AUDIO - Ian Walker and Roy Heiner

We complain about the lack of racing; Walker on Sunday's debacle; Oracle's Roy Heiner gives his assessment of the form

Too much wind, too little wind, too shifty wind - the America's Cup race committee is beginning to remind me of London Transport, where the slightest anomaly in the weather is the excuse for prolonged delay.

While it is not London commuters at stake here in Auckland, there are clearly some disillusioned America's Cup spectators. On both days there were huge crowds packed around the Viaduct Basin here in Auckland and a large assembled spectator fleet amassed outside the entrance to the marina. On Saturday when the call that there would be no racing was made early on it seemed that the message to go home had not been received, but thankfully several members of Team New Zealand made a brief foray out of the harbour in a team RIB to placate fans and tongue-tied TV presenters alike.

Whether it was due to the delays or simply the home team being 3-0 down to Alinghi, there were many less spectators boats on the Gulf to see the action when the two teams did emerge from their bases to wallow around yesterday. Alinghi's two boats sailed up the course and back down again and as GBR Challenge skipper Ian Walker suggests in our audio clip below - surely many spectators must have been wondering what on earth the problem was?

We have met several people who have flown in to experience some America's Cup racing only to have been in town for almost a week and seen no racing. Hopefully the victors will put this to rights in their protocol for the next Cup. Ed Gorman described it as being like watching the first half of the Cup Final and having to come back a week later to watch the second half.

In this audio clip, following Sunday's third attempt to get race four underway, Ian Walker says the race committee were right not to race and discusses whether it was a good call for Team New Zealand to bring on Bertrand Pace.

The second audio clip Roy Heiner admits he had Team New Zealand winning 5-2 before the start. He believes that these days the challengers appear to be stronger than the defender and says that there is more potential to come from the black boat.

As an aside Billy Connolly recently did a splendid interview in the New Zealand Herald, where the outspoken Scottish comedian gave his views on the America's Cup:

"I don't give a ... about the America's Cup. I have tried to understand it but I think it's rich people being excessively boring.

"They sail in a straight line and they turn a corner and everybody gets excited and I think ... don't you get out much?"

It will, he says, never replace sex or football. (We are beginning to agree).