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March 31, 2011
The official count is ten challengers, but entries to America’s Cup 34 remain open until midnight, California time and there are a few mysteries still floating out there in the ether. Today I heard a figure of 14 teams, out of the mouth of the chairman of ACOC. But first— It had to start somewhere, [...]
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March 29, 2011
Or at least, with less Chinois. Photo by Gilles Martin-Raget/Oracle Racing We don’t have to expect the newly (finally) announced China Team to be the most competitive 2013 America’s Cup challenger to make China Team worth watching. Think “serious” circa 2016 after a 2013 learning experience? Perhaps. In Valencia in 2007 this was essentially a [...]
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March 19, 2011
They’re mad as hell and they’re going to take it. Flag of the Maldives Sitting in the harbor at Malé, capital of the Maldives, once home to kings, the skipper of the Kelly Peterson 46 , Esprit, reports, “The country offers a $350 cruising package to visit the other islands, but we are going to [...]
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March 12, 2011
The people behind a plan to launch winged, wind-assisted ferries on San Francisco Bay have already carried thousands of passengers under sail. That would be Jay Gardner, Pam Simonson, and Hans Korfin of Adventure Cat Sailing Charters. They presented their winged-ferry concept last week to officials at Golden Gate Transit. I figure it’s an idea [...]
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March 5, 2011
Friends, sailing fleets have found new recruits this way— . A busy channel at RYC. Beyond, the tower of the new Bay Bridge rising. Photo KL It was the annual Sail a Small Boat Day at Richmond Yacht Club, on the eastern reach of San Francisco Bay. With not a lot of wind, but enough [...]
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March 3, 2011
With the publication of the America’s Cup Edition of the ISAF Rules of Sailing (interesting wording) we have our first glimpse into the thinking that goes with electronic umpiring. Oh, and, yes, USA 17 and the largest wing ever built are safely delivered to Pier 80, at the foot of Cezar Chavez Street, Port of [...]