[OT]:: We have a yacht race by Russell McMahon .

For the last 20 years until today racing for the America's Cup has been a very one sided affair. A band of challengers compete for the right to take on the incumbent and then the eventual Cup Winner thrashes the other yacht to death 5:0. The only exception in 20 years was a single penultimate win by the Italians a few iterations back. ie 4-0, 4-1, 5-1. 4-1 is the best any underdog has managed in 20 years. Up until today Just watched (Emirates) Team NZ Americas's Cup team win the second race in the best-of-9 America's Cup series in Valencia, Spain. NZ's antipodes fwiw as per recent conversation here. (Spain, Portugal and part of the far outer Bay of Biscay). 2:30am race ending here :-(. A great feeling of vicarious involvement for a large number of late awake Kiwis here. There's a certain amount of "grudge match" happening here, but nobody in the NZ team is admitting it. With the score now 1-1 it now appears the two teams and yachts are very very closely matched and some nail biting racing now looks likely in the coming days. Russell