The skipper's got delusions... he keeps going sailing on America's Cup boats.
Uh oh, we need another $125 m . . .

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with team NZ in Aukland...
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on the chase boat on Haruki Gulf
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Coming alongside.. mind that carbon
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Can I have a go please chaps?
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Well, they had won it... but didn't this time
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Thinks: if we just chopped Cracker about a bit..



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So, let's try Oracle BMW instead...
..here the heads are demonstrated
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Thinks: if we just chopped Cracker about a bit..
and sorted out the backstay...

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.but skipper is joining a Louis Vuitton Act race in Valencia.. against Shosholoza

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Maybe we should sell the RIB and get one of these

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on board, Larry Ellison helming, pre start
...skipper now wants us to race lying down too

but we don't think our boom goes this far to windward!
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Ok.. you try winching from your knees... these chaps were flippin FIT ... off we go to the gym then.
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..and they let the skipper have a drive - not in the race though, but still...
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Oracle BMW didn't half tack quick...
meandchris
Chris Dickson explains how the trim tab wheel works (no, we can't fit one on Cracker's 3 ton liump of lead)