Saturday, October 30, 2010

Championship Heat Two October 30th

The club was abuzz, as every boat that floats came out for Championship, and maybe the fact it was Halloween as well brought out the devil in all of those skippers!

                                                                             
                             Loco was racing before the raqce evan started !

                                                                                
                                                                               Immigrant was too!

                                                                                 
                    .........  the adrenaline was building as skippers planned their start,.........

                                                                            
                                               Shauna joined the Fuzzy girls for a bit of scary fun....

                                                                              
                          and on NO Problem, Rob thought he was going to relax and get a few photos ......... :)

                                                                                      

                    ..that was until the rush to the start began and the little devils came out.......

                      
          ..they converged on Toot....  Lucky for that barging buoy 

                                                                
        .note the mast height on that boat that is NOT an ELLIOT......:)

                                                    
       Barry and Cary have applied for danger money....    

                                                                      
No Problem wisely stayed out of trouble and covered our ears from the yelling , calling and general  chaos  .................

  
                               having all survived ... we set off...

                                                                           Intrigue

                                                                                NAP -

                                                                                
                                                           Super Freaky

                                                                              
                                                            Upshot

                                                                                 Thylacine


                                                                   Wayfarer took on the Tri ........ 

                                                                    Carli had fun...........

                                                                                          
                                                     Immigrant had an interesting day......

                                                                          
                NO Problem hit 14 knots coming home  and the tri was right behind us.....



                                                               so we headed home ............. 

                                                                      grateful....

     that racing next week is a Friday evening twilight race..... 5pm start.......make it social..........

                                                                                        Loco

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Day Two of the ASP& IBS Youth Regatta and the Val Sisley Tophy

       Another lovely day, a few more dingies to watch on the water and a coupel of International class Moths to provide some excitement


steve got the cat flying



the moths appeared.............






                                                                            


                                                                    and then there were others .........

                                                                            
                                                    the 29 er got going.....after some advice  and a bit of grunt applied ...

                                                                                      
                                                    the races started...........


everyone was happy ............







the girls had some fun.......

on No Problem the guests are signing up for Learn to sail!!!



                                                                       Christopher , Gina and Alexa..........    



and the VIP's  had a laugh.........
                                                                                          

the crew worked hard......



all of us.......



 




sue enjoyed the warmth after two years in Scotland!!!!!




Gedrick was busy......not !.... but it was going..........




Rag Top was out there as well.
Another lovely weekend on the water.



                                                             

Saturday, October 23, 2010

ASP/ IBS Youth Regatta First day 23rd October

The day was perfect, sunny , blue skies, sparkling water and light breeze- great conditions for the 15 or so dinghies, sabots and optimist class boats that headed out to the harbour. A sizable fleet from Keppel Bay Sailing Club made the effort to travel to join the regatta.

Gedrick was back in action after it's little prop repair, so our esteemed Commodore took us out to test the waters, creating a rooster tail in his wake!


nice sense of speed on a V8 weekend!

and then onto the business of the day........................


Victoria on the 29 er was back.. but she seems to have new crew every week..? is there a story there?
Welcome Claire Williams to the adventure of the 29 er



then there was, Hannah , Tom, Ryan and Rowan and Jackson, and the Keppel Bay contingent ....




                                                                      



..add a few keppel kids .................













and they all started ........
                                                                                



                                                 there were plenty of rescue teams .......................

                                                                                 
                                                                                 

                                                                                 
                                                       the VIP's ...................

the visitors...............


Herc, and Mobil 1........


                                                                            
                                                          .........and of course Gedrick................

which worked fine...
      
after a few running repairs that involved the whole crew........


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                    .......... .......but we're out tomorrow for day two!