Monday, April 17, 2006

Training in the rain

The crew of Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team were probably not singing but were certainly training in the rain this morning. In an unusually cold and cloudy spring day in Valencia, the Italian America's Cup challenger defied the awful meteorological forecast and went off Valencia's Malvarosa beach for a day of testing and training with their boat ITA-77.

Unfortunately, conditions were less than ideal, with dark threatening clouds, light rain and extremely strong gusts. One of the weather buoys in the south race course was even whipped during 20 minutes by a mini tornado with winds that reached an incredible 65 knots!! Despite the challenging weather pattern an additional three teams shared the north race course, all within close distance of each other and not far from the entrance of the port and the coast, as it is easily seen from the photos.

With Jes Gram-HansenHelmsman of Mascalzone Latino – Capitalia Team

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on the helm this morning, sailors of Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team trained with ITA-77, while the rest of the team were busy working on the new boat, ITA-90.

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

Mascalzone Latino - Capitalia Team testing and training with ITA-77. Valencia, 17 April 2006. Photo taken by Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

1 Comments:

At 4:57 AM, Blogger Tillerman said...

Great pictures. Appreciate seeing all the news from Valencia on your blog. Keep it coming.

 

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