Season Prizegiving 2016: maybe we can take off the learner plates now?

Steadily improving  .... Blink's season results this year are another step up ...  in addition to the silverware and certificates, we also set a couple of new offshore race records, and we did much better in the inshore series than ever before.  And a season championship win for Blink on both Line and PHRF for Div 1.   Despite missing several races in the Spring Series as we'd lost our forestay.

Thanks again to the core crew -- Vesna, Craig (Crew Boss!), Gordie, Pete, Kimmy, Janet - who turn up all the time and make sure Blink is on the water and racing well.  Thanks also to our newer crew: Dr George, Jason, Simon, Theo.  And to our occasional guest appearances and coaching from Daryl, Colt, Kimbo.

Vesna is grateful to Gordie, Kimbo and TW for coaching her to step up and skipper the Crew's race - taking 1st on all handicaps and nice silver trophy!

Line Honours Pennant

Inshore results - look at all those IRC wins! Who'd have thought ... 

Not all of the team could make it to the prize giving, but here are most of the usual suspects... 

Kim, Gordie, Janet, VW, TW, Pete. 

The trophy haul ...

Blink Gets To Auckland for Fiji Race Start

Delivery in only weather window for a couple of weeks ... Storm warnings before and after ...

TW/VW/Craig/Gordie for Wellington to Gisborne, then T&V off for Gisborne-Auckland.  At the Auckland end there was a storm jib and 3 reefs

Here's a video with some of the highlights...
https://vimeo.com/167235657

Craig delighted to get the FR0 out ...!

 Sunrise over Palliser ..