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ngapipi is a road coming down hobson bay into orakei

Sitting in vorpal blade just below north head, looking forward to the racing........next boat is the mumm champers tender...

Should be 2

The big screen crowd at viaduct loved those races

does seem a beautiful day in central auckland that same soft + fluky NE nary a breeze in the sky "A big factor yesterday was that the clouds started coming back over the city and once the land stopped heating the winds stopped...," Murray said. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/americas-cup-2021-team-new-zealand-v-luna-rossa-day-five-schedule-start-time-odds-wind-weather-live-streaming-and-how-to-watch/YYW7CQH53NV6DKQQMO6KW3J7ZA/

E course today...seems a waste, to not use course C and allow people to watch from north head

actually a fish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_eel eats kina and other crunchy stuff which presumably are the only slow foods it can catch but in captivity, prefers soft food like squid....go figure

LR were the first to win 2 races LR were the first to win 3 races it's not enough for etnz to level the score at the end of each day because if LR are the first to win 7 races it's all over! hopefully they will survive this light wind and be able to get ahead next week in stronger winds

hopefully we'll be back to course c today and a chance for local knowledge about tides and gusty spots to help the boys overtake if need to be

true, falling off the back would be hard but he did slip + fall today https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/americas-cup-2021-team-new-zealand-claim-comfortable-victory-in-race-one-against-luna-rossa/MWH46R33F42SF2ECFGJYKLJGYI/ once again the starts seem to be of the utmost importance jimmy threw away the first start etnz the 2nd and if etnz are going to slowly catch a few meters on each board they need to stop losing them on tacks + gybes

looking windy and maybe wet, wouldn't want to see pete fall off the back during the cross

Tomorrow's racing between defender Team New Zealand and Italian challenger Luna Rossa will begin from 4.15pm on either race course A, offshore from Takapuna in Auckland's North Shore, or race course E, east of the city near Maraetai. Those courses were chosen because they were "least likely to attract crowds on-land", being further from shore or further from Auckland, officials said. Events at the America's Cup Race Village had also been cancelled, with big screen TVs no longer broadcasting live action from the harbour to prevent gatherings of more than 100 people and keep spectators

any wave running into a funnel shaped bay will do that i think japan's miyako bay is esp. susceptible to tsunamis from the trench to the NE hopefully locals living in that kind of bay will be told they are esp. vulnerable to tsunami and know to get to the hills just out of town not sure we have too many like that on the north eastern coast?

LR become very vocal when the wind gets up, they've already had the original upper limit of 25? lowered to 23?knots

yes, i'm a recovering tragic too

most of the "passionate" AC people have descended to the 3rd pit of Ac Anarchy hell https://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/forum/23-americas-cup-anarchy/ to do battle with their and other's demons

i don't think anyone here is swayed by his discombobulation but like billy tekaka? if the mainstream media don't report it their message still spreads to the target audience via new media

"The media is the substitute for the preacher. That's why it's Jezebel, it's witchcraft. Gotta repeat that in case the media are watching. You're in a spirit of witchcraft. "You dupe people - you put a spell through writing and you then begin to dictate the narrative to try and set up a culture of evil or a culture that takes it away from Christ, so they can bewitch a whole nation." "And so suddenly you get the biggest earthquake - I think one of the biggest in the history of New Zealand - that follows after the ravaging of Christ on the Wednesday. "You ca

wasn't today supposed to be the first day of racing before the 1 week lockdown? wind gusting around our house now would have made it exciting seems it would have seen racing cancelled with gusts of 27 knots at bean rock

not sure that many are widely considered 'fair + balanced' by both sides i think 'the economist' is as good as it gets but many on the far left consider it too focused on supporting business and not enough on supporting; 'climate change initiatives', increasing diversity', 'addressing historical injustices' + 'wealth redistribution'

The America's Cup match will begin on Wednesday (10th), with Auckland set to move out of Covid-19 alert level 3. The match was scheduled to start this weekend, however with Auckland moved into level 3 last Sunday, the decision was made to postpone until Wednesday in the hope of sailing under a lower level. This afternoon, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed Auckland would move back to level 2 at 6am on Sunday morning, which would allow for racing to get under way as planned on Wednesday. There are two races scheduled for Wednesday, Friday and through the weekend to Monday at

haha, apparently the main users of the media centre are herald + stuff if herald are banned, stuff get it all to themselves, note the story above is by stuff

Team New Zealand’s event arm has banned the New Zealand Herald from the America’s Cup media centre after a disagreement over the use of copyright race video. The ban is thought to be the first of a media company at a major sporting event in New Zealand, and follows nine months of frosty relations between the America’s Cup defender, and the paper. Team New Zealand took the move after it said video productions made by the Herald repeatedly used more race footage than allowed under rights agreements which media companies sign. The defender said the paper also used copyright images