Emirates Team New Zealand gets amongst the 49ers ahead of the 2019 Hyundai World Championship - Waitemata Harbour - November 19, 2019 © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com
While there have been some bad weather days since, our pick is that there were some substantial modifications going on, before the team lock down the design of Boat 2
Certainly the spy boats were in a frenzy yesterday, with we think, INEOS Team UK and American Magic taking a close view of the AC75.
Conditions were such that occasionally Te Aihe could get up and foil without the assistance of a light tow rope to a chase boat, at other times she was able to get up and foil unassisted. Regardless of how she got foil-borne being able to stay foiling in the light conditions was impressive.
For a while she played around with the 49ers getting set to go out and participate in more racing, or to give Peter Burling and Blair Tuke a look at their opposition for the upcoming World Championships, which get underway on December 3 in Auckland.
That regatta will be preceded by an Oceania Championship which gets underway next week November 25-27, with Burling and Tuke now entered in the Oceania Championship (previously they were a notable omission).