You can imagine some of the ribald comments at Thursday morning's Daily Ops meeting when Jane "Bubbles" Eagleson announced that a photog from the German edition of Playboy magazine was in town to get some shots of our team for an upcoming feature -- thanks to BMW's media maven Nicole Stempinski. But, come on, Nicole, next time can't you get them to come here and shoot the swimsuit edition? ;)

And speaking of Bubbles, best wishes today to Jane for a very Happy Birthday. One hears she turned 29 again this year, and no doubt the Moet will be flowing tonight somewhere in VLC.


You can tell who's the photog because he's dressed in black? Klaus Polap
(GER, design team) is the focus of attention on the bow of Chase 1. And
there's no truth to the rumour that ran through the Base on Thursday
that it was really Playgirl magazine doing a story, and that David "Duffy"
Duff (NZL, sailmaker) was going to pose in the sail loft on a pile of sails
wearing a speedo.