JEESUS Gary, you really have got "bitten by the bug" haven't you? You and altered MUST be performing really well? Your confidence is good to see as well as the apparent fact that you seem to be thoroughly enjoying your sailing now (perhaps better than on any other boat that you have sailed?) It's a far cry from the "Gary" we all read about when you had that first real disaster in the bow structure back when you first put altered on the water? It just goes to show that "perseverance most times brings success"
I will look at the program for the coming season and see what can be arranged. The "classics” such as the Milang to Goolwa, also the Goolwa to Milang and the longest of all, the Goolwa to Meningie are all point to point races of considerable distances which ALWAYS test both skipper and boat to their limit, and are worth travelling to from anywhere to compete in. Once these races have been sailed in, it’s hard not to keep coming back time and again.
We would be quite favourable to manufacturing the Blade here Wouter, but the logistics in Australia usually dictate that for a boat to “succeed commercially” here, it has to be manufactured either in NSW or Queensland, it’s a strange thing, but that has always been my experience in the boat building industry within Australia. Many years ago we passed up the opportunity of sole manufacture of the NACRA’s here in South Australia because, as I said to Bob Forbes (who had the rights of manufacture under licence then) The class would probably die in Australia unless they moved the base of manufacture up to Queensland, which they did and, as they say, the rest is history.
Darryl