32nd America’s Cup; Team New Zealand 2
- Posted by webmaster on March 3rd, 2007 filed in Emirates Team NZL
Team New Zealand GranT Dalton
Kiwi’s are the favorite challengers. The Won the 12th Luois Vuitton Act and have two fine tuned Boats. The newer is NZL-92 that Grant Dalton says to be “a little better, a little smarter” but also NZL-84 is a point of strength. the strategy is to have two good boats tuned for different wind range.
The boats arrived in Valencia on 25th of February after a Summer spent in Auckland to re fit and train the crews.
Dalton talked not only about the boats. We discovered that there is a little bit of Italy also in New Zealand Team.
Matteo De Nora, an Italian entrepreneur funded TNZLD with 20 milion $. Not so bad.
Sailing anarchy and Spanish news paper are seems to be a little bit disappointed about Italian large fleet. Three syndicate are Italian Based, Ernesto Bertarelli for Alinghi, Captain Salvatore Sarno for Shosholoza and Now Team New Zealand have an italian genoma.
Adding to this that over the life of the class, sail numbers have been issued to 24 American boats, meaning about a quarter of all ACC boats have been built in the United States. There have been 15 Italian-built boats and 13 ACC hulls constructed in New Zealand. The French have built 10 boats to seven for the Spanish and Japanese, we can argue the Italy it is among the Powers of the America’s Cup. We build boats, we have sailors and skippers, we have money what come short?. The Cup.
|
Leave a Comment