Entries by Paul Cayard

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 […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

Another win for Artemis today over the previously unbeaten Aleph Team of France. After a long wait for wind this morning, racing finally got underway at 1430. In the first flight of the day, the Brits on TeamOrigin beat BMW Oracle by controlling the start and getting a penalty on the Americans. In the other […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

Another win for Artemis today over the previously unbeaten Aleph Team of France. After a long wait for wind this morning, racing finally got underway at 1430. In the first flight of the day, the Brits on TeamOrigin beat BMW Oracle by controlling the start and getting a penalty on the Americans. In the other […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

La Maddalena, Sardinia – Today was Artemis’ first race in the Louis Vuitton Trophy – La Maddalena. We were up against the Brits in TeamOrigin. No race is easy out here. After a long delay, our warning signal was finally given at 1445 with the wind at just 6 knots from the Northeast. We won […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy-La Maddalena

La Maddalena, Sardinia The transformed US Naval Base at La Maddalena is now a beautiful base for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Four America’s Cup Class yachts, two from Mascalzone Latino Audi Team and two from BMW Oracle Racing will be used by the ten teams. Today was the first day of racing. Beautiful blue skies […]

TP52 Portugal Trophy

Cascais, Portugal Race Day 4 – Not a fun day for Artemis but we managed to hold onto third place. We had a decent race in the first one with a 6th but lost both Quantum and All4One on the final run to the finish. All4One was just 0.5 ahead of us in second place […]