[□]
[□ | □]
[□ & □]
We anchored one night at Great Barrier Island , but instead of exploring its coastline as we had intended a foul weather forecast had us turning tail immediately , back towards the mainland , encountering strong winds and huge seas . However , we have to confess that Beulah did not maintain her lead for long : they sailed right past without even noticing Ian 's damnably clever racing tactics . You need one hand to hold on ( otherwise you're thrown immediately onto the floor ) , one to hold the cup ( it 's quite impossible to put it down ) , and a third for the kettle , a dangerous bomb full of evil boiling water and the nearest doctor eight days away . ) Suffice it to say that David triumphed in an outstanding win that day , and again and again and again in an unbroken record on following days , so that the America 's Cup remains proudly in New Zealand , its new home . The staff ensemble has proudly played at school assemblies , the teachers learning first-hand , and with some surprise , how terrifying public performance is-which heightens their appreciation of the children 's achievements . Unfortunately Ian spent just one day there : he had to fly home immediately to help pack up the house for the next trip . Today it 's a sleepy , dusty , unremarkable and almost unknown town , with a main street straight out of cowboy movies and a grassy town square where the lynching was done . By then Ivan , owner of the JBC , had relinquished his alcohol license in order to attract a younger crowd ; Nikki immediately dubbed it the " juice and biscuits club . One consolation was that there were four other people doing the two-day hike , but since they were all in their early twenties and straight from military service in Israel , it was actually small comfort . After some searching she got a job with a car rental agency ( which she had done temporarily in Hamilton ) , and , on the strength of this , committed to a six-month lease with a friend on a downtown apartment . We anchored off nearby Rakino Island for the night , but on poking our nose out of the sheltered bay the following day to enormously strong winds we turned tail , headed straight back in , and re-anchored . There are three , and they rise over 3,000 vertical feet straight off the bald prairie . After 45 minutes of life-threatening work we all had half a cup of tea , the top half having spilled away immediately .