It forced us all to sail better".
Oracle has been sailing better and better, is on a roll, is relishing having its back to the wall.
But Coutts, who won his first P-class regatta at the ripe old age of 9, has sailed better and farther than all of his peers.
Born in Chertsey, Surrey, Simpson begain sailing at the age of six, with his father in a Seafly dinghy from Christchurch, Dorset, and progressed into the Royal Yachting Association youth squad, where the chief coach, Jim Saltonstall, took pleasure in how Simpson "enjoyed learning to sail better all the time".
It's better than sailing, better than motor racing.
I think we are sailing into better water but we've just to keep the effort going".
"This is a super-tanker, I think we've turned it, we're sailing into better waters but we have to keep that effort going," said Collins.
"It's easy for people to think Ben just rocks up and wins every regatta, but if he's not on his game or someone sails a bit better then suddenly it all becomes a bit harder.
Some sails are better than others at catching the wind, some sailors are better at using the sail, but there is always and only one wind.
Apart from a strange race in fog and light breezes that Team New Zealand dominated only to fail by a couple of minutes to reach the finish line within the required 40 minutes, Oracle never looked back, putting together its extraordinary run of winning eight races in a row.Undoubtedly, the Oracle guys were sailing the boat better than ever and making hardly any mistakes.
