Check out David Parillo’s excellent video on the rebuild of Pavo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=806JqLVh4kM

We look forward to seeing her out on the water!

Cherry McIvor presents Adam Bartlett the award for best forward hand

Stewart Association President Charles Scoones and Secretary Cherry McIvor present Pionnier owner Bill Miller and helmsman Mark Bond with the Hyundai Championship Trophy

Charles Scoones presents Panacea owner Brett Henshaw with the trophy for most improved sailor, spinnaker division

Cherry McIvor presents John Ormrod of Prism the Hyundai Champioship trophy for non-spinnaker division

Bonny Collinson presents a trophy to Rick Royden of Psyche, winner of the Collinson Forex Series

Kurt Boyle celebrated his 35th birthday on board his Stewart 34 Pelagian by tossing off the dock lines from Westhaven Marina,and along with crew mate Matt Burkhardt, starting a 3,000+ mile, four legged race that will circumnavigate New Zealand.  This is the first time in 21 years that the Shorthanded Sailing Association of New Zealand has run this extreme challenge of skill, will, seaworthiness and some might say, sanity.  With a couple of ocean passages under his safety harness and plans of extensive ocean cruising on the horizon, Kurt, a.k.a. “the Mad Monk,” couldn’t pass up the opportunity for a personal shakedown cruise. Ten yachts and 20 crew will spend most of the next month sailing in an anti-clockwise direction through some of the most challenging waters on the planet with short stopovers in Mangonui, Stewart Island and Napier before returning to Auckland.

Matt Burkhardt and Kurt Boyle before leaving the marina (Charles Scoones)

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