Bennett said discussions about racing on lay days began on Monday, and that " delicate negotiating " took place Tuesday.
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Due to the lack of wind the first week, the second round robin began without any lay days after the first.
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The team has mounted beach cleanups and stream restorations around Auckland and will continue to do so on regatta lay days.
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"We lay day in and day out, and when we don't lay enough, they kill us, " one of them explains.
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Monday is a lay day, so officials will try again Tuesday, with Race 5 in the best-of-9 series scheduled for Thursday.
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During the lay day, both camps went on, business as usual, getting ready for Monday's Race 5 of the nine-race series.
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What's been griping to some is that there has been plenty of wind on some lay days, the days off built into the schedule.
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Organizers said earlier that they didn't plan to race on lay days because they were part of the schedule dictated by TV rights holders.
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And with a lay day Sunday, all there was for race fans to chew on was the opener, and the different versions of what happened.
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The contract usually doesn't count Sundays and holidays as lay days but unless expressly stipulated, this exception does not apply after the lay days have expired.
