Sunday still: Maritime Technology

a Sextant

mirrors in a light house



Polynesian boats






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Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Technology
Posted in Sunday Stills Challenge of the Week, the next challenge with tags Sunday Stills Challenge on December 6, 2009 by Ed

Thanks for all the well wishes, it has been a fun year and I’ll try to keep the challenges coming. Most will be new but we may revisit some of the old ones too.

Now on to this next weeks challenge, Technology, this can be just about anything electronic that makes life a bit easier or in some cases a pain in the butt..:-))

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Auckland prides herself to be the city of sails, and is reputed to have more boats per capita int he world. So when the America's cup comes, Aucklanders are very excited.

In 1995, Peter Blake led the NZL32, the boat Team New Zealand sailed to America's Cup victory at San Diego in 1995. Peter has been regarded as New Zealand's finest yachtsman. Sadly he met his premature death. He was murdered by pirates on the Amazon River in Brazil a little over eight years ago.

Today, I went to view the Blue Water Black Magic - A Tribute to Sir Peter Blake, at the Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum on Auckland's waterfront

For this weekend's challenge, I will devote photos to the incredulous yacht that made every New Zealander proud, and some of the maritime equipment.