On location in Valencia, Olympic Gold Medallist Shirley Robertson interviewed Paul Cayard for CNN’s MainSail programme. For a glimpse of the Desafio Espanol base, the America’s Cup basin and Cayard’s views on who will win the America’s Cup, click on the following link: Video: MainSail interviews Paul Cayard*
A tough day on the water for the race committee. With a very unstable wind today in Valencia, only the North course was able to race. Areva, Shosholoza, China and +39 are done with RR1, while BMW Oracle, Luna Rossa, Mascalzone Latino, Desafio Espanol, Team New Zealand and Victory Challenge still have two more races […]
A big day on the water in Valencia. The breeze was 7-9 knots so still on the light side. What is apparent after the first 9 flights is that there are 7 teams that can win any race. This is great for the spectators. In the first Flight of the day, Victory beat Areva which […]
No wind again! Where are we? 2 for 8? For sure we are in trouble. I am going home to SF. When the wind comes up, my friends at La7 are going to call me and I will come back. Actually, maybe I should go with a big suitcase and get some wind and bring […]
Well we got one in today. Still very light wind and the forecast for tomorrow is a bit less than today…so marginal. Today we had a NE gradient that was altered by the thermal heating on the land which pulled the wind right, closer to perpendicular to the coast line, and this made the wind […]
Just when it looked like it was going to come good, Valencia disappointed everyone again today. 1 day out of 6. Not very good statistics so far. Some journalists are starting to make a bit of a stir about the weather here. Most feel America’s Cup Management (ACM), the entity that Alinghi appointed in charge […]
Round-the-world race winner and multiple America’s Cup skipper Paul Cayard has been immersed in the Cup since his first event in 1983 in Newport, RI, when he sailed alongside fellow San Francisco native Tom Blackaller on the 12-Metre Defender The 32nd America’s Cup will be the mostcompetitive in the event’s 155-year history. For 2007 the […]
Two races on both race courses today. 7-10 knots from 100 degrees. The big story of the day was Mascalzone Latino beating Team New Zealand in the first match of the day. It was a great race by the Italians who won the start, took the favored right side and led around every mark to […]
Paul Cayard is a sailing legend. The winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup with Il Moro di Venezia in 1992, he won the Whitbread Round the World race 1997/1998 and has been involved with several successful sailing teams in a number of regattas. Prior to the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup he spent two […]
These days are getting very redundant. Valencia: 0 for 4. What are the odds of this? I asked the great meteorologist Roger “Clouds” Badham this morning, “less than 1 in a million” was his reply. For sure this is a record that will stand for a very long time. I have been sailing for 40 […]
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