60 Seconds With Mark Bethwaite

1. How old were you when you first stepped on a boat? Seven - a P Class trainer in Torbay Auckland

2. If money (and sailing ability) were no limit, what boat would you buy? The ultimate Fine Wine - a 100m super yacht with 10 guest suites, 10 Lasers in the aft lazarette plus RIBs etc. This Fine Wine would position at future Laser Master Worlds locations (other than Lake Garda) or the Caribbean, Med etc - wherever the water temperature is above 27 degC

3. What is your ultimate sailing goal? My goal was an Olympic medal - I had my chances but am firmly on the skids now…

4. Tell us the story behind the name of your Laser? Few things get better as they get older - Fine Wine is one and Laser sailors are another

5. If you could add any ingredient to DBSC's world’s best toasties – what would it be? Incapable of improvement!

6. What are your second/third favourite hobbies (assuming sailing is #1)? Golf and adventure travel - cycling, hiking etc

7. Describe what you do for work in less than five words? I chair a defence contractor

8. What is the first international destination you will travel to (once we're allowed) and why? Malpensa (Milan) to reunite with my Laser on Lake Garda

9. What is your favourite TV show, movie, and/or book? Best movie in recent times Zero Dark Thirty - the take down of Osama Bin Laden

10. Tell us something interesting about yourself that members of the club don’t know? It was my privilege to succeed Don Roach as Commodore of DBSC - our great little club owes so much to the character and efforts of that man

Start of the second heat of the 1972 Olympic Regatta - we could win the start but not the finish…