Walking on water

Team NZ were outclassed by technology. We luv ya Dean & the boys.
Kiwis built Oracle, (as they did Team emirates), in Warkworth, their CEO is a Kiwi and there's a couple of Kiwis in the crew.
Oracle sent out an SOS to the Warkworth builders, modifications were done this past week, the rest is history.

For a small country we punch above our weight.:love_heart:
 

Harking back to the early 1970's when Australia was trying to win the old Mug from the yanks at Rhode Island, the rules were changed almost daily whenever the USA team felt threatened. First up, they decreed that the boat and sails had to me made in the country of the contender or challenger.

When the Aussie team started to show that their boat was equal to, if not better than the Americans, the rule was changed again insisting that the sails had to me made not only in the contenders country, but also of sail-cloth manufactured in that country.
So, a magnificent Australian sail-cloth was produced and given the name, "Contender" sail-cloth. As history shows, the cup was eventually won by an Australian boat with "Contender" sails.
 

Wow! Wish the race had been on the weekend so I coulda watched. But news station on the radio kept updating. Seemed like it was over in a flash. I was ragging on the USA for being penalized and falling so far behind. But, being a fickle fan, am so glad they won. Wonder where they'll race next time. Probably not San Francisco again. I know! Monterey Bay!!!! Yea!
 
All i know about walking on water, except what Jesus did, was the time Lyndon Johnson had a bunch of reporters out to his ranch for a BBQ. After everybody had left, Lyndon said to Ladybird, "Let's walk back down to the creek, Ladybird, I want to try that walking on water one more time." I never did hear how he made out. I guess he sank like a rock or we would surely have heard about it.

Being a land lubber I never knew much about these sea races, and you don't hear much about them down at the pool hall.
 
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terra said:
Not only was this Americas Cup so spectacular, it also showed me more of San Francisco than I've ever seen before, particularly the aerial shots.

Beautiful !
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I loved SF, the touristy bit of it anyway, didn't go over to Oakland, didn't want to spoil the magic with visions of suburbia.

It'd be nice if they could hold the races on Coffs Harbour, I could make it that far to watch. But it might require some sharp turns for those pieces of wind-powered wonderment at those speeds.


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Diwundrin said:
You do yourselves proud Fern. ;)

Phew, you appreciate how hard that was right?
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Yep, you must have choked on those words. :D

The name America's cup is a bit of a misnomer. It was an English race originally.
The trophy was originally awarded in 1851 by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a race around the Isle of Wight in England, which was won by the schooner America. The trophy was renamed the America's Cup after the yacht and was donated to the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) under the terms of the Deed of Gift, which made the cup available for perpetual international competition.
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Wow! Wish the race had been on the weekend so I coulda watched. But news station on the radio kept updating. Seemed like it was over in a flash. I was ragging on the USA for being penalized and falling so far behind. But, being a fickle fan, am so glad they won. Wonder where they'll race next time. Probably not San Francisco again. I know! Monterey Bay!!!! Yea!
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'Being a fickle fan'. You got that right. There was hardly a Yank to be seen until virtually the last day of racing, then they all turned up.
 
Internet millionaire dot.com will fund team N.Z. in the next America's cup if necessary. Dot.com who has made his home in N.Z. has the money. His name says it all.:D
Internet millionaire Kim Dotcom has vowed to help pay for Team New Zealand's next America's Cup campaign if the Government doesn't stump up funding.
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Internet millionaire Kim Dotcom has vowed to help fund Team New Zealand's next America's Cup campaign.
The team's future hangs in the balance after Oracle Team USA retained the Cup in San Francisco yesterday, with boss Grant Dalton's position uncertain and the Government yet to confirm whether it would fund another tilt.
The Government stumped up $36 million for the latest campaign, but Prime Minister John Key yesterday said decisions were yet to be made about whether it would help again.
However, he indicated it was likely, and hoped to discuss whether another campaign was possible.
Internet entrepreneur Dotcom, whose relationship with Mr Key has been tense since the GCSB spying revelations, today said he would back Team NZ if the Government did not.
The Mega founder said on Twitter: "Prime Minister John Key says no more funding for Team NZ? I say #Mega will become a Team NZ sponsor & we will win next time. #AmericasCup."

Dotcom told One News he would pump millions into the campaign regardless of the Government's contribution.
He had not discussed it with Team NZ but said there was no better brand to be associated with, and he liked the idea with going up against another technology entrepreneur, Oracle boss Larry Ellison.
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Kim Dotcom is that young fat fella right? Last I saw of him was when the cops were raiding his mansion on scam charges or somesuch, never heard of him since. He got out of it then?

Must say I do admire his 'tude, that name change impressed the hell out of me, love that stuff.
 
Diwundrin said:
Kim Dotcom is that young fat fella right? Last I saw of him was when the cops were raiding his mansion on scam charges or somesuch, never heard of him since. He got out of it then?

Must say I do admire his 'tude, that name change impressed the hell out of me, love that stuff.
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That's him. He took the police to court and won. The US is trying to extradite him where he is wanted on charges of copyright infringement and money laundering. Imagine the field day the media would have if he did cough up for Team NZ.
The High Court judge used some fairly strong language to describe the way in which the search and arrest warrants were issued (and how the subsequent SWAT-style raid on Kim Dotcom’s mansion was handled). “This has given rise to a miscarriage of justice,” Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann wrote in her decision
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He sounds like our recent wonderboy billionaire, Tinkler. He got rich by simply never paying his bills. A friend in Singleton has known him since he was a kid and he was a career arsehole from the time he could toddle apparently. He bought football teams and did all that sporty showy stuff with his dosh too. He seems to have vanished from the media lately, musta run out of other people's money.
 
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