Wednesday 14 March 2012

Stewart Island

Large report due to lack of modern communication facilities here on the island.

The good:
Nice people, the locals put two fantastic dinners on for the crews with plenty of local bounty it really did help team morale.
The 4 square, food, drink and booze still at surprisingly reasonable prices.
Sunshine
Pub dinners
Fishing

The bad:
Cold, wind, rain.
The broken heater
Choice of accommodation, we went cheap it was not a good call

Fishing
I have to give special mention to Garry the skipper of Arun who kindly used his boat as the start and finish boat and also to take me and Bill and all the still upright crews out on a most successful fishing foray.

Race Report:
Sally and Rob were not on good terms apon arrival. They made some bad calls during the leg and were having a mental explosion with each other as a result.  Come on guys you know the mantra. To win you have to finish, to finish you need to look after the boat and each other.

The Restart:
Coppelia smoked them, managing to hold Surreal off and were still a very close 2nd as we turned back about an hour after the restart.




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