For the Malmoe Acts I am sharing an office-container with the Shore Team, in many ways the heart if not the soul of an AC team. They do the long hours putting everything together, keeping everything in excellent working order, and then taking it all apart -- not only day by day, but over the long campaign haul.

They are "cool" in every sense of the word: not only talented, hard-working and fun (day and night!), but calm and unflappable, regardless of what we as a team, or the weather, or the organizers throw at them.

And now with the AC a true travelling circus, the Shore Team is a 24/7 operation on a semi-global basis. To wit, while Scotty "Big Rig" Sandford (NZL) is holding down the logistiks fort here this week and next, Grant "Guthrie" Davidson (NZL) is already back in VLC overseeing the construction of our new base and looking after the trials and tribulations of Trapani -- the venue in Sicily where Acts 8 and 9 will take place in a month's time. And while Tim Hacket (AUS) and his crew care for the yacht here, Mark "Tugboat" Turner is in Seattle setting up our boat-building operation.

For the Shore Team there is "no excuse for excellence"; perfection is the goal.



My Malmoe officemates: Tim Hacket, team machinist par excellence Trev
"The Rev" Berry (NZL, who also knows a thing or two about red wine),
and Scotty Sandford. Kevin Batten (NZL) was out tending to his rigs.
For Linda Berry -- despite Trevor looking a bit like a schoolboy caught
in the act, that is not a racy Swedish magazine.



Rig man Kevin Batten, in his "real office" -- the rigging
container.