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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
No racing for Artemis today as the wind only lasted until 11:00. The first flight got their racing in with Emirates Team New Zealand beating Synergy (RUS) on a come from behind win right at the finish and Azzurra beating BMW Oracle. The wind was fickle at best for the only race of the day. […]
Race Day 2 Light winds were on the cards today and again we only got two flights in. In the first one, Emirates Team New Zealand had a handy lead around the leeward gate before All4One’s mainsail broke and that was the end of that. In the second match of the day we, on Artemis, […]
Today was the first day of racing for the Louis Vuitton Trophy-Nice. The concept is very simple really and that is why it works so well. Four America’s Cup Class yachts are used and eight teams are racing. The format is match racing. So the teams rotate through the boats and their opponents, until they […]
We had three races this morning to finish off the round robin part of the Pro Am. Ken Read and I were tied this morning on 5 wins each. We got to 6 wins each and it boiled down to the last race. He and his crew did a better job and won the round […]
Lay Day in Paradise No racing today at the Bitter End Pro Am. This was not due to lack of wind or too much wind or any court order. Just a day off to enjoy the place! I got up at 6 with Allie who had an early ferry to catch to get back to […]
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