Crew

This Brazilian man stepped off the plane at Auckland at 9 a.m. and he was crewing for me at 2 p.m. the same day, at a regatta on Lake Ngaroto!

Father and son crew

Alex was my crew during a Sunday regatta. He kept on asking me why I was going so [slow]. A displacement mono hull yacht cannot overtake its own bow wave; it cannot plane the same way as a Laser dinghy or fly one hull like a catamaran.

Alex normally sails a catamaran, a Paper Tiger. He enjoys running circles around us as we raced on Sundays in our mono-hulls.