Sailing On TV

people do not understand what is going on you have to be a sailor to under stand it

sailing isnt on tv because the overwhealming majority of the population are too thick to understand it!!!!!!!!!

yeah believe me those subtitles are very useful, especialy in some of the crazy french films that they show. And yeah 5420 it is still in french, but thats a bonus i can improve my french whilst watching something intersting.

Now all we need to try and get in NZ TV. form some of that good sailing comentary.

You can get TV5, the French-speaking channel, with cable and satellite. It used to be free but costs a couple of quid a month now with ntl . It's a general interest channel, with a lot of news, fictions and debates - programmes from all over the francophone community: Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, West Africa, Polynesia, etc. as well as French. There are also quite a few films, repeated up to six times throughout the month. They're usually subtitled into French, which might seem like a waste of time until you try and follow the plot. Not-so-proficient French learners have told me how useful this was.

If you want complete programme listings, have a look at www.tv5.org

Bon courage !

Amazing, watching prime time national evening news in NZ one of the
main stories in the sports round up was about the restructuring of NZ
Yachting following the poor performance in Athens, they went into quite a
lot of detail and even mentioned the RYA and the success of the British
team... no wonder everyone was so well informed about the ins and outs
of the AC, and everythign else NZ connected, like the new super maxi
'Maximus'... it was the same wherever you went.

Oh for coverage like that!