ALL4One and Azzurra conclude Valencia training
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.
Unfortunately, the closing session of this training week got underway under very light conditions, with an easterly breeze that barely passed 6-7 knots, and finished under heavy rain. The two teams practiced together a number of prestarts as well as a handful of windward/leeward races.
It was also an excellent opportunity to see again how the yachts that now everybody calls "dinosaurs" fare in 4 knots of breeze. It's true that once one has watched Alinghi 5 and USA zoom at 15 knots even in such light breezes the ACC yachts seem to be stuck on the water. This is something that the new America's Cup class will remedy, or at least try to. We'll have to see to what extent the new Defender incorporates in the new rule the feedback from all the current and potential teams and doesn't come out with an RC88.
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
ALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Photo copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia SailingALL4One and Azzurra conclude their training for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Valencia, 18 February 2010. Video copyright Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing
Labels: ALL4One Challenge, Azzurra, Louis Vuitton Trophy
5 Comments:
lets start the betting. Valencia or San Fran for the next cup. I bet that Valencia will be the host. All this BS about San Fran is just to put pressure on Rita to offer a better deal. Lets here from BOR on this.
Will anyone from BOR state for the record that it NOT be Valencia?
are there any spies out there that can confirm if BOR look like they are closing down there base in Valencia?
I have also heard that as of the 1st of March all Spanish employees of BOR will be laid off. They say they were given an ultimatum, "You either move to SF by summer for 3 years or we fire you".
According to a friend of mine, after the RC44 regatta in Valencia this summer, the base will be definitely closed.
no i... bet it is not VLC
Of course it will NOT be Valencia. It will be somewhere in the USA. San Fran, San Diego or Newport
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