America's Cup San Diego

They are saying they did a penalty, W/L before start. But, for the first few minutes the commentators had no clue. I thought they were bragging about all the access to the technonology that they have in the booth (feeds from RO, umps, etc.)?

Mike

Korea had a great start and lead at the first gate. Artemis coming on strong...

This is INSANE!!! <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

Artemis wins Race 2, and Korea passes TNZ just before the last mark to take 2nd. Spithill 4th, Coutts/Bundy 8th...

Mike

Inside 5 minutes to Race 3...

Spithill OCS!!!

...AND a penalty after being protested by TNZ...

Wow, Spithill up to 3rd with 1.5 legs to go...

WOW. Energy wins. Spithill smoked past GreenCom near the end to take 2nd. Artemis 4th, TNZ 5th, Coutts/Bundy 6th.

Hobie was represented yesterday! We had a group from the factory, Ron and Deb Lane plus Jeff and Hobie Jr. aboard.

Fun to have the boys sailing past our boat for a big hello. A lot of these guys have done Hobie and F18 racing over the years.

We had an 80 foot motor yacht positioned right near the start line. Was a line of 3 large ones and then the huge (150'?) sailboat right there. Great day! Cats ripping it up and choppers buzzing all around. We had a choppy video feed, but who needs video when you are this close? I do wish we had better video though. They must have caught some good action! The salon had huge windows and a big screen TV. Viewing from on deck was spectacular!

Match Racing start today at 1310 PST. Format 5 x 18 minute Qualifier Races for Match Race Semi Finals.

Live feed is up.

That huge sailboat was probably Larry Ellisons yacht, its a big blue ketch.
They must have pushed pretty hard to get from Plymouth to SD in two months.
AC45s still doing 17kts in what cant be much more than 10kts of wind.

Q1: Aleph def China
Q3: Aleph def Korea
Q2: Coutts/Bundy def GreenCom

Q4: Coutts/Bundy were leading, but getting smoked at the moment by Aleph

OMG, Annie just said that because of the apparent wind generated by multihulls, the sails are trimmed in more while going downwind

than NORMAL boats.

So much for not taking the Hobie out of the sailor...

Q1: Aleph def China
Q3: Aleph def Korea
Q2: Coutts/Bundy def GreenCom
Q4: Aleph def Coutts/Bundy

Q5 cueing up, Artemis vs. Aleph, last race today

Wow, Artemis kept Aleph out of the box, nice pre-start move.

Aleph rolls Artemis! French have'nt lost a match yet.

Unbelieveable! I step away, thinking it's game over, then Aleph comes back... only to have the race abandoned!

Wow...

Well, the first attempt was abandoned, apparently due to a technical glitch after a major shift.

Now in the restart, after the first gate, the breeze is really dropping... like watching H16s race... <img src="<>/wink.gif" alt="wink" title="wink" height="15" width="15" />

Wow, Artemis was ahead by about a minute at the windward gate, failed to cover, Aleph got a huge puff to the left side, and is smoking down the course. Lucky for Artemis, the course was shortened (distance), so they are able to stay ahead at the next leeward gate, but not by much (17 seconds)...

OMG, Artemis goes RIGHT??? What were they sleeping on the way downwind??? Aleph passed by going back out to the left. Stunning...

I see. Artemis wanted to have starboard advantage at the cross. Almost didn't work, but they got back ahead at the last windward gate.

Aleph should have won that won IMO.

Aretemis wins Q5...

+1

Tony, Luiz: Other than feeling like they got screwed by the abandonment, why do you feel Aleph

should have won

the last match?

It seemed like they were outsailed at both starts. They caught a lucky shift in the first attempt (abandoned race), and nearly caught another in the second.

Yes, they won all the races prior to that, but why do you think they

deserved

to win?

BTW, Artemis definitely know they were lucky to escape with the win. I got tired of the looping video with the commentators (it kept going back to the prior windward mark rounding as the boats were approaching the final leeward mark), so I changed it to the onboard view/audio. You wouldn't believe the looks and comments from the Artemis sailors as they approached the finish...

Mike

SF1, M1: Oracle Spithill (with Uncle Larry aboard as the extra weight), spanking TNZ at the moment...

No extra pressure on Stan's team to

keep the lights working

do you think?

Mike

Well. That was quick. Winning margin for OR4 was over a minute...

SF2, M1: Energy lets Artemis cross in pre-start. Weird...