August 19th, 2013
By Warren Douglas, Emirates Team New Zealand San Francisco (August 18, 2013) – An electronics problem disabled the hydraulics system on board Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC72 today, bringing the boat to a halt at the third mark of the second race in the Louis Vuitton Cup final. Without hydraulics the crew can operate neither
August 18th, 2013
Newport, R.I. (August 18, 2013) – Of 29 boats that started this year’s Ida Lewis Distance Race, only 13 managed to finish within the 30-hour time limit due to light winds and strong currents. Nevertheless, the popular overnighter, which started Friday afternoon (August 16) on Narragansett Bay, was a hit, taking the fleet on its
August 18th, 2013
San Francisco, CA (August 18, 2013) – The Louis Vuitton Cup Final got off to a shaky start over the weekend with just two of the scheduled four races being sailed and both Challengers suffering equipment failure/damage. In Saturday’s race 1, the Italian crew on Luna Rossa withdrew due to problems with its starboard daggerboard
August 18th, 2013
San Francisco, CA (August 18, 2013) – Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge evened the final of the Louis Vuitton Cup against Emirates Team New Zealand at 1-1 with a victory in Race 2. Luna Rossa was trailing by more than 400 meters on Leg 3, upwind, when the Kiwis stopped sailing, apparently due to a problem
August 18th, 2013
Chicago, IL (August 17, 2013) – After a long 10-hour day of match race sailing off Chicago’s Belmont Harbor, four Semi-Finalists have emerged today from the field of 12 teams from six nations at the CMRC Grand Slam, the first event of the 2013 US Grand Slam series. World #2-ranked Taylor Canfield and his USone
August 18th, 2013
By Steve Deane, The New Zealand Herald Brad Butterworth and the bulk of the crew from the Alinghi America’s Cup syndicate gathered around a television screen yesterday on Hamilton Island, near Great Barrier reef off the northern Queensland coast. They tuned into the opening race of the Louis Vuitton Cup and, like a good chunk
August 18th, 2013
By Julian Guthrie, SFGate It was the fall of 1976 when Sally Lindsay went looking for a college student named Stan Honey to repair her Volvo 122S. She was told that Honey, an engineering major at Yale, had a car like hers, and was a guy who could fix just about anything. “I towed my
August 16th, 2013
(August 16, 2013) – Taking an abrupt jibe from its previous position, the America’s Cup measurement committee has absolved one of the three Oracle Team USA boats in a cheating scandal that has taken front stage in the regatta. In a new report made public Friday, the committee said Oracle CEO Russell Coutts’ boat had
August 16th, 2013
Corpus Christi, TX (August 16, 2013) – Sailors were prepared to rally for the fourth and final day of racing at the U.S. Youth Sailing Championships, hosted by the Corpus Christi Yacht Club. Boats were launched and courses were set, but lack of breeze and travel schedule considerations made racing impossible on Friday. Seven classes
August 16th, 2013
There was no shortage of drama throughout a memorable and historic 45th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race. 336 yachts from 20 countries started the biennial 611-nm race that runs from Cowes to Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock on the south-west tip of Ireland. The lineup had everything: professional and Corinthian sailors; some of the
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