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AC 34 ETNZ Supporters

Locality: Kensington, New South Wales

Phone: 61 00000000

Address: Southern Hemisphere 2000 Kensington, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 dead in the water

22.01.2022 The long road to challenge for AC35 has started at the Emirates Team New Zealand base today. Short meetings, plans made and we are into action.

20.01.2022 Correcting columns from Paul Lewis is starting to feel like groundhog day. Or perhaps in honor of Bruno Trouble, the only person willing to be quoted in his la...test story, more like deja vu. But leaving aside Bruno, who is entitled to his opinion like anyone else - even if it’s a similar opinion to what he expressed, if less provocatively, in 2004 when ACM signed up partners in Valencia like Ford and Coca Cola - let’s get to the facts. Lewis consistently refers to Oracle and Larry Ellison as if they have the power to make changes unilaterally. In fact, the Protocol can only be changed with the approval of a majority of the teams. The event (the America’s Cup Event Authority - ACEA) does not have a vote. The Class Rule too could be amended by a majority of teams before March 31, 2015. Again, ACEA does not have a vote. For Paul’s benefit, here are the operative rules as written; 20. PROTOCOL AMENDMENTS 20.1 Subject to Article 20.2, this Protocol may only be amended with the agreement of GGYC and the Challenger Committee. Definition - "Challenger Committee" means a committee comprising all of the Challengers whose challenges are still current and valid and who are still in competition for AC35. When a Challenger is eliminated from further competition in AC35, or is disqualified by the Arbitration Panel from further participation in AC35, or otherwise ceases to be a Challenger, it shall have no further voice or vote in the Challenger Committee. Each Challenger in the Challenger Committee shall be entitled to one (1) vote. Unless otherwise provided, a simple majority vote of all of the Challengers in the Challenger Committee shall be required for the Challenger Committee to make a decision and/or take an action. The Challenger Committee shall establish its own organizational rules. OPERATIVE PROVISIONS OF AC62 CLASS RULE 4. AMENDMENT 4.1 The AC62 Class Rule may be amended at any time by unanimous consent of Competitors still competing and the Regatta Director, except that: (a) At any time the Measurement Committee, in consultation with Competitors and with the approval of the Regatta Director, may amend the AC62 Class Rule with respect to safety equipment, media equipment, or event branding, including their impact on sailing weight; (b) Within 30 days after ACEA’s announcement of the venue for the Match, the Measurement Committee, with the approval of the Defender and Challenger of Record, may amend the AC62 Class Rule in any respect; and (c) Prior to March 31, 2015, the Measurement Committee, with the approval of the Defender and the approval of at least 2/3rds of the Challengers in the Challengers Commitee, may amend the AC62 Class Rule in any respect. Lewis makes a tortured argument that the point of the class change was to sustain smaller teams and then says we should expect to see layoffs, not from smaller, commercially funded teams, but from Artemis Racing. His next turn is to suggest that changing to a lower cost America’s Cup Class is somehow bad for Team New Zealand, a team that usually describes themselves as having a smaller budget than the big teams. I suspect it would be counter intuitive to most people that such a cost-cutting move would be bad for any team claiming to have less funding..wouldn’t it? In fact, when teams were presented with the option of a smaller boat between 45-50 feet, Team New Zealand was in favour of the change, to the point of agreeing with a proposal from Team France that teams make a commitment to continue to use the proposed class in the next (36th) America’s Cup. To be clear, the proposal to change the class was going to upset, to some degree, all teams who had invested in AC62 design. But it was being agreed for the betterment of the America’s Cup today and into the future. But then, Team New Zealand made a u-turn, when they started to believe they could somehow force teams to come to New Zealand for a Qualifier if they sided with Luna Rossa and voted for a bigger boat. Suddenly, a collective effort for the betterment of the America’s Cup wasn’t important to Team New Zealand. Higher costs for all, including the additional costs of a split venue, became the entrenched Team New Zealand position. It seemed as if the team was putting a higher priority on unlocking taxpayer money to increase revenue than it was on reducing expenses through the change to the class rule for a less expensive boat. So Team New Zealand supported Luna Rossa’s more expensive proposal and in return convinced Luna Rossa to support a New Zealand Qualifier. However, that was a flawed strategy from the Team New Zealand management because they still didn’t have majority support. So they then started publicly saying that any change to the design rule should be unanimous, even though they had previously taken the position that a majority is what’s required! The final implication in Lewis’ story is that ORACLE TEAM USA will likely build four surrogate boats to somehow gain an advantage. This is the same team that just a few paragraphs earlier had supposedly engineered the class change to save money, on direct orders from Ellison. Further, and more obviously, the new class rule has a largely a one-design platform so why anyone would want to build four identical boat platforms? Asking what possible advantage they would gain from doing so would seem like the next logical step most writers would consider if they thought about this for even for a few seconds! Unfortunately for Paul, it is indeed a huge leap in logic to try and join his arguments and it once again appears as though he hasn’t bothered to look for the facts or think about the validity of his reasoning. The truth to the events of the past few weeks is actually pretty simple: - All of the teams were surprised and impressed by the performance of the AC45 Turbo boats. There was a thought that changing to a similar boat could save each team significant money - All of the teams agreed that a change to a smaller class would be beneficial and result in significant savings - America’s Cup television production, agreed that the television product would not be diminished if the America’s Cup moved to smaller boats like the turbo AC 45. Competitive racing was seen as the bigger driver and this new class should promote that. - Luna Rossa, alone, opposed switching to a 45-50 foot boat, instead suggesting either adding a few one-design elements to the AC62 rule, or switching to a new class in the 56 foot range as a means of achieving savings - The majority of teams agreed instead on the new America’s Cup Class, a 48-foot, foiling, wingsailed catamaran, with open development in the areas that influence performance (such as foils and aerodynamics) and adding one-design restrictions in the areas that don’t (such as hull shapes and structures). - Team New Zealand’s position to support the new class rule changed. - The necessary rule changes were made by a majority of teams agreeing, as per the existing rules in the Protocol. - ACEA was not able to vote on these issues as per the rules There are always competing visions of what the America’s Cup should be: A duel between teams funded by two billionaires? Months of racing to eliminate a large, but largely uncompetitive challenger field? The best of the best racing the fastest boats on the planet? Reasonable people can have interesting arguments about this. But that only happens when the facts are at the base of the arguments. This usually doesn’t occur when ill-informed journalists are attempting to join the dots between anonymous sources touting for one side.

17.01.2022 Big Head Jimmy, going it alone!

17.01.2022 VIDEO: Five days of training for Emirates Team New Zealand ended with two days of close racing against Ben Ainslie Racing . http://tinyurl.com/nsuu3tz

15.01.2022 I HIGHLIGHT THE FIRST BULLET POINT FROM THE COMPETITORS MEETING...WTF WHY DID TNZ NOT ATTEND THIS MEETING..... NO PUPPET STRINGS I BELIEVE!

15.01.2022 http://www.pressure-drop.us/forums/content.php Just off the phone with Pete Melvin, who provides a bit of insight to the proposal and what it means!

14.01.2022 In response to Beach and Jimmy's Ice Bucket Challenge I nominate Brad Butterworth and Grant Dalton. 24 hours guys!

07.01.2022 Here we go.....bring it on!

05.01.2022 See Chris Cameron's images from the first or second day of sailing in their new AC45S

04.01.2022 Election time approaching

02.01.2022 Here we go again.....