{"id":504,"date":"2013-06-13T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2013-08-08T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:40:10","slug":"review-cup-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Cup Magic Book Review (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My New Zealand \u00a0Story: Cup Magic <\/strong>by Susan Battye. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Scholastic<\/a> NZ, 2013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Reviewer Bob Docherty<\/p>\n

June 10 2013<\/p>\n

The high standards made by this series are maintained in this insightful look at the America\u2019s Cup<\/a> at San Diego in 1995 in which the immortal words \u201cthe America\u2019s Cup is now New Zealand\u2019s Cup\u201d were spoken on air by Peter Montgomery.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t that easy though. The story of that campaign is told through the eyes of 12 year old Mike Lucas whose parents were behind the scene making the sails for NZ 32 and NZ 38.<\/p>\n

All the skullduggery and subterfuge that have been the hallmark of the America\u2019s Cup regatta are exposed here, particularly when a journalist after watching part of the race by Black Magic against the previous NZ contender NZ 20, called the NZ boat a dog with no chance.<\/p>\n

All team members of this campaign are given a mention particular Christchurch woman Leslie Egnot who all but beat Dennis Connor with an all women crew.<\/p>\n

The Red sock campaign to buy Team NZ\u00a0 another sail is highlighted and the fact that Sir Peter Blake was an avid Scrabble fan.<\/p>\n

Told in diary form it covers all the races in the Louis Vuitton Cup and the 5-0 thrashing of Dennis Conner in the final.<\/p>\n

Primary\/intermediate in appeal but everybody will get something from this novel about a great chapter in NZ sporting life.<\/p>\n

Read more of\u00a0Bobs Books Blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My New Zealand \u00a0Story: Cup Magic by Susan Battye. Scholastic NZ, 2013. Reviewer Bob Docherty June 10 2013 The high standards made by this series are maintained in this insightful look at the America\u2019s Cup at San Diego in 1995 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,10],"tags":[36,37,34,33,31,35,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramamagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}