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j24Tas@Ozemail.com.au
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Kaos AUS74
- Owners: Kaye Roberts, Stewart Geeves
- Regular Helmsperson: Kaye
- Crew: Stewart, Marcus, Stewart, Emma, Laura,
Tim, Bella, Elise, Scott, anyone else who is available.
- Past Names / Owners:Tim Hardstaff
(Wavelength 2), Brett Cooper (DJ Motors), Nick Rogers (Karabos)
- Meaning behind boat name: Have you ever seen us
sail? Actually a contraction of Kaye’s name & Stewart’s
fathers name.
- Sponsors:Derwent Valley
Concrete for contributing to our (was new) spinnaker.
- Helmsperson's biggest fear:Steering while fresh down wind.
- Loosing crew overboard
- Crew's biggest fear:Kaye finding no brandy at the bar.
Kaye
steering when fresh downwind.
- Most expensive recent gear breakage:Jib & genoa cars,
spinnaker pole ends
- Moments of Great Success: Winning Kettering to
Cygnet race by over 20 minutes on time. Leading the race on the water
until the breeze freshened.
- Moments of Great Failure: Broached, layed
reasonably flat & (almost) loosing one crew overboard
- Longest Sailing Expedition: Hobart to Port Huon to
Dover & back.
- Shortest Sailing Expedition: either (a) Finding the
outboard dying 5 metres from the RYCT jetty or (b) putting the boat in
off the crane and finding that there is not enough water.
- Quote of the year:Puff in 5, 2, 1, ½,
¼, 1/8 oh bugger it, it was there.
The most sailed J24 in Tassie, raced Wednesday,
Thursday, Fridays & Saturdays during summer & some Sundays.
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