Three races were held today off Miami’s South Beach. The winds were 14-22 knots from the West which made it very shifty and tricky as this meant the wind was coming off the shore. It was a mixed bag in the results with Katusha and Artemis each winning one of the three races. Katusha ended […]
Yesterday we finished up the match racing with a win on Katusha over Cereef. Aqua was the overall winner of the match racing beating Artemis in the one race final. Today was the first day of fleet racing and four races were held in 9-12 knots of wind from the north. The temperature has come […]
No wind, no race. Sudden death in Match Racing racing tomorrow. Standby. Paul
Not a great day for Katusha at 2 and 4. The conditions were very shifty with strong winds early in the day. There are 14 boats in the fleet here in Miami with the addition of a new team from the states. So the fleet was divided into two groups for match racing today. Our […]
Today was a special day here in Dubai. The Louis Vuitton Trophy racing was put on hold so the six teams could race a traditional Dhow race. Dhows have plied the waters of the Arabian Gulf for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Nowadays, they race them regularly in fleets of up to 70 boats. […]
A fantastic day for Katusha today with scores of 5, 5, 1. In the last race we played the shifts to stretch out to a massive 200 meter lead on the second place boat. Unfortunately, that boat was Sea Dubai and by finishing second, they beat us by one point in the fleet racing that […]
A very good day for Katusha today. We scored 2, 3, 5, 7 in the four races held in 10-15 knots of steady Southerly wind. A combination of good starts, good speed and minimizing maneuvers were the keys to a great day. We moved from 12th place overall to 7th, just three points out of […]
The first three races of the fleet racing part of the RC44 World Championship were held today in very light winds here in Lanzarote. BMW Oracle led the results with a 2, 5, 2 and USA 17, the winner of the Match Racing, is in second place. Artemis had a good day and is in […]
One final race was held this morning in the Petit Final and Final of the Match Racing. Unfortunately, both Artemis and Katusha lost to the BMW Oracle boats, so we finished 2nd and 4th respectively. For the overall World Championship, the results of the Match Racing will be combined with the Fleet Racing. So Artemis […]
Not a fun day on Katusha. We lost both of our races today in what were light and squirely winds. First of all, the race committee did shorten the series after the first half of the round robins were completed yesterday. We were fortunate there as we won the four way tie in our group […]
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