The EYE SPY crew turned up early to be welcomed by a glassy sight in front of the club. Things finally looked promising around 12.15 as the wind filled in from the south. Skipper and tactician Keith agreed that a start close to the club would be favourable but that all went out the window in the pre-race manoeuvres. We ended up gybing onto starboard toward the pin end instead. Then beat up to Kauri point was fun. I had "Blue Beat" chasing me down up to Island Bay but they could not point as high as us so he out-clevered himself by tacking onto port in front of "Unity". Ooooops from one commodore to another......... Next was an interesting manoeuvre as the two big boats went passed. All yelling "starboard"!!!!!!!! ........round the front of the "Entertainer" bow and then immediately dip "Unity".  Twas a little tight but must as long as it looked good eh.

Broad reach down to Rhona at around 9 knots only to find the squadron Elliot 5.9s using the same mark. We negotiated very well but we did look back to see "Stratus" bang smack in the middle of their start........fun n games.

Tactician to skipper...........don't follow Blair. He's in the tide. So we went wide with "Unity" and popped the Westpac kite up for the ride home. The delta to "Unity" reduced a little but was it enough?

Yes it was!!!!!! A very nice if not surprising result. 1st to "EYE SPY"

 

Stinger