NEW ZEALAND: YACHTING - RACING IN THE AMERICAS CUP CANCELLED BECAUSE OF POOR WIND

Record ID: 979996

  • Title: NEW ZEALAND: YACHTING - RACING IN THE AMERICAS CUP CANCELLED BECAUSE OF POOR WIND
  • Date: 1st March 2000
  • Summary: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND (RECENT, 2000) 1. AERIAL OF TEAM NEW ZEALAND TWO BOATS TRAINING 2. SKIPPER RUSSEL COUTS AT HELM 3. AERIAL VIEW TEAM NEW ZEALAND 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PETER BLAKE SAYS: "We are only partway through the regatta, we haven't won it yet and we musn't assume that. As soon as we think we won it we're gonna lose it. So, we learned a lot of criticism over the previous month over how our team won't be good enough because we did not have a marvellous race in the challenges, We just laughed about it because we had very hard racing, we probably had harder than the challenges around here, actually. 5. OMEGA YACHT SAILING DURING NEW ZELAND TRAINING SESSION 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PETER BLAKE SAYS "Everything comes back to having the right people in your team with an absolute passion to want to win this and they've tried everything. So, we built in 18 scale models for testing purposes, we've done four summers of full scale testing, we've chopped bows of our full size boats and put different ones on it, replace them, afterwards. We tried all different masts and full dize keels and wings, you named it, we tried it." 7. VARIOUS OF TEAM NEW ZEALAND AT PRACTICE 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PETER BLAKE SAYS "We used to sail around the world together, the Whitebread race, we've all done America's Cup together at least once or twice, we have done Admiral's Cup, they've known each other all their lives, that helps." 9. VARIOUS OF TEAM NEW ZEALAND IN ACTION 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PETER BLAKE SAYS: "We know there is a lot of expectations out there, it couldn't be higher but each person in our team know we've done everything. There is nothing more we could have done to win this event, so maybe if we had two more years of trials and developments before the first race our boat might be a little bit faster but right now this is the absolute best we can do." 11. TEAM NEW ZEALAND BOAT DOCKING 12. SPECTATORS SALUTE CREW Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Reuters ID: LVA1UTE8OHUM3L10JOFUQ3BQ3ZRG
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