I have been recording the progress of the building with still images, (a canon 5d sitting in the corner of the factory taking a picture every 2 hours ) we also have been shooting video for a mini doco on the making of the yacht , and I also have two web cams set up so the client can login and see real time progress of his once in a life time build .

and we are now also working on the custom made book to feature the making of the Yacht .

all this takes place in Alloy yachts in Henderson where the factory pumps .. maybe not pumpsout … it takes over two years to build a yacht… ¬†they have up to five on the go at once , the finished products are floating luxury hotels with every thing you could every need in them .

I will post some more images when it completed  .

( I am also working on the next alloy yacht as well with a second time lapse camera ticking away )

Its the second time I have covered the event for AFP and its at good fun event , Long days but when the weather is good and wind is blowing in the right direction it can make for some great Pictures , Unfortunately we had neither for the last three days of the Finals  but still we have to provide coverage no matter what the weather  .

to cover the event we pile into small and fast photographer  rib boats which gives us good access and the ability to race ahead and get shots of the boats as they round the marks  all good fun the bonus for us in our boat is the skipper james and fishing lines aboard so in betwwen races and delays ( and there where a few Long ones!!) we headed out a went fishing !!

a total of 12 snapper for the day  and top top it off I was still able to send  couple of picture  out as well, so all good fun !

Oh and Emirates team New Zealand won

here is a few pictures

We were there to cover the World Match Racing tour , the Malaysia leg is called the Monsoon cup. it was the last leg of a Nine stop ¬†tour and as it happen a kiwi team www.blackmatchracing.com was at the top of the leader board and if they won the would win the event overall , which was kinda cool as one of my other companies I have a share in http://www.thevc.co.nz had designed there website and done some promotional video clip for the team , Hamish Hooper for editor had worked on the site and the video for quite a while and we had perfected the site so it could stream the races live over the net which I thought was rather cool. any way the guys won the Moonsoon Cup and won the title of world match racing champions ! , its always nice to see a Kiwi team win I can’t say i have done much yachting photography bar three America’s Cup and a Few Louis Vuittion cups but really enjoyed it and will hopefully be doing a few more Yachting Jobs in the future here are a couple ¬† pics from the Monsoon Cup