Saving Old Seagulls

God Grief, I remembered my name and password .. brain must still be working! Fabulous weather for the weekend, great company, good racing, usual fair share of motor issues and another great Easter Seagull race in the bag. Happy to report that the ministrations that Ross Leger and Charles Large did t...

A "Legless tale" - the lost diaries: The perils of the South Shore After the excitement of the start settled, the crew relaxed into the race. Team Legless were soon faced with the notorious ‘South Shore’ leg. Bermuda mostly lies at an angle from Sommerset in the Southwest corner to St Geor...

A "Legless tale" - the lost diaries: Plain sailing on the sea of Tranquility After winning the war of wills (man vs machine) and having thrashed the fickle ancient 102 Seagull into obedient service ... or more accurately from tin pot luck and Divine assistance, we were well underway. The r...

A "Legless tale" - the lost diaries: The worst possible start Team Legless arrived at the start line with a florish, complete with our own support boat and with great expectations ... but with less than 5 minutes to spare before the 'gun'. A little snobbish really, one really ought stand a...

Sometimes getting to the start line is the hardest part of the race. Being on that start line can be the culmination of years of planning, saving, designing, building race boats, working on motors, testing, travelling and all the the many little things that need to make it happen. All these steps ca...

Re-capping. The kiwi contingent of myself (Pirate Pete) and the Ancient one flew to Bermuda under clouds of volcanic ash, leaving Canterbury earthquakes behinds us. We were shaken and stirred with a marathon flying effort from Wellington, NZ to Sydney, Australia; then onto San Francisco, across US o...

Ahoy me scurveys https://picasaweb.google.com/piratepetester/Bermuda2011TheREPRISE The Pirate and the ancient mariner have made it to Bermuda. It is more beautifull here than I imagined. The heat, the colours, the frogs which the ancient one cannot hear because he is deaf and the friendly Bermudians...

An up date for anybody who is interested. The Pirate and the ancient one (84 year old support crew and father) have made it to New York, New York. We just have to loiter around the hotel a while then make it to the airport to catch the evening flight to Bermuda. Mega international travel - I had for...

Ah the joys of travel. Happy to say that we made it out of New Zealand all the way to Sydney under the dust cloud . In an risk-taking display of true grit and determination worthy of the ANZAC spirit, Air New Zealand is flying in the face of about 7000 stranded Quantas and JEtSTAR passengers. Thus d...

Ah ha!! I think I have mastered the contraption. Ahoy There from Pirate Pete, Wellington New Zealand. I am forsaking the flat waters of Waikato River, My minimax, My 5R and my marriage to make it to this years RISR as New Zealands self appointed and sole international representative. Tickets are boo...

Ahoy Charles I signed up to the seagull forum, but danged if I can figure out how to post. Anyhow, Frantically packing for my Bermuda RISR trip. Being the only New Zealand international representative by default, I am not really taking the race too seriously. My packing focus is mostly sorting out m...