Mar 2007
Happy Easter to everyone.
Easter is a relaxing time for us, with evening celebrations and a seafood feast with friends planned. Our nearest town, Gladstone, celebrates Easter with a week long festival centred around the off-shore yachting race from Brisbane to Gladstone. The celebrations include a parade of floats, fun-fair, free night time concerts at the Marina, many displays and other activities. The festival culminates with the Yacht Race Prize Presentations- for single hulls and multi hull vessels. This year, no records were broken although the first monohull covered the 308 nautical miles in well under 24 hours. Big winds helped the yachts to speed along. Although two boats were capsized, all crew were safe and one member was taken by helicopter to hospital. Ichi Ban won line honours in the monohull section, with a local entry taking fourth place. (photos from Gladstone Yacht Club site
(Ian Grant) from "Sail World" site tells about one of our local entries, 42 year old sloop "Wistari".
Wistari a four time Gladstone race winner blew out spinnakers was wiped out in a wild sideway broach down a rogue wave and despite finishing with her favoured heavy wind spinnaker in the rag-bag still managed to fill fourth place. 'We had our moments and broaching down the wave with the mast tip wind gear in the water was something that the crew would not like to experience again'. Skipper Scott Patrick said.
But there was a nice end to their race with Wistari winning the Noel Patrick Memorial, 4th overall in the Grand Prix IRC class, 3rd in Performance Handicap and 2nd to Saltash II in the Veterans class.
Happy Easter to everyone.
Easter is a relaxing time for us, with evening celebrations and a seafood feast with friends planned. Our nearest town, Gladstone, celebrates Easter with a week long festival centred around the off-shore yachting race from Brisbane to Gladstone. The celebrations include a parade of floats, fun-fair, free night time concerts at the Marina, many displays and other activities. The festival culminates with the Yacht Race Prize Presentations- for single hulls and multi hull vessels. This year, no records were broken although the first monohull covered the 308 nautical miles in well under 24 hours. Big winds helped the yachts to speed along. Although two boats were capsized, all crew were safe and one member was taken by helicopter to hospital. Ichi Ban won line honours in the monohull section, with a local entry taking fourth place. (photos from Gladstone Yacht Club site
(Ian Grant) from "Sail World" site tells about one of our local entries, 42 year old sloop "Wistari".
Wistari a four time Gladstone race winner blew out spinnakers was wiped out in a wild sideway broach down a rogue wave and despite finishing with her favoured heavy wind spinnaker in the rag-bag still managed to fill fourth place. 'We had our moments and broaching down the wave with the mast tip wind gear in the water was something that the crew would not like to experience again'. Skipper Scott Patrick said.
But there was a nice end to their race with Wistari winning the Noel Patrick Memorial, 4th overall in the Grand Prix IRC class, 3rd in Performance Handicap and 2nd to Saltash II in the Veterans class.
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