Video: Highlights from the RC44 Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy
Highlights fromthe Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy. Dubai, 27 February 2010. Video copyright RC44 Class Association
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2 | Mathieu Richard | 111 |
3 | Torvar Mirsky | 106 |
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Highlights fromthe Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy. Dubai, 27 February 2010. Video copyright RC44 Class Association
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posted by Valencia Sailing @ 12:30 PM 0 comments
[Source: Artemis Racing] It was a consistent week on the water for Torbjorn Tornqvist’s team onboard RC44 ARTEMIS at the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy in Dubai. Following on from ARTEMIS’ success in 2009, having won the fleet racing element of the RC44 Championship Tour, the team put in a solid performance in both the fleet and match racing this past week to win overall.
Labels: Artemis, RC44, Terry Hutchinson, Torbjorn Tornqvist
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:37 PM 0 comments
Highlights from Day 5 of the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy. Dubai, 26 February 2010. Video copyright RC44 Class Association
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posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:48 AM 1 comments
[Source: RC44 Championship Tour] Chris Bake and his Team Aqua still lead the fleet race ranking of the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy RC 44; however Torbjorn Tornqvist’s Artemis is now only two points behind ahead of the last day. Igor Lah’s Ceeref isn’t far either, currently third overall and eight points behind. The last day will be intense!
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:27 PM 0 comments
[Source: Team Origin] TEAMORIGIN have just completed a few days on-water boat preparation and shake-down with Emirates Team New Zealand in the two race boats that will be used for the forthcoming Louis Vuitton Trophy event.
Labels: Emirates Team New Zealand, Louis Vuitton Trophy, Team Origin
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 7:23 PM 0 comments
[Source: 3M] 3M today announced its successful collaboration with BMW ORACLE Racing as an Official Supplier for the 33rd America’s Cup Match in Valencia, Spain.
Labels: 33rd Americ a's Cup, BMW Oracle
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 6:29 PM 0 comments
Highlights from Day 4 of the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy. Dubai, 25 February 2010. Video copyright RC44 Class Association
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:46 AM 0 comments
The World Match Racing Tour, the world's premiere match racing circuit, finally gets a brand new website that does justice to itself. It has been completely reworked, it is now much easier to navigate, it has a much better look and as far as content is concerned, you couldn't ask for more.
Labels: World Match Racing Tour
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 11:20 PM 1 comments
There isn't much of a story but the following photo caught my attention. The RC44's are currently in Dubai, racing in the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy. After 3 days of match racing the 9-strong fleet started their fleet races and two of them, Islas Canarias Puerto Calero and Team CEEREF, hit the start line with brand new Northsails 3Di jibs, the very first time in that class, if I'm not mistaken. We'll make sure we have the feedback from the teams on whether such sails make a significant difference in this one-design class.
Labels: North Sails, RC44
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 7:35 PM 2 comments
[Source: RC44 Championship Tour] Chris Bake and his Team Aqua dominated the first day of the fleet regatta with two victories and two second places. The team from the UAE sits seven points ahead of Torbjorn Tornqvist’s Artemis and Igor Lah’s Ceeref after four races.
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 5:59 PM 0 comments
That's life used to sing Frank Sinatra. You're riding high in April, shot down in May. Or better said, that's the America's Cup. One day you are the defender and two weeks later the future is uncertain. As we reported a few days ago, Alinghi are emptying their base and when we checked this morning, Alinghi 5 had already left. I suppose she was towed to the commercial port in order to be shipped to some unknown destination. Her bowsprit was also on a truck ready for transportation.
Labels: 33rd America's Cup, 34th America's Cup, Alinghi, Alinghi 5, Valencia
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 3:46 PM 3 comments
I know this is old news but so far we had only published the shorter 5-minute version of the final race's highlights. So, here you have the full 26 minutes. Enjoy it while we are waiting for any news on the 34th edition of the world's oldest sports trophy.
Labels: 33rd America's Cup, Alinghi, BMW Oracle, Valencia
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:11 PM 7 comments
[Source: RC44 Championship Tour] Markus Wieser and his team from the United Arab Emirates win the match race title of the Al Maktoum Sailing Trophy RC 44, ahead of No Way Back (DEN) and Artemis (SWE).
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posted by Valencia Sailing @ 5:35 PM 0 comments
[Source: Louis Vuitton Trophy] Mascalzone Latino Audi Team, the recently-annointed Italian Challenger of Record for the 34th America's Cup, joins seven other Cup contenders in Auckland next month to race on New Zealand's Waitemata Harbor for the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland.
Labels: Louis Vuitton Trophy
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:15 AM 0 comments
[Source: Cammas - Groupama] Taking just 8 days 17 hours and 39 minutes to traverse the Indian Ocean, the maxi trimaran Groupama 3 skippered by Franck Cammas has snatched the record held by Orange 2 since 2005.
Labels: Franck Cammas, Groupama 3
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 9:35 AM 0 comments
[Source: RC44 Championship Tour] Only two flights could be completed today due to the lack of wind. Two teams conclude the day undefeated: Markus Wieser’s Team Sea Dubai - who hasn’t lost a single match in this event - and Paul Cayard’s Katusha, who recovers well after a bad day yesterday.
Labels: Adam Minoprio, BMW Oracle, Paul Cayard, RC44
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 5:32 PM 1 comments
Is this a preview of things to come in the 34th America's Cup? Adam Minoprio and the BlackMatch crew on BMW Oracle's B-boat? One can be assured that with the America's Cup match scheduled to take place 2-3 years from now it's never too early for the young world match racing champions to start moving in bigger boats.
Labels: Adam Minoprio, BlackMatch, Dave Swete, Nick Blackman, RC44, Tom Powrie
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 11:07 AM 0 comments
[Source: BMW Oracle] 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.
Labels: 34th America's Cup, BMW Oracle
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 11:21 PM 5 comments
[Source: RC44 Championship Tour] Markus Wieser and his Team Sea Dubai were on fire today, with five bullets in as many races. The local team leads Artemis (four wins and also undefeated) and four teams on a tie in third.
Labels: Adam Minoprio, Markus Wieser, RC44
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 6:18 PM 1 comments
[Source: Volvo Ocean Race] The racetrack for the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race, due to start from Alicante in Spain in the autumn of 2011, is now set and the first port of call will be Cape Town, South Africa, making its eighth appearance as host to this premier ocean race. This marks the beginning of the port announcement process for the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 and the rest of the course around the world will be revealed before the end of March.
Labels: Volvo Ocean Race
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 1:54 PM 0 comments
With the prospects of another America's Cup being held in Valencia getting slimmer by the day, the sight of teams packing up and leaving will, unfortunately, become more common. According to reliable information we received yesterday, the first victim of the end of this Cup cycle will be the former defender and two-time winner of the event, Alinghi. It seems the Swiss team will be definitely leaving Valencia next month, something that makes sense after the latest statements from Ernesto Bertarelli. Although he tried to sound positive by saying that "Alinghi always rebounds" it's probably difficult to justify the presence in such a big base in Valencia if the team morphs into something completely different and, most probably, smaller.
Labels: 34th America's Cup, Alinghi, Valencia
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 1:19 PM 19 comments
Larry Ellison talks about the America's Cup. San Francisco, 20 February 2010. Video copyright ABC
Labels: 34th America's Cup, Larry Ellison, San Francisco
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:03 PM 27 comments
[Source: BMW Oracle] Larry Ellison and his BMW Oracle Racing team have received the key to the city of San Francisco from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Labels: 34th America's Cup, BMW Oracle
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 8:22 PM 8 comments
This is, obviously, the newly modified TP52 of Emirates Team NZ in her first sea trials in Auckland. As one our readers correctly observed, this photo first appeared on the TP52 class website a week ago. That's a reminder that I should be checking the website more often. Team New Zealand's photographer Chris Cameron, also has a very nice album of the team taking NZL-380 for a sail on the Hauraki Gulf to test the new configuration for the 2010 MedCup season.
Labels: Emirates Team New Zealand, TP52
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 9:04 PM 9 comments
[Source: Team Origin] TEAMORIGIN decided to build a new TP52 for the 2010 season and engaged with Juan Kouyoumdjian and his design team as the Principal Designer of the boat. Juan and his team have worked closely with the TEAMORIGIN sailing team in developing the new boat and the process they followed has reflected closely that of an AC design process for the purposes of training and testing. The boat is currently being built at Salthouse Boatbuilders in Auckland, New Zealand, and the team is very pleased with the progress to date. The boat will be shipped to Europe in March ready for the first TP52 Audi Med Cup event in May 2010.
Labels: Juan Kouyoumdjian, Team Origin, TP52
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 8:41 PM 0 comments
[Source: RC44 Championship Tour] Invited by Russell Coutts to skipper BMW ORACLE Racing in Dubai next week, the World Match Race Tour champion 2009 Adam Minoprio gets a fantastic opportunity to test his skills against the world’s best match racers.
Labels: Adam Minoprio, BMW Oracle, RC44
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 4:51 PM 0 comments
It has now become customary for a number of teams that take part in the Louis Vuitton circuit to come and train in Valencia a few days or weeks before each event. This week it was the turn of Mascalzone Latino AUDI Team (brand new Challenger of Record for the 34th America's Cup), Azzurra and ALL4One to sharpen their skills in Valencia in view of next month's Louis Vuitton regatta in Auckland. It has been a bumpy seek overall, with a couple of excellent days but also a few awful ones with either too much or too little breeze.
Labels: ALL4One Challenge, Azzurra, Louis Vuitton Trophy
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 10:09 PM 5 comments
[Source: Omega Auckland Match Racing Regatta] Some of the world’s top international match race teams are set to descend on Auckland for the Omega Auckland Match Racing Regatta in March. A mix of America’s Cup experience plus rising young talent will do battle in the invitational regatta on the Waitemata Harbour.
Labels: Adam Minoprio, Dean Barker, Omega Auckland Match Racing Regatta, Torvar Mirsky
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 8:14 PM 0 comments
[Source: AUDI MedCup] After several years as potential candidate venues for the Audi MedCup Circuit, two of Europe's most desirable cities, Barcelona and Cascais/Lisbon, have now been confirmed on the competition schedule for 2010.
Labels: Audi Medcup
posted by Valencia Sailing @ 8:04 PM 0 comments