John;

I am for the "little guy". The billionaires buy their fun and the "little guy" works for theirs. I saw the video of the yacht sinking. A little bondo and it will be good as new. :)

In case you are not fimilair with bondo -

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/9640/bondo.html
This was a favorite product for teenagers when I was young.

Tom

>Thomas
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>There've been all sort of ructions- actually one of the US yachts sank off California during testing, not a great look.
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>The question for little old New Zealand is how long a country of our size can hold off the billionaires from taking the cup back. Various rich teams (especially Europeans, in particular a Swiss crowd) have hired our best and brightest away by offering monstrous sums, I guess we'll have to see how we go.
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>Regards
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>JR