We are seriously lagging behind in writing up our posts, sorry about that! Although Dan is worse than me… I will nag him to write up his windsurfing and B14 Nationals post tonight/tomorrow.
Anyway, on the 29th -31st May, it was the B14 Nationals at Stokes Bay, and I was able to get out on the rescue boat on the Saturday to take pictures! It was my first time out on one of the rescue boats, although the organisers thought I had done it before so I had to let them know that I don’t actually have a power boat licence… It was great fun though, I was taken out to the committee boat at around 10.30am where I watched them co-ordinate setting up the course by dropping the boueys in very specific places in the water. They had various gadgets (old and new) to make sure they placed them in the correct places, I think I will need to watch it done a few more times to get more of an understanding of how it is done. The race began at 11.30am, and I was eventually able to get out on the second RIB about 20 minutes later, as a passenger of course. I got some great photos, although I was very biased towards Dan and Dan C… If I get a chance to go out on one of the boats again, I will try and get a wider range of photos for the class as I hadn’t realised they were relying on me for some photos as well! I only went out with the aim of getting photos for this blog. There were a few they must have like though as they made it onto yachtsandyachting.com.
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