Monday, January 30, 2012

J/111 First Sailboat To Start New Year!

New Years Australia- from J/111 sailing in harbor Mind-blowing Australia New Year's Experience  on-board JAKE
(Sydney, Australia)- New Year's Day. Australia.  One of first nations on Earth to celebrate the New Year.  It is a fact.  Peter Gustafsson flew down to Sydney, Australia to not only "test sail" the J/111 Down Under, but joined Ray and Sandra Entwistle and family on the J/111 JAKE for New Year's festivities.

J/111 sailboat off Sydney, AustraliaRay, Peter and the "JAKE family" were the first J sailors to experience the dawning of the end of civilization as we know it in the Chinese Year of the Dragon 2012.  After all, only one hour past the dateline, they celebrated New Year's Day in Sydney at 12 AM when it was 5 AM the day before in Southern California 19 hours later!  So, the Sydney J sailors can easily lay claim to be the first sailors in the world to start the New Year! OMG, looks like they had one helluva lot of fun!  Read more about it here on Peter Gustafsson's BLUR.se sailing website.