We had another light wind day today with a max of 8 knots from 345 degrees around 1400. The race committee did well to get 4 fleet races in. We had a mediocre day onboard Katusha with a 4,5,6,9. Some of the teams that won races immediately finished last in the next race. It wasn’t […]
The Match Racing boiled down to 4 races as there was no wind yesterday and we got started at 1230 today. Likewise, we did not race everyone in the fleet. The fleet was divided into two groups and we did one mini round robin within each group. On Katusha, we had a good day by […]
Not a lot to report from Dubai. Unfortunately, the good wind of the last two days seems to have left a bit of a void here. Today the wind never got above 6 knots and mostly was 4 knots and under. It wasn’t possible to race in these conditions. Sid Bensalah, the General Manager of […]
We had a good day today on Katusha. The forecast was for fresh winds and big seas, so most teams stayed at the dock until 1300. Since our boat is still relatively new, we took the opportunity to get out early, on our own, to check our boat and rig thoroughly from structural point of […]
We have had two days of training here in Dubai on Katusha. Today was a very good day with wind speeds up to 14 knots. The boats were surfing downwind and there was plenty of action. We trained with Aqua most of the day. We had about eight match race starts and three races with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bacardi CupMarch 2, 2020 - 7:56 pm
Sailing Scuttlebutt
