Quote of the race: Peter Montgomery : “We’ve never seen kites flying like that before” Team New Zealand hoist 3 Spinnakers/Gennakers while Alinghi sail past to win race 5 . It’s 3 – 2 to the Swi...
Quote of the race:* Peter Montgomery : “It’s a maritime game of chess” Alinghi win race 4 so it’s 2 – 2, subject to protest! * Ok, I’ll admit he says that every race
Quote of the most amazing race: Peter Montgomery : “Amazing, the pendulum is now swinging Team New Zealands way” Russell Coutts : “The pendulum has swung Team New Zealands way” Russell Coutts...
New Zealand
Quote of the race: “They’ll be kicking themselves for that mistake” Russell Coutts on Alinghi’s poor lee bow tack that lost them race 2
A few minutes to go, time to watch a boat race. Will Kiwi A beat Kiwi B? UPDATE 24–06–2007 02:47:58 Quote of the race: “Righty Oh, let’s go in for a beer” Brad Butterworth, Skipper Alin...
Earl is coming back to live in New Zealand. That means organising all manner of things, including a mobile phone. His experience with Vodaphone is not encouraging… A Networked World: A Broken Sy...
Valencia Sailing pull no punches but… they did! Valencia Sailing: Louis Vuitton Cup - Finals - Day 3: Emirates Team NZ thrash Luna Rossa In this morning preview we asked who was to blame for Lun...
It was a shock to discover that a respected Kiwi Blogger died suddenly last Wednesday.
I’m in the USA today so there will be no local ANZAC Day commemoration. ANZAC Day - Memory of Private ERNEST THEODORE BOCK
I think it’s known as “Barn Dance crossing” due to the sometimes weird interactions of everyone meeting in the middle: All the lights are red Pedestrians crossing From all corners At th...
I enjoy “Dodery Old Farts” blog but had to link to this post to highlight the fine work of Highway Refurbishers and to steal perhaps the finest ever line written about Piopio. A Night Out - Rest...
Music
In a world of iThis Download that it seems strange that a “Record Shop” can be part of your life… The news that the Marbeck family have sold their “Record Store” (first opened in 1934) made me thin...