Congratulations to all of our team, what a fantastic day. The competition, the Cadenza crew had just made the perfect gybe with the huge 3/4 oz spinnaker and all was going well. Cadenza were in the lead, just ahead of Kioni at the Manly mark. One little mistake due to the helmsman Terry having to avoid a small dinghy out of control probably cost them the race. The briefing afterwards was fun with many drinks and laughs and watch out next week Kioni.
Kioni is a Beneteau and like all production boats is built of fiberglass, yachties would say is a plastic boat. In the old days all boats were built in wood. I remember my beautiful Gaffer, a gentlemans' day sailor which was built out of a wood called Jarra, a real boat, we would say. Of course to maintain the boat took a lot of effort and many days of varnishing and the actul sailing days were few. Plastic boats maintenance is low and sailing is no problem with most days available over the year.
One of our hot Kioni Sunday crew just happened to mention her company HP is a sponsor of a plastic boat arriving soon to Sydney. Check it out., its build of plastc bottles and should arrive in Sydney before the Sydney Boatshow.
http://www.theplastiki.com/
Not my Cup of Tea, but I get the message.
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