Queenstown turned on a fabulous day, with lots of happy springtime folks bounding around, paragliding, boating, kayaking, floating under towed parachutes, and even taking part in some mad, shark-shaped submarining. So the weather was not a factor. We certainly were not going to find fierce southern ocean elements, but we did our best to test the boat anyway. Lunch in the extremely pleasant surrounds of Walter Peak station beckoned, but we had things to do before that.