how the mighty have fallen.....

It doesn't look 102' long until you see one of the crew on deck.....

For saile, at Paradise, across from us:  Chimera, 102' long, built in 2002 with , er, ummm, upgrades in 2008.  Alloy - Robert said it could be titanium, but I think alumiunun.  Roller main...I'O will be for sale, also - but maybe the new owner of Chimera needs a dinghy.

 

We were awakened early with the boat acting like a jumping jack.  Big waves (not to us Hawaiians) were coming in with big tides and wiping out the beach.  A few years ago a storm brough in huge waes that wiped out many of the turtle nests that were close to the hotels.  You can see that mornings here are magic...as well as afternoons, as well as evenings...but the jerky sleep of the couple days of semi big waveswas quite interesting.



Across the channel from us were these America's cup boats...I had asked a dealer in NZ, via EMail, what they were doing here...I imagine they have been stripped or someone had the great idea of having a regatta.  We used to watch  Stars and Stripes, years ago in Hawaii when Connors had them at the fishing dock.  They would scare hell out of us when we were out sailing moff Honolulu with crazy Rodney in his 27':  swoosh, get the hell out of the way.  Rodney was usually stoned and simply would say we were on starboard and stare blankly and the onrushing giants.