well I'm some where over the Indian Ocean.. So wont be there drinking rum..
Just wanted to wish the guys & girls all the best.. Hope there is a good turnout with good winds and seas..
Im told there are boats/crews from at least 3 states (WA, SA, Vic, ( not sure about NSW, Qld and ACT???).. Which if I recall the Au sailing requirements is the minimum for an official "National" class status!!

Sitting here at st lenords drinking rum 2 Qld boats already here. 3 rd one nearly hear I hope.

Yeah I think I'll be in trouble for that one... My crew has to drop his wife off to the airport tomorrow morning.... will be there by mid morning tomorrow... with wind... hopefully.

We'll be leaving adelaide bright and early tomorrow morning (then again not too sure how bright we'll be). Hope to get there early afternoon.

Anyone got any weather forecasts for the weekend?

Antony and Emile Barrett are half way there from Adelaide at 10am (Thursday) this morning with a cat rigged Blade each. So that's two more.

Wish I could go - too much happening here at the moment.

If the boat from WA shows then it will be boats from 4 states.

3 Cat rigged Aussie Blades

2 Cat Rigged AHPC Vipers

3 Sloop rig AHPC Vipers

Should be a good series.

18 - 20 knots today........should favor the sloop rig boats

Nice! Thanks for the updates Marcus.

5 knots or 20 knots; I hope you guys and gals have a great time !

Wouter

15 - 18 knots...

Aido came out with two wins and Pim Haganar with two seconds. I sailed like a turkey (i'm sure the others will fill in the gaps) and got a 3rd and something else.

Tony Barret leaded the uni rigs closely followed by Don Dull.

Tomorrow looks like similar conditions and we still have 8 races on the cards.

Will get pics up soon.

results here

pictures here

just about to start race three after a short postponment due to lack of wind.

have about 5-8 knots now.

Thanks. Great photos! I noticed that Blade 403 has the aft end of the snuffer on the tramp. What is the thinking behind that? Also curious about the impact of the carbon mast - in a couple of shots it appeared to have less bend than the superwings. Is that correct? Any other effects on sailing behavior?

It would be interesting to get finish times, a la sailwave so we can see better how close the fleet was.

Nice to see a couple of Herons in frame! My Dad's first boat was a Heron, but very few left in NZ.

Carbon mast MUCH stiffer than the Al ones, but his mainsail is still cut for the bend of the Al mast ie to much luff round, (no time to have a new sail cut for the carbon mast) so it was expected that he would suffer a bit particularly to windward. the "snuffer" extends onto the tramp to accomodate primarily a spinnaker that has only two retrieval points (instead of the usual three)

Race 3 - Cat rigged blade first.
Race 4 - Sloop rig vipe 1st.

They are mixing it up!

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This F16 sailor should look up the upper left hand corner if he wants to spot something out of the ordinary !

Notice the T-foils on that Aussie Blade F16 ?

(Plus a nice pic of two F16's being sailed 1-up (right to left : Aussie Blade F16 and a Viper F16)

Wouter

I noticed the WOLF in sheeps clothing...

Apparently there is also a Capricorn F18 on the course, trailing an Aussie Blade F16