Blink went out for her maiden voyage last night - light air, never much more than 6 knots and averaging 3-5 with large patches of glassy water. We still don't have everything finished, so were a little limited for cant angle, a few temporary rigging solutions, and sails on their first hoist with a couple of small refinements possibly needed once we adjust the mast rake slightly.
With the masthead Code 0 at about 90 TWA, we were doing about 8 knots over ground (instruments not calibrated yet). Upwind about 7 kts SOG but at a fairly wide sheeting angle (inboard tweaker not set up yet).
Thanks Dean, but not really 'our' work ... while we made lots of 'important' decisions about squab colours, etc, and like to think that we threw in a few good ideas, the real talent was in the team. Messrs Shaw and Partridge are simply awesome. Then there was the outstanding, huge and varied supporting cast (if one was going to be singled out it would be Matt Stechmann, easy to see why Groupama and the AC teams want him in their shore crew.)
Awesome work Tony and Vesna ... great to see Blink out on Wellington harbour
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, but not really 'our' work ... while we made lots of 'important' decisions about squab colours, etc, and like to think that we threw in a few good ideas, the real talent was in the team. Messrs Shaw and Partridge are simply awesome. Then there was the outstanding, huge and varied supporting cast (if one was going to be singled out it would be Matt Stechmann, easy to see why Groupama and the AC teams want him in their shore crew.)
ReplyDeleteYay! Fantastic news.
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