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America's Cup: New, stunning, video posted of Race 1 start
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Richard Gladwell,
8:57 AM Mon GMT
At the Auckland International Boat Show, Sail-World ran all the video we had of the 33rd America's Cup. One 20 minute section of the start of Race 1 was guaranteed to stop the crowds and pack them around the big screen.
Having been on the water, and later seen the broadcast, we don't believe that the broadcast did justice to that opening stanza of the 33rd America's Cup. However Sailing Anarchy
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America's Cup arrives in New Zealand on Tuesday 16 March
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Louis Vuitton Trophy WSTA Media,
7:03 AM Mon GMT
The America's Cup trophy is returning to New Zealand, where it will be on display for public viewing during the Louis Vuitton Trophy regatta in Auckland.
The Cup, which was won one month ago by the American team BMW ORACLE Racing, has been residing in its new home at the Golden Gate Yacht Club in San Francisco. It is scheduled to arrive in Auckland on Tuesday, March 16th.
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Black clouds alter Louis Vuitton Trophy complexion
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Louis Vuitton WSTA, Auckland ,
4:55 AM Mon GMT
Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland - Strong and gusty sou-west winds forced a cancellation to the day’s competition but not before previously unbeaten Emirates went down in defeat to France’s seventh-placed Aleph. Four teams crowding the top of the points table were slated to square off today.
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LA Harbor Cup 2010: USC plays it cool to win first Harbor Cup
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Rich Roberts,
3:19 AM Mon GMT
USC skipper Chris Vetter, having learned from heartbreaking experience, wrote a different script for his crew before racing started in the Port of Los Angeles 2010 Harbor Cup/Cal Maritime Invitational Intercollegiate Regatta.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy series leader downed in upset
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Warren Douglas,
3:17 AM Mon GMT
The French team Aleph was having the best of their race against Emirates Team New Zealand on Monday when ETNZ’s gennaker ripped in the left corner on the first down-wind leg. Dean Barker and crew finished the run under jib. They gained some ground on the second beat but ran out of runway on the downwind leg to the finish. Aleph finished 36 sec ahead.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy - Live updates - Emirates Team NZ lose to French
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Richard Gladwell,
9:42 PM Sun GMT
Sail-World live race updates from Day 7 of the Louis Vuitton Cup. Emirates Tean New Zealand look set to lose their first race of the 2010 Louis Vuitton Trophy. After trailing at the first mark by 95 metres or 27 seconds, the series leader Emirate Team NZ did a bearaway set and then gybed in a move known as the Zambucka.
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2010 PUMA Moth Worlds - Day Seven Report
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Brigid Murphy,
9:08 PM Sun GMT
2010 PUMA Moth Worlds - drama on the last day, with late podium changes. The 2010 Moth World Championships were not decided until the 14th and final race. Full news and results here.
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Jules Verne Trophy - Groupama 3 in deficit at the final marker
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Groupama-Cammas,
9:08 PM Sun GMT
Jules Verne Trophy - For Groupama 3 the final marker before the finish off the Créac’h lighthouse, the equator was traversed this Sunday at 11h 04’ 53’’ UTC, after 41 days 21 hours 09 minutes at sea. Full of energy for the ascent, the crew of Groupama 3 is still just as concentrated in this final phase between the switch of hemispheres and the island of Ushant some 3,350 miles ahead.
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Clipper 09-10: Cape Breton Island on course for maximum points
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Clipper Ventures PLC,
9:00 PM Sun GMT
Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race - Race 7 Qindgao to San Francisco Day 13 report. With a comfortable lead on the chasing pack, Cape Breton Island will be confident of securing maximum points at the Pacific scoring gate, just three days away. 24 hours on and the crews of both Spirit of Australia and Hull & Humber are beginning to adjust to their change in circumstances.
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Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup 2010 - In close order
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Rich Roberts,
8:39 PM Sun GMT
Cal Maritime Academy, USC and Maine Maritime Academy, in that close order---are within three points at the top entering the last day of another dogfight of a Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup/Cal Maritime Invitational Intercollegiate Regatta Sunday
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Louis Vuitton Trophy – PredictWind Forecast - Day Seven
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Jon Bilger, Auckland ,
6:55 PM Sun GMT
PredictWind.com is forecasting SW 15-20 knots for day seven of Louis Vuitton Series. Perfect wind conditions for racing !
Long Term Outlook is for moderate Southwesterlies
Tuesday: SW 5 increasing to 15knots
Wednesay: SW10 increasing to 20knots
Thursday: SE15 decreasing to 5knots
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Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Event No. 3 images
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Joy Dunigan images,
3:21 PM Sun GMT
Audi Melges 20 Miami Winter Series Event No. 3 images courtesy of Joy Dunigan.
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America's Cup: Nitro's Wingsail Trimming Primer
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Richard Gladwell. Sail-World.com,
9:58 AM Sun GMT
Sail-World's Richard Gladwell interviewed Noel (Nitro) Drennan, on the Sail-World stand at the Auckland International Boat Show. In this first part of a two part story, we look at the trimming differences between the soft and wing sails; how the trimmers would get USA up and hull flying;plus how Drennan made the transition from being a sailmaker at Norths into the professional sailing world
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Emirates Team NZ clear leader in Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland
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Warren Douglas, Auckland, New Zealand ,
8:20 AM Sun GMT
Emirates Team New Zealand has made it five wins in five races to consolidate its place at the top of the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland leader board. The margin against the Italian team Azzurra may have been 42 sec at the finish, but the race was not without drama for Dean Barker and his crew. Rounding the first windward mark with a comfortable 50sec lead, ETNZ broke the spinnaker pole at the hoist
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Louis Vuitton Trophy: TeamOrigin in four way tie with two days to run
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Leslie Greenhalgh, Auckland, New Zealand ,
8:03 AM Sun GMT
TEAMORIGIN won their race today against the Russian Synergy team in an exciting race that was close until the Russians experienced a spinnaker drop problem leaving Ben Ainslie and the British team to take a comfortable win.
In the other races today, the all-French derby between ALL4ONE (FRA/GER) and Aleph (FRA) led to a win for ALL4ONE giving them a solid 3 wins and 2 losses so far.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy - its tough at the top - more Auckland action
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Keith Taylor,
5:48 AM Sun GMT
Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand went unbeaten, while Paul Cayard and Artemis lost a vital match on a penalty call in an action-packed day of racing during the Louis Vuitton Trophy in Auckland.
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Bacardi Miami Sailing Week: Ecklund wins Audi Melges 20 division
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International Audi Melges 20 Class Association, ,
4:55 AM Sun GMT
Jeff Ecklund (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) and his crew of Harry Melges and Morgan Reeser on Star, have won the Audi Melges 20 division of Bacardi's Miami Sailing Week, hosted in part by Coconut Grove Sailing Club (CGSC), supported by Shake-A-Leg Miami and Melges Performance Sailboats. Ecklund is also now the 2010 Winter Series Champion.
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Port of LA Harbor Cup Cal Maritime leads USC, Maine into last day
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Rich Roberts, ,
4:49 AM Sun GMT
Three teams: Cal Maritime Academy, USC and Maine Maritime Academy, in that close order, are within three points at the top entering the last day of another dogfight of a Port of Los Angeles 2010 Harbor Cup/Cal Maritime Invitational Intercollegiate Regatta Sunday.
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America's Cup: Nitro on trimming the WingSail - Audio
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Richard Gladwell. Sail-World.com,
2:57 AM Sun GMT
Sail-World's Richard Gladwell interviewed Noel (Nitro) Drennan, on the Sail-World stand at the Auckland International Boat Show. In this audio interview, Drennan, who was with North Sails discusses the trimming issues between the soft sail and wingsail on BMW Oracle Racing, how the sail design and trimming crew interacted, and what was required to get the hull flying on USA-17 plus much more.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy - BUSTED!
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Chris Cameron,
9:48 PM Sat GMT
Top international photographer, Chris Cameron, was on hand to capture this sequence as Artemis (SWE) dropped their spinnaker pole in the water on the hoist at the first mark in their Round Robin match against Azzurra (ITA)
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2010 PUMA Moth Worlds -Day 6 Report - Another Payne-less day for Simon
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Brigiid Murphy and Lisa Richards,
9:24 PM Sat GMT
The 2006 International Moth World Champion, Simon Payne (GBR) holds his lead after five days of racing at the 2010 Puma Moths Worlds.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland - Tough race for Artemis
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Paul Cayard,
9:16 PM Sat GMT
Paul Cayard reports from the Louis Vuitton Trophy Auckland. Artemis had a tough race against Azzurra. We called for the right at the start and Terry got it. We worked the shifts and built a 165-meter lead at the first mark. In the first race of the day, Team NZ beat All4One rather easily, in the second race Origin won the race but there was a collision, which may cost them half a point for damage.
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Clipper 09-10: Hull & Humber and Spirit of Australia rejoin the race
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Clipper Ventures PLC,
8:52 PM Sat GMT
Clipper 09-10: Team Finland's new mast has arrived in Qingdao and the team assembled there to step and rig it are confident that they will be able to send the crew on their way early next week. Hull & Humber skipper, Piers Dudin, has arrived in hospital in Japan where he has received surgery on his broken leg. Out on the water Hull & Humber and Spirit of Australia have rejoined the race.
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Jules Verne Trophy: Groupama 3 takes it step by step
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Cammas-Groupama,
8:43 PM Sat GMT
Jules Verne Trophy - Groupam 3 attempt. Positioned 430 miles from the line separating the South Atlantic and the North early this afternoon, the maxi trimaran is now performing as she should now that she's done with the rather unfavourable tack changes, which she'd been linking together since rounding Cape Horn on 4th March.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy: Team Origin scores vital win
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TeamOrigin Media,
7:34 PM Sat GMT
TEAMORIGIN scored an important point on the score board today by beating the French Aleph Team. The pre-start action was dramatic with a hard contact collision between the boats as Aleph illegally altered course in the tight pre-start manoeuvring and was awarded a penalty by the on-the-water umpires.
In the other races today, Emirates Team New Zealand added to their undefeated record with a wi
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America's Cup: Peter Montgomery talks with James Spithill
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Peter Montgomery,
12:03 PM Sat GMT
Top international yachting commentator, Peter Montgomery, caught up with winning America's Cup skipper, James Spithill in at the Auckland International Boat Show in Auckland's Viaduct Harbour. Spithill has become only the second Australian skipper to win the America's Cup - the first used a winged keel, the second a wingsail.
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Fisher's View: The best seat in the house!
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Bob Fisher,
11:36 AM Sat GMT
Imagine sitting behind Jason Button in his McLaren as he laps the Bahrain circuit during this weekend’s Formula 1 Grand Prix; it’s the same as being behind Ben Ainslie as 18th man on TeamOrigin in a match with Bertrand Pace and the Aleph team. Maybe the corners don’t come up at more than 300 kph, but it sure as hell feels like it.
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America's Cup: Russell Coutts - the Full Monty
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Richard Gladwell. Sail-World.com,
9:19 AM Sat GMT
Rumour control has been out of control over the past few days, as comments made by BMW Oracle Racing CEO, Russell Coutts, have been taken out of context, or given an unintended spin - creating some unwarranted headlines.
On Wednesday, Coutts talked with Radio Sport's Peter Montgomery, and we can now present the full and unedited version of that interview.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy: Fourth win for Emirates Team New Zealand
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Louis Vuitton Trophy WSTA,
8:55 AM Sat GMT
Brisk breezes and high-pressure competition delivered a basket of surprises and some painful losses during the fourth day of competition for the Louis Vuitton Trophy in Auckland. With three days remaining in the round robin, the host Emirates Team New Zealand has a perfect record after a convincing win today over the German/French boat All4One.
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Louis Vuitton Trophy – PredictWind Forecast - Day Six
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Jon Bilger, Auckland ,
8:33 AM Sat GMT
PredictWind.com is forecasting SW 15knots for day six of Louis Vuitton Series. Perfect wind conditions for racing !
Long Term Outlook is for moderate Southwesterlies
Monday: SW 10 increasing to 15knots
Tuesday: SW 10 increasing to 16knots
Wednesay: SW10 increasing to 20knots
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Bacardi Miami Sailing Week: Day 2 Melges 20 update
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International Audi Melges 20 Class Association,
6:59 AM Sat GMT
A looming, yet vicious storm system lurked to the north of Miami, Fla. as the fifteen-strong Audi Melges 20 fleet anticipated a second day of racing. Nothing could hold back the Audi Melges 20s and Melges 24 fleets as race one kicked off on time.
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Bacardi Miami Sailing Week cancels sailing class competitions
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Bacardi Miami Sailing Week,
6:03 AM Sat GMT
In addition to the Star Class being stymied due to weather, all other classes including Melges 20, Melges 24, Viper, and J/24 were also all cancelled for the day. With weather on Biscyane Bay hoping to improve tomorrow, the Bacardi Cup plans to fit two Star Class races in for a full six to be included in tomorrow's final standings.
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LA Harbor Cup Intercollegiate Regatta: Navy sweeps the first day
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Rich Roberts,
5:53 AM Sat GMT
Only two points separate first-place Navy and Chapman University after first two of nine races Friday in the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup/Cal Maritime Invitational Intercollegiate Regatta, but it could have been a lot closer.
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