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Speaker 1: A very big week for Team New Zealand because they

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Speaker 1: announced their squad to defend the next Cup, and the

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Speaker 1: next Cup is going to be is it turns out

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Speaker 1: competed in Naples Napuli thirty eighth Traditional will be sailed

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven. Mark Orham's as a sailing professor.

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Speaker 1: Of course, totd aut And is with this Mark, very

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Speaker 1: good morning to you, Kit morning Mike. That team that

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Speaker 1: was announced outrage. Can you vibe it? Is it a

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Speaker 1: better team, worse team? We don't know yet or what I.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't say it's a better team. Of course, you lose

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Speaker 2: somebody who's arguably New Zealand's best sailor ever, and Peter

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Speaker 2: Berling really difficult to replace. But we have a great

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Speaker 2: skipper and Nathan Outerradge he obviously was the other helm

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Speaker 2: in the last Cup, very very talented sailor and most

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Speaker 2: importantly a really good leader as well. I think the

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Speaker 2: other thing that's reassuring in that announcement, Mike is that

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Speaker 2: the big question mark when Peter Berling announced that he

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Speaker 2: was leaving was what was Beerchook going to do? What

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Speaker 2: was Andy Maloney going to do? They'd been tight You know,

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Speaker 2: Blair and Pete have been tight for decades now, they've

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Speaker 2: been packaged deal and if both those two are gone

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Speaker 2: then you're almost starting again. So securing Blair, Chook and

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Speaker 2: Andy Maloney alongside of Sam Meecher and the new member

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Speaker 2: announced Chris Draper, gives confidence that there's a really good

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Speaker 2: sailing squad there. There's experience. They've kept some of the

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Speaker 2: key members and Blair and Andy with Nathan now as

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Speaker 2: a solid leader and a good how I'm very experienced

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Speaker 2: wise head as well. So it's a very strong team.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think you could say losing something like

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Speaker 2: Peter Burley me the team would be stronger.

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Speaker 1: Where'd Naples come from? I thought it was Saudi Arabia.

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Speaker 2: Well, they were looking at a number of options, of course,

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Speaker 2: of the options that were talked about, including Greece your

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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia at one stage, Valencia I think was in

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Speaker 2: the mix, and of course Auckland, which all of us.

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Speaker 1: Here was never in mart Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, but if you're choosing somewhere else, I'm delighted

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Speaker 2: that Naples has ended up coming out on top. It's

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Speaker 2: a great city, it's a great sailing venue and and

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Speaker 2: it'll it'll be a wonderful location for the next America's Cup.

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Speaker 2: But I tell you who will be the most happy

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Speaker 2: to hear this news. That will be luner on.

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Speaker 1: Well are they going to be the only other ones there?

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Speaker 1: Because that's what worries me. What's the size of the field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think that it's a big question mark,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Ben Angeley will be there. I think I

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Speaker 2: think it's more likely now that American Magic might go again,

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Speaker 2: particularly that it's not Saudi Arabia, which would have been

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Speaker 2: a huge issue for them. So now that now that

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Speaker 2: the venue is announced, I think that certainty allows other

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Speaker 2: teams to really look at can they make this work?

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Speaker 2: So I would expect we would. Obviously we're not. We're

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Speaker 2: not going to see a line back again. They've already

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Speaker 2: been public about that. The French may be back. It

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Speaker 2: won't be bigger than last time in terms of the

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Speaker 2: number of teams, but it's going to be how it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a good location like Naples potentially encourages

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Speaker 2: others to think about it. Remembering that we have the

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Speaker 2: youth and the woman. America's Cup announced that that's going

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Speaker 2: to have a second edition and that I think is

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Speaker 2: the area of growth.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Marke appreciate it. Mark Orham's Auto sailing professor.

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