America's Cup San Diego

there will be 7 of us from AZ fleet 42 making the trip to SD next Thursday nite. Cant wait to see the big Cats play!

thanks for the reminder Philip

Are you planning on being there?

You bringing your boats?

No, no planning on bringing the Cats. Figured it would be a nightmare.

Ok, what time(s), channels, youtube?

Dave

There is a live webcam showing the crane where the AC45s will be launched from.
I am not sure there will be any live coverage today actually.
It could be that it starts o Wednesday but am not 100% sure.

live cam team base
They go live at 1:10 pm

Going down tomorrow (Sunday). Check out the Village watch the races then back home buy the evening. We will start pretty early to get down there from Long Beach.

Dan

Old news for those who haven't been following but Darren Bundock to skipper/replace Coutts for Team Oracle.

I guess the

Americas

Cup has to be at a foreign venue to get full coverage.

Is this a 'permanant' change or just for this event?

And did they race yesterday? Weather Channel was showing a lot of rain in So.Cal. yesterday.

no racing yesterday

They where racing yesterday, wins by Artemis and China Team, Bundy had a 4 and a 2.

Technically I stated it wrong, Bundock is helmsman, not skipper, for whatever that's worth.

http://www.americascup.com/

live feed is up
http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericasCup#p/l

My fiance will just happen to be in San Diego this weekend. She plans to attend Saturday.

I was at the event on Sunday. Great day for watching! We were camped out right on the pier next to the USS Midway. There are two fingers you can go to the end of without a pass. The middle one you cannot. That is where most of the teams are. We were right next to actually looking over the leeward mark, then the finish line. That is the best place to watch unless you buy a pass to be on the Midway, which would be a great seat but no closer to the action.

Dan

My fiancé's luck is unbelieveable. Not only does she happen to be in town for the event, but her uncle is flying one of the camera helicopters and has a seat on it to watch the race from

Live Racing starts at 1300 PST

We are live
http://www.youtube.com/americascup

OK, just checked in. What did I miss, how did Oracle 5 (Coutts/Bundy) get so far out front???

Mike

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! Now they're spraying champagne for winning ONE &^%$*&&()*&ing RACE???!!!!!

I think I may have just popped a major blood vessel...

Mike

Going through post-race review now. Spithill and Artemis were OCS, Bundy shot out and let from the first mark to the finish. Spithill managed to foul their chute somewhere during the race (did not want to furl/unfurl), finished 5th.

Mike

Bundy was giving an impressive sailing lesson there, especially considering the talent in that fleet...

5 minute warning is up for Race 2.

watching on YouTube - some of the spectator comments are funny...

Oracle 5 stopped after the start???