America's Cup

[Berries]

With friends like this, who needs enemies...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...-helped-Oracle

In each case both teams wanted to pay to use Air NZs equipment. ETNZ was refused, but Oracle was allowed.

I guess that's what happens when you take the offshore money and become Emirates Team New Zealand.

[BMWST?]

I guess that's what happens when you take the offshore money and become Emirates Team New Zealand.

oracles NZ boat builders were refused at first too but tthey were allowed to after they offered full commercial rates

[pete376403]

oracles NZ boat builders were refused at first too but tthey were allowed to after they offered full commercial rates

ETNZ also offered to pay. Oracles money better or just some Air NZ managers packing a hissy fit because Emirates name was on the boat?

However what goes around comes around. There won't be a whole lot of people flying Air NZ (or any other airline) to come to NZ to watch the next regatta.

[jasonu]

With friends like this, who needs enemies...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...-helped-Oracle

In each case both teams wanted to pay to use Air NZs equipment. ETNZ was refused, but Oracle was allowed.

Looks like sound business decisions to me.

[ckai]

I found this email recently received interesting, and seems to explain a lot

Excellent. Thanks for that. Makes perfect sense when you connect all the dots.

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[oldrider]

Celebrating "failure" ... the New Zealand way! http://www.3news.co.nz/Auckland-set-...2/Default.aspx

[jasonu]

Celebrating "failure" ... the New Zealand way! http://www.3news.co.nz/Auckland-set-...2/Default.aspx

Couldn't they find someone a bit more current than that little twat Dave Dobbin to do the entertaining???

[wysper]

at last..an expalantion.I just could not get my head around how much their boat changed.My question is why didnt we do the same?

My guess would be ETNZ couldn't afford to. My understanding is the 4 foils cost about 1.6 million. Not to mention the gyro system. No idea what that would cost.
So even if ETNZ wanted to, the probably didn't have the funds to do so.

[jasonu]

My guess would be ETNZ couldn't afford to. My understanding is the 4 foils cost about 1.6 million. Not to mention the gyro system. No idea what that would cost.
So even if ETNZ wanted to, the probably didn't have the connections to do so.

Fixed it for ya

[scumdog]

Celebrating "failure" ... the New Zealand way! http://www.3news.co.nz/Auckland-set-...2/Default.aspx

Meh, with a playing field that wasn't level I reckon that's a harsh comment John!

[Maha]

Meh, with a playing field that wasn't level I reckon that's a harsh comment John!

To be fair, It only became ''non level'' once ETNZ looked like not winning...wasn't mentioned at all when the score was 8-1 to ETNZ.

[Ocean1]

To be fair, It only became ''non level'' once ETNZ looked like not winning...wasn't mentioned at all when the score was 8-1 to ETNZ.

Bullshit, it was always non-level, it's just not the Kiwi way to bitch about it.

The godamn yanks were the ones mostly pointing out the disparity of resources.

[oldrider]

Meh, with a playing field that wasn't level I reckon that's a harsh comment John!

Time for a reality check!

They failed to win the cup ... that was the intention ... the playing field was not an unknown and had to be inclusive in the reckoning!

They are asking for more money for another crack, so it will simply be ground hog day all over again unless they do something different!

The reaction to their effort is emotionally driven their loss and failure to win is simply "fact" so how much money will they need to win next time?

Like I said time for a reality check!

[JimO]

its only a few mill, we spend more than that a day keeping the maori population locked up in the can

[scumdog]

its only a few mill, we spend more than that a day keeping the population locked up in the can

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