Ill be there tomorrow morning to see the boats dock out. I have to go out & about my business in Auckland during most of the day but rest assured Ill be tuned into bFM 103FM for the LIVE sports coverage with the TV at home on Freeview SPORTS EXTRA for FREE coverage.
I hope to get over to North Head to see the view from there tomorrow afternoon before popping back into town again to be at the LIVE press conferance.
Sundays through to Wednesdays the crews will be mingling with the public for autographs etc! Thrusdays through to Sat's, live bands will be performing ON STAGE every night. How cool is that!!!!
From 8-9AM each morning, the public are allowed in front of the ETNZ base to see how the boys do it, then join them for breakfast in the Skycity bar before they dock out.
Like they have said from the beginning, this is a party event...and EVERYONE is invited. So New Zealand, so true in sailing style, so Bruno Trouble! I cant believe our luck in NZ! This is truely a summer to remember and if you are not here, you have missed out BIG time. Im not one to rub salt into the wound but really, this event has eclipsed my wildest dreams of such an event in terms of public interaction, nothings really OFF limits where you need passes or security forms to get anywhere near the boats or crew, its OPEN for us ALL!!! Without US there would be no event so its only fitting! PR for Team New Zealand is building in NZ. After the failed defence of the Americas Cup in 2003, Team New Zealand was seen upon as had it, gone. In 2007 cup fever slightly gripped the nation where we nearly bought the cup home, but then with the cup in the courts, the public view had waned again.
NOW in 2009, with all this exciting stuff that the kids can get involved in too is happening down here, the public are now getting back behind Emirates Team New Zealand, but sailing in a whole again! How AWESOME IS THAT?????
I just cant imagine a more perfect regetta.
Lets hope it stays this way!
The final countdown has begun...More tomorrow night after the first races of the inaugural Louis Vuitton Pacific Series, Auckland 2009!
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