There was also a hilarious but nailbiting moment or two whilst the Kiwis were out enjoying their first real whizz up and down Muriwai. One particular person's a yacht headed pilotless down the beach at 40kmph an hour. Do you want to know how everyone knows the speed? Well, because the hapless pilot had to coerce a passing motocyclist into giving him a ride down the beach to catch the fast disappearing craft. One could also acknowledge a good deal of luck that the yacht's steering was relatively stiff and thank someone above for giving us down here such a wonderful straight, obstacle free beach which a runway yacht could rocket along without a pilot. After a breakneck ride down the sand the pilot and motorcyle managed to draw along the fast-moving craft only to face another challenge - how to board or stop said craft. Luckily the yacht had been ever so gradually tacking out towards the tide and at the last moment got caught on the edge of a big sweeper crossing the beach which gave the then flummoxed pilot the opportunity to dismount the motorbike and hare off after the yacht which, on extricating itself from the tide and seeing it was about to be caught/arrested/halted, whatever, was in the throes of disappearing again! Muriwai resident and sandsailor Peter Clouston wants the event on record in the Auckland club's newsletter "SandPaper". The problem is the culprit is Editor of the, so do you think it's going to be printed? NOPE! Are we right on that score... Geoff, oh he who shall remain nameless.