Re: [pf] messing about in boats & Diane's OT sorta ramblings

At 19:23 28/02/00 -0800, David sent:
>http://davd.tripod.com/AmCup20000229-DullDay.jpg 
>
At 11:40 1/03/00 -0800, Diane Fitzsimmons wrote (in: OT sorta ramblings):
>Positive-futures type thoughts stack up in my head, ...
>My 13yo is nervous because we're up for confirmation class dinner tonight.
>Most people bring pizza restaurant pizza.  We're bringing homemade Mexican
>casserole, carrot sticks, oatmeal cookies and lemonade. ...
>
* Whatever they /say/, the others will at least be interested (intrigued?).
Some of them may want to know how they themselves could make them. Do you
have a few written recipes to take, in case they ask for a copy?


>David, thanks for the Cup stories and photo.  Somehow, though, you're not
>the type I associate with a yacht :^)
>
**  That's the difference between NZers and elsewhere. In the past we've
generally grown up in boats (dinghies and small sailboats you could lift on
top of your car). Even as a nation we felt ourselves out of the class of
the America's Cup races - it took the sponsorship of a European to get our
first challenge started in the 1980s. And if we win the Cup (against the
top challenger, the Italian team Prada) this afternoon, we'll have created
a record, in the race for "the oldest sporting trophy in the world" (well
over 100 years): an unbroken record of 10 wins. I hope Prada wins, though;
the NZers shouldn't get a swelled head.

**  My first "sailing" was at about age 15, sitting in a wooden box on the
front lawn (in the Auckland suburb of Titirangi), with a broomstick for a
mast, attached by "proper" shrouds made of string, a boom made of a stick
from our bush patch, and a sail made by cutting up an old sheet. I had read
how to sail in an old British Penguin/Pelican book published in 1949 (I've
just got it off our shelves to check; no ISBN, Molly!) :- "Sailing" by
Peter Heaton. Sailing is very proletarian, here. Our ownership of a 25 foot
keel yacht, worth all of $9,000 (bought for $16,000 in 1981), is only
slightly eyebrow-raising. And mainly because it's a keeler, rather than a
trailer-yacht.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/Pg1-AD11.html
 or better: http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/
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