What's John got to grin about in this photo? Well, the other two gentlemen just happen to be Design Coordinator Mike Drummond and Consultant Tom Speer of BMW / Oracle, who were in town on Friday to field test some super-secret, cutting-edge sail performance analysis device, which is being developed by a local group, including our very own Rear Commodore Rob Murray.

In this case "field testing" meant that John, Rob and Niko got to go sailing with the two BMW/O crew, around English Bay! The new electronics were jury-rigged on one of Rob's old jibs on Avant and - I gotta tell you - they worked great!

What can I say? We 're moving up in the world...