Just won an audi
That’s blog-worthy news isn’t it?
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Well it was about as close to owning one as I will get for a while…
Nathan got an invite to the Audi King of the Docklands event after winning the Moth Nationals in Geelong last year. As a winner of a division of Audi Victoria Week, he got the entry, but had to form his crew from competitors from the same boat (or in our case division).
So we flew down, did a 1h training session on the SB3, then won our heat to progress to the semi final. In the semis, our group was stacked with top boats including a couple of special invite rock stars, but we took that one as well to get through to the final.
The final was raced in next to no wind. We coasted over the start line in a good position, but the race committee attempted to postpone a minute after the start. A fair amount of heckling later they realised they couldn’t postpone a race that had already started, and they had no provision to abandon, so the race continued and we drifted around the tiny track to take another win and an Audi A4 wagon.
Not a bad effort for a few hours sailing. It’s not as if I can drive it to Dubai, but it will help me get there in one way or another.
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And now the Melbourne weather has followed us home… It’s 38 degrees in the shade and there’s bugger all wind!
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:34 pm
No, you read it wrong.
It may be a european car, but when the taxman says you’ve won an Audi, it’s actually an Audit. Guess he’s finally caught up with your constant buying and selling of boat stuff!
Well done and enjoy. Got to take a newish S4 for a drive about a month ago… freaking sweet.
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:51 pm
And the gap between the Professionals and the Privateers continues to grow…….
Well done boys. Proves yet again that mothies can sail anything.
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:59 pm
……actually, I just realised. The TRUE moth sailor lives by the rule that:
“the true moth ideal that the value of ones boat shall be exponentially higher than the value of ones car”
I look forward to seeing your new boat with value added features to exceed the value of an Audi A4.
January 24th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Les, have you seen how much moth stuff Scott already has? Probably already worth more than the Audi.
January 25th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Great action shot! Look like as much fun as slamming ones Wiener in an Audi’s car door
January 30th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
The silver colour matches my boat.
I’ve heard they depreciate like a bast*rd
I’ll give you $10k for the audi.
February 10th, 2010 at 10:57 am
heard you guys bullied the race committee
February 11th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Saw you guys on channel one last night. Extremely exciting race!Looks like you absolutely smashed the oppostion. Not just a win but a flogging