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.