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RC 44 Gold Cup-Dubai
RC44Not 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 […]
RC 44 Gold Cup-Dubai
RC44We 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 […]
RC 44 Gold Cup-Dubai
RC44We 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 […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France
America's CupArtemis 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
America's CupGoing 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
America's CupOnly 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
America's CupOne 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
America's CupOne 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
America's CupWe 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
America's CupWe 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
America's CupMore 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
America's CupIt 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
America's CupIt 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 […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France
America's CupNo 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. […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France
America's CupRace 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, […]
Louis Vuitton Trophy – Nice, France
America's CupToday 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 […]
Bitter End Yacht Club, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Cayard Sailing ReportsWe 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 […]
Bitter End Yacht Club, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Cayard Sailing ReportsLay 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 […]
Bitter End Yacht Club, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Cayard Sailing ReportsToday was the first “real” day of racing here at the Pro Am. The skippers were assigned boats and amateur crews at this morning’s briefing in The Pub. The racing format is three boat racing. Three boats start and only the winner scores a point. There are two types of boats being used, the Caribbean […]
Bitter End Yacht Club, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Cayard Sailing ReportsToday was the Defiance Day race here in the epicenter of yacht racing. We started at 10:00 with the first race consisting of a 7 mile leeward course and a second race of a 7 mile windward leg. We did not have Gatorade or anything like that onboard. We had water but people were using […]
Bitter End Yacht Club, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Cayard Sailing ReportsI am down here at the world’s best regatta. Why is it the world’s best? Great sailing conditions, independent race management, fair rules, friendly environment, great shore side facilities, top level competitors. The BEYC has welcomed me and my family here 10 times in the past 18 years. My daughter Allie joined me this time. […]
Rolex Champion of Champions
Cayard Sailing ReportsWe had three races today in 6-10 knots of wind from the North West in 45F temperatures. Our highlight was winning race #2 by a healthy margin. Nailed the pin end and played the left. In the other two, we had a 13 and a 7. We finished 8th overall. Fairly happy with that. We […]
Rolex Champion of Champions
Cayard Sailing Reports6 Races were held today on Lake Carlyle. The temperature was a bit cooler than yesterday, about 45 F. The breeze was a bit stronger at 8-12 knots. Still it was very shifty and puffy and there was plenty of ups and downs. It is like playing that game you play with your kids… Shoots […]
Rolex Champion of Champions
Cayard Sailing ReportsI am here in the heart of America sailing in the Rolex US Sailing’s Champions of Champions regatta. This is an annual regatta bringing together 20 nation and world champions from the USA. Each year they rotate the venue and the type of boat used. This year the boat is the Lightning. I had never […]
Paul Cayard – The Mystery Guest
Cayard Sailing Reports(October 12, 2009) The US SAILING Championship of Champions event is that rare collection of one-design class champions, coming together for equal parts camaraderie and competition. Racing begins this Thursday on Lake Carlyle in St Louis, MO, with all the prize winning skippers competing in equally matched Lightnings to even the playing field. Competing in […]
TP 52 World Championship
TP52Artemis finishes on the podium in third. It was a complicated 24 hours. After no race yesterday, we came ashore to find out that Matador had been reinstated in a race that took place last Wednesday! That made for a change in their score of 7 points. Needless to say, this was not the most […]
TP 52 World Championship
TP52No race today. Well actually, we raced in very wacky conditions with 150 degree wind shifts and velocity changes of 10 knots (from 2-12 knots). The race was eventually abandonned about half way through. We had been 8th and we had been first. Quantum was really the team that should have won. Anyway, it comes […]
TP 52 World Championship
TP52A tough day on Artemis today. We had just one race in very light conditions. We had a bad start really never recovered from that and finished 8th. Bribon won the race and now leads the Championship with Quantum second and we are third. While there were moments when we were threatening to make a […]
TP 52 World Championship
TP52What a difference a day makes! Artemis scored a 1, 2 and moved into first place over all in the world championships today. We are actually tied with Bribon for that honor, with Quantum Racing one point behind. Again, we did not get the first race of the day under way until 1500. Light, fickle […]
TP 52 World Championship
TP52A mediocre day at best for us on Artemis. With an 8, 3 we are in 6th overall. We waited until 4 pm to get the first race underway as the wind was light and variable all day. Finally 8 knots of wind filled in and we were off. We had a good start to […]
TP 52 World Championship
TP52We had the practice race today in 8-10 knots of wind. Quantum won the pin end of the start and the race. This race course is all left sided and the race committee did not bias the line to the right, so that was pretty much it. We did not have a great start and […]
Bank Sarasin – RC44 Portoroz Cup
RC44It was another beautiful day in Portoroz with 14 to 8 knot winds and plenty of sunshine. On Katusha, we began the day in fourth place in the fleet racing, with the goal of staying there to win the overall series (with our first place from the match racing portion and a fourth in the […]
Artemis wins the fleet regatta and No Way Back conquers the Bank Sarasin RC 44 Portoroz Cup
RC44Torbjorn Tornqvist’s Artemis controlled the situation today, winning the fleet race ranking ahead of Pieter Heerema’s No Way Back and BMW ORACLE Racing. No Way Back grabs the combined fleet race / match race ranking. October 3, 2009 – Torbjorn Tornqvist, his tactician Dean Barker and their crew onboard Artemis controlled the situation perfectly today, […]
Bank Sarasin – RC44 Portoroz Cup
RC44A good day for Katusha. With a score of 4 in the DHL Coastal Race (and a 6, 4) in the two windward leeward races, we have moved up to 4th in the fleet racing. At this point, that has us in the lead for the overall win in the Bank Sarasin Cup. Artemis had […]
Team Artemis grabs the lead in the Bank Sarasin RC 44 Portoroz Cup
RC44The Swedish team, with Torbjorn Tornqvist at the helm and Dean Barker calling the shots, won the DHL long distance race and dominated the day. The conditions were absolutely fantastic, with up to 20 knots of wind and a great sunshine. October 2, 2009 – The double points DHL Trophy took place this morning in […]
Time for revenge for BMW ORACLE Racing in the Bank Sarasin RC 44 Portoroz Cup
RC44The American team is back on top after a disappointing match race. With Ian Vickers at the helm, BMW ORACLE Racing leads Torbjorn Tornqvist’s Artemis and Pieter Heerema’s No Way Back. October 1, 2009 – Four fleet regattas took place today with a southerly breeze ranging from 8 to 15 knots. BMW ORACLE Racing had […]
Bank Sarasin – RC44 Portoroz Cup
RC44Today was the first day of the fleet racing series. We had good winds all day, between eight and 12 knots. The wind was from the south and there were some pretty big shifts, and holes as well. Onboard Katusha, we had a moderate day. We are lying 6th after four races, but just three […]
Paul Cayard and his new team Katusha win the Bank Sarasin RC 44 Portoroz Cup match race
RC44The American sailor won the best of three final series against Karol Jablonski’s Organika. Ray Davies and Pieter Heerema finish third onboard No Way Back. September 30, 2009 – Paul Cayard and his new team Katusha surprised everyone – and himself – in the Bank Sarasin RC 44 Portoroz Cup match race series, dominating the […]
Bank Sarasin – RC44 Portoroz Cup
RC44Katusha wins the Match Racing! It could not have gone better for our first two days of racing in the RC44 Class. We had a one race match against Puerto Calero in the semi final first thing today. The wind was light and the two boats were never more than 3 boat lengths apart. Then […]
Bank Sarasin – RC44 Portoroz Cup
RC44A good day onboard Katusha today and it was our first race day. The 11 boats were split into two groups; six in our group and five in the other. We were 3-2 in the match racing and finished up second in our round. Organica of Poland was first with 4-1. We were in a […]