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Hi Peter,

Certainly was a great regatta, Warrnambool YC did a great job with everything.

The dismast was a loss of the starboard shroud pin while going up wind on port. A tack saw the rig fall gently over. I heard it described as graceful! <img src=

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I got off lightly - an altercation with another boat saw Rob on Grey Matter lose part of the starboard bow, it was temp repaired with epoxy and a lot of tape, prompting a name change to Grey Tape. <img src=

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The Cobdens on Try Hard broke a diamond and seconds later the mast in the wind on Friday. <img src=

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Hi all,

love the photo's of the last day, wish I was there.

It's a pity the photos can't do justice to the first couple of days. There were some awesome sights at the gybe mark (the gybe mark was closest to the shore).

I remember vividly sitting at the top of one wave, with the gybe mark sitting at the top of the next wave but I was still a long way from the mark (I would guess about 15 to 20 boatlengths) and there was just this huge hole (like a crater) between us.

Peter Nikitin had an interesting time gybing around that mark while the 4 metre wave actually broke right behind him. A few spectators on other boats watched this and just waited for the crunch which, fortunately for Peter, never came.

The amazing thing was that even when the wind got really light (4 knots or less) we could still make forward progress against these waves, going upwind.

There are some more nationals photos in the album now.

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Hey Tim
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Great Photos
Just had a look at the elapsed times for Mk1 versus Mk2 - dont think that they are correct - maybe the 5min start time difference has not been taken into account?
Does anyone have any ideas.

Looking at the races where I remember being near Warwick at the finish, we have about the same elapsed time, so I would say you are dead right. Either the sloops should have an extra 5 minutes or the cats should have 5 minutes less. It's probably the later, since the sloops started first and that's when they probably started the timer on the committee boat.

This is why it's always bad practise to use elapsed times when recording finishers. If actual start and finish times are recorded and software used to calculate the elapsed times this kind of mistake doesn't happen (and it's so easy to record real times - you only need a wristwatch).

When elapsed times are recorded stuff-ups often happen (like this, or the timer accidentally gets reset during the race, or it falls overboard or someone spills their beer into it or the battery goes flat or .....).

Fortunately it doesn't actually affect the results.

Not sure I feel like going right through that page of results adjusting all the times though - took long enough to build it in the first place

Hi Ben

Peter Cobden has the video. I can send you a copy when I get it. I'm looking forward to seeing it myself.

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Hi Tim, you should have a copy of all our pic's including some short videos. We have another copy we would like to send to someone in SA to distribute around the Mossie sailors over there.

Also 1805 is back in action and sailed at St Leonards over the Australia Day weekend.
St Leonards had two races each day Saturday through Monday with a mixed fleet. The Cats included A-Class, F18, PT's, Dolphins, Hobie 16 and our two Mossie's. We managed to sail our boats in all configurations, Cat, Sloop, Sloop with Spin and Cat with Spin.
The two races on Sunday in 18 to 22 Knots and Monday in 3 to 6 Knots. All in all a well run and laid back event.
Peter

I've sent you an email Peter with my address to send the pics and video to,
Thanks,
Darryn

Thanks Darryn, they are on there way.
Peter

There's some video from the last day of the nationals on the VMCA home page. I'll put it here as well.