Design Objective: to maximise the performance potential of a 12m offshore monohull, with the capacity to sleep a full crew and with a usable interior. This is a versatile boat, set up for high performance racing either short-handed or fully crewed, both harbour and offshore. Blink is built with racing in the infamous Cook Strait in mind, with robust construction and systems, foam core, and options chosen with the wisdom that 'to win you must first finish' in mind: twin rudders, twin hydraulic rams, and dual hydraulic keel power sources (electric and engine pumps).
These numbers are from before the extra 90kg added to bulb in 2019 Length: 12m / Sailing Displ: 4.1T (8 crew) / Empty Displ 3.6T / Draft: 3m / Keel Cant Angle: 50° / RM (max): 7,687 kg/m / Mast: 19.8m
More details, interior pics, plans at bottom of page.
Ghost Ship
Race Results
Blink race results highlights 1st on elapsed time, Round North Island 2-handed 2014 (Rob Shaw and TW) and 2017 (VW and TW)
1st on Line, Round North Island 2-handed 2014 and 2017
1st PHRF Division 1, and 2nd IRC Division 1, Round North Island 2-handed 2017
1st in RPNYC 2014-2015 Offshore Series on Club, PHRF, and IRC Season Champions RPNYC 2015-2016 PHRF and Line
New Zealand Design/Build Trophy (Muir Vonu Trophy) Auckland-Fiji Race 2016
Race record Kapiti-Chetwodes-Ship Cove 2015 Race record Cook Strait Classic 2015 Race record 2016 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Yacht Race
Race record 2018 Catherine Cove Race
First on Line: Island Bay race Nov 2013*, Brothers Race Nov 2013*, Cook Strait Classic Dec 2013* (*beating Elliot 50 canter Ran Tan in all 3 of these races), Brothers Race 2014, Kapiti-Chetwodes 2015, Port Nich Regatta 2015 overall line honours, Alan Martin Series 2015, Cook Strait Classic 2015, Nelson Race 2016, RPNYC 2016 Season Div 1, Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc Yacht Race 2016, Mana-Ship Cove 2016, Brothers Islands Race 2016, Round North Island 2-handed 2014 and 2017, Brothers Islands Race 2017, Catherine Cove Race 2018, Wellington-Lyttleton 2018
22 August 2013
First Sail
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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