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Scuttlebutt Photos of the Week November 18, 2011 Here is a random assortment of photos from the sport. Click here to submit your photos for consideration.  The other day we were thinking about some of the brutal storms we had been in. Glad this wasn't one of them.   America's Cup teams racing their AC45s this week at the America's Cup World Series in San Diego. Lower photo finds Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck onboard Artemis Racing. Photos by Gilles Martin-Raget/ACEA (upper) and Sander van der Borch / Artemis Racing (lower).  No worries of food crumbs messing up the deck on PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG during Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, from Alicante, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa. (Credit: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race).  Lots of talk about stadium sailing these days on the pro circuit, but the college circuit in the U.S. has been doing it forever. Photo by Ken Legler at the Schell Trophy hosted at MIT.   This innovative new hydro-foil sailing catamaran, known as C-FLY, is a 26ft catamaran created out of fifteen years of development by a team of aerospace engineers. Chris Edwards, one of the C-FLY design team: "‘C-FLY can reach up to 40 knots in the right conditions." Click here for video.  Shots taken by John Lines at The Panerai Classic Yacht Regatta in Cowes, UK. Click here to submit your photos for consideration. |
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