Day the last. (11th flying day)
After today no more,resting the eyelids, for a CD waiting for the fleet to come home

Before this happy competition family disperses back to their homes throughout New Zealand, its time to recognise the volunteers who gave up their time to make this a great competition.

Trev Terry - Chairman of the Organisers and tasking guru
Tom Anderson - Manager, tow pilot, launch master and a thousand other things
Bill Kendall - Safety Officer, tow pilot, Launch master and potatoe peeler.
Tim Norman - Radio man (with some help from Mavis)
Gordon Griffin - Grid Marshall
Ed Devenoges - scorer
David Hirst - weatherman extraodinaire
Steve Wallace - Task setting panel
Also
Towpilots Iggy, Colin, Ron, Hugh, Rod, Martin, Brian, Rene
Helping on the grid.....John, Roddy, Peter, Sid, Denis
Feeding the masses..... Lois, Mary, Merle, Jill, Jenny

Yesterday the Tauranga Gliding Clubs Duo Discus Turbo achieved its first paddock landing and road retrieve.  The only challenge being to manoeuvre the trailer down a narrow farm race.

An interesting strategy was observed. A jet assisted glider(motor not on) called 22 kms out with a message he might not make the airfield.  The class leader heard this radio message and climbed an extra 1,000ft to ensure he would miss the presumed sink hole.  Result  Jetplane lands and wins the day, class leader comes second. Cunning people these glider pilots...:-)

Today we have a new airmass moving over the competition area bringing SE winds The sun has just started to shine at the clubhouse (10am). There will be two tasks today. Both AATs up north and then South west then home for tea and medals(Competition dinner and prizegiving).

Will be an interesting last day.