As the boat name suggests it has to do with wines and Jim Hardy is today steering the family company, Hardy´s Wineries with the same scill as he was then in Black Bottle.
Just a short story from the Brighton & Seacliff S.C.
As it so happened the webmaster of this site had his 21st
birthday the last day in Adelaide. Jim
Hardy´s mother, Eilene who run the winery until a few years ago, got
to hear of this and gave Pelle two bottle of vintage wine as a present.
The latter who was too young to have learnt to appreciate wine i general
and vintage wine in particular, more or less sabred the poor bottles
pouring the wine out to friends and on the floor.
What shameful behavior on
such a fine gesture from the mother of the World Champion!
Jim, please accept my sincere appologies this long after.
It might be interesting to know that I celebrated another birthday at Tahiti the following day having crossed the date line, so I´m in a way actually one year older.