did...  Ten minutes later, in 20 gusting 26 knots of wind we backed into the wharf outside Te Papa with the full main still up (no time to take it down and get to the start on time!), where after some fairly tricky boat handling a box of 'one of these is bound to fit' options was handed to us via a rope-lanyarded bucket from one of the Barton's team that had run half a mile from the shop to meet us with no notice at all.  That's service.  Then we scampered to the start line, approached from above the port end of the line about 20 seconds late with the Div 1 boats that had already started heading at us on starboard tack, dipped them and the line and started about a minute late. 

Video is of CV storming into the final mark rounding , in 25 knots of nice warm northerly gusting to ~30 knots.

NB For the [other] technical purists: kite setup looks odd because the storm halyard had tangled at the top, so we had to fly our red 'Oxygen' storm kite from the fractional halyard

NB(2) Thanks Nigel Sharplin for the geat video, and Oxygen Property Management (www.oxygen.co.nz/) for the bright red kite.

 NB(3) Yeeeeeha.