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Photo (right) of boat for sale by Andrew Howden.
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
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
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 2008http: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
