Would you like to see Auckland harbour, and hear me discourse

[John B]

upon the meaning of life, with all sorts of witty and erudite remarks about boats and everything?

well tough, because its just my ugly mug ,10 secs of dialogue and wind noise.:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYH_u4L2GZk

[Jase]

pity all you can hear is wind noise :)

[John B]

Yeah, and one of the things I was so cleverly doing was commentating in best Peter Montgomery fashion on the progress of the classic yacht fleet just coming through under the harbour bridge!
"Look, an there goes Northerner just ahead of Tawera with the k class Katrina next ahead of Waitangi!.. and at the back there's Loloma putting a move on , she's got a pace on now and is overtaking.....(put boat name here), yes! she's completed the manouvreand is blatantly stealing his wind, ohhhh the humanity, the poor beggar has gone into irons, the wind sucked out of his sails ohhhh how can he do that to another classic yacht compatriot......"

[Jase]

Sequoia I think is the boats name you are looking for :) and he asked for it because he did it to me first and i'm smaller (and it turns out faster) than he is :P :D lol

[John B]

"there appears to be something going on in the cockpit of( put boat name here), yes the skipper of Loloma is gesturing... I.. I can't quite make out what it is but looks something like 'eat my dust sucker!'.. something like that anyway. wait, yes putboatname here is rounding up and attempting to sneak up on the quarter of Loloma. no.. no Loloma is deploying a net and a bucket with a candle in it,... its all over, oh no, poor putboatnamehere."

[BrianW]

Nice shot angle, who'd a thought to climb up the mast. :)

Makes wonder though, why they build marinas without docks.

[John B]

I was up there fitting the new forestay. The vid was incidental;)
They're the pile moorings Brian. The marinas are there too. About +75 to 100% extra cost.

[JimD]

I played it without the sound. Cool sunglasses.

[Rick Starr]

Great stuff! You did it!

I'm only a little disappointed-- I thought you'd take some real goading, and I was saving up my best stuff to wheedle away with, lol.

Very nice to put a voice and face to the character!

But how'd you get my trousers outa the work bin?

[John B]

I'm very reluctant to post a reply , I figure I've terrified enough people with the phisog now so I really don't want to bump this.
But Rick.. they're overalls and as such, a universal truth applies.( they all look the same):D

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

I subscribe to your channel John so I know when you post a new video. Cool ;)

[Thorne]

Damn! I thought John was offering some sort of special Kiwi tour package, with him as the native guide to all the cool North Island sailing spots...

Get some deep discounts on airfare and you might end up with a bunch of suspicious-looking WB nuts wandering around the harbour.

;0 )

[Concordia...41]

:D Lovin' every minute and one second of it :D

[John B]

LOL.

Hey Thorne, I did that too. . also an epihany. Suddenly ,all was clear to me and the way to riches , health and happiness became a simple process. I had no pen to write it down plus I had a white knuckle grip on a halyard, so I just spoke it into the camera confident that I'd recorded it for all posterity.

all taken by the wind noise. got no memory.where am I ,what thread is this?