By Glenn Ashby
Let's throw the ball out as far as we possibly can, and run after it really hard.
— Glenn Ashby
The comeback kids: How Team New Zealand won the America’s Cup, NZ Herald, June 2017.
Glenn Ashby, skipper of Emirates Team New Zealand, describing the team’s design philosophy for the 35th America’s Cup (2017).
Team New Zealand took the America’s Cup back to New Zealand with a 7-1 whitewash win over Oracle Team USA in Bermuda. According to Ashby: “From day one when we started looking at the plans of these boats we knew they were going to be incredibly complicated and technologically difficult to manage. I think the foresight that we had as a team to be aggressive and be bold in our design philosophy has ultimately provided us with the victory here.”