PICTURE TIME VI
Uploading some favorite...

...pics of some favorite people from the past few months of travels, before hitting the road again tomorrow (back to Valencia, this time with Leslie and Meg who are coming for two weeks during Meg's Easter school break).


Racy: Olympic medalist and +39 helmsman Ian Percy (GBR)
showing another way to add horsepower to a Cup boat?
Valencia, Oct 04.


Domestic tranquility: the sailing Todter family in
San Diego, Christmas 04.



Hasta luego: Mexican almuerzo in San Diego's Old
Town, concluding the Wilson (Leslie's clan) family reunion,
Jan 05.


Boys at the Bar: catching up with old St Francis
YC friends Anita Conroy, Comm. Tom Conroy, and
Comm. R.C. Keefe. San Francisco, Jan 05.


Still smiling after 40 years: taking a break
during a Challenger Commission planning session
at the home of Sheri & George Clyde. George has
agreed to assume the Chair of the CC in May,
relieving me after two long years. Will he still be
smiling a year from now? Berkely, Jan 05.



Developers: Viaduct Basin fast filling up with more
apartments and office buildings, where once were AC
team bases. Auckland, Jan 05.


Happy warrior: Coffee at HQ with business partner
and New Zealand yachting luminary John Street.
Auckland, Jan 05.


Women in Black: Chloe Williams and a colleague
who take such good care of us at Erwin Zimmet's
Merlot, our favorite Auckland eatery and watering
hole. Jan 05.

More Merlot (please!): Auckland friends and fellow
fans of Merlot (the restaurant) and Pinot Grigio
(the wine) Lloyd Gomez (USA) and Peter Kiely (NZL).
Auckland, Jan 05.


Launching: With BMW ORACLE Racing
CEO Chris "Dicko" Dickson (NZL) in his sleek
replica motoryacht, over to Gulf Harbour for
lunch and back, with ETNZ practicing on a light
air day off Rangitoto. Auckland, Jan 05.


Miss Versatility: Putting another face with the

name, BMW ORACLE colleague Julie Sutherland
(NZL), one of our team's real troopers if not troupers
As usual, in her office surrounded by important
papers. Auckland, Jan 05.


More BMW ORACLE faces: PR veteran Jane "Red Bull"

Eagleson (USA), and our diligent Design Coordinator,

Ian "Fresh" Burns (AUS), at the the BMW 3-series car launch.
Valencia, Jan 05.

PYC Chef Brian and PYC Manager "Sister Ruth"

sharing kudos for yet another nice dinner, this time

Grandma Jan's 71st birthday. Portage Lake,

Jan 05.


R is for Reclamation: ACM CEO Michel Bonnefous

(SUI) pointing out the rapid progress with land

reclamation for team bases being built in Valencia's

Darsena: the new America's Cup Harbour. Feb 05.


Launched: Challenger Commission colleague Bruno
Finzi (ITA) of Luna Rossa (left) comparing notes with
Haymarket executives Martin Nott (GBR, center) and
John Chambers (GBR, right), an old F1 friend. Haymarket
publishes ACM's newly launched "32" magazine.
Geneva, Feb 05.


Bobsy twins: BMWOR rules colleague Richard Slater
(AUS) and fellow judge David Tallis (AUS) doing what?!
Trying to capture a weak wifi signal from next door,

in the jury room at the Cruising Yacht Club during

the Farr 40 Worlds. Sydney, Mar 05.

Cheers: Challenger Commission colleagues
Luca Devoti (ITA) of +39, and John Cutler (AUS)
of Desafio Espanol, comparing personnel notes

outside Docks Restaurante, a Valenciano favorito,

during the recent Challenger Commission meetings.
Valencia, Mar 05.


Tabled: the Challenger Commission sitting around yet
another table, in this case the lunch table at the Holiday
Inn, during our recent highly successful meetings.
Valencia, Mar 05.


Hamburger: Airbus junior exec and rising star, and by now
old Hamburg friend, Stefan Voss (GER), at our local sports
club, Sportwelt Schenefeld. Mostly we exercise our knives,
forks and wine glasses. Congrats to Stefan and Stefani whose

pride and joy, Jette, just turned two. Hamburg, recently.


Cat nap: Now that male cat Bailey has been clipped, Amber is

not being chased all over the house by His Horniness, and

enjoys a break on an unusually bright, early-Spring day

in Hamburg, yesterday.


Am I? You can take the girl outta Michigan, but
you can't take Michigan outta the girl, especially
when she gets such nice hand-me-downs from her
cousins Kaitlin and Brooke (the flannel boxers)

and parental presents from the Detroit airport

gift shop (the t-shirt). Hamburg, this morning.