Going on with the Memories of an earlier Post. In a rare delirious moment, I bid on eBay for this Carter Texas One Ton. It did not happen. in the end I did not get her. If the anonymous buyer ever sees this writing, he can get in touch with me anytime. Story telling about this production boat from Carter Offshore. Back in 1973, after winning the One Ton World Championship with the thoroughbred Ydra, we could not prevent to recognize the small yearling Ganbare. The Doug Peterson design coming in second place, showed all of us a new direction. A lighter boat by 2500lbs. narrower lines, pin tail stern and superbly sailed; she got the attention. The influence from California started to be felt. For a new response to evolution within the very popular One Ton Class, the next move for Carter offshore was to design a new production boat. The Texas One Ton. Plastrends Andy Greene, later Composite Technologies of Fort Worth was the builder, with molds crafted by Tom Dreyfus out of the new CFlex system by Seeman. The boat proper was a crossover between Ydra and Ganbare, not as light because of the weight attributed to accommodation but with plenty of sail area to compensate. I recall that about 40 have been built. Andy Greene was an early guru about composite technologies. Previously known to build small boats, the fame came with the design of revolutionary race-car chassis for Chapparal Cars. Later he became a division of Turner Communications Corp. Bill Seeman. Inventor. C flex. Also, if not the first, certainly the most successful in prolifirating the Fusion system for the Marine Industry. Foot note. I believe Vendredi Treize, the Carter 128 single handed racer, built by Tecimar for Jean-Yves Terlain was one of the first using the method way back in 1971. Tom Dreyfus. A legend.
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People in Wellington last Saturday night could be forgiven for thinking that the fireworks in the harbour ...
... were something to do with Guy Fawkes night. This conclusion was of course naively misguided, since Guy Fawkes was on the 5th of November, and a far more important event occurred on the 9th of November. This was Blinks first offshore, the Brothers Race, with Line Honours for the 12m Shaw design, with Rob himself on board. This was Robs first sail on Blink except from a very light-airs inaugural outing in August.
Our offshore crew numbers are limited, so we could only take 9 people, and with Rob coming down some of our regulars had to stay behind, including Vesna with her arm in plaster. Hence she was able to take the great off-the-boat pics.
Wed had problems with our furling setup the night before the race, the top-down ones in particular needing some fine-tuning, so we elected to free-fly the kites except of course for the Code 0. As it turned out, the Code 0 off the line (that we, like almost everyone else, were very late for) was an excellent choice and we shot away from the rest of the fleet who stalled out in Oriental Bays typical fickle southerly conditions. Ran Tan started to catch us on the reach across Evans Bay, we carried our C0 a bit far and they sneaked inside us 2-sail reaching. Lead change number 1.
Then we started chipping away at Ran Tans lead, eventually catching them and overtaking at Moaning Minnie. Not only does Blink rip downwind, but it seems she goes upwind pretty well too.
So we led Ran Tan out of the harbour. Lead change number 2.
The tight reach along the south coast saw Ran Tan get forward on us to lead us around Sinclair Head. Lead change number 3.
But then we got the Code 0 up again, and crept around Ran Tan again by the time we got to Karori light, lead change number 4.
They were north of us, however, so only needed to put a little extra speed on to pass us again. Which they did. Lead change number 5.
We had our A2 up again by now, so got going downwind. We gybed in towards Terawhiti, and out again and headed for the other side.
We could see the compass bearing to Ran Tan decreasing as we regained the lead. Change number 6. We rounded the Brothers 12 minutes ahead of Ran Tan, and then dealt with the only tactical dilemma of the race.
Craig had been running the weather and tide info, along with some very creatively produced guesses as offshore Shaw 12 polars, for a couple of days. And the courses suggested seemed to alternate between heading straight back east, or putting a tack back in to the south after going a couple of miles on starboard tack from the Brothers. So we did put a tack in. Seemed like a very rational idea at the time. And we probably didnt sail quite as low and fast as we should have on the way across after that. So Ran Tan tacked off the North Island coast and crossed us on port by a few hundred metres. Lead change number 7.
But once back on the wind, we were back in the game, and then had the opportunity to lee-bow Ran Tan and force them back away from shore. That paid off handsomely, lead change number 8, and we built up a pretty decent lead after that. Then we got around the south coast as well as we could, Code 0 again between Sinclair and Minnie, then A2 into the harbour, pretty much all the way to the line.
Well, pretty much. There was discussion about how to handle Kau bay with the Halswell finish bearing at the other end. With plenty of east in the southerly, wed hoped to carry the kite most of the way to the line. As it turned out we needed to lose the kite about halfway across, as we got gusts coming from the southwest down the hill. No problem if wed had a furler attached, we didnt. No problem if we could bear away, but we couldnt as there was a row of 5 tinnies all anchored and fishing exactly where we needed to go. So: problem. Kite in water, only bit of chaos in the whole race, within sight of the line. We didnt catch any fish, but not for want to trying. Apparently salt water is an excellent way of preventing mildew on sails, if so our A2 is mould-safe.
We didnt take many pics on the boat, but did run the time-lapse camera and will splice in some of the other video we took... to follow.
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