\u201cThey just won\u2019t turn up,\u201d said Kiwi boss Grant Dalton. \u201cAs part of the safety recommendations, the (US$100,000) fine (for not appearing in a race) has been waived and they can just keep on not turning up. It\u2019s a Claytons schedule. I am not sure how they sugar-coated it in their statement, but Artemis vetoed the proposals. In the end, Artemis was the problem. They are the Challenger of Record and they can veto changes to the protocol \u2013 and they did.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the whole thing is now geared to the needs of the weakest common denominator,\u201d said Dalton. \u201cI wonder what would happen if the Rugby World Cup had to stop and re-organise itself in an unsatisfactory way because Namibia had a few injuries. How that would go down?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t lost sight of the tragedy and we have said we are in favour of the safety recommendations but Artemis can get away with this because there are not enough teams in the America\u2019s Cup,\u201d said Dalton. \u201cIf there were five teams, they\u2019d be gonners; they wouldn\u2019t be here. But because there aren\u2019t enough, the regatta will have to meet their needs and Luna Rossa are paying the price.\u201d<\/p>\n
The schedule has been amended so advanced ticket holders may be holding tickets to a non event.<\/p>\n
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The group, the America\u2019s Cup Organizing Committee, is now supposed to raise about $22 million \u2013 down from an original $32 million \u2013 to defray the costs of things like permits, and increased police and Muni service. But it still owes the city about $800,000 on $1.6 million in costs from December.\u00a0 At the end of the month the group will receive another bill of about $3 million to $4 million for things like liability insurance, putting up railings around the perimeters of piers and signs to help cyclists and pedestrians find their way to the action.<\/p>\n
“Am I the only one tired of hearing Tom Ehman spin the America’s Cup? The ‘Summer of Sailing’, which I was sorely tempted to attend, has now degenerated into “the Match is the big deal” “Adrian Morgan.<\/p>\n
The America’s Cup, which appears to have been trying to separate itself from sailing since the creation of the “New” boats and format; supplementing the event with concerts and other events. The participants stated to me last year that they felt like characters in a sideshow.<\/p>\n
The Annapolis- Newport race , Rambler and Donnybrook are already finished. Track the fleet HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThey just won\u2019t turn up,\u201d said Kiwi boss Grant Dalton. \u201cAs part of the safety recommendations, the (US$100,000) fine (for not appearing in a race) has been waived and they can just keep on not turning up. It\u2019s a Claytons schedule. I am not sure how they sugar-coated it in their statement, but Artemis vetoed … Continue reading THEY JUST WON’T TURN UP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632],"tags":[2466],"class_list":["post-6017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-cup-34-2","tag-louis-vuitton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}