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. […]
Light winds dominated the race course today. We had a two-hour postponement and racing finally got underway at 1345 in 7 knots of wind with smooth seas. We onboard Katusha had a much better day today winning both of our races. In the first flight of the day, we were up against BMW Oracle which […]
Tough day onboard Katusha. We had 5 match races today and only managed one win. I haven’t had that bad of a win percentage in a long time. The winds were lighter and later to fill than forecast. The wind peaked at 10 knots from 285. We started very well in all of the races […]
Today was a practice day here in Dubai and we had 15-17 knots of wind with 1-2 meter seas. A breeze known as a “Shamal” blew in increasing the wind strength from the normal 8-10 knot thermal breezes we usually experience here. While all the teams went out training today, there wasn’t a lot of […]
Well, we finally got some racing and it was completely different than all of us thought. At least upwind. The start was exciting…we had a dial up and a penalty! We had it all! I have to say that was worth waiting for. These boats are spectacular! After dial up and skillfully controlling much of […]
Just more of the same around here. Lots of energy being put in by the teams and the media to fill time and editorial space. Interviews with security guards and bottle washers now. We did do one feature on the fact that the BMWOR trimaran has the “sail” 24/7 since they keep the wing up […]
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