AUCKLAND: Prince William and wife Catherine plan to test their sea legs Friday racing America’s Cup yachts against one another on Auckland Harbour on day five of their New Zealand tour. The royal couple will visit Team New Zealand’s harbourside headquarters then, weather permitting, take to the water on rival America’s Cup boats. William told Prime Minister John Key at a function on Thursday night that both he and Kate were looking to gain bragging rights over each other in their nautical showdown. “It will be a competition… a bit of healthy competition,” he said. Team NZ chief operating officer Kevin Shoebridge said the race was expected to take about two hours. “They’re free to pretty much do what they want, we haven’t been given any restrictions,” he told 3News. “We’re hoping to start the boats and then we’ll hand the wheel over to them, give them a little bit of tuition and let them do it themselves… I think everyone will have a good time.” The royals will be hoping for a better performance than Team NZ produced when they lost the America’s Cup final to US rivals Oracle in San Francisco last year. The team were up 8-1,… Read full this story
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