America’s Cup: Watching water dry

There is irony in how the America’s Cup defender, eager to deliver high performance racing for the 37th Match, has us watching grass grow. Okay, it’s not watching grass grow, its watching water dry … pretty much the same thing.

Their pet project, which meant to fill a gap in the schedule, now dives into a meteorological education which needs to soon end. Here’s their latest update:

Lake Gairdner in South Australia is vast, a 160km long and 50 km wide salt lake where Emirates Team New Zealand is aiming to break the Wind powered Land Speed World Record in their land yacht called ‘Horonuku’.

The fly in the ointment in the attempt continues to be that the lake and the state of South Australia, and in fact a large amount of Australia has had excessive rain this year, resulting in an uphill battle against the elements for a prolonged stretch of dry salt to let Horonuku fly…

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