Episodes
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With Jimmy Spithill racing for Luna Rosa, why are the Aussies cheering on Team NZ? This week Mel and Tom talk to Aussies Tom Slingsby and Nathan Outteridge to find out and to get some insight as to what held Australia back from entering a challenger in the 2021 America's Cup.
Nathan Outteridge is an Olympic gold medalist and an America's cup finalist and Tom Slingsby is an Olympic gold medalist and was the strategist for the America's Cup winning Team Oracle USA in 2013.
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What impact will the move into COVID alert level 3 in Auckland have on racing? Does this present an opportunity for INEOS and which team will be the worst affected?
Mel and Tom talk to 4 time America's cup winner and former tactician for Team New Zealand and Swiss Alinghi syndicate, Brad Butterworth to find out.
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There is internal conflict as to whether the New York Yacht Club should mount another challenge. Newshub speaks to NYYC member Steve Tsuchiya. Plus, which Kiwi is being inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame? And we're joined by former Team NZ sailing coach Rod Davis and sailor Logan Dunning-Beck.
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From inside the Luna Rossa base we talk to Kiwi team members Ben Tapper and Andrew Burgess about the Italians' passion for food - second only to their passion on the water.
They reveal what you should never do on a boat send-off, and some of the behind-the-scenes tactics all good spies need to know.
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New information on American Magic's capsize - was the hull damage caused by a loose battery pack? Tom and Mel chat with Richard Gladwell and Tom Ehman about what led to American Magic's Prada Cup disaster.
Richard Gladwell has written books and photographed America's Cup campaigns all around the world since the early 1980's. He is currently editor of SailWorld NZ.
Tom Ehman has been rules advisor, manager and in other roles for America's Cup teams for 3 decades. The last was the Oracle campaign that beat Team New Zealand in San Francisco in 2013.
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