The Race 7 report from America’s Cup Media:Valencia, 3 July, 2007 – Alinghi won the 32nd America’s Cup on Tuesday afternoon on the waters off Valencia. The Swiss Defender won its fourth consecutive race in dramatic fashion, to win the Match 5-2. “I love this team,” Alinghi President and afterguard member Ernesto Bertarelli moments after the finish.This final race of
Despite statistics indicating a 9.8-knot average around the course for Emirates Team New Zealand, versus a 9.9-knot average for Alinghi, the Kiwi team on Sunday took Race 2 and tied the America’s Cup 1-1. Here’s the report from America’s Cup Media.Valencia, 24 June, 2007 – Emirates Team New Zealand came from behind to beat Alinghi on Sunday afternoon, squaring the score in the 32nd
The final knockout round to select a challenger for America’s Cup 32 is well under way, with Emirates Team New Zealand up 2-0 over Luna Rossa. First to win five races will advance to race the defender, Alinghi. For daily coverage, see our Got Live blog, linked from the home page. Since the America’s Cup first left the shores of the USA in 1983, there have been four contests in foreign
By Kimball Livingston Malin Burnham is a man I trust, and not only because he wears his Top Siders without socks, proper-like. If he’s willing to talk about changes at the America’s Cup (Cup in Dubai?) or about the good reasons for retaining the America’s Cup Class, or the prospects for and meaning of a US win in America’s Cup 32, I’m ready to listen. No
You don’t have to be sitting in the back room to know that the challengers are at odds with event management over how to “fix” the series to compensate for weather delays that have thoroughly destroyed the schedule. In a Saturday night meeting of 10 of the 11 America’s Cup challengers—+39 was absent, whatever that means—some of the rescheduling decisions of event management were
By Kimball Livingston, in ValenciaIt was Ken MacAlpine day in Valencia, with the chief measurer of the AC class taking questions that grew out of the “deflecting keel” buzz. There’s a lot of smoke, but not much heat.The speculation has been that Alinghi (and/or others not excluding BMW Oracle) might be trying to use any of various means to control what I’ll call keel
By Kimball Livingston You heard me. In a match race there is no obligation to take a penalty if you foul. But you’re doubledog obligated to perform your penance if the umpires nail you. Hit a mark unseen? Keep going, mate. And this is not about cheating. It’s a function of having umpires on the course. In a meeting that included jury chairman
Hide and Seek: Spies come in from the coldAfter the 31st Americas Cup in 2003, when Alinghi snatched the trophy from Team New Zealand, the talk was all about spying, leaking, and under-the-table deals. The scene in Valencia, Spain, where the 32nd Americas Cup is being held, is happily different. The protocol set out between Alinghi, as defender, and BMW Oracle, as challenger
Time to EVOLVE?: Pressing for an Americas Cup circuitIf the sailors have their way, we could see a very different Americas Cup in the future. First we have to get through Americas Cup 32, this year in Valencia. And then?During the Allianz Cup, a World Match Racing Tour event sailed in October on San Francisco Bay, Americas Americas Cup challenger, Larry
The Pressure Rises: Development time runs outLife is changing for the play-ers in the 2007 Americas Cup. The leading teams look to February as the month to wrap up final training in Dubai (Switzerlands defender, Alinghi, and Swedens Victory Challenge) or Auckland (Emirates Team New Zealand and Americas BMW Oracle). Then the sailors get one final break before
Case It Up Fed up with your pilotage plans blowing away or being dissolved by rain and spray? There’s nothing like an old CD case.
The Racing Rules of Sailing begin with safety. What is the very first rule listed as 1.1 in the handbook?A) Fair sailing (no unsportsmanlike conduct
The early arrival of a backdoor cold front provides for some spicy sailing on Lake Erie.
Rule 30.4 in the Racing Rules of Sailing may be called the ”Black Flag Rule,” but it doesn’t have anything to do with pirates. What
By Lesley O’BrienIllustrated by Emmett DonovanOrange Kitty Kreative, $18.95 This is a fun new story about Marco, “a rough-around-the-edges former street cat turned sailboat captain.”
Pictou, Nova Scotia’s replica historic tall ship Hector relaunched this week after a lengthy refit.
An artfully unconventional build from Slovenia is designed for true bluewater sailors.
Alli Bell and her crew will receive the King Kalakaua trophy.
Bryon Ehrhart’s Juan K-designed 88-footer, Lucky, has won the Barn Door Trophy.
Without challenges we wither, and sailing serves them up regularly, making it the supreme teacher.
