Bundaberg inter-city Rum Regatta

On Saturday and Sunday the third and final inter-city rum regatta was held.

On saturday there was one race because it was a very light day, although there was supposed to be two. In the first race I placed last but first because the other boats in my class were too quick so me and the other paper tiger raced against each other. On Sunday the wind was better but not near perfect. Today was supposeed to be 3 races. the first race was held at 9:15 and the races would be continuous. the first race was a bit slow but near the end the wind picked up dramatically with some 25 knots gusts rolling through. the second race i placed second lats but first. Finally the third race was to be held out the front with the wind steady. coming back in the wind had died and the tide running against us, so it would be slow coming in.

Bargara Bash

On Sunday the 23rd of May the annual Bargara Bash was held. This race was race was a long one although the forcast was 15-20 knots it was only about 10 to 12 knots which make it fairly slow a pokey race easpecially becasue most of the course was downwind. Now to me. Most of the race was I was leading easpecially upwind. Once i had passed the bouy at Bargara it was a downwind run back to the club, in which Jarrod the other paper tiger sailor beat me on.

On Sunday my sailing coach Mark Sweeny came over to have a look at the progress of the restoration. While he was here he gave Dad and I some usful advise on pullie systems for the downhaul, boom vang, baby stays and halyard. He also showed us some tips on making a cleet for the main sheet, making the traveller and traveller car run smoother and wheather we should replace the stays for the mast.

Thursday the 13th of May Dad and I sanded back the deck of the boat for the water proofing resin. We also received the trampoline back stitched up and ready for assembaly onto the boat. Now it is time to finish the resin, lace the trampoline and get rigging together, there for the boat is ready for tesing and in the water under some strain which will be in the next week or so.

During the week Dad and i tightened the mast wires so it wouldnt pop out of the mast step. We also changed the different wire fittings around so that it would it better.

Mast is up

Saturday the first of May Dad and I finished the first stages of putting the new beams on so that we could stand the mast up and change the rigging, the wire lengths, sail settings, halyard pullies etc..

Monday the third we started to unstitch, cut and mark out an old trampoline that we are recycling. This week we hope to take the pieces of trampoline to the upholsterer to be made up into the final product - a stretchable trampoline with eyelets, bolt ropes and hems . In doing this there was some careful maths required to reduce wastage.