Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Second to last leg

Google map of Karatsu

In Karatsu City now after a 4 hour drive down from Hikari City in the Koizumi family opti wagon. This is the best opti car I have seen yet. It is a special long wheel base hi roof Toyota something or other. It has a shelf for sleeping or carrying 2 optis in the back and racks inside the roof for spars and sails and yet it is still long enough to have the backseat set up as normal and of course it has a tow bar to tow one of the club VSR's

Now being on Kyushu Island,  it meant we had to drive over the spectacular Kanmon suspension bridge which spans the narrow ish gap between Honshu and Kyushu.

Google map of Kanmon kyo bridge



The big attraction in Karatsu is the Castle which dominates the skyline here standing high and proud on a hill . Look for it in the background in future photos!


After arriving at the Karatsu Yacht Harbour we launched the VSR, pulled the optis out of the van and got the boys out on the race course area for a bit of a sail.








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