ITS ALL OVER-Updated

Hello sports fans.

Apologies for not blogging earlier, arrived home at 1am and slept the sleep of the blessed until 11am. My adrenaline suplies completely depleted. Spent the day with family and catching up with the 88 business emails waiting my urgent attention.

Damn, but dont you hate it when work gets in the way of gliding!!!

Yesterday was the "longest day". Not only in the tasks over 350km but the number of landouts in remote spots. 9 aero retrieves with the last glider landing back at end of civil twilight-30 minutes which we all know is the latest we can fly. yea right!

Longest road retrieve was probably Taumaranui. about 4 hour round trip. Yea I know-short by Omarama standards :-) .....they arrived back at 1am.

The results are all up on the scoring website along with a goodly asortment of photos . Jill told me at one time she had taken over 500 photos that day. That was just after the launch and no arrival shots included!!

The prizegiving went well with final arrival being Trev Terry having come from some remote spot just north of National Park.

Non winner type awards were
Hansells Trophy-Tony Van Dyke most meritorious Flight - Day 2 winner zero points.

The Continel Airlines Trophy-Winner of longest racing task - Brett Hunter. On the night I awarded it to incorrectly-the challenge of scoring late and me being a prat:-)
The Mike Rix Memorial Trophy-Youngest Highest Place Pilot - Dane Dickinson
The Richardson Trophy-Highest Speed during the champioships - Dane Dickinson

Veterans Trophy - Lindsey Stephens
The Swiss Trophy-2nd in Numerically Strongest Class-Lindsey Stephens

The Masterton Trohpy-Highest Placed Club Glider - NIgel McPhee/Dave Hirst

The Norge Cup-awarded to Mark Robertson

A number of trophies for the Sports/PW5 were not awarded and wait for next years competition.

The drawer for Early Bird Radio was won by David Jensen. #1
The drawer for a radio from all pilots and officials at the dinner(yep that included me) was won by Pat Driessen #12 who promptly put it up for auction, proceeds to the SAR fund. The competition raised over $800 for the local Search & rescue team.
A great effort.

The Prat in the hat had to fly down to Taupo Sunday to retrieve his Laptop carry bag and a pair of Sandals. Many thanks to Adrian Cable and his speedy RV4.
Noted a couple of chargers and items of clothing also left behind...

Other than my report to the Sailplane Racing Committee and an article for the Soaring Magazine I am done for another year.

Thanks to the many unsung heroes who made the organisation run smoothly and added to the fun factor.

Keep it up

Roy