We weren’t the only ones to experience an eventful Kawau race. After winning honours on the Friday race to Kawau (congratulations, Tony!), Fast Company’s fortune took a turn for the worse on the Saturday, losing her mast.Showing great restraint, popular rumour has it that before the mast had even hit the deck Tony was already musing on who’s boat he could borrow to continue to race…
With the successful launch of the caravan done with, a sail of some distance to prove the new craft’s (and crew’s) potential. Hence some intrepid sailors (and the rest of us) set off on Friday evening on our way to Kawau. Although we were entered in the cruising division (i.e. no spinnaker) we were taking the race very seriously. The cheeseboard was of an extremely high standard, oft-refreshed, and accompanied by many fine beverages.
However things were not all smooth sailing – literally. Someone who had obviously swapped their brain for half a packet of peanuts and a six pack of Waikato had not tightened the lock screw for the nut holding the rudder in place. About half an hour out from Kawau an ominous knocking noise came from below. Silencing the music, we raced down below and into the hull at the stern to see the rudder floundering about like a batsman for the NZ cricket team. The pivot bearing holding the rudder was moving around in the hull, with water coming up around the sides.
Generally one likes the water to stay under, around, or a light sprinkling on the boat. In the boat is bad. There was likely to be a lot more in the boat in a short space of time, as the fibreglass was flexing, and as we later learnt – delaminating.
Dispatching instructions to the intrepid women up on deck (i.e. screw the nut back on!), we three guys went down below and with a smattering of good luck, good management, and adrenalin, found out that wanting to stop a huge hole being ripped out of the hull is great motivation for lifting the rudder of a 10.4 tonne, 44′ yacht at precisely the right time.
N.B. No drinks were spilled during the course of the above story.
Nicci and William coped well over Christmas, considering the pool at the grandparents in Melbourne was out of action for a period of time. Nana’s spa bath, two hot water cylinders of hot water, and some bubble bath went a long way to easing the pain. It’s not often young children (especially of the male variety) want to spend so long in the bath.
Imagine the amount of alcohol one could keep cold with this little puppy 🙂
Got to love this guy’s style :p
I get the feeling she’s not going to be very happy with him. Perhaps the purchaser should re-list so she has a chance to buy them back…or the new boyfriend. Although the seller didn’t say whether it was a guy, or a girl of course.
Ancient Celtic New Zealand looks interesting.
I haven’t taken a good look yet, but will do so in the near future and share my thoughts.
On a side note, it’s very difficult to keep politics and groups with racial agendas at bay, so good luck to them on this account.
Read the ad below:
Post Date: Aug 7th, 2006 Expire Date: Sep 6th, 2006
$10,000 06′ Suzuki GSXR 1000 Farmington , UT 84025 – Aug 7, 2006 2006 Suzuki 1000. This bike is perfect! It has 1000 miles and has had its 500 mile dealer service. (Expensive) It’s been adult ridden, all wheels have always been on the ground. I use it as a cruiser/commuter. I’m selling it because it was purchased without proper consent of a loving wife. Apparently “do whatever the f*** you want” doesn’t mean what I thought. Call me, Steve. (801)867-8292
Brilliant.
To one person who doesn’t mind everyone knowing, and to another who does (but who’s on holiday on an island somewhere at present, so won’t know either way :p)
Enjoy!
At last. The sun, that is. I think it may be lost. We’ll see how long this lasts.
p.s. the first person who even thinks about washing their car will get hosed off themselves.
On the morning Apple announced the 24″ ‘iMac I called Ubertec in Parnell and ordered one. Talia said they didn’t have a price at that time, which really was quite an irrelevant statement.
Having had the machine for a couple of months, I couldn’t be happier. It supports full 1080p High Definition, it’s stupidly fast, runs Windows (queue the ‘stupid’ word again) and it’s silent. It also avoids the ignominy of having Windows defile the machine by allowing Windows applications to run inside of OS X – without Windows.
One of the best things about it is Front Row. Plays music, movies, tv shows, photo slideshows etc to the monitor or tv or whatever using the included remote. Brilliant.
Couldn’t be happier 🙂