Press Release – NZ Maritime Museum
In keeping with the fast pace of current America’s Cup racing, the New Zealand Maritime Museum is staging its own PechaKucha America’s Cup-themed evening entitled
It Takes a Village on the 3rd of March.
Creatives and experts line up to each riff—in under seven minutes and referring to only 20 slides—on the many and intricate elements of America’s Cup racing and campaigns, from the design of the technologically advanced 1851-schooner
America, to the art of photographing the foiling challengers and defender on the Waitematā Harbour in 2020-21.
Yacht-designer, America’s Cup Hall of Fame inductee, and according to the lippy and starry Cup-veteran Dennis Connor ‘the best brain in yachting’ Tom Schnackenberg will deal to the evolution of Auld Mug yachts over the competition’s 170-year history. Hamish Ross, the lawyer who wrote a doctorate on Cup legalities, will stick to his knitting as well as point out some of the race’s peculiarities. And Jonny Knopp, who heads up a team of engineers at Auckland-based Southern Spars—the world’s leading carbon-fibre mast manufacturers—analyses how fast the boats of Team Emirates New Zealand, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, American Magic, and INEOS Team UK actually are.