Person: Craig McCaw

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Ship of fools

THE BOATS, if these computer-sculpted splinters can be called watercraft at all, are utterly charmless.

Wed, 11 Dec, 2002

Anything but plain sailing in Auckland

EMBATTLED America’s Cup challengers OneWorld led from start to finish to open a 2-0 lead yesterday over bitter US rival Team Dennis Conner in their quarter-finals repechage.

Thu, 28 Nov, 2002

Conner to race boat which sank during testing

DENNIS CONNER’S America’s Cup team said yesterday they would use a boat which sank to the ocean floor only four months ago for their sudden death challengers quarter-final against Britain’s GBR Challenge.

Tue, 12 Nov, 2002

Battle of the high rollers

THEY MAY have been jousting there for the last two months, jostling, sandbagging and sprinting to see whose latest boat has the edge, and whose despite the millions invested in research and development may yet be ‘off the pace’, but the real 2002/3 America’s Cup story starts to unfold in earnest next Tuesday.

Wed, 25 Sep, 2002

America’s Cup teams try to peek under rival skirts

IT used to be the sea breezes on distant tree boughs that gave the first clues of impending drama at the America’s Cup, but now the early excitement comes from the competitors’ efforts to peek under their rivals’ skirts.

Fri, 13 Sep, 2002