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I will be racing a Hansi 31.5 (Sail La Vie) two handed.

Top plan John look fwd to your results. 5.1t displacement should have enough power out to Broughton etc. Watch out for the shifting sandbanks inside - assume you have the 1.85m depth keel?

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r13 said..
Top plan John look fwd to your results. 5.1t displacement should have enough power out to Broughton etc. Watch out for the shifting sandbanks inside - assume you have the 1.85m depth keel?

Thanks for the good wishes Rob.
My partner's story should be told.
Carol fell off her two story roof and spent seven months in St Vincents spinal unit.
Filled with titanium, she was the one in twenty who walks out. She crewed with me in the CYCA winter series for three years when the weather forecast wasn't too rough. She bought Sail la Vie a couple of years ago.
This trip is on her bucket list. We are doing the first three races and then cruising.
We will be visiting Broughton island. You are right about the keeI. I appreciate your advice.

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r13 said..
Top plan John look fwd to your results. 5.1t displacement should have enough power out to Broughton etc. Watch out for the shifting sandbanks inside - assume you have the 1.85m depth keel?

Thanks for the good wishes Rob.
My partner's story should be told.
Carol fell off her two story roof and spent seven months in St Vincents spinal unit.
Filled with titanium, she was the one in twenty who walks out. She crewed with me in the CYCA winter series for three years when the weather forecast wasn't too rough. She bought Sail la Vie a couple of years ago.
This trip is on her bucket list. We are doing the first three races and then cruising.
We will be visiting Broughton island. You are right about the keeI. I appreciate your advice.

Remember BB,, It is not whether you win or lose but how you play the game.

But, winning feel so much better then losing.

have fun

gary

Sail La Vie arrived in Port Stephens at 2pm on Wednesday.
We motor sailed from Newcastle wiith a small amount of headsail.
The wind was 20 knots gusting to 30 knots but no problems going into the wind.
The seas became bigger as we progressed with a few breaking over the bow. We took a little water in the cabin.
The seas continued to build and we turned to run through the Port Stephens heads. The run in was not pleasant and we took a number of waves over the stern. It was a big relief to be inside relative calm water.
We are now happily berthed at the Anchoring marina.

I was going to do it with the J/36 but then the attraction of doing one design racing tempted me back to the Windsurfer section.

The problem of getting a crew together and then being at the mercy of arbitrary handicap BS, or racing in a small fleet of ORC/IRC boats, made it all too hard.

I wish they wouldn't break up Aussie regattas into a small fleet of ORC/IRC "grand prix" boats and a separate larger fleet of arbitrary "racing" boats; it means that you have to choose between racing on "proper" ratings OR racing against most of the comparable boats. Why not just run dual systems, so we get all the boats of comparable speed racing under arbitrary but let some of them also race under ORC or IRC instead of just getting penalised by the handicapper?

Hello John 2nd in the first race top effort, keep it going.