No wind, no party. Show postponed to America’s Cup: the calm holds the Hauraki Gulf hostage, the fourth day of the naval battle between the defender Team New Zealand and the challenger Luna Rossa postponed due to the absence of wind, which never went above 5 knots (the minimum limit to start the race of 6.5) ruining the Sunday of sea and sailing of the New Zealand fans, who went into the water en masse. The series of the 36th America’s Cup therefore remains at 3-3, in perfect equality. We will try again on Monday (at 4 am Italian time), with two more races. And then on to the bitter end until one of the two teams has put in the galley the 7 points necessary to conquer the old (170 years of history) silver jug.
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The long wait
Race director Iain Murray had approached the morning briefing with great caution, for days in fact the forecast had been of very weak wind: The weather models give us a very uncertain picture, we hope that the thermal breeze will be able to declare itself and the wind will reach the intensity required by the regulation. We have a 50% chance of being able to race, he said Sunday morning. Luna Rossa and Te Rehutai went out to sea as scheduled. In their wake a decidedly abundant fleet of spectators, over 1600 boats that anchored neatly at the edges of the field and waited for the start. Waiting in these calm conditions can be nerve-wracking, said Francesco Bruni, the Italian half of the helm of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team.
When Murray officially canceled the fourth day of the America’s Cup, after three postponements, the two teams returned to port in Auckland: night of rest for the crews and night of work for the shore teams to fine-tune the boats for the regattas on Monday.
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