Lots more pictures have been posted. They include everything I did when Barry was out here, as well as my trips to Tauranga (for the Around Alone) and Napier, and time spent in Auckland in the week prior to the America’s Cup.

Poor TNZ! A horrible string of gear failures forced them to retire from race 1 of the America’s Cup, after looking like they had better boat speed for the first 10 minutes of the first upwind leg. First they were accumulating a lot of water in the boat, then the tail end of their boom broke, and finally the tack of their genoa ripped out. Alinghi sailed the test of the course alone to score the point.