Captain's Log - Episode Three

...He was almost certain that the charting that he'd done for the last three and a half months was in fact around an island. This discovery was so momentous that [Joseph] Banks insisted on calling this passage of water Cook Strait.

– Prsenter Peter Elliott, on James Cook's botanist Joseph Banks naming Cook Strait

When Cook and his crew sailed down here, Cook made one of his few, one of his very few, mistakes. The land out here that we can see he called Banks Island. And the land of Christchurch adjoining it is so flat it's really easy to miss...he never spotted it. It appeared like an island to him.

– Presenter Peter Elliott, on James Cook mistaking Banks Peninsula for an island

None of this plastic fantastic rubbish. She's all good old New Zealand kauri, this boat.

– Avin Curel describes his schooner Te Aroha