Entries by Paul Cayard

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

It was one of the better sailing days we’ve had here in La Maddalena. Just as Chris Bedford who provides the weather forecast for ARTEMIS predicted, the wind started to build mid-morning. In the first race of the day, Emirates Team New Zealand were spot on with their timing for the pin end at the […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

La Maddalena, Sardinia No racing for Artemis today. The Mistral was strong this morning and racing got underway with the first match at 1530 in about 18 knots of wind.Mascalzone Latino beat TeamOrigin to move up to 5 wins. The Italian team could tie for first in the round robin with that win depending on […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

Big day for Artemis. In our only match of the day, which did not get underway until 1830, we beat Emirates Team New Zealand by 17 seconds to take solo possession of first place. After a tough pre-start with Artemis entering from the left side on port tack, Dean Barker, helmsman of ETNZ, had control […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

Only one race was held today before the Mistral kicked in. In a rematch of the annulled BMW Oracle vs. Emirates Team New Zealand match, the Kiwi’s prevailed and moved into a tie for third place on 4 wins. So the top of the leader board is shared by Artemis and Synergy. Synergy is done […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

It’s all on here in La Maddalena. Six matches were scheduled for today, two of which included ARTEMIS. First we were up against the Italians onboard AZZURRA, in their home waters, immediately followed by SYNERGY. The Russian team has shown remarkable improvement since Auckland and as of last night was tied for first. Just as […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

La Maddalena, Sardinia – Today was planned to be a big day for ARTEMIS, with two races scheduled. First was to be Emirates Team New Zealand followed by ALL4ONE in the third and fourth matches of the day. When our turn finally came round at 1700 this afternoon, there were issues with one of the […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

On ARTEMIS, we headed into today undefeated with four wins, having been at the top of the scoreboard for the last two days. A nice, but precarious position to be in with the best sailing teams in the world racing here in La Maddalena. Emirates Team New Zealand, winners of the last Louis Vuitton Trophy […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

Having changed the schedule around yesterday evening to ensure that all the teams had raced each other, PRO Peter ‘Luigi’ Reggio had every intention of getting racing started earlier today at 0900. The wind however, didn’t fill in until about 1130 when the first match of started between the Russians onboard Synergy and Mascalzone Latino. […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

La Maddalena, Sardinia Artemis was first up today against America’s Cup winner BMW Oracle. The conditions were 15 knots from the west and a perfectly sunny day. Terry Hutchinson got a great start shutting out James Spithill at the committee boat. I was reluctant to give the American’s much rope to play with in the […]