Here is the update from America’s Cup racing in Cascais, Portugal. Dean Barker of team New Zealand seems to have adapted quickly to multihulls. I am told he has been working with Glen Ashby; who started with James Spithill but left team Oracle to work with Barker. My friend Larry Suter, a sailing coach himself, has long said that Dean Barker was the best of the helmsmen in the group racing for the America’s Cup. He is off to a good start.
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AMERICA’S CUP INSIDER
Keep up with the latest america’s cup
AND THEN THERE WERE NINE
The soap opera that there is the America’s Cup continues. Yesterday the organizers of the 34th America’s Cup along with the mayor of San Francisco to announce 8 challenger teams plus one more to be revealed on june 23rd.
Everyone would agree that this event is reshaping not only the America’s Cup but sailing as we have known it and has not been without growing pains exacerbated by a fragile economy.
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EXTREME SAILING, A PREVIEW OF THE AMERICA’S CUP?
Is this the kind of event the America’s Cup organizers are hoping for? Is it all about NASCAR? I freely confess I find this thrilling to watch and I raced multihulls (tornado) a long time ago now. It was splendid sailing, but extreme sailing makes sailing seem destructive and wasteful.
OK I COULDN’T RESIST
FIRST AC45 LAUNCHED
Here are the first images of the new America’s Cup 45 foot class catamaran courtesy of Gilles Martin Raget.
If you have been following the America’s Cup saga you already know that each challenger must purchase and campaign one of these one design boats. The final will be in 72 foot “box rule” boats.
