December 1999 - The Dolphin Cafe and Bar (Akaroa) Pegasus Crest Sprint Series
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Greg (the owner of The Dolphin) met us on arrival and introduced us to Vanessa the waitress on duty who would "get us anything we wanted". After a session of collective drooling, elbowing and knuckle dragging the boys unloaded their respective boats onto the lawn and set about rigging. The Akaroa Yacht club arrived in the form of a rescue boat and extremely enthusiastic crew who declined the offer of beers, coffee, Vanessa etc. so the boys thought that we had better do the decent thing and get cracking. |
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Dave and Tim in Meridian Energy |
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The racing was fantastic with all the cut and thrust of a couple of crews sailing like machines and the rest of us sailing like we always sail (see Results, Nautical Terms and How to Sail an R). |
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Sean and Steve leading the way in Chemical Weapon |
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A bit more breeze at last ... Paul and Jason |
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Philip and Walter... |
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Results:
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Always
a good day out for fast and furious racing with admiring
family, friends and babes looking on. Smaller haul this year
with five boats making the journey, more babes though.
Elizabeth
and Sarah took all the attached photos plus another thousand,
yelled and screamed, and mostly didn¹t laugh.
Not
to be put off we raced back to the Dolphin Cafe, laughed
politely at the speeches, told even bigger lies than last year
and drank the prizes. Walter (Gryphon) then played the
favourite game of hide the keys, whoever finding them gets to
keep the Corolla. Nobody did so, we all went home with faces
glowing from beer / embarrassment / sunburn, leaving the car
and Gryphon behind.
Check out November News