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[madboutcats]

G'day the 2012 Lake Eyre Yacht Club regatta is on from the 1st of July 2012 at a big freshwater lake currently mostly 7ft deep and a bit over 3 ft deep not far from the bank. The lake's are about 7km long and bigger than the previous regattas and joins via the Cooper creek so will have some fun sailing and plenty of racing. Currently the same amount of boats as other years are registered. The Marree Camel Cup races is on Saturday 30th of June then on Sunday people typically head to the camp site setup boats tents etc for a week of fun. Friday is pack up day with a presentation dinner at the Marree hotel. As the lake is on private property if you are coming can you go to the Lake Eyre Yacht Club site and register at
http://www.lakeeyreyc.com/
There will be the usual big fleet of 13 to 16ft cats but this year there are already more 18-19 ft cats registered
see you there

[pulpit]

G'day the 2012 Lake Eyre Yacht Club regatta is on from the 1st of July 2012 at a big freshwater lake currently mostly 7ft deep and a bit over 3 ft deep not far from the bank. The lake's are about 7km long and bigger than the previous regattas and joins via the Cooper creek so will have some fun sailing and plenty of racing. Currently the same amount of boats as other years are registered. The Marree Camel Cup races is on Saturday 30th of June then on Sunday people typically head to the camp site setup boats tents etc for a week of fun. Friday is pack up day with a presentation dinner at the Marree hotel. As the lake is on private property if you are coming can you go to the Lake Eyre Yacht Club site and register at
http://www.lakeeyreyc.com/
There will be the usual big fleet of 13 to 16ft cats but this year there are already more 18-19 ft cats registered
see you there

Hey madboutcats,

Looking forward to the regatta again this year.
We are leaving on the tueday week to get to the regatta from the gold coast and have 9 in our group. This year we are bringing the caper cat 18 and a caper cat 14 as well as 2 gffa's. I can't wait to sail on the lake again.

Will see you their.

Pulpit

[madboutcats]

I got the measurements mixed up the depth is in meters not feet the lake is 7.3 meters deep and 3.6 meters deep only 10 meters from the shoreline so it's going to be very easy to launch and retrieve. There is another opportunity to sail through trees this year up the inlet to the lake.
Will be good to see you again Pulpit we've only got 1150km drive each way so we'll do it easy compared to your 2200km each way. I've got a newer bow camera thats a bit clearer so should get better video this year.

[madboutcats]

Here's some interesting video of sailing in the regatta plus we do the normal racing

Sailing through the trees on a Nacra 5.8 facing forward


Sailing through the trees on a Nacra 5.8 facing back


Sailing along the flooded Birdsville track between the road markers

[pulpit]

I got the measurements mixed up the depth is in meters not feet the lake is 7.3 meters deep and 3.6 meters deep only 10 meters from the shoreline so it's going to be very easy to launch and retrieve. There is another opportunity to sail through trees this year up the inlet to the lake.
Will be good to see you again Pulpit we've only got 1150km drive each way so we'll do it easy compared to your 2200km each way. I've got a newer bow camera thats a bit clearer so should get better video this year.

Hey madboutcat,

Sailing through tree is just great, this is a great regatta and lots of fun.

Can't wait to see your new videos of his year.

So auscat are you going to come home and sail this regatta ?

Pulpit

[auscat]

I got the measurements mixed up the depth is in meters not feet the lake is 7.3 meters deep and 3.6 meters deep only 10 meters from the shoreline so it's going to be very easy to launch and retrieve. There is another opportunity to sail through trees this year up the inlet to the lake.
Will be good to see you again Pulpit we've only got 1150km drive each way so we'll do it easy compared to your 2200km each way. I've got a newer bow camera thats a bit clearer so should get better video this year.

Hey madboutcat,

Sailing through tree is just great, this is a great regatta and lots of fun.

Can't wait to see your new videos of his year.

So auscat are you going to come home and sail this regatta ?

Pulpit

Love to mate but the wife is pretty crook and not sure what the future holds.

[madboutcats]

It's okay Auscat you can bring the wife as well
Sit by the open fire with your wife in the dawn holding a brewed coffee as the billions of stars disappear and the suns rays sneak over the horizon through the trees upon the water with that golden glow watching the birds take to the air. That'll make her feel a lot better