Watch the America's Cup on Youtube with Commentators Ken Read, Nathan O and Shirley Robertson - they let the sailors do a lot of the commentary at key times of the race, very insightful and not the wall to wall comms you get from TVNZ.
AC36 - The Venue
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No idea if it was Bianca but while trying to find a segment on Devlin’s Radio NZ(?) channel recently I heard a pretty funny rant about who-all has been recruited for local coverage, ‘people who should stick to their Cooking shows’ included, it was very funny.
Barnyb
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minimumfuss
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Not sure if posted elsewhere but for those who can't be in AK the waterfront is humming
minimumfuss
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All beer and skittles in Aotearoa for 70 days now the virus is creeping about Northland. Oz just closed their border with us. Not alarming yet, just enough to wake up the unmasked and complacent.
rh3000
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In some ways this is the main reason I hope we succesfully defend the cup - so Auckland gets another crack at making the most of all this great infrastructure investment and effort that has been put in place
kenergy
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Not sure about the unmasked, but definitely the complacent. We have been riding our luck for a long time, if we are not very careful it will bite us in the arse.
Sailbydate
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Bite us on the arse indeed, Ken. Some of us are a wee bit slow in, Northland, NZL.
I sat in a queue of hundreds of cars, for over 3 hours yesterday, waiting for a COVID-19 test. An alarming number of people got out to chat to people in other cars in the queue. No masks, no social distancing, no awareness of the supposed contamination proximity - but a good old chinwag, nonetheless.
I sat in a queue of hundreds of cars, for over 3 hours yesterday, waiting for a COVID-19 test. An alarming number of people got out to chat to people in other cars in the queue. No masks, no social distancing, no awareness of the supposed contamination proximity - but a good old chinwag, nonetheless.
kenergy
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Yep, we are cursed by our current situation.
Because we are generally living normally it is easy to slip into complacency, and we sure as shit have done that.
Not that I'm complaining about our current situation.
Because we are generally living normally it is easy to slip into complacency, and we sure as shit have done that.
Not that I'm complaining about our current situation.
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TimmyHate
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Got to give it a go at the end of the year. Was pretty cool but only got like 5 minutes, got to do maybe half a dozen tacks at 25kts. Had a guy saying 'board down - turn - board up' for each one.
Likewise would love an hour to really tool around with it
Yes, I bet that sim is brilliant.
Like with a band or orchestra, it may be better with a bunch of mates attempting the choreography over a couple laps, beers in between
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Amati
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Well, indoor windsurfing has been making a come back. Imagine that with multi billionaire and metropolitan/state/national/ world backing!
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Hi all. We are bringing our speedboat up from Wellington to watch the races. How chaotic will the ramps be. Which ramps should we try stay near and which ones should we avoid. Anyone know a guy who knows a guy that would let us keep the boat in the water on their mooring/jetty?
We were thinking of staying out near Bucklands beach and launching the boat out that way. If not is Waihiki a good option. Can we leave the boat safetly in the water somewhere there?
Thanks in advance
We were thinking of staying out near Bucklands beach and launching the boat out that way. If not is Waihiki a good option. Can we leave the boat safetly in the water somewhere there?
Thanks in advance
Nutta
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Woolfy
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Ramp at half moon bay is probably a good bet, plenty of parking and close to the back paddock (course E), bit of a haul to A, but not too bad. Doesn't really matter where you launch from it's probably going to be busy so maybe look at plenty of parking first. Waiheke? Don't even think about it, not that you wouldn't be welcome but parking near the ramps or beaches that it's safe to launch from is the square root of fuck all.
Thanks for the good info. I'm an idiot and decided to ignore all of it. Got a place on Waihiki with a mooring so can hopefully just keep the boat in front of the place we are staying at and leave the trailer at a friends place in the city.
