Well, only a few weeks to go to the Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race, entries are over 60 now I think plus the multis on top of that.
We're entered, I am doing the paperwork thing, sorting out crew lists, organising a few training sessions and sorting out a new Sat Phone after the last one went walkabout .
I'm playing with the idea of a marlin breaker for the loose luffed spinnakers tack line at the moment. Currently, when we do a spinnaker drop, we have to blow the whole tack line (which comes all the way back to the cockpit), and it can, and has, got caught/stood on and fouls the drop, it just seems a messy way to do it. So, I want to rig a short strop that connects to the firing pin on the clew shackle and clip it to the bow, so when the tack line is eased say a couple of feet off the bowsprit, the strop tensions and automatically fires the clew shackle. Keep it simple stupid is the thought I suppose.

The start is going to be streamed live again this year, and Gladstone council look like they're making a big effort for the party at the far end, it should be a good way to spend the Easter weekend.
Any other Seabreezers doing the race? Or coming out to watch the start?