DOCKED AND SHOT

Dinner last evening with an old Formula 1 friend, John Chambers (left), and three of his Haymarket publishing colleagues down from London. Of course we went to our favorite VLC restaurant, Lambrusqueria, a.k.a. "The Docks." I have no idea why. No, silly, I know why we had dinner, just no idea why it's also called The Docks. As far as we know it has nothing to do with the sea or sailing, aside from the regular patronage of ourselves and a growing contingent of the Cup community, and it is nowhere near the water let alone any wharfs.

I think it was over the 2000-2001 New Year that John and his partner, Elaine, were in Melbourne for an auto race which Haymarket was involved with. They invited Leslie, Meg and me to fly up from Auckland and join them. Good times.

John & Co. are in town for meetings with ACM today. Haymarket publishes the official ACM magazine 32 (as in the 32nd defense of the America's Cup). They also publish the best F1 magazine, F1 Racing, among many other titles. Nice to see them involved now in sailing.

And as our dinner went beyond midnight, we managed to get today's festivities (Thanksgiving, etc.) going a bit earlier than normal.



Getting the hang of the 2 megapixel Nokia N70-1, which has a lame
little flash but better than nothing. Many of you will know The Docks
is not exactly brightly lit. Nokia's N80 is about to come out, and has
a 3mp cam.