The America’s Cup trophy will return to San Francisco and the BMW Oracle Racing team’s patron club, the Golden Gate Yacht Club, as the team wraps up the California leg of its America’s Cup Victory Tour presented by Oracle and BMW EfficientDynamics. The tour ended on a high note in San Diego on Sunday in [...]
Greetings yachties, Match point for the 33rd Americas Cup. Will it be 2-0? or can Alinghi find some more boat speed? News as it comes to hand, comments, images and video. Enjoy BMW Oracle Win 2:nil 5:26 dela to BMWOracle at the finish from: 33rd Americas Cup.com 18:32 USA cross the finish line first and [...]
Greetings yachties, The hard wing sail on BMWOracle generated more height and speed than the soft sailed Alingh1 5. As we build up to the 2nd race in just a few hours below is a collection of stories, video, comments and links to this outstanding display of sailing technology, Enjoy more here Following a pattern [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Greetings yachties, 1st race abandoned, below is a collection stories, opinions, video and interviews from Valencia. Enjoy “……….Gilmour was with Alinghi during the 32nd Cup Match as an advisor and coach. He saw how the team tensed up when it went down 2-1 to Team New Zealand in the 32nd Match, and also saw how [...]
Racing Postponed Abandoned for the day, next race 10th February 2010* * subject to some conditions All enquiries here Sailing Anarchy forums are going nut bags, fantastic to follow more than 500 sailors chat about the event. Have a read here The America’s Cup challenger, BMW Oracle BOR 90, left, and defender, Alinghi 5, wait [...]
Greetings yachties, Two more sleeps until the spectacular sight of 2 outrageous multi hulls – cant wait. latest images here Enjoy 33rd Americas Cup DoGzilla V Cheesezilla 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 [...]
Greetings yachties, With just a few days before the 33rd Americas Cup DoG race starts the war of “he said she said” is reaching new levels of dummy spitting. I will try to include as many links as I can to the most popular sailing websites that are covering the match here. If you know [...]
The sterling silver ewer once known as the ‘£100 Cup’ and named the ‘America’s Cup’ after America, the yacht of the same country that fought off the British fleet around the Isle of Wight in 1851, is the most sought after trophy in the sport of sailing. It has resided at the Société Nautique de [...]
