Manawatu Standard

Team NZ get boat back

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Team New Zealand are eager to get their America’s Cup boat back on thewater after Te Aihe finally returned to their Auckland base yesterday. The 75-foot foiling monohull has been on an ill-fated return trip to Europe after the America’s Cup world series regattas in Italy and Englandwer­e cancelled because of the coronaviru­s pandemic. Team New Zealand have been using their small-scaled test boat to continue their developmen­t work but Te Aihe has unexplored secrets on it. Several developmen­tswere done to the first generation build that had been intended to be trialled in Sardinia. That will nowunfold on Auckland’swaitemata Harbour as quickly as possible.

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