{"id":5834,"date":"2013-05-06T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5834"},"modified":"2013-05-06T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:24:05","slug":"repeat-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=5834","title":{"rendered":"REPEAT PERFORMANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The body language between Grant Dalton (left) and Russell Coutts says it all. While today\u2019s America\u2019s Cup skippers tend to say all the right things, the team leaders of Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA are less filtered. See story below.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Scuttlebutt is published each weekday with the support of its sponsors, providing a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, features and dock talk\u2026with a North American focus.<\/p>\n

Today’s sponsors:\u00a0BIC Sport North America – New York Yacht Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMate, what the hell went wrong?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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That was all Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton needed to say kick off a heated debate with Sir Russell Coutts when the two yachting adversaries squared off in a charity dinner last Friday night.<\/p>\n

Coutts got off to a rather tame start, opening with a video detailing Oracle\u2019s struggles and triumphs over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

Dalton chose another tack with his introductory video, playing an interview with Larry Ellison in 2010, in which the Oracle owner made all sorts of bold promises \u2013 most of which have not eventuated. The move hit a raw nerve with Coutts, who later leapt to the defence of his boss, warning \u201che\u2019ll get to hear about this\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the video Ellison claimed there would be many as 16 challengers, with \u201cmore international teams than ever before\u201d and pegged the cost of competing at just $2m-$4m.<\/p>\n

He also promised the design rule would be simplified and the boats would be cheap to engineer \u2013 they would not be going back to the complex wingsail technology like that which was seen in Oracle\u2019s trimaran, which won the deed of gift challenge in 2010 \u2013 a point that was met with derisive laughter from the audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cMate, what the hell went wrong?\u201d Dalton asked when the video wrapped up.<\/p>\n

Boldened by the effects of the sponsors wine, and clearly irritated by Dalton\u2019s continued references to promises made in 2010, Coutts returned to the stage later in the night and fired off a few salvoes of his own, including a pointed dig about the veteran\u2019s decision to add himself to the Team New Zealand crew.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nobody in New Zealand he can find that\u2019s better than a 54-year-old?\u201d<\/p>\n

The supposed question time quickly became an audience with Coutts, as the Oracle chief executive ignored the questions from MC Peter Montgomery and instead tried to rebuke points made by Dalton in his opening address earlier in the evening. \u2013 The New Zealand Herald,\u00a0read on<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What better way to attract viewers than to create some tension?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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