Americas Cup

[Wairau]

WOOOHOOO!

[rotated]

Nicely done - saved the Cup and just in the nick of time.

Burling is a special one that's for sure.

[Kruse]

8-1, again.

[Wairau]

Team New Zealand, Making the Americas Cup Great Again!
MACGA!

[Bovidae]

The only race I've watched live.

Well done TNZ!!

[Crucial]

@Bovidae said in Americas Cup:

The only race I've watched live.

Well done TNZ!!

me too. Left work early and found a pub with it on TV.

[Bovidae]

So are we calling the winner of the Halbergs now?

[jegga]

Well done guys, been behind you all the way , never doubted you for a minute .

[jegga]

@Bovidae said in Americas Cup:

So are we calling the winner of the Halbergs now?

All whites has any draws lately?

[rotated]

@Bovidae said in Americas Cup:

So are we calling the winner of the Halbergs now?

By winning the thing Burling just took himself out of contention.

[Virgil]

Must be something in the water over at Tauranga.
Both Burling and Kane Williamson went to school together.
Both have gone onto useful careers it would be fair to say

[JK]

You fkn beauty!!!

Bloody clinical this morning and right thru the finals really.

[Hooroo]

Spithall very gracious in defeat.

Seems bemused how we have done all this by ourselves on probably the lightest budget.

Noice!

[Bovidae]

Luna Rossa have predictably been named the Challenger of Record.

Now the fun begins.

[Wairau]

remembering Sir Peter Blake, inspiration for many young kiwis.....

another PB and his old foe Dalton have brought the Cup home

[rotated]

@Virgil said in Americas Cup:

Must be something in the water over at Tauranga.
Both Burling and Kane Williamson went to school together.
Both have gone onto useful careers it would be fair to say

Cane was a year behind them too wasn't he? Not bad to turn out at all.

[taniwharugby]

@Hooroo you'd have to think it was a very smart decision to do training in Auckland and arriving when they did, if they had been racing them all along surely it would have given them better opportunity to realize the changes they needed to make.

Yeah I actually like Spithill, suits the antagonist role perfectly, and he was very gracious, whereas Dalton was less so when it came to Spithill.

I can go back to knowing nothing about sailing now

[Donsteppa]

While winning graciously is great... with the amount of flak Grant Dalton has had over the years, he's probably entitled to tell a few people to get fucked today.

[NTA]

Right, so i just found out this is finished AND that an Aussie is skippering your little boat.

So, in honour of @Virgil and his ongoing assertions that any Kiwi who walks within shouting distance of a successful venture is directly responsible for it:

FUCK YEAH AUSTRALIA! WON THE AMERICAS CUP! SHOULD FUCKEN RENAME IT "STRAYA CUP MATE"!

Etc.

On a serious note: gotta say that keeping the boat out of the water for a whole run is pretty impressive work by the crew.

[Billy Tell]

I should be happy. But meh.

My Swiss work colleagues were more interested, which is telling.