Mr America's Cup himself, Dennis Conner, got into the spirit of Hallowe'en last night, throwing a huge party for the children of Team Dennis Conner.
Not to outdone by the kids, Conner made the most of the opportunity to dress up and reinvented himself as a pirate.
Also celebrating Hallowe'en was Seattle's
OneWorld challenge, who opened the exhibition for their Art for Earth competition.
The exhibition will be on display at the National Maritime Museum from today to January 15.
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According to the Alinghi website, an unknown Team New Zealand member visited the Alinghi shop a few weeks back before heading to a fancy dress party.
The sailor apparently bought several items including a T-shirt, vest and jacket. With bleached white hair - three guesses who the sailor went as: Brad Butterworth, the former Team New Zealand tactician now with Alinghi.
Alinghi are still trying to reveal the identity of the person but Team New Zealand will not confirm.
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When Alinghi and Oracle BMW Racing went head to head in the first round, the action wasn't restricted to the race course.
Oracle supporters on Larry Ellison's Katana surprised their rival supporters on Ernesto Bertarelli's Vava and Pure Adrenalin (an Alinghi supporters boat) by hurling water bombs at them.
After the initial shock, the Alinghi supporters gathered themselves for revenge.
Heading down to the kitchen, they found their weapons - sweet, ripe tomatoes. Fired from Vava onto Ellison's super clean white yacht you could say Alinghi well and truly made their mark. They then made a clean getaway.
The same can't be said of Katana, and its customised colour scheme.
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A delegation from the English Rugby Football Union visited the GBR Challenge base recently.
Chairman Graeme Cattermole, commercial director Paul Vaughan, operations director Terry Burwell and communications director Richard Prescott were given a tour of the base.
The union team were on a 13-day world tour to lobby support for England's sole bid to host the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
Their 72,000km journey has taken them to Buenos Aires, Toronto and Sydney. From Auckland they fly to Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Tokyo and then home.
"It has been a fantastic experience to see the whole scale of the operation in a different international sport," said Cattermole. "We have been massively impressed with the teamwork required to undertake a challenge of this nature and we give it our full support."
Triple Olympic gold medallist rower Matthew Pinsent, who was in New Zealand on his honeymoon, also visited the team's base last week.
Pinsent, who is a patron of GBR Challenge, joined former rowers Greg Searle (1992 Olympic medallist) and Ian Weighell (Oxford blue) on the grinders for a training session.
"I was very impressed with the level of detail and attention that is paid to every element," Pinsent commented.
"There are a few ideas that I am going to try on my boat when we get back."
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Alinghi celebrated 25,000 visitors to their interactive plaza this week.
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Mr America's Cup himself, Dennis Conner, got into the spirit of Hallowe'en last night, throwing a huge party for the children of Team Dennis Conner.
Not to outdone by the kids, Conner made the most of the opportunity to dress up and reinvented himself as a pirate.
Also celebrating Hallowe'en was Seattle's
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