Test poll: Who will challenge Alinghi

Taking advantage of the holiday break and the lack of any major news in the sailing world, except the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, we put a small test poll on the left-hand column of the website.

You can cast your vote and check what the rest of our readers have voted. This first test poll couldn't be other than who will challenge Alinghi in the America's Cup match six months from now. If such kind of polls prove to be of interest we will gradually include more during next year.

In the meantime, enjoy a very pretty picture of the whole Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleet departing from Sydney and the tens or hundreds of spectator boats. I hope we see such scenes in Valencia in 2007.

Start of the 2006 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht with Sydney in the background. Sydney, 26 December 2006. Photo copyright ROLEX/Daniel Forster