The junket apparently continues. After a very successful Tall Ships Regatta, in which 7 junks participated and 3 were included in the prize giving (!) - full details will be in the magazine in due course - a special prize was given by the JRA for the first junk across the line. (Strictly, this was Oryx, but we're not used to catamarans here, and the prize was for those participating in the Tall Ships and the Classics Races, which have the same finish line.)
Tystie sped around the course and was first by ages, so her skipper was awarded the bottle of Kraken rum.
However, it was given with a proviso that it was to be shared among the other junkies. In dastardly fashion,
Tystie slipped away the following morning and was later reported to be in the aptly-named Manawaora (Man o'War) Bay. The remaining junks, ably supported by pointy
Sweet Thursday, left on that morning's ebb and swept around Tapaka Pt, descending on the hapless
Tystie as she lay at anchor. Her skipper spied the combined fleet of
Arcadian, Fantail, La Chica and
Oryx bearing down on his anchorage determined on revenge. Hastily rasing sail, he essayed his escape, but his most cunning ploys were outwitted by the other vessels preventing his escape. He ducked and dived, flaunting the bottle of Kraken raised to his lips as he tacked once again in a futile endeavour to escape. Finally he struck his colours, was escorted back to anchor and was constrained to share around the remaining Kraken with his triumphant victors.
I wish I could have been there!