No racing today on the harbor as the wind speeds hit 25+ knots. The boats had actually taken a bit of a beating on Thursday so it was prudent to give them a thorough check today and avoid damage. Tomorrow’s forecast is for moderately strong wind, but sailable. Sunday was originally supposed to be way […]
A Southerly weather change is approaching Auckland so the winds were backing from the West to the South and have strengthened significantly. We finished up as with last match of the day in 18-20 knots of wind from the Southwest. We got another win today, this time off Synergy, the Russian team. It was a […]
Light winds held the boats at the dock again today with the first start getting off at 1215. The Southwesterly wind filled in nicely at 8-14 knots and we were able to run all the four matches by 1800. On Artemis we had a better day beating the French team, Aleph by a comfortable margin. […]
Light winds held the start of the first match of the day back until 1415. The first two matches were sailed in a light northwesterly wind. At the finish of that second match, the wind did a 180 degree turn and came in from the south at about 5-8 knots for the last two matches. […]
Paul Cayard is juggling – fast. In any one day at the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland, he could be calling tactics on the capricious waters of the Waitemata Harbour, rallying his crew as skipper of the Swedish team Artemis, or making a decision in the running of the World Sailing Teams Association in his new […]
The Louis Vuitton Trophy racing begins here in Auckland tomorrow. Eight teams have come to the previous home of the America’s Cup to fight for the Louis Vuitton Trophy which will be awarded on March 21. Emirates Team New Zealand heads the line up as the host team and winner of the 2009 Louis Vuitton […]
This is going to sounds like a broken record….we sailed badly again today. The short story is that we ended up 6th overall. The sob story is that while having a great first race today, sailing down the final run in third place, the wind shifted 120 degrees…that’s right…120 degrees. The whole fleet had to […]
Three races were held today in a southeast to south wind blowing between 15 and 25 knots. It was incredibly dusty, with the wind blowing sand into the air. Artemis had the best day with a 2,3,1. Onboard Katusha, we did not have a great day as we made big errors in the first two […]
The fleet racing portion of the Maktoum Trophy started today with four very competitive races in great sailing conditions. The wind strength was between 20 and 12 knots from the south all day. It was shifty with the wind coming off the land so that made things tricky and it did get a bit softer […]
Another tough day for Katusha. We only had one race today and we lost it. Actually, I lost it right at the start. I turned up for line too early and we got locked out at the committee boat end. That was the race. We kept it close but Aqua was always safely in control. […]
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