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The bow of the good ship Pinnacle.



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Dee gives Helen a morning massage.


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Final Practice

Sunday, our last practice, minus Laine and Dee, was a beautiful sunny windless day. We mooched around for an hour before the breeze picked up enough for the start. It was not quite a spinnaker start but almost. And then, with the foredeck team jumping to, we had the lovely great big blue and orange monster up and flying. Shortly after that the connecting hook on the pole broke. Rather than drop the kite John Harris, standing in for Dee as boat mistress, lept forward with some VB cord and lashed it on. Nice work. The race had been shortened to two legs so we didn't have to worry what to do with it next time. The tack back to the finish went well and we were well ahead or arch rival Hoodare who was until then on equal points. But were we far enough ahead? We had to repair to the very pleasant Drummoyne Sailing Club and consume beer and sausage sandwiches while waiting to find out. We did beat Hoodare and came 5th on the day and 5th over all for the combined series. So now we are pumped for Hamilton Island.

Sunday Race

The Pinnacleadas will be racing in Balmain on Sunday, a last practice in Sydney before we all head north to Hamilton Island. Cheshire Cat will stand in for the good ship Pinnacle.

The good ship Pinnacle

We have renamed our charter boat Pinnacle for Race Week.
And the t-shirt order is in. We now wait patiently for delivery. Dee did an amazing job responding to everyone's ideas and preferences.
And Chantelle at Mabuzi was incredibly patient with us with changes and last minute additions after we sent the order in.
Here's a taste of what is to come.

Training Sail

At the end of May Dee came up from Melbourne and after a get-to-gether dinner we all took Cheshire Cat out for a practice run. Not to
o many sore heads. With a spinnaker to play with we had a few test hoists and then started the race. Two spinnaker runs between tacking legs and a gybe or two proved the team was going to work well together and make some waves on the Hamilton Island race course.

Our well set spinnaker

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