We launched our boat, the Solent galley Langstone Lady, at Warsash and rowed to Town Quay, conveniently about 100 yards from the pub.
As we returned down Southampton Water, we spotted Sir Ben Ainslie hammering up the channel in his foiling America's Cup challenger.
I took this snap with my mobile phone, a Nokia Lumia 930. The resolution really is incredible - the view as we saw it from the boat was more like this:
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And what about the beer?
The most important question of all, which will be answered later...
Mario got in just before me.. :o)
Nice pub - got there for the first time after this years boat show..
Ben is in the AC45 presumably? They are amazing machines when you see them racing up close. Had that pleasure at Newport a while back when the AC lollapalooza tour (or whatever it was called) staged some races there.
So did Ben drop in the Platform for a beer?
I think it was the AC45 - too far away to tell. One hull went up but I don't think it foiled while we were watching.
And no, he didn't pop in for a pint but I suspect negotiating that huge cat through the very narrow and bendy channel to the slipway would have taxed even Sir Ben's skills.
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