King's Cup photos

The only crew we have that wasn't with us last year is Pip, and she's just sent me a nice photo, kinda funky light....

And here below is a reminder of the crew from last year.  Babs' photo (Babs now on "Gold Coast Australia" in the Clipper Round the World race.  Check her out here). Other King's Cup '10 photos here.

Stevo, G, Ray, Petra, Bicky, Klaus, PF, Jing, TC, Iris, Babs, Digger, MC Danger
Kata Beach, Phuket, King's Cup, 2010

The champagne photo after some champagne sailing...

Bit late getting this, but it's such a nice photo I have to post it now.  It's just after the finish of Race Two King's Cup, for which we had Line Honors and Corrected time win, the full story is here.  The champers was tossed over to us by the Committee boat, and photo by Guy Nowell, who says he has "lots of nice photos" of Xena, which I must follow up....

L to R: Bicky, G, Ray, Babs, Jing, Petra, Klaus & Stevo (obscured), TC blows the champers, Iris, Peter, MC. (missing: Noel)

King's Cup Carnage

Some of the 11 yachts beached (Later:13 beached) 

they were to be further driven on the beach and irrecoverable (iPhone photo)

Later:Babs Photos: one here >>

Walawala, Hong Kong boat. First 44.7

Arrive at Kata Beach this morning to a scene of carnage: 13 yachts -- nine sloops and four catamarans -- beached in the westerly storm that blew in overnight. 30+ knots; who said it doesn't blow in Phuket?

Later: see Babs' photos here.

Day Four: the curate's egg. Final Results

Results today: Line Honours and pipped into second on corrected time by one minute 24 seconds.

Final Results: Four Races: Four Line Honours, Two wins, Two Seconds, equal first on points, second on countback.  Gutted.

Day Four: Rest day, no racing

G and TC at Crew Dinner, Kam Eang Restaurant, Cholon beach (iPhone)

This page intentionally left blank -- to post some photos in due course. Hah! When I get my act together and catch up with Babs and her laptop.... [Later: now some here, as you see....]

Day Three: the Regatta website's write up

I'm posting a cut 'n paste from the regatta website News page because it will be taken down in due course, and I'd like it here for the record. My own write-up is the post immediately below.

Day Three: One, Two

Jing and TC, Kata beach (photo: Peter's iPhone)

Results today: Line Honours and second corrected.

It was a beautiful day, sunny, with easterlies of 10-15 knots. The first day that was not overcast or threatening rain, so the sun bloc was liberally slip, slop and slapped on.

Day Two, another Bullet

Finish Race two [photo & champagne, courtesy Guy Nowell, via TC]

Today's result: Line Honours and First on corrected time. This time second over the line was the Warwick 66 Storm2 and third over the line the Beneteau 53f5, Baby Tonga, which took second on corrected.

Day One Double Header

Today's result: line Honours and Win on corrected time, beating Baby Tonga into second on corrected by 1 minute 12 seconds.

Day Zero: practice day

"G", PF, Petra watching the opposition...

(thanks to Babs)

Blogging from my iPad in coffee shop of Kata Resort, so can't upload (yet) photos taken by Babs, as I have to work on HTML... aaargh, enough of the technobabble, already!

Note the winches: Grant, Iris and the boyz did a great job in delivering her pristine and light!

09:00 saw the crew beachside ready to take Longtail boats out to Xena.

Xena anchors at Kata Beach

108 yachts at Kata Beach (PF's iPhone)

SMS just in from Ross Dawson, our friendly reporter in Phuket (on FreeFire the new TP52):
"Xena is just dropping anchor at Kata beach now".
Thanks Ross, for thinking of us! Cheers.
Peter
(Jing and I are still in Hong Kong, having skived off all the prep work.... we arrive there tomorrow lunchtime)

Photo already in, from TC

This one from Ben ("TC"), with the comment:

Late edition Ray leading the way to the chandelry - Nice bike!!!!

  

Special thanks to all

Klaus has managed to post a couple of comments -- well done!  It seems to need some sort of log-in and apols for that, can't see how to remove that in the setting, but hope others can work it out....

I've posted some "thank you's" before, but just wanted to "consolidate" them, as it were.

Post from the website

Now that I'm posting about the King's Cup here, I'm copy/pasting the original couple of mini-posts from over at the Xena website....

Xena's King's Cup, Post the first

Hi there, this is the new blog set up just for Xena's King's Cup campaign.  I'm sitting here in Hong Kong, while the guys down in Phuket are finalising Xena's prep...