Coffee at 7:30 am followed by showers all round then down to the yacht club for briefing. Race management seemed concerned about some tropical cyclone. Cooked breakfast then back to the house to pack up and deliver Rob and Sally off to the boat.
Pete and I then scored a very nice ride out to watch the start on Karamea A local ferro cruiser. No prangs or restarts so back to the club house for ginger beers, then back to base to organize our trip south.
In the afternoon it was off to cape reinga to recheck the road signs as last time there was some discrepancy in the length of New Zealand, we will report our findings once we reach bluff. No signs of the boats at 5:30pm (no wind either) so back to base for dinner.
Observations from the road: Red cars go slow in northland. Shops including the takeaways close at 6pm so the only place to get dinner is the pub (kitchen closes at 8pm) so don't dawdle.
Not exactly a brewery tour but Macs gold for Pete and Panhead super charger and Pilsner on Tap for me to have a few samples of.
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