Spotted on the Team New Zealand website yesterday morning:
After the team's third loss on Tuesday, the NZL82 sailing crew went around to Barker's home for a quiet evening to forget about the racing.
"We had a few glasses of win till late into the night," Schnackenberg said.
A few glasses of win?
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In an interview on a website, OneWorld skipper Peter Gilmour said he was surprised at the lack of sailing Team New Zealand had done in this cup cycle.
Gilmour said in the last campaign the team stood out as being the syndicate with the most on-water hours, but this time spent a lot of time performing on-shore maintenance.
Gilmour said Team New Zealand might have done only a third as much sailing as Alinghi.
"It's obviously been caused by the difficulty of the hula," he said.
"It's not an easy thing to put on the boat and probably took a lot of time to get right."
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A concerned Team New Zealand fan left a message at the Herald yesterday offering some words of wisdom.
After spotting a photo of Team New Zealand and Alinghi in the paper, the fan was concerned about Team New Zealand's mainsail.
He said the top of the mainsail on the black boat was flapping around a bit.
He noted it was not trimmed as tightly as the mainsail on Alinghi.
"If you could just point that out to Schnack and maybe if they trim it a bit it might help," the message read.
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