The Cup : 3rd Time Lucky?

Feb 12, 2010 No Comments by skiff

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Greetings yachties,

Wind and waves have kept the 33rd Americas Cup on the shelf. We will have to wait and see if the conditions on Friday allow the 1st race in the best of 3 regatta takes place. I will be out sailing in a 90 mile coastal race around the Hauraki Gulf, so my mate boatslut will be doing his best to keep the links to the latest action flooding in. Below is a collection stories, opinions, video, links and interviews from Valencia.

boatslut

Greetings yachties,

Challenger BMW ORACLE Racing Team (USA) scored the vital first win in the best-of-three race series that is the 33rd America’s Cup off Valencia, Spain.

So wind is reported to be at about 170 deg blowing around 10 knots at mark 1 (ww mark) rising to around 12 knots at times. Actual position of the mark is 39°29´8440 N | 0°07´5437 E. WW1 mark then would be off Valencia but about 20 miles offshore bearing at 350 deg from the start. “Hopefully we can get a race off today,” said team BMW ORACLE Racing CEO Russell Coutts. “It’s quite a complicated weather forecast but hopefully there will be a window in there where we get some breeze. We’d love to get a race going.” Brad Butterworth, Alinghi team skipper and tactician “Hopefully there will be good conditions out there. I think it’s lightening off. The big breeze is going away. I think if we go to a good spot we’ll get good conditions and we’ll be able to have a good race that’ll suit both boats.” “It’s a bit frustrating for all of us being postponed, I want to get out there and race and see how fast these boats are. Today looks like a good day.”

They are out there!!! Major updates below…

more here

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5 Part 6 The Heat Is On

Part 7 The Final Count Down

Part 8 Just 2 More Sleeps

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The first race of The Cup

Windfinder.com forecasts for Valencia here

wind directions

wave heights

The bloggers at Sailing Anarchy have a few more weather links to play with here

Sailing Anarchy Americas Cup Forums here

Valencia Sailing

Alinghi blog here

Alinghi TV here

Alinghi Friends here

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Alinghi images here

Americas Cup TV here

BMWOracle blog here

BMWOracle Live Streaming here

33rd Americas Cup on twitter

33rd Americas Cup on facebook

33rd Americas Cup on RSS feed

33rd Americas Cup Photo Gallery

33rd Americas Cup Videos

There are many ways to keep up with all the action from the America’s Cup Match, whether you’re here with us in Valencia, or half a world away on your computer or mobile phone.

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