TIME FLIES [updated 18 May 05]
Leslie came across this photo...



...while starting to pack up the Hamburg house for the move to Valencia next month. It was taken April 11, 1995 in San Diego at the Team Dennis Conner base one morning as we were about to dock out for racing in the Defender Selection Series. We went on to win the DSS in a hotly contested battle with Bill Koch's America Cubed and John Marshall's Young America, and then got spanked 5-0 by the Kiwis in the AC Match.

Yikes -- ten years ago!

Who could have imagined then that most of the next ten years we would be based in Germany, that we would spend so much time living in and enjoying New Zealand, and that after all that we would find ourselves moving to Spain for the first-ever Cup defense in Europe.

As they say, seems like only yesterday.

Speaking of time flying by, Peter Huston reminded me in an email response to this post that in those ten years one has flown an average of more than 200,000 miles per year, or more than 2,000,000 miles -- that's to the moon and back about four times. Ugh! No wonder my neck is stiff. Click on the image below for a cool NASA site about the Moon.