As New Zealanders and to rejoice our past and our forefathers," said crewman Dean Phipps, a former Team New Zealand member who is oneeighth Maori. "It's a national factor to do. We have done it in the past in Valencia on Waitangi Day we put up the Maori flag . It was this kind of a shame to have had it taken down. "Being Waitangi Day, you'd believe it would be relaxed, as the working day was." Phipps billiga michael kors sverige said Alinghi skipper Brad Butterworth's telephone was "ringing scorching" from the Louis Vuitton race committee prior to racing. "It was like, 'you guys have proved your stage consider it down'," said fellow Alinghi crewman Matt Mitchell, who has Ngai Tahu ancestry. Race rules condition yachts should fly their national flags for racing. Race director Peter Reggio said he had a discussion with Butterworth before the race, and the skipper suggested him the flag was coming down. Reggio stated he had by no means experienced a heated discussion with Butterworth in his life. "It was Waitangi Day, it was cool. It was not a problem." But Phipps used the flag incident to take a swing at Team New Zealand and Dalton. "It's his regatta, they are operating the event. They can pull the strings on what is said and what's not to be stated, what's to be shown and what is not to be proven. "There was a lot of disappointment for us having to consider down the flag and I believe they would have docked a stage off us [if the flag was not removed]." But Dalton said Alinghi was "making mischief". He stated regatta guidelines clearly stated that syndicates had to fly their national flag for racing. He said there was no purchase Alinghi would not have been in a position to race with out the correct flag. "If they experienced run any flag 1 with a cranium and crossbones they would have been in breach of sailing rules which everybody has billiga nike air max 90 agreed to. I am not going to get concerned in the cultural side of things because they are just the rules." Final weekend, the Herald on Sunday revealed longtime yachting commentator Peter Montgomery had been ditched by TVNZ after Dalton requested he not be integrated in the commentary team for the Louis Vuitton series. Phipps stated a Maori billiga michael kors väskor boy, Jackson Campbell, billiga nike free run was on board Alinghi on Waitangi Day. "Alinghi do regard Maoridom and the mana it has. I believe it is missing in the current Team New Zealand team. "In 1996 when we arrived back following successful the cup we got together with the late Albie Pryor and some greater powers in Maoridom and tried to foster a Maoridom hyperlink to sailing which we did for a quantity of many years from 1996 through to about 2000. But that all seems to have gone now." He stated the Group New Zealand regime nike free run sverige experienced produced the