Friday, January 18, 2013

Rock Stars Behaving Nautically (Redux)

Reports have revealed that 2012's Nelson's Pursuit Race champion recently returned to the Caribbean to defend his title. A repeat for our Pete was not to be as this year's trophy went to Peter Harrison's 115-foot Farr-designed Sojana with captain Marc Fitzgerald and helmsman Poul Hoj-Jensen.

Unfazed by his unsuccessful defense of the NPR championship, our windmilling wayfarer took time out for some work in the good deeds department. He made a rather handsome donation of a half-dozen Lazer Picos to the National Sailing Academy. As our coworker--who happened to grow up on the island--said, donating these sailboats to the children of Antigua was a "pretty wonderful thing to do". Link to story: Picos donated to National Sailing Academy by Pete Townshend and The Who


Photos by Kevin Johnson

4 comments:

El Toro Parm said...

You watch. Those sails are gonna end up on eBay pronto, mon!

Heck, I want one!

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The Boss of this blog said...

Re: sail ebaying--They would likely fetch a pretty penny, but then you'd have to turn around and buy replacement sails. Who knows, maybe the Pico grant came with a backup set of "stock" sails with the idea that the Academy could sell off the Who-branded ones for a premium price.

Note to Anonymous: You're not Kevin Johnson are you? Frankly, if I discovered any of my content being used somewhere else on the 'net, I'd take it as a compliment.(oh, sorry about deleting your link...TSG's comment section doesn't allow that kind of crap)

Parm said...

"Who" knows . . . . Excellent Pun, TSG!