Plenty of "meeting and greeting" with about a dozen new faces turning up to have ago with the club karts and two families who have their own karts which is great. Hopefully we can persuade them to join up and join in.
Trevor H had the shadow on and took some of the more tentative out for a go while there was a steady turnover with the 4 club karts which kept Ray, Graham and Wayne busy making sure everyone was having a good sail. A few tip overs, even with our club members at a couple of stages but no damage, maybe pride only.
The rest, about 15 club members, enjoyed 10-15 knt winds with no rain. Ideal for 4 metre sails although Barry looked fast with his 3 metre to start until a bit of a lull. A couple changed to 5.5s at the end as the wind dropped down around 10 knts for a short time. No racing but started with windward/leeward courses and then changed to using the taxi track as the wind went further south. This meant using the muddy corner,
photos to follow, to get make a safe turn at the end of the fast downwind leg. Tricky part of the track in a bit of wind but with a grass run off the other side no real problems.
Lots of grins, some mud splattered faces after a day with wind, something that has been missing from Auckland for a while. That's 2 out of 3 weekends now where we haven't used the 5.5s, must be a record.
Next weekend we will try for the 100 km race if the wind co-operates otherwise we have the Sport Unleashed Winter Series on Sunday. At this stage long term forecast is looking ok for 100 km race Saturday but too early for anything positive.
Will let you know how it's looking later in the week.
Russell
