Americas Cup
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@nzzp said in Americas Cup:
@canefan said in Americas Cup:
The issue of the bases is dragging on. I wonder how long TNZ waits and watches NZ fuck around before they seriously consider offshore venues?
I think they are probably seriously looking at it.
Fark, we can destroy anything up here by bitterness, naysaying and infighting. Street motor races. America's Cups (FFS). Waterfront stadia. Anything in a 10 jersey.
This AC situation is like modern 'parenting'.
'What biscuits would you like Sebastian?'
'These ones'
'How about you choose something else?'
'No, I want these ones'
'But those aren't healthy and they cost too much'
'But I want them!'
'Let's put them back and take these instead, look they have raisins in them'
'I HATE raisins!'
'No you don't, you love them'
'You said I could choose!!!!!! You are the worst parent in the world'
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@canefan said in Americas Cup:
The issue of the bases is dragging on. I wonder how long TNZ waits and watches NZ fuck around before they seriously consider offshore venues?
Isn't it already written into the challenge - that there's a deadline for Auckland to sort it's shit out, or it's automatically moved to Valencia, or similar?
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TNZ wanted to extend Halsey and Hobson wharves out into the Harbour so that they protruded as far as Wynyard and Princes.
This was rigorously opposed by a number of interested groups who have traction with Council because of the flak relating to Ports of Akl Bledisloe container terminal plans
Council signed off slightly modified version of this
Govt stepped in with alternatives that intruded into the Harbour less but that TNZ baulked at. Govt then managed to buy out lease(s) of chemical storage units in Halsey St. This is iteration 3 of govt plan
All takes time I guess. I'm a bit disappointed TNZ will get the Events Centre as their base and that Halsey St is going to be closed. Balance that against early exit of the chemical tanks and more open water and I think its a reasonable outcome.
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@dogmeat said in Americas Cup:
I'd be thoroughly pissed off though if I was a commercial fisherman. This will be the third time they will be forced to move their berths so absentee owners can moor their super yachts
IMO they shouldn't be there anyway, nor should they be allowed to fish the inner gulf. I know one of them and they are so short sighted about their own business, it's really blinkered thinking. There must be a far more sensible place for them to go that isn't inner city?
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@bovidae said in Americas Cup:
The GBI ferry mooring will have to move also looking at that plan.
Float planes too I think.
It isn't a bad compromise and there will always be parties affected. New motorways are the same and the city will be better for it.
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@dogmeat Good response, thanks. But given they won it nine months ago, it seems to me poorly administered thus far - almost as if they meet monthly like a footy club committee.
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@antipodean Change of government. If Nats had won the Council plan wouldn't have been revisited. So its more like 4 mths then "hang on" then 4 mths
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@antipodean said in Americas Cup:
But given they won it nine months ago, it seems to me poorly administered thus far - almost as if they meet monthly like a footy club committee.
The plan was always going to take the most time, and as @dogmeat says they had to deal with a new government.
3 parties involved is always going to fuck things up. Someone mention our government?
They still have plenty of time to build it.
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Bump. Kind'a related, but sore from losing the Auld Mug, Larry and Russell have created a new sailing competition based on '50-foot foiling catamarans powered by wing sails which the organisers expect to reach speeds of more than 50 knots (93 kilometres per hour) as they fly above the water'.
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@antipodean said in Americas Cup:
Bump. Kind'a related, but sore from losing the Auld Mug, Larry and Russell have created a new sailing competition based on '50-foot foiling catamarans powered by wing sails which the organisers expect to reach speeds of more than 50 knots (93 kilometres per hour) as they fly above the water'.
If it doesn' thave the America's Cup, it'll struggle to hold spectator interest I suspect.
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@antipodean said in Americas Cup:
Bump. Kind'a related, but sore from losing the Auld Mug, Larry and Russell have created a new sailing competition based on '50-foot foiling catamarans powered by wing sails which the organisers expect to reach speeds of more than 50 knots (93 kilometres per hour) as they fly above the water'.
Will they have cyclors? 🤣🤣🤣
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@antipodean said in Americas Cup:
Bump. Kind'a related, but sore from losing the Auld Mug, Larry and Russell have created a new sailing competition based on '50-foot foiling catamarans powered by wing sails which the organisers expect to reach speeds of more than 50 knots (93 kilometres per hour) as they fly above the water'.
In the famous words of Dennis Conner..
"Get off the stage, loser"
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The AC is back, the new boats look pretty scary and exciting in equal measure.
Here is footage of Dean Barker doing what he does best
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12307872
And here's our boys doing it a little better
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