| Grinders and bowmen are obviously rotated, but the core group in the afterguard has remained the same on both the Italian and the Kiwi boats. |
| Dean Barker and the afterguard got it absolutely right and the rest of the crew responded. |
| Hinkel had fallen down on his job and the skipper was scared of me, and it was me that put that Dutchman out of the afterguard. |
| Hutchinson's relationship with helmsman Dean Barker appears to be blossoming with each event, to the point that a good level of trust and understanding now exists between the two stalwarts of the afterguard. |
| The social gap between this afterguard and Rose and her colleagues in the chorus, was not so very wide, but it was abysmally deep. |
| He's really the afterguard coach whose job is to mould that group into a working team. |
