Good fun sailing in the Lincoln Crowne 12 Foot Skiff NSW Championship, Heat 4, conducted by the Lane Cove 12 Foot Sailing Skiff Club.

Luckily got the little rig on to introduce Adrienne to my style of 12 foot skiff sailing.  She looked a little bit like I was hogging all the toys, not even giving her the mainsheet going into the tacks and I was not sure she believed me when I said she should stay on the wire all the time, spinnaker sets, drops, always.  A nice start and first work set us up well for my strategic plan, which I suggested later in the race, a very loose cover on the other skiff she sails.  Humbug was pretty crowded.  The finish was almost pretty busy.  Just lost out to Skoll in the last little bit and somehow picked up Vantage Real Estate at the last moment.

Thanks to the Queensland 12 footer sailors who came down with Tank Girl (sporting Allwood Sails) and Ghetto Sled for the race and out for dinner and a good chat afterwards.

And in the race results, Garde, Gemmell Sails and Lincoln Crowne, took the scratch placings.  And Hey Charger, CST Composites and www.skiff.org.au the handicap placings.  More details on the race results sheet.

Plenty of 12 footer mainsheets and a spinnaker sheet sold in the last week.  Must be right in the middle of the Lincoln Crowne & Company State Titles.

Brad being nice and tapering one mainsheet for his Dad on Vantage Real Estate just in time for his old one to blow a cover so he can make a new mainsheet for Garde.  Nick is looking after his Dad well by getting me to do the splicing and Ian is doing his own float rope spinnaker sheets for The Movement.

Two are made using the new LIROS DynaSoft and one stuck with a traditional taper splice in double braid (LIROS Magic Pro).

Must be 505 sailing time.  Just sent some Warwick Ham made SPINNO pole ends to Airlie Beach, a 505 arrived last night a new mainsheet and bridle and hopefully my last SPINNO dual pole launcher goes on someones new mast this week.

505 spinnaker pole ends.

Just need to sell a few more of my stock CST Composites 505 spinnaker poles and then I will be able to buy some new toys.

Very impressive afternoon at Jonathon’s book launch at the Harold Park Hotel.

Jonathon’s K Benton’s first book A Wicked Kind of Dark.

Hopefully plenty of people enjoy the read and he is a hit in the young adult fiction genre.

A Wicked Kind of Dark is published by Odyssybooks.

http://www.odysseybooks.com.au