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CLASS NEWS:


October 18/19, 2008
A good fleet of 6 at Rotorua, with the locals dominating. Brett Gray cleaned up the rough sprint races, and Darryl Civil pipped Lance O’Connell in the Round the Island. J.E. 

October 12, 2008
The Auckland 3.7 Summer has now kicked off with four of us showing up to Torbay for their Opening Day. Chris Hawkins, Bruce McCallum. Gavin Auld and myself.
Three races improving from sitting on side, to marginal wiring, then a reasonable trapeze breeze had Chris Hawkins showing the way in all but the first race when his navigator got confused about which top mark to go to and let me have the lead and a first (Would you fly with this man?)
Bruce only got on the water with his fancy new high modulus carbon wing rig for 2nd and 3rd races and is still putting the right strings in the correct places, but certainly appears confident with his potential. Good to see some development still going on. He very rudely snuck up behind me on the last reach of the 2nd race and stole my air while on the wire so I was promptly tea bagged a metre away from the boat before finally rounding down and wearing the rig!
Phil Ash

August 24, 2008
Manly,
Hello Sailors,
Just when we all thought the Metservice was beyond help, they finally got a forecast near right.
With the wild weather Sunday morning, and still blowing 25 - 30 with tricky launching conditions at Manly beach at 1pm, most people pulled the plug (including me) No sign of an OOD.
Wouldn't you know it, by normal race time of 2pm it was down to about 5 -10 knots after passage of front, and so it was left to 6 hardy Laser sailors to head out. Oh well, wouldn't have been enough wind for a decent trapeze ride anyway!
Phil  Ash

August 17, 2008

Tauranga, not enough wind, too much rain. Present were Lance, David, Brett and John. Some boats sailed and they all got towed back. Our intrepid members de-rigged and had a cold one upstairs; far more sensible..

Centreboard Expo

August 16th Torbay 10am to 3pm. Weather was a shocker, the whole thing was a bit of a fizzer. But everybody agrees it is the right idea, we just need to have it during good weather and with more publicity to make it happen.

August 3, 2008
Tauranga, the weather forecast scared everyone off, but Mike Van Enter sailed and had a nice day in 15 knots and a few puffs over 15. Can't seem to win with either weather or forecasts at the moment.

July 27, 2008
Manly, Cancelled, too windy.


July 20, 2008

Tauranga, 6 boats, 3 races, not sure of all the names, our informant says not much wind first two races, 15 knots for the last race.  John Elliott did some work to massage his handicap for future events :) James Smyth eventually got out of bed and joined at race 2.  Lance O'C, David Laing, Brett Gray plus Mike Van Enter in Lance's son's previou boat, were racing.

July 6, 2008

Snow in the Kaimai's three boats raced at Tauranga (Lance, David, Chris). Mostly 15 knots would have been nice if it was a tad warmer. The wind started to come up to 25knots so they pulled the plug on it after second race. TYPBC had at least 25 boats on the water, from all over BoP/Waikato.



NEWS LINKS:


May 18, 2008
Announcement of the boat being built at Howden BoatBuilders Ltd.
Link to Sail-World.com 
http://www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=44497


2008 3.7 Auckland Champs
Link to Article on sail-world.com April  2008
http://www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=43931

http://www.oceanphotography.co.nz/April%2008/26-04-08/index.htm
http://www.oceanphotography.co.nz

2008 3.7 National Champs
Article sent to sail-world.com March  2008
http://www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=42960

2008 3.7 North Island Champs
Article sent to sail-world.com Feb 2008
http:www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=41534

2007 3.7 National Champs
Article sent to Sail World April 2007
http://www.sail-world.com/indexs.cfm?nid=31382

 

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