Crew:- Kev, Knoxy, Jenna, Matt, Charlie.& Patrick, 7 weeks since Patric last sailed with use, the 2 weeks with Future Feedback then sailed with Howdie on Eagle (Elliott 5.9) leading up to the %.9 Nationals in Napier.
They but up a good showing improving every day finishing a credible 14 off 17, with 2 11's in the last races,
The 1st 10 boats were all out of Auckland sailing a series of regattas each month, a lot of professionals sailing in theses boats.
We / I decided to leave the Dacron cruising main on, with the fresh breezes lately we had been saving the racing main from reefs & flogging
All of our division (9 tonight) seemed to be wanting to start in the same piece of water on the start line this week, but we came out of the start in good shape, with only Blackout and Ballistic to weather
A bit of push and shove at the pile line. C V bow far left
A little more orderly now C V far right
Allmost sorted now C V far left. Blackout ahead - C V - Ballistic
Blackout was fast in these conditions, the breeze now down to 12-13 knots, Ballistic made an early tack into the bank to clear our dirty air, we pushed on into the tide covering Mcleod, Wild Thing and Future Feedback.
Our tack back on port into the Boulder bank, having to dip Ballistic coming out on Starboard, the early board on port, out of the tide was paying off as next cross as we came out we were ahead again.
The same happened with McLeod, as they stayed in the mix with Ballistic and ourselves.
Blackout meanwhile was loving the conditions and our 3 way battle, moved out to a big lead.
The breeze was dropping, now only 10 as we worked our way to the top mark, Ballistic had pulled 200 metres on us at the top mark, 3rd around, Mcleod 150m behind us, then Wild Thing, Future Feedback and Zenith, having a 3 way battle for 5th, Redline and Smak a long way back, infact the Div 2 boats were catching them?
For us not a lot changed for the rest of the race, we opened out a little on McLeod on the windward - leeward, by the time we rounded the top for the run home the breeze was down to only 8-10 knots.
Blackout finished 5 minute ahead of Ballistic in 22nd we were 3 minutes behind Ballistic, Wild Thing, McLeod, Future Feedback, Zenith we all tangled up together and amongst some Div 2 boats, Wild Thing making the most of it finishing 4th.
No crew for Saturday's Current Basin Race or Sunday's Cans racing?
I will be making up the numbers on Wild Thing instead.
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