Bernie, crossing the stream. Wet for the next 4 hours!
Richard picked a deep spot. Still, the karts clean now.
Better to get the feet wet rather than the total body by going through the deep spot. Mako
Paul H. New to the club and keen to get everything wet. Welcome to the ABC Paul.
Tony
Briefing
How did Tony get the camera this high?
The base camp during briefing
Good photo before start and the small hard beach area at the start but no problem, everyone got away without incident
Getting ready for race start, 2 min. dial up about to start.
Andrew
Peter does one race a year and it's 100 km!
Haydn
Tony and Peter in sync.
Now in dial up
Ray
The start
What is Tony doing at the back? Didn't stay there for long.
Orca after the 1st 10 km, first place and never challenged
Peter 2nd
Alex close behind and about to pass Peter on the next leg. These two changed places several times during the race.
Richard closely followed by Nicko
Dominic
Craig
Brian and Don fighting it out at the mark
Windy and rough
Rosie doing her first long distance race
Orca
Nicko
Trevor, good speed all day
Graham I
Mako
Grant F from Hamilton
Don
Tom came through from the Bay and sailed a 4 metre.
Note the kite surfers in the background
Ben came through from Rotorua
Ben
Jude
Fraser, nothing like a bit of sand in the teeth
Alex
Peter
Richard
Guru, on fire
A few fisherman heading for the Kaipara hartbour, 48 km down the beach
David H leading the bunch and fighting to get up with the leaders
Derek and Andrew
Not sure who it is but looks a bit out of control
Grant1
Interesting sail colours in the sunlight for Trevor
David H
Jon
Andrew from the BBC.
Paul H toughing it out without a POD
Guru and Graham I
Brian
Looks like Graham L is about to be swamped by 3 layers of surf. Great shot.
Derek
Ben, those Volvo sails are fast!
The surf was rough which lead to the sweepers coming up the beach occasionally
Smokin', it didn't really happen on the day
Guru
Jon leading the Guru through the turn. Better print this one off Jon.
