Well the new year brought forth the Bay of Islands Tall Ships race. This is a very serious and prestigious event where lots and lots of boats gather together to compete once a year, they tweak their sails, polish their hulls, streamline the rigging, varnish the woodwork. keep a keen ear to the wind, agonise over the best course and race unto the bitter end with victory the only goal in sight. As usual we approached the event with the seriousness and commitment it deserved.
To be honest I'm not entirely sure that everyone else appreciated the endless supply of water balloons and huge wads of soggy toilet paper being thrown at them, and the tumbleweed silence at the prize giving when I asked if there was a prize for fancy dress seemed to imply that maybe we hadn't taken it quite seriously enough.... by midnight when I found myself head banging to metallica even I realised it was time for us to go home
More pictures coming soon....
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