Suzanne McFadden for Newsroom
The Prada Cup challenger series starts today. Suzanne McFadden goes behind the scenes of the world s only live yachting regatta to see what s in store for the next five weeks.
American Magic s boat, Patriot, favourite to win the Prada Cup challenger series, training on Waitemata Harbour.
Photo: PHOTOSPORT
At 6am on race days, Iain Murray wakes up and immediately checks the weather outside his Auckland window. It s all about the weather, says the America s Cup regatta director, a highly accomplished Australian sailor and designer known, reverently, as The Big Fella.
The night before, Murray will have chosen the racecourse on the Hauraki Gulf where sailing for the Prada Cup will take place the next day, and what that course will look like. At 8pm, he lets the Auckland Harbourmaster know.
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Luxury cruiser stuck in Hauraki Gulf looted while stranded on rocks
28 Dec, 2020 11:01 PM
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Luxury launch run aground off Ladies Bay, St Heliers.
NZ Herald
A luxury vessel was ransacked and looted as it lay stuck on a bed of rocks in the Hauraki Gulf for five days.
Looters stole booze and most of the game-fishing gear which was on board, along with slashing the leather interiors and setting off the fire foam suppression system, sources have told the Herald.
The occupants got into trouble and ran aground on rocks at Achilles Point near the Tāmaki River entrance in east Auckland on Wednesday, December 23.
Successful salvage operation for luxury cruiser that ran aground in Auckland s Hauraki Gulf
28 Dec, 2020 06:04 AM
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Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
A luxury cruiser has been successfully hauled off a bed of rocks it sat beached on in the Hauraki Gulf for five days.
The 15.5-metre Riviera craft, which could be worth upwards of $1 million, got in trouble and ran aground on rocks at Achilles Point near the Tāmaki River entrance in east Auckland on Wednesday, December 23.
Two people had been on the boat and needed to be rescued, but did not need any medical attention.