America’s Cup: I’m still trying to get my head around this yachting business – Stuff.co.nz

OPINION: So the weather gods stopped puffing their cheeks and instead rolled about in mirth as two inconceivably expensive boats flopped and flapped about on the water like two toddlers in a paddling pool.
You half suspected those mischievous gods were Greeks because they clearly understood the meaning of bathos.
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Blair Tuke gives his team the thumbs up after a successful day in the America’s Cup Match.
Here was the sublimely self-important rendered ridiculous. And oddly,…

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