America’s Cup: R5 (R6 Postponed)
RACE 5: [Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] Today in history: 1988: Dennis Conner at an 27th America’s Cup press conference in San Diego announced, “I’m sailing a cat; someone

RACE 5: [Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] Today in history: 1988: Dennis Conner at an 27th America’s Cup press conference in San Diego announced, “I’m sailing a cat; someone
Race 3: [Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin- Raget] Oracle entered with speed at the port end with Barker and ‘the boys’ at the starboard end. Both boats were joined
In the words of the late Phil Rizzuto (major league baseball player and renowned Yankee’s game announcer): “HOLY COW!” Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a boat race. And what a
Apparently LSD ranks higher than Emirates Team New Zealand, Chris Draper, VSail and Darren Bundock! What you say?! That’s crazy talk! Ahh but alas, according to @bangingon (Kate Laven), an
Header image of Larry slightly modified. This popped up on Stuff.co.nz this morning. [divider] America’s Cup holder Larry Ellison will be “absolutely pissed off” with the shame the cheating scandal
[Source: americascup.com / Header Image: NZL Sailing Team. Photo: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] Emotions are running high heading into the final day of the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, will
UPDATE And this… Paul Elvstrom (he’s the other 5 time Olympic medalist) said something like this “there is no point in winning, if in the process of winning you lose
[Header Image: ACEA / Abner Kingman] Again another early start here in NZ and another two races in the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup. Conditions moderated from yesterday with breeze
Emirates Team New Zealand has become The People’s Boat with American’s ditching their roots and and moving in the Kiwi ring! To honour this new title, we thought that the
Race Day 6 – Race 8. Emirates Team New Zealand have taken the Louis Vuitton Cup 7-1 over the Italians aboard Luna Rossa Challenge this morning in San Francisco. A
[Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] Big Day on the bay in San Francisco today with a big breeze to match. Two race scheduled. At stake, the Louis Vuitton Cup
[Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] Only one race was scheduled for today but again it was the Emirates Team New Zealand show. The crew are now in the mind
[Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] RACE 5: What a race! And yes, it was the second race of the day. Italy did not sit down and accept defeat, they
Want to watch the Louis Vuitton Cup and America’s Cup LIVE? You can through the homepage of Live Sail Die. So any race day, just jump on to our website
[Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup is getting closer (1st – 4th of September) and the teams are out there training hard to be
[Header Image: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget] Race 3 Highlights Another race completed today with only 1 boat finishing. These boats are fragile. Racing day after day, both teams are having
[Header Image: ACEA / Abner Kingman] ETNZ overnight did full checks on their boat and designers and engineers have given the boat the all clear. The team has confirmed that
[youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjxEfg_mEw&feature=player_detailpage’] RACE TWO: Called off for today with race two scheduled for tomorrow morning. Both teams would be letting out a huge sigh of relief with both shore crews
Well, they reckon ETNZ are giving it a good nudge, cracking sheets and sending it ‘up’ the course as well as down. I have got a few pictures from the
[Source: www.americascup.com] The 30th anniversary Louis Vuitton Cup Final begins Saturday with Emirates Team New Zealand taking on Italy’s Luna Rossa Challenge. The two teams also met in the previous
Important Points The illusion of danger is real The risk and the cost is what has kept challengers away Ellison has more plastic in his forehead than there is on
[Source: www.americascup.com] The 10 teams entered in the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup received their AC45s today, marking the official beginning of the series created to give youth sailors a
We didn’t manage to watch the race this morning, but did predict the outcome. LR would win, Artemis would be there to show how much they have improved. Here is
[Source: Oracle Team USA via www.americascup.com / Header image: Guilain Grenier / Oracle Team USA ] ORACLE TEAM USA’s AC45 yachts have withdrawn, retrospectively, from the last four AC World
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