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Team New Zealand designer Nick Holroyd quit - Announced this morning. He was one of the primary designers for foils as I understand it.

No Idea where He's going. Anyone with any more info?

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fundamentally - we lost because of a design flaw / misinterpretation of the rule, and a shooking management decision.  One out of two of those heads is now gone - the other brings in the moolah which has probably saved his bacon in front of the board.  As for the sailing team - there was no room in a starting line up of six for Ashby, Burling, Tuke and Barker and unfortunately the last on that list didn't feel he was ready to move to a training role.  

 

Just business decisions being made by the head of the business.  A shame - but that's just the way it has to be for the business to survive.  If you don't like it - support amatuer sailing and YNZ instead.

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Good summary, ScottiE. 

 

The decision to take a lay day because the money men hadn't arrived in San Francisco, and they wanted to watch the win will haunt the team, and so it should. When you have your foot on their throats, you don't take it off for anything.

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I'm not sure how much credibility you can give to Dana J's opinion these days. She's borderline rabid when it comes to ETNZ and her articles are prone to hysterical levels of hyperbole. Sure Nick Holroyd is pretty clever, and the other two are probably good grinders. Do you need grinders on a AC48? I'd be far more worried if it was Dan Bernasconi or Glen Ashby stepping outside. Both of those guys are the best of the best and they've chosen to stay. But either way, negativity towards ETNZ isn't helping the cause. Dalton can't go. It's too late for that now. So why not just support the team we've got? Fortunately the Govt funding has gone, which now lets them get on and run their team like a sailing team, without the politics. Like they did in the old days when they used to win.

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Agree with you entirely on the funding, GD, and especially Dana J - can't stand her articles!

 

I usually read them - go for a walk and a coffee, take a long breath and re-read them for the single fact that the sh*t is written around!

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