Just one more :-)
I count Sir James Hardy and his lovely wife Joan as good
friends..whom
I've sailed with a number of time on their delightful old
yawl Nerida.

Couple of pics here
http://www.sasc.com.au/gaffers_day_2006.htm


A yawl? Where's the mizzen?

When you sailed with them, did you set the jackyard topsail?
There's a beast all right... makes the worst spinnaker seem
very tame & cooperative.

Scotty wrote:
Nice pics..cool boat!

Sure is! I like the flat-top Ranger class boats too.

Some folks may remember the protest Sir James made as an
America's Cup skipper against Intrepid (1970 IIRC... ancient
history... the boats were *wood* fer gosh sake). Watching
the news film of the protest hearing, he was calm and
business like. A lot of the other people were pretty
childish about the whole business (although FWIW I think the
protest was decided correctly).

Fresh Breezes- Doug King