Sally and Martin
Sail trim after the start!
Sunset Canaipa
Chris relaxing!
Under sail in the Sunday race back to Manly (photos by Neil Planck)
Hull reflections!
Sunrise Sunday Morning
Cheese and champagne for our motor to Canaipa on Saturday
Pan fried Salmon for dinner!
Shipwreck off Blakesley's (We don't know the story here but presume that the skipper of this boat didn't know which side of the beacons to stay on to avoid the sand banks or else he was swept up on the banks in bad weather. ) This boat has been there for a few months now!
Towing a bunch of Blazer sailors on "Shrek" down to Canaipa after the race abandonment. It would have emptied their fuel tank (and their Esky) since they only had an outboard!
Chris our foredeck whiz!
Lion Rampant!We just had a fabulous sail in this years Canaipa Cup. This is an annual event organised by RQYS for the combined clubs of RQYS, WMYC and MBTBC. I (Sally) elected to be skipper for this event. I was a little freaked out at the start as starts in a yacht are far more risky financially than dinghy prangs! We ended up at the business end of the start line right next to the start boat. A Hick 42 Ceilidh Lass was attempting to barge through between us and the start boat and a Beneteau First 40.7 Blunderbuss was below us pushing up. We are only just under 30ft so it is a little intimidating to be yelling for water at the skippers of these boats. We all broke free in the end without touching and even Ceilidh Lass made it through! The wind during the race got lighter and lighter and eventually some boats were floating backwards on a glassy sea. The race officials abandoned the race and we all motored down to Canaipa for the BBQ etc at Browns on Macleay Island. Next morning was light and we all motored across to the start at the tip of Macleay Island. An easier downwind spinnaker start this time saw us right up with some bigger boats such as Medina, Its Natural, etc at the first mark. We lost some ground on the next leg and then regained heaps on the leg following with our big white masthead kite! Sailing only three up (Martin, Chris and myself) I think we did quite well with a 5th on handicap in the combined clubs results.
