Entries by Paul Cayard

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

Artemis ended the Nice event with a loss today against All4One. It was a close race but the French/German team had the upper hand at the first cross and they did a nice job to protect their lead. Two matches were completed early this morning in the northerly drainage wind. In those matches, Emirates Team […]

A hundred feet up at Fifty

Going up the mast is a young man’s job, or it was thought to be until this regatta when Paul Cayard, aged 50, went up the rig for the first time in his career as windspotter for Artemis… As the skipper, or ‘team captain’ as he prefers to call himself, Paul Cayard could probably have […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

Only one race was completed today and that was a semi final match between Azzurra and Origin. The Italians continue to sail well beat the Brits by over a minute to take a 1-0 lead in their best of three series. No other racing took place. We have struggled here a bit with the wind […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

One win and one loss for Artemis again today. The bad news is that Synergy beat Azzurra so that ended our hopes of being in the top four and going onto the semi finals. Artemis beat French Spirit PagesJaune in our first race of the day. There was a 6 tack tacking duel up the […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

One win and one loss for Artemis today. The bad news is that we lost to Synergy who are on a bit of a roll. We beat All4One so they are definitely out of the top four. Synergy then went on to defeat TeamOrigin in the third flight of the day, so now they are […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

We had a good day today and we never got on the water! Our Russian friends on Synergy did nice work beating BMW Oracle so we ended Round Robin 1 in fourth place thanks to the fact that we beat TeamOrigin. That was the tie breaker between Artemis, BMW Oracle and Synergy who all had […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

We had one race today and it was important. We raced BMW Oracle and if we had won, it would have put us in fourth place after Round Robin 1. We knew the importance of this race and we were doing a great job half way through. Terry had gotten another great start and Morgan […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

More of the same today in Nice. Clear skies, cold temps in the morning leading to Northerly drainage winds for the first race, then a long pause while the wind switched to the Southwest. The wind never filled very strong from the SW today so there was only one race held in the afternoon. In […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

It was another good day for sailing off the coast of Nice today. Three flights of two matches each were held. Artemis raced in one match against Team New Zealand at 0900 this morning. We had a slightly worse start than they did and they sailed real well to push us back slowly but steadily […]

Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France

It was a great day for sailing off the coast of Nice today. Four flights of 2 matches each were held. Artemis raced in three matches against; Azzurra, All4One and Synergy. We lost two that we should have won and we won one we should have lost. Not great, but we are in a three […]