Americas Cup
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@Donsteppa said in Americas Cup:
@NTA said in Americas Cup:
Right, so i just found out this is finished AND that an Aussie is skippering your little boat.
So, in honour of @Virgil and his ongoing assertions that any Kiwi who walks within shouting distance of a successful venture is directly responsible for it:
FUCK YEAH AUSTRALIA! WON THE AMERICAS CUP! SHOULD FUCKEN RENAME IT "STRAYA CUP MATE"!
Etc.
On a serious note: gotta say that keeping the boat out of the water for a whole run is pretty impressive work by the crew.
Imagine the current boats in those conditions.
Pretty impressive to watch, still
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@NTA said in Americas Cup:
Right, so i just found out this is finished AND that an Aussie is skippering your little boat.
So, in honour of @Virgil and his ongoing assertions that any Kiwi who walks within shouting distance of a successful venture is directly responsible for it:
FUCK YEAH AUSTRALIA! WON THE AMERICAS CUP! SHOULD FUCKEN RENAME IT "STRAYA CUP MATE"!
Etc.
On a serious note: gotta say that keeping the boat out of the water for a whole run is pretty impressive work by the crew.
You know an Ozzie was on the loosing boat too, quite a few in fact
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@Donsteppa fuck I remember hearing about that - if only we'd had a random Kiwi walk past our shed before the start, and look at it for three seconds.
Could have won that year to zip.
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@NTA said in Americas Cup:
@Donsteppa fuck I remember hearing about that - if only we'd had a random Kiwi walk past our shed before the start, and look at it for three seconds.
Could have won that year to zip.
You needed @virgil to bestow an aura on it.
@hooroo - yep don't think they'd be foiling much in those conditions!
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@Donsteppa said in Americas Cup:
@NTA said in Americas Cup:
@Donsteppa fuck I remember hearing about that - if only we'd had a random Kiwi walk past our shed before the start, and look at it for three seconds.
Could have won that year to zip.
You needed @virgil to bestow an aura on it.
His powers only work in retrospect - all the times a Kiwi is found in any project with success.
I know, it might take some time to wrap your head around how this power works - the universe comes at you fast.
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@NTA second place is just the first loser
Supposedly plans to implement a more nationalistic teams next time...maybe we'll see an Aussie boat with Spithill & Ashby next time....
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@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
@NTA second place is just the first loser
Supposedly plans to implement a more nationalistic teams next time...maybe we'll see an Aussie boat with Spithill & Ashby next time....
Wouldn't matter if you can't build a boat
Ashby grew up around Bendigo. Hardly a seafaring town
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@NTA surely you have some rich fullas over there willing to throw some of those valuable AUssie dollars at the crew in Warkworth to whip up another gem for useguys.
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Great result for ETNZ and great for the America's Cup as well.
Not trying to Oracle bash but I genuinely believe that the plans that Ellison and Coutts had for the future would effectively end the AC as we know it.
They wanted a two year long series of regattas - with carry-over points -culminating in an America's Cup showdown - the scenario for this edition but writ large. The aim to turn it into the F1 of sailing.
This to my mind misses the whole point of the event. Its uniqueness as a one-off event.
It's not a league or a series. Why not replace the Olympics with the Diamond League?
Fortunately ETNZ weren't having a bar of it and as we all know were ostracized by all other teams in return.
I hope we don't look for petty payback and take the best of this event in Bermuda but dial down some of the commercialism and make it an event for sailors and spectators first and sponsors second. I know Dalton also wants to reintroduce some form of nationality criteria
Do that and we could put on an awesome event. It also has the potential to be transformational for Akl (cos that's where it will be I'm sure) accelerating a range of planned projects along the waterfront.
Great day - we smacked them
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Please fuck off back to the Powerwall thread.
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@taniwharugby I have no idea what rich guys here would like to do. It seems a bit pricey.
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I have a massive urge to learn how to sail now.
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@NTA said in Americas Cup:
@Donsteppa said in Americas Cup:
@NTA said in Americas Cup:
@Donsteppa fuck I remember hearing about that - if only we'd had a random Kiwi walk past our shed before the start, and look at it for three seconds.
Could have won that year to zip.
You needed @virgil to bestow an aura on it.
His powers only work in retrospect - all the times a Kiwi is found in any project with success.
I know, it might take some time to wrap your head around how this power works - the universe comes at you fast.
You have started drinking pretty early nick
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@dogmeat said in Americas Cup:
Great result for ETNZ and great for the America's Cup as well.
Not trying to Oracle bash but I genuinely believe that the plans that Ellison and Coutts had for the future would effectively end the AC as we know it.
They wanted a two year long series of regattas - with carry-over points -culminating in an America's Cup showdown - the scenario for this edition but writ large. The aim to turn it into the F1 of sailing.
This to my mind misses the whole point of the event. Its uniqueness as a one-off event.
It's not a league or a series. Why not replace the Olympics with the Diamond League?
Fortunately ETNZ weren't having a bar of it and as we all know were ostracized by all other teams in return.
I hope we don't look for petty payback and take the best of this event in Bermuda but dial down some of the commercialism and make it an event for sailors and spectators first and sponsors second. I know Dalton also wants to reintroduce some form of nationality criteria
Do that and we could put on an awesome event. It also has the potential to be transformational for Akl (cos that's where it will be I'm sure) accelerating a range of planned projects along the waterfront.
Great day - we smacked them
Our old nemesis Dennis Connor was thinking along similar lines...
Before the regatta in Bermuda, all of the competing syndicates, except Team New Zealand, agreed to a blueprint for the next two editions of the Cup. It would see the event take place every two years with a belief that entrant numbers will double. But Conner is decidedly against that:
"I think if Oracle wins, we could have another event every year and what would separate the America's Cup from just being another regatta?" he asked.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11880801
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As my brother-in-law just said
If the Lions supporters thought the NZ public and its media fawn over the ABs, they are about to find out just how bad we can really be. Shit is going to the next level
