Greetings yachties,
The Americas Cup comes to Auckland and the round robin continues as ETNZ get beaten on the water, below is a collection of all the best links, stories, lies and video of the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland New Zealand 9 – 21 March 2010
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Waitemata Harbour to host America’s Cup boats
Auckland, dubbed the City of Sails for its huge sailing fraternity, hosted two hugely popular America’s Cup Matches in 2000 and 2003. Auckland also hosted the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series in February 2009, which gave rise to the WSTA and Louis Vuitton Trophy.
Sailed in former America’s Cup boats, the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland is the second of five match race regattas.
Part of the Auckland Festival of Sail organized by Emirates Team New Zealand, the Louis Vuitton event will overlap with the Auckland International Boat Show. The two Cup boats will race on New Zealand’s Waitemata Harbor and dock in the heart of the Viaduct Basin on the quayside adjacent to Aucklanders’ favourite restaurants and wine bars, providing an unprecedented opportunity for spectators to view boat preparation and the departures and arrivals of the teams each day.
Results
Image Gallery
The Sailing Teams
Latest News here
Live Racing here
Virtual Eye Live Racing here on SailTV
Emirates Team New Zealand
The days racing videos here
Race Day One – Running commentary
Cup Talk on Crew.org
Chatter on Sailing Anarchy here
Video of arrival
Closing the circle
The America’s Cup is in NZ. It’s a sort of homecoming for the Cup, which was won by Team New Zealand, with Russell Coutts at the helm in 1995. That year, he beat the defender, the San Diego Yacht Club.
15 years later, as CEO of BMW ORACLE Racing, Coutts won the Cup back for the United States, and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Yacht Club.
Here, some photos (courtesy Bob Grieser/Louis Vuitton Trophy) from early Tuesday morning in NZ as the Cup takes up residence for a short stay in Auckland.
© Gilles Martin-Raget
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Paul Cayard
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
We had a great day today on Artemis. Things really went our way and it was very satisfying. First, we had a good tussle against ALL4ONE. We had the left off the line and tacked soon there after. We got good pressure from the left and were ahead at the first cross. From there we just worked the shifts, and there were plenty of them today, to stretch out to a 5 length lead. We were fairly comfortable at the last windward mark and then down the final run the wind almost died for us and shift 80 degrees. We almost lost the race on this wierdness but managed to hang on for the win.
Our second match of the day, ranks right up there with some of the all time races I have had in 20 years of racing in this class of boat. Neither boat was ever more than 50 meters ahead, there were 4 or 5 lead changes and 3 penalties. Near the end of the first run, the Brits got too close to us and got a penalty. But we sailed them past the gate and they were able to get the penalty erased by tacking to get back to the mark. The second windward leg was a real battle with them slightly ahead at the outset and us overhauling them by having better current out to the right. Then right at the top mark, I made a bad tactical error and this allowed TeamOrigin to get a penalty on us and the lead. Terry and the guys did a nice job down the run to keep it close and we even got a bit of help from the Brits who were a bit greedy. We got overlapped with them near the finish and they fouled us and got a double penalty as it was race determining.
The best thing about that race wasn’t that we won. The best part was the experience that we shared as a team. There were so many situations, most we handled well, a few we made errors on, but we can learn more from that race than a week of training on our own.
There were 6 other matches out there today and plenty of action. Team New Zealand won their only race and the other team that did well in the end was Mascalzone Latino who finished the round second.
We ended up in the three way ties for third but ALL4ONE had beaten Mascalzone Latino in the round so that moved them to third and we lost to Azzurra so that put them in fourth and us in 5th.
Scores after the round robin:
TNZ 6 wins
Mascalzone Latino 5 wins
All4One, Azzurra, and Artemis on 4 wins
Origin on 3 wins
Aleph 1 win
Synergy with 0.
Tomorrow Artemis takes on Azzurra in the first match of the knockout series. It is a bit complicated but essentially, the two lowest ranked loosers….ie, the two lowest ranked teams (coming out of the round robin) that lose tomorrow, are eliminated. The two highest ranked winners in tomorrow’s races will move directly to the semi finals and the 4 in the middle race a 2 out of 3 series in which the winners move onto the semi finals.
I know you probably cant understand this but I haven’t figured out how to explain it yet.
La Coupe de l’America arrive en Nouvelle-Zélande
L’aiguière d’argent revient en Nouvelle-Zélande, où elle sera exposée au public pendant le Louis Vuitton Trophy d’Auckland.
La Coupe, remportée en février dernier par l’équipe américaine BMW ORACLE Racing, est à San Francisco, au Golden Gate Yacht Club. Elle doit arriver à Auckland mardi 16 mars.
Pour la Coupe de l’America, c’est d’une certaine manière un retour à la maison. Elle a passé huit ans dans la salle des trophées du Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron après la victoire de Team New Zealand, en 1995.
C’est le skipper de cette équipe, Russell Coutts, qui est aujourd’hui le CEO de BMW ORACLE Racing.
“Cette semaine est idéale pour montrer le trophée à Auckland,” confie Coutts. “La majeure partie de la communauté de l’America’s Cup est là pour courir le Louis Vuitton Trophy – y compris le Challenger of Record, Mascalzone Latino. Même si nous n’étions pas en mesure de disputer cette régate, nous voulions apporter notre soutien à l’événement.”
“Nous sommes ici depuis déjà quelques jours afin de consulter les équipes et Louis Vuitton au sujet de la prochaine Coupe de l’America. Ramener la Coupe en Nouvelle-Zélande maintenant, pendant cette épreuve, permettra d’éveiller l’intérêt et de préparer l’avenir.”
Superbe victoire française d’ALEPH SAILING TEAM contre les Kiwis!
A force de penser qu’ALEPH Sailing Team avait les moyens de battre n’importe quelle équipe, il fallait le prouver. C’est fait, avec la manière et à la régulière dans 20 nœuds de vent contre les leaders neo-zélandais sur leur meilleur bateau et leur plan d’eau. Ce premier match du jour opposait donc le jeune projet français mené par Bertrand Pacé aux redoutés kiwis. Le départ fut lancé vers 10 heures dans la baie d’Auckland.
ALEPH sur NZ 84 rentre a droite de la ligne, ETNZ au viseur sur NZ 92, les français maîtrisent parfaitement la phase de pré-départ. ETNZ choisit la droite du plan d’eau, Bertrand Pacé et ses équipiers le centre gauche avant de renvoyer bâbord amure et de croiser devant l’équipe hôte. Le quintette Pacé/Richard/Cuzon/Iehl/Guilmin fonctionne parfaitement et les choix faits sont payants ; ALEPH creuse l’écart compte plus de 20 secondes d’avance à la bouée au vent et fait un envoi impeccable.
Jimmy Spithill in Auckland
Skipper Jimmy Spithill turned up in Auckland earlier this week to take in the sights and sounds at the Louis Vuitton Trophy. A founding member of the WSTA, the association of teams that is organising the Louis Vuitton Trophy events, BMW ORACLE Racing wasn’t able to compete in Auckland so soon after the America’s Cup. But the team will be racing in the next event, in La Maddalena, Italy in May.
Reunited in Auckland
While many of the BMW ORACLE Racing team have dispersed to all corners of the globe to get some rest and spend time with family, a handful are racing again in Auckland at the Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta.
And today, congratulations go out to Brian ‘Puck’ MacInnes (CAN) and his ALEPH teammates, including trimmer Thierry Fouchier (FRA). On Monday morning, the ALEPH team, struggling at the bottom of the Louis Vuitton Trophy leaderboard, shocked the previously undefeated Emirates Team New Zealand squad, earning a big win on a breezy morning in Auckland.
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