Part of America's Cup scene Secrecy component of America's Cup sceneBy Suzanne McFadden, Special for Usa Today AUCKLAND, New Zealand Designer Clay Oliver, the brain behind the radical new appendage on Team New Zealand's America's Cup boats, is no stranger to keeping secrets. Oliver discovered stealth as a navigator on board the USS Pharris, a naval frigate that combed the Mediterranean looking out Soviet subs in the late seventies and early '80s. For the final two many years, the 50yearold naval architect has experienced to maintain peaceful about his styles for the underbelly of Team New Zealand's boats to defend the Cup next thirty day period. The hull appendage was only whispered about in its code name "the hula." The boats, NZL81 and NZL82, were exposed in their entirety for the first time this week. The hula is like a second skin running from the keel to past the rudder, tiffany and co jewelry outlet which seems to be divided from the boat by millimeters. It is a transfer to eke more speed out of the boat and already has sparked much debate about its legality, but no protests have been filed. Talk of the hula has overshadowed the Louis Vuitton Cup bestofnine challenger last in between San Francisco's Oracle BMW Racing and Switzerland's Alinghi, which begins Saturday to determine Group New Zealand's challenger for the Cup. The hull concept was born more than two many years ago. At home in Annapolis, Md., Oliver was dividing his time drawing the subsequent generation of Kiwi tiffany & co outlet black boats and creating an offshore boat, the MariCha, to break globe pace information. "I was going back and forth between the two tasks, and suddenly I believed, would not it be nice if you could get a Cup boat transom down as reduced as feasible?" he states. "I (studied) the Cup rule hard. It states 20% of the volume of the boat can be appendages, and that is exactly where the idea arrived from." Oliver, an American now michael kors replica online in his sixth America's Cup marketing campaign, was approached by a handful of syndicates following the final Cup, including American groups, but chose to remain with Group New Zealand. "I arrived back again for the group and the individuals. Group New Zealand embodies the American cowboy spirit, much more than most American groups they're rugged and adventurous," he states. "When I michael kors bags fake was in Team Dennis Conner in 1987 and 1988, our method michael kors uk replica was to usually see the Cup as a little war. In this Kiwi group, we appear at the America's Cup as a yachting occasion and a sport." He loves the fact that Group New Zealand will have a go at anything even though it does not have the billionaire bucks behind it. "In New Zealand, if we needed to put a man on the moon, we could do it, even if it was with duct tape and baling wire," Oliver states. "Our design team this time seemed