Lightening the bost

[KAM]

I suspect like many people I mostly cruise but do the occasional race. One of my water tanks is out of action and has been empty this season. Boat seems noticeably more nimble. Starting to look about at what I can reduce. 400kg of water, pile of books, two spare anchors. Nearly 1km of spare rope. 2 full size bikes. 50kg of spares. 20kg spare water. 50kg spare diesel. Petrol. The list goes on. Boat is 10m. I was wondering if anyone else has had a serious clear out and then seriously regretted it later.

 

[fisherman]

Didn't Heath remove the toilet door for this reason?

 

[Minerva]

Didn't Heath remove the toilet door for this reason?

Either a dirty pervert or he nearly didn't like folk doing a #2 on his boat!

 

[Stemar]

I'd be inclined to make a list of stuff you want for local cruising and extras for long distance, eg spare diesel and, probably a lot of the spares, but can do without when racing.

 

[Neeves]

I suspect like many people I mostly cruise but do the occasional race. One of my water tanks is out of action and has been empty this season. Boat seems noticeably more nimble. Starting to look about at what I can reduce. 400kg of water, pile of books, two spare anchors. Nearly 1km of spare rope. 2 full size bikes. 50kg of spares. 20kg spare water. 50kg spare diesel. Petrol. The list goes on. Boat is 10m. I was wondering if anyone else has had a serious clear out and then seriously regretted it later.

We raced our X-99 in HK. We dry sailed her and stripped all the original AF off. We sailed with required kit, 2 anchors, and necessary water and fuel (but removed the saloon table (except for class racing). We were CHS champions for 2 consecutive years and still have the trophies.

But, on reflection, it was not the stripping out of the yacht - but the attention to detail. The stripping out of the yacht was simply one example. We always had a crew of 6, every Sunday. Within the crew we usually had one neophyte to train up and increase the crew 'pool' (people in HK usually did a lot of travel) - so we had 5 on deck who knew the boat and each other - and we raced to win (why else do you enter a race......?). Beer was an essential - its hot in HK - but not till after we had crossed the finish line

Jonathan

 

[Skellum]

Which X99 did you race on Jonathan? I did a few races with X Terminator last season.

 

[Neeves]

Which X99 did you race on Jonathan? I did a few races with X Terminator last season.

'JoXephine of Hong Kong' HKG 7135. We bought her as new. Ours had the red waterline stripes. We were on starboard and 'T' boned on the start line for a China Coast Cup, most of the starboard hull was delaminated, the toe rail broken and the window frames smashed. She was a right off and was bought, by the RHKYC shipyard manager I think, rebuilt and re-named 'Just a FiX'. Ours and 'EXtravangance', blue stripes, were, I think, consecutive hull numbers - but I think she came to Australia as I saw her once locally (Sydney). 'Hong Kong EXpress', red stripes, I think was the oldest. We raced in the local club events but also the off shore races, primarily the RORC China Sea races, we did 3 to the Philippines, (where we did not match our club races successes). We lived and kept her at Disco Bay, where we did a deal so that we could dry sail, but still made the big trek every Sunday in the summer for the Typhoon Series.

Great yachts to race but on the few weekends we were not racing we did cruise JoXephine - camping at its best

Jonathan

 

[Kelpie]

Ideally you want to be rafted up to your rival just before the race, and dump all of your spare gear on them.
I may have done this when racing traditional luggers, who suddenly found themselves in possession of two extra 12ft long oars. I think they saw the funny side.

 

[Skellum]

'JoXephine of Hong Kong' HKG 7135. We bought her as new. Ours had the red waterline stripes. We were on starboard and 'T' boned on the start line for a China Coast Cup, most of the starboard hull was delaminated, the toe rail broken and the window frames smashed. She was a right off and was bought, by the RHKYC shipyard manager I think, rebuilt and re-named 'Just a FiX'. Ours and 'EXtravangance', blue stripes, were, I think, consecutive hull numbers - but I think she came to Australia as I saw her once locally (Sydney). 'Hong Kong EXpress', red stripes, I think was the oldest. We raced in the local club events but also the off shore races, primarily the RORC China Sea races, we did 3 to the Philippines, (where we did not match our club races successes). We lived and kept her at Disco Bay, where we did a deal so that we could dry sail, but still made the big trek every Sunday in the summer for the Typhoon Series.

Great yachts to race but on the few weekends we were not racing we did cruise JoXephine - camping at its best

Jonathan

If I was staying in HK I would be tempted to buy one having sold out of my Ruffian. They are a great HK boat for a bit of cruising and racing at Sai Kung. I think all of the boats you mentioned have left HK now.