We don't have a huge pool of people to select our crew. We've got now pretty much a steady crew.
The key - one of the key things that we have to do in the future, and the future is starting now, is blood new people, the youth, coming through to take over from me and the yachties... these yachties as they get too old or move on to other things. And the great news is that we have some of those guys now. We have Dean Barker's effectively [indistinct], probably replacement, a guy called Adam Minoprio, a world champion in match racing.
So it's coming. The next generation is arriving and they're strong.
Staying competitive against them, you've got to be in on the technology race, first of all, because if you're sailing a slow boat, doesn't matter how fast you sail, it still won't be quick enough.
The main, I guess, advantage that we have - if it's an advantage, certainly feels like it - is our whole cultural... the way just we stick together as a team culturally. It's a very Kiwi thing and it's unique, and we've taken a long time to develop it.
The way that the technology and the people effectively, or the sailors interact, the best example you can find is from other sports. Formula One is probably the best one. A fast driver in a slow car still won't be any good. A fast driver in a fast car will be fast. And it's funny how fast drivers always seem to be in fast cars.
So the way it works is that the sailors interact with the designers and the holders of the technology to create the best platform to go fast and then tune it as well as they can.
The New Zealand marine industry has grown enormously over the years. There's a couple of reasons why that's happened. The first was that it had a dollar advantage but effectively that's evaporated. And now it has to exist on its straight ability to perform. There's some good examples, Alloy Yachts being one of the great examples, how now if you were building a super yacht probably the best place from efficiency, on time ,and on budget, and quality is Alloy Yachts. And they've developed, like other parts of the industry, just over the years through the people. It's about the people and that's a very Kiwi thing.
Other industries in New Zealand can learn, I think, first of all how to survive because as many manufacturing parts of the industry in New Zealand disappear, the marine industry survives through tough times sometimes; tough at the moment in the marine industry, but they survive.
So I think - I mean, I'm not in the industry as such, I'm in the sports part of the industry. And we help provide a platform of almost advertising, like the All Blacks do in rugby. But certainly I think that there's some great models - Rayglass is another one - that have done so amazingly well in New Zealand in the marine industry that there can be good lessons there for other people.
It's hard for the larger business community to benefit throughout the country because the event is reasonably small, and for that reason it doesn't even cost a lot.
I think this is not really an industry event as such. There's some leverage, for sure there's leverage, but it's about - in the end, the existence of Emirates Team New Zealand is to bring the America's Cup back to New Zealand. It's the only reason it exists. And then there is, as we've seen - I mean, you're standing in part of why... the develop that was... occurred because of the last America's Cup. Then when the Cup is here there is massive opportunities for industry.
