My name is Bob Jollands and in 1958 I was working with a friend of Jack Cox, the owner of Atalanta, who, after finding that I was a keen sailor, arranged for me to join Jack’s crew aboard the 40 footer which was moored bow on to the concrete wave screen, secured to four pile moorings, in the boat harbour in front of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, for the weekly Saturday races. Atalanta had a Bermudan rig, no safety rails and no motor so when I joined Jack and the crew on the first Saturday aboard her, I…