24 November 2013

Two more sailing days ...

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Last Wed night we had Ben Gladwell from Boating New Zealand magazine join us for a race as he wanted to review Blink, he'd also organise...
17 November 2013

Nearly Woohoo Number Two

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The forecasts for yesterday's race were wildly varied.  All seemed to agree on northerly or norwester, Metservice up to 30 knots, Predic...
12 November 2013

Video montage(s) from Brothers Race

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Joerg has posted a great video from Blink on YouTube from our Brothers race last saturday (see previous blog entry below) ... I'll post ...
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10 November 2013

Brothers Race -- Blink's First Offshore

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People in Wellington last Saturday night could be forgiven for thinking that the fireworks in the harbour ... ... were something to do...

Island Bay Race

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Short video clip and a pic taken by Paul from Wedgetail ...
3 November 2013

Island Bay Race - First Sniff of the Cook Strait

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The RPNYC Island Bay Race was held on Saturday, 2nd November being an 18 or so miler.   This was Blink's first opportunity to turn righ...
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19 October 2013

First two handed sail - may as well make it a race...

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RPNYC ran its two handed series today - a 17 miler around the cans in Wellington Harbour.  Forecast was dubiously big from the Metservice an...
15 October 2013

The first few races...

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... over the last couple of weekends Race 1 (actually race 2 of the RPNYC spring series) was a _very_ short windward-leeward, wo...
30 September 2013

Super Sunday

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Things starting to come together now, went out last Sunday in almost no breeze, managed to to 6 knots upwind in 4 knots breeze using the cod...
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27 September 2013

Mixed Bag ...

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A bit of an update …. some good and some bad news... Good news:  -  mainsail arrived back - recut for new mast shape - from Norths i...