America's Cup: Regatta Director Iain Murray reflects at Portside



2:14 AM Sun 14 Nov 2010 GMT
'''We move people around and run races,'' Iain Murray, AC34 Regatta Director' Richard Gladwell Click Here to view large photo
New Zealand once again seems to be the centre of the America's Cup universe, and will be so for the next few months as the first of the new AC 45 class of catamarans are built and commissioned ahead of the America's Cup World Series due to get underway in June 2011, from a European venue. One of the icons of Australian sailing Iain Murray, in his new capacity as Regatta Director for the ACWS and America's Cup events was in Auckland to check out progress on the first of the AC45's in Warkworth about 40 minutes drive north of ...


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by Richard Gladwell





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