The Cup : 1st Race : Take 2
Greetings yachties,
1st race abandoned, 2nd start of the 1st race postponed … now abandoned – waves too big
Midday:The AP flag is flying over A above the Varadero building, the main race control offices. So, that means no racing today.
Race 1 is now postponed until Friday with a planned start schedule beginning at 1000hrs.
Below is a collection stories, opinions, video, links and interviews from Valencia.
Enjoy
America’s Cup racing abandoned for second time.
The Race Committee for the 33rd America’s Cup has abandoned racing for the second consecutive race day.
Neither race boat left port as the start was initially postponed ashore. The Race Committee proceeded out to the race area to assess the conditions but elected to abandon racing for the day at noon, local time.
Skipper and helmsman James Spithill (AUS) met the media following racing being abandoned and said the whole team was disappointed not to race. “We were keen to go,” he said. “We think that 10:00 (the scheduled time for the warning signal in the Sailing Instructions) was the window and we probably could have got one away. Having said that, I think (Principal Race Officer) Harold Bennett is the right man for the job… I’ve got full trust in Harold…
“I would have loved to have gone out there. I love sailing this boat and that’s the coolest thing about it. You look forward to sailing it every day. You go home at night and can’t wait to get out there again.”
The next scheduled race day is Friday, 12th February.
“It looks good now, but it’s pretty difficult to predict more than 24-hours in advance in Valencia,” Spithill cautioned, when asked about the forecast for Friday. “So I think we just have to wait till we get closer because it can change pretty quickly…
“Since we got here in January, we’ve had some fantastic days out there. But that’s what you deal with in this sport. I think with the two boats we’ve got, we want to have fair racing – I think everyone agrees with that. It’s no one’s fault. It’s not Harold’s fault. That’s just the weather.”
Day 2 now abandoned
more here
Still postponed
At 11:00, the AP flag (postponement) is still flying ashore.
According to the Sailing Instructions: “Following a postponement signal made ashore, the rescheduled time for the Warning Signal will be posted on the Official Notice Board before the lowering of Flag “AP” and the Warning Signal will not be made less than 3 hours after the posting.”
So there will be no start before 14:00 CET (08:00 EST, 05:00 PST).
Valencia Sailing
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Part 6 The Heat Is On
Part 7 The Final Count Down
Part 8 Just 2 More Sleeps
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AMERICA’S CUP PARK – BIG SCREEN TELEVISION
The big screen television in the America’s Cup Park will be showing live-action from the race course, along with features, packaged programmes, and highlights.
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ON TELEVISION
Through the agreements with the European Broadcasting Union, which reaches 56 territories and has an audience of over 650 million and, globally, with Sports News TV spanning 160 territories, broadcasting to over 1.4 billion people and also with Transworld Sport with a global audience of over 302 million, the America’s Cup News packages are assured of a massive international audience of over 2 billion viewers.
Among the broadcasters are Great Britain’s BSkyB, TVE/Teledeporte and Canal 9 in Spain, French based Eurosport and Showtime in the Middle East. Broadcasters will take all of the America’s Cup output, including the 26 minutes race day Highlights package, Race News package as well as the 52 minutes summary wrap up programme at the end of the event.
A full listing will be available soon.
ON-LINE
WWW.AMERICASCUP.COM
The official America’s Cup website keeps you posted with news reports, feature stories, videos and pictures and all the official information of the 33rd America’s Cup in English, Spanish and French
LIVE VIDEO STREAMING
For the first time in the history of the America’s Cup, races will be broadcast live free of charge on www.americascup.com. Video feed will be supplemented (in French and Spanish) with a Live Ticker animated by the best sailing experts
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