Hi Sam....First, congrats on the Cup! A really fine defense and it looks as though the depth of Team NZ will make it tough for the next time! I would have preferred to see Cayard take on Coutts simply because their skills as match racers may have made a more interesting finals. Prada was not well served in the tactical aggression department. But there is certainly no denying that the crew of the black boat is the finest collection of racing sailors ever assembled as one crew. Simply fantastic!!!

I grew up with the railroad, coming from a railroad town with a father who was an engineman. All my Dad ever did in his life was work on the railroad. Hired out on the section gang as soon as he graduated high school in '37 and went into engine service as a fireman in '40, was in a rail battalion during WWII and came back to the Pennsy in '46. He was a fireman til '55 and after that worked as an engineer til he died in '73. As a kid, trains and railroads were a BIG part of my life.

Anyway, MOW is railroad slang here for Maintenance of Way. The railroads always seem to like terms like that when it would be easier to say track repair of something. MOW work though does include more than the track as they also maintain signals, crossings, and other things along the track.

Sorry...Didn't mean to get so long winded.

Spaw