Sailing adventures on our Whiting 29
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Tunch, John. Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Northerly 10 knots developing in the afternoon. Wellington high tide at 16:42. The Island Bay race was to be a staggered start with Halo's time set for 1035 hrs. We met up at Chaffers Marina and started preparing the boat. Due to the 1-2 kts of... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff and John. Forecast: Easing to 10 kts late morning and then to variable 5 kts turning to NW 10 kt late afternoon. Just the two of us on Halo today for what was looking like a great day to go sailing. We rigged up the sheets and then cast off from Chaffers at... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, John, Ildomar, Tunch, Emma, (Murray had to pull out at the last minute). Forecast: Variable 5 kts in the morning, southerly 20 kts developing in the afternoon. Turning northerly 10 kts Sunday morning rising to 25 kts in the afternoon. Anastasia - We have dedicated this event to the memory of our dear... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, John, Ildomar. Forecast: Northerly 10 kts according to the Metservice with Predictwind saying 5 kts. A lovely evening for a sail! We didn't enter Halo in the full four-day RPNYC regatta program but were happy to participate in their pre-regatta invitation race. After preparing the boat Murray and I wandered over to... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Paul, John, Phil. Forecast: Northerly 15 kts rising to 20 kts. Our first race on Halo since the excitement of the Nelson Regatta. John and I cast off from Chaffers at 1100 hrs and hoisted the small no. 3 jib together with one reef in the mainsail. We sailed round to Evans Bay... Continue Reading →
This was our second time doing the regatta in sunny Nelson. There were 35 boats registered for the regatta including four Wellington boats, Gucci, 88%Proof, Matatoa and us. We entered Halo in the cruising division which suited us well and had a blast with the four days of racing. On day three we raced across to the beautiful... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Anastasia, Paul, John. Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Northerly 10 knots developing in the morning, rising to 15 knots in the afternoon and 20 knots in the evening. Anastasia and John joined me at Chaffers and after rigging the sheets etc we cast off at 1100 hrs. With John on helm we hoisted... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Martin, Ole, Trey. Forecast: Southerly 10 knots in the morning, easing to variable 5 knots in the evening. HW 0933 hrs, LW 1609 hrs. Lovely day for sailing but the conditions weren't looking too promising for the Island Bay race with light breezes varying between zero and 3 kts. As we were... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Peter, Anastasia, John. Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Northerly 10 knots developing in the afternoon. HW 1611 hrs. At our berth at Chaffers I did some training with John who was new to Halo and then we cast off at around 1100 hrs doing some practice sailing with the light genoa no. 1... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Graciela, Peter, Caroline, Tunch and Dilsad. Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Southerly 10 knots developing early afternoon. The RPNYC joined with the Turkish Embassy to hold an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Türkiye. Each boat would have a guest from the Turkish community aboard. A course... Continue Reading →
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