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Hospitality venues and event organisers are already declaring the event a success.
From late morning each race day, there has been a mass departure of spectator boats from Ōrākei Marina, where manager Jason Snashall runs the show. I d say at least 85, 90 percent of the boats were out on all days. Most evenings after people came back they were all entertaining family and friends on their boats, he said. It was just a whole lot of people having a great time at level 1.
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They joined a swarm of other launches and yachts bobbing around the perimeter of the course each day, with an atmosphere Snashall compared to Eden Park during the Rugby World Cup.