tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78049299937346632772024-03-17T20:03:38.703-07:00SailBlastcovering sailing here & thereUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804929993734663277.post-39575127663688645032022-08-31T07:54:00.035-07:002022-08-31T12:11:05.152-07:00Getting the Boat Right & Making the Boat Right - Preparing to Sail Solo Around the World<p><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFQ4nFMvMuDhDn1mdUuDWWquYB-IEKB2HiW2q-XGeQJazXwxT84IuNeRmaIypo6XKS-A7dTCLrQC6luuQ0Xmhb9xbnYdkIAv-Uzh-J5nqcBx1bNiyrJOmt8vu7a4y1zbw7bWfIaqxNbC_utYPh-ecTo9Z1rIldwKAtiMr-MFa1qdbZmSRa_1gOf4/s4032/PXL_20220825_164216844.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEFQ4nFMvMuDhDn1mdUuDWWquYB-IEKB2HiW2q-XGeQJazXwxT84IuNeRmaIypo6XKS-A7dTCLrQC6luuQ0Xmhb9xbnYdkIAv-Uzh-J5nqcBx1bNiyrJOmt8vu7a4y1zbw7bWfIaqxNbC_utYPh-ecTo9Z1rIldwKAtiMr-MFa1qdbZmSRa_1gOf4/s320/PXL_20220825_164216844.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The only woman competitor in the 2022 edition of the Golden Globe, Kirsten
Neuschafer</i></span><i style="text-align: left;"> has already sailed Minnehaha, her Cape George 36,
some 15,000 miles in the past eight months. Over a call, Neuschafer, a 40-year-old
professional sailor and adventurer from South Africa, sounded upbeat and cautiously
optimistic about her upcoming voyage, and like her boat, solid in her ability
to take on the grueling 30,000-mile Golden Globe race. We talked about her
boat, the most important weapon in her arsenal that will carry her safely and –
hopefully – expeditiously on her journey around the world.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Minnehaha is one of three Cape George 36s that Neuschafer
looked at in late 2019 after she decided to enter the Golden Globe. She was
searching for a boat in the North American market, because that’s where she was
at the time, that would meet the event’s specific requirements:<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Competitors must sail in production boats between 32ft
and 36ft overall (9.75 – 10.97m) designed prior to 1988 that have a full-length
keel with rudder attached to their trailing edge.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was suggested that she look at the Cape George 36, which
originates on the US west coast. Designed and built by Cape George Cutters out
of Port Townsend, Washington, on paper the boat appeared to check all the
boxes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“It looked like it would be a heavy and sturdy sea-worthy but
also fast boat,” she said. “I spoke to a lot of boat designers, racing sailors
etc. and by looking at the numbers on paper, the consensus was it would be an
ideal boat for my purposes.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apparently, Cape George 36 boats rarely hit the market
however at the time three were available: one in Seattle, one in Newfoundland
and another in Italy. Ultimately the boat in Newfoundland – <i>Minnehaha </i>-
seemed the best option and from the moment she saw it, Neuschafer felt it would
be a good choice.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFrwWvHgSWaH-RIL_wUaDzFNfFsimDq_6E4tmoBTKDKq9GV67c-zW6JwihpgX8Nd5kYZ2LrsDDm28EH_4fGCUC1XC0Dl0cMmzHkU9ovdb5xaDFvvy6sQRKShW_p-6acDdTnj1Lu03Ap1CH83wqiOkGF4FBzoh2jutTa6i9BnZ747RCoAoo11nofY/s4032/PXL_20220824_180231560.MP.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaFrwWvHgSWaH-RIL_wUaDzFNfFsimDq_6E4tmoBTKDKq9GV67c-zW6JwihpgX8Nd5kYZ2LrsDDm28EH_4fGCUC1XC0Dl0cMmzHkU9ovdb5xaDFvvy6sQRKShW_p-6acDdTnj1Lu03Ap1CH83wqiOkGF4FBzoh2jutTa6i9BnZ747RCoAoo11nofY/s320/PXL_20220824_180231560.MP.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“I instantly liked the boat even though from the start I
could see it was going to be a lot of work,” she recalled. “And Cape George
Cutters confirmed that she had been professionally built in their yard which
helped as they knew the boat.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Neuschafer learned about the pitfalls she could potentially
expect for a vessel of its nature and age (she was originally launched in 1988).
<i>Minnehaha</i> is somewhat of a hybrid, with a fiberglass hull, a requirement
of the race, with a wooden deck.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The yard had done a lot of refits of old Cape Georges and most
often what needed repairing were the bulwarks because they’re built of wood and
bolted onto the hull above, they would often rot in the colder northern
climates where they’d experience the freeze thaw cycles, plus the teak decks
are an ongoing maintenance challenge,” Neuschafer noted. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By the end of 2019, Neuschafer was back home in South Africa
raising funds to purchase <i>Minnehaha</i>. With that done, she returned to
Maine to start the 2020 season working as a skipper for Skip Novak’s Pelagic Expeditions<i>,</i>
but Covid soon hit shortly after her arrival, and borders quickly closed
putting both a halt on her <i>Pelagic </i>job and her ability to get to Newfoundland
to start work on her own boat. She waited it out in Maine for months until a friend
identified a legal loophole which would enable her to get to <i>Minnehaha</i>
in Canada. By then it was November 2020 and quickly turning into winter in
Newfoundland.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Her original plan had been to sail <i>Minnehaha</i> to Maine
to work on a refit. However, following a sea trial it was clear that the boat
wasn’t in any condition to sail into the North Atlantic, let alone in winter. Neuschafer
also had to be mindful of where she ventured given that international borders
were closed, and she didn’t want to run the risk of not being able to get into
any country.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meanwhile, friends had come through with connections to help
her haul the boat on Prince Edward Island (PEI), but she still needed to sail
the short distance from Newfoundland before the seas froze over. It took weeks to leave, as one winter depression after the next passed the Cabot Strait.
Local fishermen were looking out for her, and she relied on their wisdom before
deciding to leave.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX-iO3HRaUcPJ98L6TaAPFMn3aBITjUpB4F1G3T5RMqXcxo5Alsjs5WMPe6iQh9vFXsvl22FspDqxpWlzdzIWWGb-jeY5WEaYS-7oNpuyFltU7fOw_3DEulbHYl7roBLyEeutc-HFaWWbGxQZKlUHFNW5GDBLkCD5sEswzjzrDgTt9mQ5L4x0n9wU/s4032/PXL_20210108_180944387.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX-iO3HRaUcPJ98L6TaAPFMn3aBITjUpB4F1G3T5RMqXcxo5Alsjs5WMPe6iQh9vFXsvl22FspDqxpWlzdzIWWGb-jeY5WEaYS-7oNpuyFltU7fOw_3DEulbHYl7roBLyEeutc-HFaWWbGxQZKlUHFNW5GDBLkCD5sEswzjzrDgTt9mQ5L4x0n9wU/s320/PXL_20210108_180944387.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>“It was either really stormy on a boat that wasn't entirely up
to standard, or it was freezing conditions,” Neuschafer recalled. “The
fishermen would tell me, 'Whatever you do, do not leave tonight because the moisture
in the air will freeze anything it touches, like ice aloft, which makes your
boat heavy in the rig and destabilizes it.'"<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After some six weeks a short weather window enabled her to cross
the Cabot Strait to PEI, making it in the nick of time as ice was already forming
on the water. <i>Minnehaha </i>was hauled, which was an event unto itself. While
a crane was available, there was not a truck or trailer on the island designed to
transport a keel boat. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Being as innovative as they are on PEI, the job got done with
a lobster boat trailer,” Neuschafer recalled. “One young guy, Eddie Arsenault, who
was considered a genius on PEI, told me, 'Relax, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t
think it was doable,' and he pulled it off.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With the boat in a shed and safe for the winter, the refit
of <i>Minnehaha</i> got underway. The PEI community picked up interest in the
project and Arsenault quickly became her right-hand man, basically dropping his
regular work to work with Neuschafer full-time on the massive 10-month project,
which included rebuilding of the upper layers of the decks, the bulwarks and
bowsprit.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Keeping in mind that all this was being done during an international
pandemic, on a remote island, in the middle of a severe winter, sourcing
materials was not exactly easy. But Arsenault proved to be incredibly
resourceful.</p><p class="MsoNormal">“He persuaded an old guy who owned a lathe bench which
wasn’t being used any longer but was built</p>of Douglas Fir to sell us the bench
so we could build bulwarks out of it,” she said. “He’d recall where to find
things he’d seen somewhere ten years previously which he knew we could use.
What we couldn’t source he would machine himself.”<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With this incredibly bright talent - a person who could do
the same amount of work as four people in one day – <i>Minnehaha</i> was refit.
By the time summer rolled around, Prince Edward Islanders had really<br /> adopted
her as their own. She had moved into new friends’ spare room right next to the
shed where her boat was being worked on. <o:p></o:p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The community support was otherworldly,” Neuschafer said
with heartfelt gratitude. “I just don’t think it’s possible to find that kind
of support somewhere else other than an obscure little place like PEI.”<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0PI7oBviNoehREKd9finRYBEKF9OHstltcpPS0kwED2Gydg5M5GiFzigqrmEr_AlVXPhjKHLIq4HOY12gp6pwgx9VCIThgeUJaVb2ETNXQazIF1lUPxiTVxblZQumcJxMKCYantGRonLaLF5NCvluUeZE0_oXn1cA_aeXs5pqVhvXw4wqrl_v5k/s4032/PXL_20210908_110005790.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0PI7oBviNoehREKd9finRYBEKF9OHstltcpPS0kwED2Gydg5M5GiFzigqrmEr_AlVXPhjKHLIq4HOY12gp6pwgx9VCIThgeUJaVb2ETNXQazIF1lUPxiTVxblZQumcJxMKCYantGRonLaLF5NCvluUeZE0_oXn1cA_aeXs5pqVhvXw4wqrl_v5k/w240-h307/PXL_20210908_110005790.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The community held fundraisers for her just to keep the
project ticking over and while Neuschafer knew there would be big expenses like
replacing the rig – the original rig was wooden spars - she had no idea the
extent of the rest of the work and what it would cost.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“If it had not been for Eddie, the project would not have
been possible,” she said. “He charged me half of what he would charge typically
for his labor, and he put hundreds of hours in that he didn’t charge me a cent
for. Where we could we repurposed material that he sourced which was much less
expensive than it would have been otherwise, which was cool because the problem
with old fiberglass boats is that they’re not recyclable and typically they
become landfill once they’ve been discarded – I now have a repurposed round-the-world-boat.
It’s nice to give the boat a second life because it’s a beautiful classic boat
that may not have ever been recovered.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLih4iCLdQTACu7JFWukS86KJ8h_M6FiwZSCiKvhudD3uQN_tefB8rLfs4RSgUgbwCaX8i_hYcS7eMYpbmhWOmGLDhZeroANR5SBFpZX0vbbg-Cu9zsQnRPfHFj1FbFj9IVlDMq6_aDNOGdAFFg_et-aBpdaXOrIZSubDctbN56MuBnAPyQB6OunQ/s4032/PXL_20211105_131139852.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLih4iCLdQTACu7JFWukS86KJ8h_M6FiwZSCiKvhudD3uQN_tefB8rLfs4RSgUgbwCaX8i_hYcS7eMYpbmhWOmGLDhZeroANR5SBFpZX0vbbg-Cu9zsQnRPfHFj1FbFj9IVlDMq6_aDNOGdAFFg_et-aBpdaXOrIZSubDctbN56MuBnAPyQB6OunQ/s320/PXL_20211105_131139852.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Neuschafer lived on PEI for almost a year, and once again,
it was late in the season by the time she was ready to depart. Leaving in late
December 2021, she was headed into the same kind of winter conditions as the
previous year that she had arrived in - one depression followed the next.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal">After
three weeks she realized winter wasn’t getting better, it was getting colder
and ice conditions were near. She had already spent three weeks on the east
side of PEI waiting for a weather window when a gap appeared, which was not
ideal – it meant leaving in 40-50 knots.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She left PEI on a staysail and trysail in storm
conditions through the Canso Canal, Nova Scotia, before entering the Atlantic
Ocean. She spent one night in Fisherman’s Harbor, an obscure little fishing
harbor close to Canso where the fishermen had all hauled their boats for the
season. When she came into port, they let her know that she should call them if
she needed help. She called the next day, requesting assistance to cast off so
that she could leave to head into the Atlantic.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“They didn’t want me to leave, they said it was blowing 40
knots inside and that it would be blowing 50+ outside, 'Are you sure you want
to leave?' they questioned me. I said I had to leave because if I didn’t, I’d
never get out there. I did leave and sailed non-stop to South Africa, making landfall
in Cape Town.”</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It was a rough sail with winter conditions that didn’t
really subside until she was well east of Bermuda, but </span><i style="text-align: left;">Minnehaha</i><span style="text-align: left;"> proved
her worth and it was an invaluable experience to have sailed the 7,700 miles<br />
from Nova Scotia to Cape Town. After three months at home in Cape Town, she sailed
another 6,300 to the Azores where she stopped to haul the boat one final time to
anti-foul. From the Azores it was another 1000 miles to the Bay of Biscay to
prepare for the start of the Golden Globe.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOoJn4n8dCiaTmBxfBtewpMzVURBirsVgzeq1-yAtg8aGBuHwWMUu-gVt0HHXY-WIRDip-8B-tJbDnydD4W2Z0ZN76Eva3_3NnN8sSMNgpxqLJV1q-Y1t0guFilOfGw-8ukwLLQbqnoGlb0dXbKorQhdcfvlTow3kjmkniyCwIdbZIjecsmgyeII/s4032/20211112_125346.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2268" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOoJn4n8dCiaTmBxfBtewpMzVURBirsVgzeq1-yAtg8aGBuHwWMUu-gVt0HHXY-WIRDip-8B-tJbDnydD4W2Z0ZN76Eva3_3NnN8sSMNgpxqLJV1q-Y1t0guFilOfGw-8ukwLLQbqnoGlb0dXbKorQhdcfvlTow3kjmkniyCwIdbZIjecsmgyeII/s320/20211112_125346.jpg" width="180" /></a></div>“I’ve already got almost 15,000 on <i>Minnehaha</i>, it’s
been a huge blessing to have already spent so much time sailing her,” she
shared. “Leaving from Nova Scotia for South Africa was hard beating conditions while
leaving Cape Town was light, running conditions all the way to the Equator. On
that stretch I got to experience different conditions sailing in light winds
and using spinnakers and code zeros.”<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She feels like she’s encountered most of the conditions she
could encounter on the race except the big heavy Southern Ocean conditions,
which she had only had a little taste of approaching Cape Town.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The Southern Ocean makes me a little nervous, but I do
really trust the boat. If we don’t do well, it’s me!” she laughed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In hindsight, she couldn’t have chosen and refitted her boat
in a better way. She knows <i>Minnehaha</i> so intimately at this point and has
developed a special relationship with the boat. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“I love the boat; I’ve put so much of my personal energy
into it,” she said. “There’s hardly a nut, bolt or screw that hasn’t passed
through my hands. I had lots of tools and materials left from the refit which
were fantastic – correct sized - spares to take on board.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While she never really considered changing the name of her
boat, she deferred to the advice of the local northern fisherman.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“They said to me, 'Don’t change the name; you change the
name, you change the luck,'" she noted. “I like the name and the fact that she
is a North American boat with a North American name. They were so kind to me, all
those Canadians in those far northern and somewhat isolated islands are such
nice, kind, generous people.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfKzEW2iBRfLm1_MGmpjziiBDYnq8tyJHQNUtNdi4x6k1I3Y9uoB0Ti4e66Mmn4JcYnYjjgELzoY_3g_HqyRpvxI6_1ztarMBsxx_J-BKFKu1sPv25Om4z5Jcg9Y9DotEP9Gpf06sW_96MohgupRteZbW93W-p_UhNXm1ADwBrvUBetsuzbOkve4/s4032/PXL_20220824_180208316.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfKzEW2iBRfLm1_MGmpjziiBDYnq8tyJHQNUtNdi4x6k1I3Y9uoB0Ti4e66Mmn4JcYnYjjgELzoY_3g_HqyRpvxI6_1ztarMBsxx_J-BKFKu1sPv25Om4z5Jcg9Y9DotEP9Gpf06sW_96MohgupRteZbW93W-p_UhNXm1ADwBrvUBetsuzbOkve4/s320/PXL_20220824_180208316.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Now the time has come and she’s almost underway. Her biggest
joy, Neuschafer shared, will be when she’s out on the ocean.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Getting offshore, away from traffic and into the trade
winds when it gets warm and the weather is nice and consistent, and leaving all
this behind – it’s hectic here at the docks in the South of France, the start
line will be intense, so to finally start, break away from all of this and find
yourself in your world and living to your own rhythm again. That’s going to be
really rewarding.” - <i>Follow Kirsten Neuschafer: https://kirstenggr.com/</i></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>*The 2022 edition of the Golden Globe Race will be the
third edition of the original Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. The race starts
on September 4, 2022, from Les Sables-d'Olonne in France. Event Info:</i> <a href="https://goldengloberace.com/">https://goldengloberace.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804929993734663277.post-36768630023629821132021-04-21T06:46:00.004-07:002021-06-11T11:27:33.638-07:00Fiona Wylde - Doing it Differently and Doing it All<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3IXdliJ-oCYnYGicCpDzojD8M6uiVdArUG7gGa-YNDwP73Tgjr0RU6nsKJs8WAsM3tz0g2pgZ7P93F6_H4seIDGndgsJccBZ8sHrcn4sb5XQgEJc4_-9CZ7UwXgW-RreF0zpJTSeCro/s4032/FW-1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3IXdliJ-oCYnYGicCpDzojD8M6uiVdArUG7gGa-YNDwP73Tgjr0RU6nsKJs8WAsM3tz0g2pgZ7P93F6_H4seIDGndgsJccBZ8sHrcn4sb5XQgEJc4_-9CZ7UwXgW-RreF0zpJTSeCro/s320/FW-1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b>Not long after she signed with Starboard as a pro athlete in
stand-up paddle boarding, Fiona Wylde was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. </b> She was 18. “Here was my chance to be a
professional athlete and I was so excited. But I did one race and was in second
the entire race, it was super long and in the last mile I just tanked. It was a
big shift for me.”<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wylde couldn’t help but think, “How does this work? I’m a
professional athlete, my body is supposed to work!” She had just signed her
dream, but she wasn’t sure how it was possible to be a professional athlete
with a body that wasn’t working for her.</p><p class="MsoNormal">She started on insulin and three
days later flew to Europe to race for the first time in the European Championship
tour in England. She won the race.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After many years as a SUP athlete in both paddle racing
and surfing, Wylde, 24, is switching her attention to the iQFoil (Innovation Quality), a new class for the 2024 Olympic Games. She’s got a ton of experience behind her, and
a healthy appetite for competition. At 5’-2”, she’s one of the tiniest people I have ever seen
on a windsurfer, let alone on top of a windsurfing foil board.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Born in Port
Townsend, WA, her first introduction to the water was on her parents’ sailboat,
Bryony, a 36ft gaff cutter on which Ellen and McCrae Wylde ran sail charters (Fiona’s
mum has always had a business making dodgers for sailboats). While Fiona was not
much more than a toddler, Ellen and McCrae began to spend time in Los Barriles,
Mexico, on the east cape of the Baja peninsula.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pretty soon, Fiona’s routine became Port Townsend in the
summers and Baja in the winters - she’d play on the beach while her parents sailed
and windsurfed and occasionally McCrae would sail her around on the nose of his
board until she was old enough to be on her own gear.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Windsurfing for me was our family sport – it’s what we did together
and it’s how it all started for me,” Wylde said, with her characteristic
enthusiasm. “I would be asked what I did after school, and I would say, “I go
windsurfing!”. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Wyldes moved from Port Townsend to Hood River, Oregon, and
by the time she was 10, she was already an accomplished windsurfer competing
alongside her dad.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wylde laughed, “I couldn’t water start and I couldn’t jibe
but I could go fast in a straight line – they let me do a couple of races when
I was 10 and that became the thing that I looked forward to the most – windsurf
racing.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Through to middle school, Wylde would attend school until
mid-November when her parents would take her out, telling school, “She’ll be
back first week of March, what does she need to know?” She spent 12 years
attending Mexican school, making life-long friends with local kids, and becoming
fluent in Spanish.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wylde competed in windsurf racing into her mid-teens but also
joined a kids’ SUP team, training twice a week at 6:30am, a big deal for a
bunch of teenagers, she laughed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“We weren’t sure why we were doing it as we were a bunch of
windsurfers, but I really liked the physical, technical and training aspects of
it. Windsurfing is technical but when I was younger it wasn’t very physical so
for me. SUP was a cool balance between the two sports.”</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmSNVGcTuyqJFz5g1lJHYSRrulFJexbaUYuIu5O1Qfmtzul7IP19QqDnZbpq_hXwrVd15rW3ohhyphenhyphen81a4cPpcMNcb1n2bkq-XRD7ljN9Heual0Da12qV1lcj7RgG7F0RQAx71ETF7V6MU/s2048/FW-4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmSNVGcTuyqJFz5g1lJHYSRrulFJexbaUYuIu5O1Qfmtzul7IP19QqDnZbpq_hXwrVd15rW3ohhyphenhyphen81a4cPpcMNcb1n2bkq-XRD7ljN9Heual0Da12qV1lcj7RgG7F0RQAx71ETF7V6MU/w281-h203/FW-4.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">16 was a pivotal age for Wylde – she competed in the Gorge
Cup windsurfing slalom series in Hood River for the first time and beat
everyone of any significance including her dad.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“While just a small series, the caliber was really high, so
it beating everyone was significant,” she said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wylde also competed that year in the Gorge
Paddle Challenge for the first time, a World Cup event where the world’s best
SUPers compete. She won.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The combination of those two big wins reinforced my passion
for competing,” Wylde commented. “I told my parents that’s what I wanted to do.
I was already doing an online school program, so I didn’t need to physically
attend high school which allowed me to travel and compete. I had the passion
and for me competing was the direction it was all going.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About the same time, Wylde learned to SUP surf and started
competing in that, as well as windsurf wave sailing. She was a water hound, competing
in some slalom, a lot of wave sailing, a lot of SUP surfing and a lot of
standup racing, juggling the four different sports although her two main
focuses were windsurf wave sailing and SUP racing. It was a unique lifestyle
for a teenager and one that she successfully pulled off from 16-20, spending a
lot of time in Hawaii and learning as much as she could about waves and surfing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She won the Youth World Title in 2014 for wave sailing and
took second in a World Cup Event in Hawaii in 2014 and 2015 where all the top
pros were competing. She also competed in SUP racing, making podium at
international events, and winning the<b> </b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">SUPtheMag Breakthrough Performer Award
presented at the annual SUP Awards. She was also winning at a plethora of other
competitions across multiple events.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The hard work paid off - when she was 17, Starboard invited
her to sign with them for the 2015 season. She’s been on the Starboard
International Dream Team for SUP since then. That she wasn’t signed for
windsurfing - Starboard was looking for a SU paddler at the time - really
changed her career path.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After joining Starboard, she competed for another year on
the windsurfing tour, but it was complicated for Wylde to compete in all four
disciplines all at the pro level within a calendar year. She turned her focus
to SUP surfing and SUP racing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not long after she signed with Starboard, Wylde was
diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes yet just some months later she won the
women’s SUP Racing World Title.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1K1ysQJbPAbu29XtIyLnftoCfBnEhwpMgUeMLB6Cj6hY2Eyy2Q23uV00umRwaY7HOZt_OXOoWqd6TwoVc9hvsa2A29E8tFjkThV3YB_8GdlxOMmi6pkdXw3oOYeWLoagHq08-WoUuZ5U/s960/FW-3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1K1ysQJbPAbu29XtIyLnftoCfBnEhwpMgUeMLB6Cj6hY2Eyy2Q23uV00umRwaY7HOZt_OXOoWqd6TwoVc9hvsa2A29E8tFjkThV3YB_8GdlxOMmi6pkdXw3oOYeWLoagHq08-WoUuZ5U/s320/FW-3.jpg" /></a></div>“That’s been my biggest accomplishment, the diagnosis of
Type 1, and then going onto win major competitions back-to-back,” Wylde
commented. “Physically and emotionally, it was a big step forward in my career
as I had to jump start everything, including the mental side of competing. If
you have a passion for something, you just have to work your
butt off and pay attention. In my case I had to pay attention to my body, but I
wasn't going to give up because I had a faulty pancreas.”<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That same year she won her first SUP world title in SUP
racing – a world tour with up to six events throughout the year – she also
competed in SUP surfing and took second in that world tour series, and in
2019 won the European tour for SUP racing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wylde’s focus on SUP rather than windsurfing changed when
the iQFoil became the new Olympic class for 2024. Wylde saw
the equipment evolving, and the potential that Starboard would win the bid for
the Olympics to supply that equipment. Her interest was seriously piqued.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Windsurfing is something I have loved from the beginning, I
have a long history of racing in it and really enjoy the technical aspect of it,”
Wylde said. “When I learned foiling was coming in, I wanted to give it a go.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJCecAqUa_mx1lYLxx1P636gYzY2RbaqcoewXjS8Hux6pFHzs3R6OIoBg5t0BljXnsaCr7T8dAxa8OorPKO9yzs5hRtglmcYYvJQrrOzp5nhm6klljcP5j4gkn4iLbY-0BgfB14UZOgA/s2048/FW-9.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiJCecAqUa_mx1lYLxx1P636gYzY2RbaqcoewXjS8Hux6pFHzs3R6OIoBg5t0BljXnsaCr7T8dAxa8OorPKO9yzs5hRtglmcYYvJQrrOzp5nhm6klljcP5j4gkn4iLbY-0BgfB14UZOgA/s320/FW-9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Due to Covid she hasn’t raced SUP this past year, although
she’s kept her training up, so moving into the iQFoil class was a good
opportunity to learn something new. This past fall she trained in Florida with
US Sailing. Her experience with the iQFoil gear was limited, she hadn’t sailed
on it with other sailors, and had never sailed course racing, only slalom, so learning
tactics was key. T<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ransitioning
from a regular windsurfer to a foiling windsurfer had its challenges.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span>You’re
going a lot faster when you’re foiling so it’s been a steep learning curve<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, with the biggest thing being
the different timing in maneuvers, and balance,” Wylde explained. “Of course,
the crashes a gnarlier, too! However, I find it fun because not only are you
trimming the board and your sail, but now you get to include the foil, which is
an entire new dimension unto itself. It takes time to learn the response of the
foil. I am reading and riding the water differently than if I was sailing with
a fixed fin.” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For now, there’s just one other female in the iQFoil class contending
for the US spot on the 2024 Olympic sailing team – Farrah Hall, the current U.S.
Olympian for RS:X windsurfing.</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“She’s definitely good!” Wylde expressed. “Initially there
was no way I would have been able to beat Farrah but by the end in slalom I would
win a few, she would win a few. In course racing she would mostly win but in
the last few days of the regatta I was right behind her or getting her in a
couple of races. The cool part about it is that she has so much experience and
I’m on the same race-course as her – I learned a lot from her.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Historically, as Hall concludes, windsurfing has had low
participation at the elite level in the U.S. She thinks however, that the new
class will certainly draw in more women.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“It's cooler, modern, and more fun, so I definitely expect
to see more women try it out,” Hall said. “I think Fiona has a really good
process and attitude, so she certainly has a lot of potential as a competitor
in the iQFoil class.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-NUIYMXjTv5tVZJak3Rh34mX5NdzzORRTV3aHUaZ1OJc63PpvjfVm6Qg_JMCJ3aFGdvwUp5C3bj8Sam2y_IPD3GpGEUacbCsP0UxoeZV_sGeXd7KQ8MnlOwxvAvG9e2ubcy9hCQhx4g/s960/FW-2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-NUIYMXjTv5tVZJak3Rh34mX5NdzzORRTV3aHUaZ1OJc63PpvjfVm6Qg_JMCJ3aFGdvwUp5C3bj8Sam2y_IPD3GpGEUacbCsP0UxoeZV_sGeXd7KQ8MnlOwxvAvG9e2ubcy9hCQhx4g/s320/FW-2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;">Wylde’s Olympic dream is inspired, and supported,
by her family. Great Grandfather Cecil Irton Wylde represented England in the
1928 Winter Olympics in Ice Hockey, and her Uncle Peter
Wylde, a professional equestrian showjumper, won gold in Athens in 2004. Wylde
was there to experience his success. “I guess that’s where the Olympic effort
started!” she laughs.</span><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“My uncle Peter and I have an incredible relationship,”
Wylde explains. “I visit him in Florida in between events and the biggest thing
I take away from him is the hours are the hours he puts in – I watch the way he
works and wonder how he accomplishes what he does. He has a passion for it and
realizing that was an “aha” moment as I do that too - establish organization and
routines.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wylde is still contracted to Starboard which for now is her
job. In 2021 she plans to continue with SU paddling while also training on the
IQ foil – whatever training camps she can go to and whatever opportunities
there may be with US Sailing, sailing with other people, she’ll be doing it. Her
goal for this year is three international regattas between the disciplines. Going
into 2022-23, it will be windsurfing all the way for Wylde. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Her daily routine, whether in the Gorge or Baja or Hawaii, is structured: dry land training
in the morning for both SU and windsurf, then paddle and windsurfing every
afternoon. Sometimes she’ll do all three in a day, or alternate dryland with a
paddle, or dryland with a windsurf.<br />
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“It’s all very well to live in great places but it’s also distracting to a routine and trying to incorporate schoolwork. My time on the water is my
time to train, it’s not playtime. I go out on the water with specific ideas and
goals for that session.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Her coach Steve Wrye first met Fiona when she was in middle
school and ran for the Hood River Middle School program and has been working
with her since.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Even at 13 years old she asked all the right questions and
spent hours working on her running mechanics,” Wrye commented. “Fiona's
strength is she is just an amazingly gifted athlete. I am beginning to think
that she now may be the best all-around water woman in the world. If not pretty
damn close!”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWztvMzh1OYU-r9eugVHeli_l1ViCRkm4cKZ8CVGhFBfsdY5eSAVUlxNQKLuEoXedv2VU_M_fei4IxwoVodceDIP4VWriWKNfzi_yH443McCMWrw98OBG_Vs3SyYL2WZAiBgChyphenhyphenHfYZoo/s2048/FW-10.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWztvMzh1OYU-r9eugVHeli_l1ViCRkm4cKZ8CVGhFBfsdY5eSAVUlxNQKLuEoXedv2VU_M_fei4IxwoVodceDIP4VWriWKNfzi_yH443McCMWrw98OBG_Vs3SyYL2WZAiBgChyphenhyphenHfYZoo/s320/FW-10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Day 1 winners Japan Team SF Bay </b></span></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SailGP racing left its mark on San Francisco Bay
this weekend with a showcase of memorable yacht racing that will leave its mark
on the Bay for a long while. An on water technology play like nothing before, the F50 was the subject of a fascinating tech talk at the Golden Gate Yacht Club last
week, setting the scene for an exhilarating event.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>The panel: Mike Drummond, Technical Director, SailGP, Edwin Upson, GVP,
Enterprise Cloud Architects, Oracle, Warren Jones, Director of Technology, SailGP,
Hans Henken, Flight Controller USA SailGP Team, Tom Burnham, Coach, SailGP and Phil
Crane, Data Analyst, SailGP.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>WHAT ITS LIKE FOILING A F50: </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's always appreciated when techies can bring the language
to the layman. Mike Drummond, describing sailing a F50 catamaran up on its
foils, said, “It’s like balancing a broomstick on your fingertip.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Except this broomstick on your finger is
actually only a few inches long, and has </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">another</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
full-length broomstick, with a broom on the upper end of it, way up in the air,
balanced on top of it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And it’s not
exactly on your fingertip; it’s on the fingertip of your friend, standing right
next to you, and you are telling him how to move his finger to keep it balanced
there.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To keep these boats sailing on their foils, the sailors are
constantly adjusting the angles of the foils and sails to achieve and maintain
a most opportune “ride height” of the leeward hull above the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Very small
changes to the bow-up attitude make a tremendous amount of difference: Russell
Coutts indicated during a boat tour that a difference of 50cm in ride height
when foiling can mean a difference of two to four knots of boat speed.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Too low, and your hull slaps the water and
that’s very slow. Too high, and the water foil will cavitate (the water around
the foil breaks down / boils / evaporates), and you crash back down into the
water while going 25 mph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>HOW THEY SAIL THESE BEASTS:</i></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“We sail these boats as you sail most boats, with a
seat-of-the pants feeling, combined with the data,” Hans Henken, racing on the
US team commented. Henken races on the US SailGP Team and is a Stanford University graduate
with a master’s degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. “We can
certainly and dramatically feel when a boat “releases” (presumably from the water
and transitioning into a foiling mode), and this is very positive feedback! We
use the data to quantify what we did in terms of trimming, moding, and sailing
the boat, and to replicate when we have been able to do it particularly well.”</span><br />
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between the flight controller and the helmsman. More bow down attitude on the
boat provides more speed. Our wing trimmer Riley Gibbs changes the attitude and
twist of the wing in order to give us the power we want, when we want it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Getting and keeping these things flying is tremendously hard
work, and it is difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Data has
helped these sailors to better learn and understand their flying machines. The
boats are highly instrumented, with1200 sensors onboard each vessel. Oracle is
helping SailGP to collect, display, transmit, store, and analyze 20 MB of data
from every race boat, per 15-minute race. With 1000 channels of information
from sensors onboard, and with some channels operating at 50 hz (readings per
second), it’s a significant data stream. From it, they are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inferring</i> the behaviors of the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>HOW THE DATA FLOWS:</i> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">SailGP proprietary IP is layered atop an Oracle open
platform. Oracle intends that model to be replicated for additional sports
applications. The SailGP electronics team build some of their own gear, using
some conventional marine electronics sensors (from B&G and others), feeding
real-time info to on-board displays for vital boat performance and control
information.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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own bandwidth, and their performance data is relayed in real-time via telemetry
across a low-latency, custom-built LTE (4G wireless) network built with
multiple antennas around and upon the waterfront race area.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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flows into a popup data center and into the cloud, at 200 ms. Live video
screens onshore, on coach boats, course marshal boats and other displays are
powered from a 100 ms from SailGP in London. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All of this info mashes up into
the SailGP app that you was available throughout last week for practice races and
during racing on the Apple Appstore (the app was released to Android Thursday
May 2).</span></div>
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</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Data gets loaded into autonomous data platforms that include
AI. Oracle engineers can set up the data they want to look at, like a Spotify
playlist. Teams have hired data analysts to interpret and help teams to learn
from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">data collected and uploaded from sailing sessions and races to better inform
performance.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Before <st1:city w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:city>, SailGP
did not have an adequate dataset to fully analyze the performance of these
newly-configured boats; conditions at the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sydney</st1:place></st1:city>
event had light breezes, and they may not have had the opportunity to collect
enough race-quality data in heavier air conditions. That will not be the case
after the end of this weekend’s racing; the dataset will be more robust, well-developed
and useful, and can be compared meaningfully against designer’s polars and
targets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at data from all the other boats, in real time and during post-race analysis. This
is in marked contrast to the Americas Cup, and almost all other sailing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Teams that weren’t performing well in Sydney have greatly
improved here in San Francisco in the last week, by using stored performance
data, and comparing their sailing efforts to those of the teams who made their
boats perform better. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the future, new teams will be able to rapidly get up
to speed by learning the boats virtually at first, with stored data, and then
going sailing and trying to emulate bench-marked performance achieved by
experienced and well-practiced teams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The data being collected is leading directly to design improvements,
including larger wings for lighter venues, and possibly different rudders. The
boats will remain one-design but will evolve. Specific suggestions by
individual teams are considered for applicability for inclusion in design mods
to all boats. There’s a lot more technological development continuing upon the
racing boats, and while the data being used for boat technology development and
ability to fly them is the most interesting to some of us, SailGP is focused on
tech development well beyond the race boats. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“We are optimizing everything in conjunction…boat tech,
broadcast tech, fan experience, and it’s a lot!” Drummond noted.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tom Burnham, SailGP coach, and Phil Crane, SailGP Data
Analyst, worked together at the last Americas Cup and it seemed natural to do
it again together at SailGP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beginning
at the first event in Sydney, Phil prepared numerous reports based upon
extensive data analysis. They are working now in San Francisco at doing this
even better, and they are working on building their abilities to do more meaningful
and effective real-time data and performance analysis – and providing feedback,
based upon that data, to the teams, both <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in
real-time</i> and in post-race debriefs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This real-time feedback and input from the coach to the
teams is enabling <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">improvement during the
day </i>while out sailing and racing, building significantly upon the
effectiveness of traditional post-race analysis. In conventional sailing, this
is prohibited by the racing rules, which prohibit communications or access to
information that is not specifically and freely available to all competitors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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post-race with the coaches and (probably very tired) sailors. They go through
race videos, audio, hand written notes, audio notes, and the post-race debrief generates
LOTS OF QUESTIONS from the sailors who, during the race, had their hands full
just trying to keep the boat flying. When the action is over, they want to know
how to fly better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Boat sensor data, coupled with onboard video, onboard audio,
and all boat’s GPS positions displayed in the most appropriate ways enable
immersive re-creation of a session or race for analysis. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">More details provide
better data analysis, and a more realistic and accurate recreation may enable
noticing small things that might have had unanticipated or surprisingly large
inputs into a process - whether it might be a crash or a particularly nice
liftoff, tack, or gybe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After the debrief, Crane digs more deeply
into the data, sometimes can answer some of the ‘lots of questions’, and provides
detailed reports. Comparing actual performance achieved in a race to theoretical
models, benchmarked best behaviors, speeds and angles, and to performance of
other teams sailing in the same conditions, in that same race, enables detailed
and quick learning opportunities. Teams can look at all of the settings they
used onboard for sail and foil controls, compare them to the settings used by
other boats in that race and others, and rapidly learn to do things better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Many F50 settings are automated within control buttons used
on the systems. Super-detailed data logging enables post-race analysis of exactly
when buttons were pressed, in what sequence, and by whom, to minutely examine
what works, and what doesn’t work, as these talented athletes learn to fly
these sailing machines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With continuous improvement of systems, sails, foils,
controls, and the sequencing of what they do with all of them, these guys are
going to soon learn to balance their broomsticks and foil all the way around
the race courses. A race with multiple boats that never slow below 19 knots
will be a whole new and exciting kind of simultaneous and competitive broomstick-balancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seen on screens during Thursday May 2 practice race, with winds 15-18 knots:</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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the wind) of 18.3 kts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Photo Credit: SailGP<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">RC: It’s logical for SailGP to partner with US Sailing as we </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24px;">have a lot of common interests. We both want to promote and grow sailing at the grass roots.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -24px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">The nationality rule that we have adopted for SailGP means that the US team must use US sailors and that in turn means the US Team needs to have a pathway for young sailors to develop their skills such that one day they can sail on an F50. It’s our hope that by presenting an exciting platform with the SailGP Championship, it will inspire more young people to become involved with or try sailing. Our goal is to create a consistent platform of annual events, returning to the same venues each year.</span></span></div>
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racing in the same high tech boats and </span></div>
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the public domain is a pretty cool feature. It means that the crews
can analyze each others performance and compare the different
techniques they are using to sail the boats. That should accelerate the
learning curve for all the teams. I suspect the teams will not end up sailing
the boats the same though. The play book that one team adopts may not suit
another. But it will definitely give us an insight as to why one team
might be performing better than another.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Of course we made the boats one design
because we want to identify the best sailors rather than who has the best
technology and we also wanted to save costs. But the interesting thing is the
rule doesn’t stop our central design team from developing the boats, in fact
it’s quite the opposite. The rule is simply that each team must use
equal equipment as supplied without modification. We are
currently building new wing sails to be used for the 2020 season. We’ve
just introduced a new flight control system on all of the boats for the
San Francisco event. And we will likely build new foils to be
implemented in 2021. Whilst the current F50’s are capable of exceeding 50 knots
I see no reason why they couldn’t be reaching 55 knots or more in two or three
years time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">RC: It’s never become boring for me because I’ve always kept an open mind and taken
on new challenges. It’s an exciting time to be involved in sailing. I’m
pretty involved in some youth programs in New Zealand and we are seeing growth
in a few areas for the first time in quite a while. These new forms of sailing
are exciting and inspiring the youth. It’s become cool again.</span></span></div>
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sailing can and should be enjoyed in all forms and at all levels. But having a
top professional arm of the sport, that’s well marketed, with a high quality
broadcast tailored towards modern viewership habits, involving national teams
in a consistent, year round, annual series with defined pathways for youth to
make it to the top has been a missing element in our sport.</span></span></div>
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their stunning Taylor ’49 <i>Blackfish</i>
in 2017, and the boat is special to the couple for many reasons. Over and above
being a true beauty, significantly it brought the pair together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They met some
ten years ago when Carolyn was Sailing Director at the Great Harbor Yacht
Club on Nantucket – Ron had moved to the area and wanted to learn about local
sailing conditions. He owned a 32’ Nantucket Alerion (a modified hull-molded
wooden boat and 1916 Herreshoff design) and the two became acquainted as he began
racing his boat locally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">An avid sailor with Trans-Atlantic racing and three Sydney
to Hobarts under his belt, Ron missed big boat racing however, and thought
about building a boat. He sought Carolyn’s help and before long Carolyn was having
significant input into the ultimate look and feel of Ron's new boat. They fell
in love and tied the knot in 2016.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“The building of the boat was a lot of fun - beginning to plan the boat was really the start of our relationship,” Ron recalls fondly - and with a big smile. </span></div>
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Brooklyn Boatyard in Maine.Taylor’s work on <i>Blackfish </i>came about after Ron and Carolyn saw <i>Dreadnought</i>, a Taylor 49c, in Maine.The Zarrella’s were big on aesthetics and being based part of the year in Nantucket, they thought a boat like <i>Dreadnought</i> would fit there perfectly. They also knew that they wanted to race rather than cruise, so the overall design was modified to accommodate more race-ready parameters, Taylor explained.</span></div>
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classic fleets the past few summers racing in New England), <i>Blackfish</i> does have</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> a modern keel, rudder and a carbon fiber mast.</span></div>
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the cabinhouse became 24” shorter, and the cockpit moved 24” forward - these
changes made for less interior space but actually, it’s a considerably a more
attractive boat,” Taylor commented. “Those changes made a surprising difference.”</span></div>
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boat and don’t expect too much,” Taylor says. “She looks old school and looks
like she behaves old school but she’s a race boat for sure.”</span></span></div>
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time this year, she raced the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival where she was undoubtedly one of
the most beautiful boats on the docks. First time sailing under the CSA (Caribbean Racing Association) rule which
arguably didn’t do <i>Blackfish</i> any favors, she placed 7th overall in CSA Racing 2, and the Zarrella’s discovered that BVI competition was tougher than anticipated. Taylor trimmed main, Ron helmed, and Carolyn called tactics. Friends from New England and
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Ron said. “We are used to winning more (laughs) but the competition was very different. I questioned whether our boat fit there before we even went but we
always finished in the middle of the pack against really good sailing, really
top sailors - we were humbled and we learned a lot! We could have sailed better
but we’d been off the boat for 4-5 months and we’re just getting back into it.
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Regatta and the Zarrella's are looking forward to going up against more “like-minded” boats. As Ron says with a certain degree of seriousness mixed with humor, they didn’t build their
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track on the mast ((she's currently set up with an asymmetrical spinnaker) so she can be better equipped for round-the-buoy windward-leeward
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the theme of “Spirit of Tradition” boats,” Carolyn said. “We're typically racing to
the CRF (classic rating formula), against yawls and schooners over 100 years
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design, not necessarily the materials they are built of. It is imperative they
have a nice sheer as this is the key to a pretty yacht and is what
differentiates a modern practically minded design from a more classic,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Auckland layover has given Vestas 11th Hour Racing time to recover and regroup after their</i><i> tragic collision in the latter stages of Leg 4 during the final approach to Hong Kong.The team is in 5<sup>th</sup> position following the incident and co-skipper Charlie Enright, is anxious to get back in the race. Catching up with Charlie in Auckland, he says his team is - cautiously - ready to for its next meeting with the </i><i>Southern Oceans. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>CE: </b>Physically it’s easier to discern – the boat’s in great shape, it’s nothing short of amazing that the repair was coordinated in such a short amount of time and the level at which the boat came out – everybody’s ecstatic with it. It looks like there'll be a couple of windy first few days out to the east cape (of NZ) so hopefully the boat is pretty well tested by the time we get there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Outlook for Leg 7?</b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />CE: </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the leg we all sign up for – this edition has more Southern Ocean miles and those are real miles from Cape Town to Melbourne, so if the forecast is anything like that, it should be pretty relentless. It looks like it’ll be a little colder on this leg though which is kind of ironic since there’s not a lot of ice as the ice gates are further south which means we can go further south…we’ve got that to look forward to! We do the race for competition and adventure and this is definitely on the adventure side for sure, but sometimes you lose sight of that when you’re crossing the equator and bobbing around and you’re just thinking about the competition but this next leg is pretty special. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We definitely have a lot more experience on the team this time and that’s proved to be a valuable thing as you can probably imagine. But we have a good mix of youthful exuberance with also some gray hair – we have a little bit of everything in all the key positions. The vibe and dynamic for us has been very strong even through some very difficult circumstances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>How's racing been this edition?</b><br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CE:</b> It’s closer than it was last time because you have folks from every single team sprinkled among this iteration’s current teams. Whatever “secrets’ everybody might have had are all kind of distributed among all the teams this race. It’s all close. I think we had a lot of people who sat out the last race as they weren’t sure about the one design concept. I think after seeing the tightness of the racing, they missed it and we’ve seen a lot of those people back.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /><br />Your thoughts on the one design aspect?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CE:</b> Personally, I think it’s great because it’s what allowed us to compete in our first edition – we were literally over our heads as it was and added to that a boat build and the campaign cost would be twice as much. Tony Mutter on our team has won the race twice on boats like ABN AMRO and Ericcson 4 and I think he’s enjoying the close racing although the boats are certainly not what he’s accustomed to sailing because this one design racing is tight. While the boats have got a bad rap, I think they nailed the design brief on this one – we’re doing 550+ miles in a day, they do down wind really well.</span><span style="line-height: 16.96px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.96px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b><br />Who are you chasing at this point?</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CE:</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Everybody – in the last campaign we won the last leg, and in this campaign we won the</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> first leg so that kind of tells you what expectations we’re up against. If everything had gone to plan, we would have sailed into Hong Kong 2 points off the lead. That’s not where we sit today but it doesn’t affect our perspective on the leader board. We view ourselves as one of the more consistent teams and that’s what we’re trying to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">CE: </b>About 19 days, just in time for my dad’s 60<sup>th</sup> birthday!</span><br />
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racing in the Caribbean, and a week competing in the BVI Spring Regatta + Sailing Festival<i> </i>is no exception. A highlight is always the
diversity of boats that participate across many classes - this year there will
be some 18 classes - including boats who are in for the very first time, like
the newly launched all-carbon HH66 NALA. Others, such as the J122 El Ocaso
which has competed in Spring Regatta for the past 10 consecutive years, just
keep coming back for more. Likewise, many crew will be racing BVI Spring Regatta
for the first time, while others are event old timers, coming back again
because they know just how good it all is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">NALA, the carbon rocket ship owned by Jim Vos, a dinghy
sailor and long-time boat owner, is seriously fresh out of the yard in Xiamen,
China. The brainchild of renown multi hull designers Morelli & Melvin, NALA’s
just been unloaded in Fort Lauderdale and boat captain Collin Marshall, who
lives in St John, US Virgin Islands, will be spending the next few weeks completing
the commissioning work on her before heading into the Caribbean race circuit, including BVI Spring Regatta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At 66’-long, NALA races with a
turbo-charged rig and T-foil rudders that assist stability and reduce pitching
in big seas. Curved daggerboards help create lift at higher boat speeds
making her faster on all points of sail, Marshall explained. This all-carbon
racing machine is super light and as Marshall described, is designed for racing
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“While we haven’t had a chance to really put it through her
paces yet she seems do pretty well in chop. She’s going to love big breeze –
being in the Caribbean is going to be fantastic once we figure out the bugs but she
is really designed for both light and heavy air regattas.” Marshall expects to race
with 10 crew on board who will be coming from all over the east and west
coasts. “We had quite a few Kiwis and
Aussies working in China on this project so we’ll have a Kiwi or two on
board - for good luck!” Marshall smiled.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Also new to BVI Spring Regatta this year is Challenger, a modified Whitbread 60 built for the ’97 Whitbread Round the World Race but which never
made it further than Cape Town due to a financial situation. When Chris
Stanmore-Major, owner/founder of Spartan Ocean Racing, bought the boat late
2015, she had just 6,000 miles on her, having been kept in storage for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“She is the lowest mileage Whitbread 60 in the world. We’ve since put
20,000 miles on her and she’s been modified for the kind of racing we do, with roller
furling headsails and a change to the backstays that makes the rig a lot more
secure and even to operate for the charter crews," he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Challenger will race Spring Regatta with a crew of 12
sailing guests all new to the boat and two Spartan crew. The team will
spend a few days in Tortola pre regatta doing sail training aboard Challenger.
Stanmore-Major, who lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, said the boat has done well
in regattas this year, chalking up first, second and third places. He’s
confident that with his staff’s collective sail training background they’ll be
able to put together a competitive team for Spring Regatta, although, oddly
enough, it’ll be his first time racing in the BVI. “All my racing has been Asia, Europe, around the world etc. so the idea
of going to this part of the Caribbean is very exciting,” Stanmore-Majors
laughed.” I’ve heard a lot about it but never had the opportunity. I’m
interested to see what goes on…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Complementing the lineup of new boats and new people are
event veterans, like Doug Baker, from Long Beach, California. Baker first raced
the event in 2000, took a break for a number of years but has been back for the
past five events. While he’s owned plenty of fast racing boats in his time,
these days Baker prefers to charter. This year he</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> will be at the helm of </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Runaway, an
ultralight sled 70 which will be racing Spring Regatta for the first time. From Peru, Runaway was the first across the line at the 2017 Cape2Rio, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and will do several
Caribbean events before Baker meets her in Tortola for Spring Regatta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"For the most part chartering works well for me, it’s cost
effective, it’s a little more for each regatta but then you don’t have the
maintenance of the boat beyond the expense of owning a boat," Baker said. "We try to do our
research - I understand Runaway's current owner has done a lot of work on the boat and
it’s in really good condition so we’re excited.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Baker says he'll need about 15 to race
Runaway and will have a mix of pro sailors and “volunteers” on board, some whom
he has sailed with for 30-40 years, and others 15-20 years. Ernie Richau will
navigate and Chad Hough will call tactics, both are from Southern California. Baker
has done all the Caribbean events over the years, some more than four or five times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“I like the Caribbean, and my crew love coming with me,”
Baker said, with a big smile. “The weather is always great, 99% of the time you
have good wind, lots of competition – we get more competition down there than
we do back on the West Coast, the parties are great, it’s hard to beat
everything that the Caribbean has to offer!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Andrew McIrvine, from the Isle of Wight, UK, is also a Spring
Regatta veteran returning to the event for the first time in some 20 years. He’s
chartered the Beneteau First 40 Olympia's Tigress, and will be
racing with his crew, Team
Larry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“The boat we're chartering is a sister ship of my own boat in England on which
we’ve been very successful; we’ve won a lot of RORC and other European events
with my usual gang on board, we wonLes Voiles de Saint-Tropez</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a couple of years ago and Cowes
Week last year in our class. Tony Mack (Mack Fly) won class at Spring Regatta
last year on the same boat.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The last time McIrvine sailed Spring Regatta was
on a Jeanneau 47 and he’d always wanted to do it again. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As Admiral of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, McIrvine was
involved in the launching of the Caribbean 600 which he has competed in since
that race’s inception. This year he wanted to do something different, and will
have a team of 12 with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“It’s
probably too many but everyone wanted to come,” McIrvine laughed. “We’ve hired
a young foredeck guy as we’re mostly getting old so that should keep the front
end sorted out. I do have Tasmanians on board – not just Australians but
Tasmanians - so we could be in big trouble there. We expect to be reasonably
competitive if only I can only keep them off the rum!”</span></div>
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SPRING REGATTA & SAILING FESTIVAL</b><br />
<span style="color: #141414; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The weeklong BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing
Festival takes racers throughout the beautiful British Virgin Islands. Starting
at Nanny Cay, the Sailing Festival is two days of warm up racing: The Nanny Cay
Round Tortola Race, and the Scrub Island Invitational. Next up, the BVI Spring
Regatta kicks off three solid days of some of the best racing the Caribbean has
to offer. </span> <a href="http://www.bvispringregatta.org/schedule/">Check out the 2017 Preliminary Schedule of Events</a>.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804929993734663277.post-73127260807332617382016-03-30T17:33:00.000-07:002016-03-30T17:33:18.483-07:00BVI SPRING REGATTA & SAILING FESTIVAL FEATURES SCRUB ISLAND INVITATIONAL<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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With one day of racing behind them, competitors in the 45<sup>th</sup>
BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival rolled right into today’s race, the
Scrub Island Invitational – a 12NM upwind ride for the CSA Cruising, Bareboat,
and Multihull fleets, and a 17NM course for the CSA-Racing fleet. Conditions
were again breezier than expected with 22 knots from the east and bumpy seas
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Located off the north east end of Tortola, Scrub Island is a
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A private resort
island with classic Caribbean white sand beaches and docks at the ready was a
welcome sight for racegoers who, on arrival, didn’t waste any time stripping
down to bathing suits and finding their way to the pool-side bar.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Said Norwood Smith, VP Marketing, Scrub Island, “This is our
first-ever sailing regatta and it’s amazing to be part of the 45<sup>th</sup>
legacy of this event, to be able to host all the boats here and to have Scrub
Island as their destination is exciting. While we’re a private island resort,
we’re thrilled to be hosting people from all over the world here today.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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SPOOKIE, the TP52 owned by Steve and Heidi Benjamin (USA),
took first in CSA-Racing class, followed by Quokka – Performance Yacht Racing,
the Grand Soleil 43 skippered by Christian Reynolds (GBR), and in third place,
Northern Child, the Swan 51 skippered by Eric Bos (GBR).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Feeling very satisfied with a second place, Reynolds said,
“We had a really good sail today. I’ve got people with varied experience
onboard but everyone’s smart and enthusiastic. We won the start among some very
serious racers and had a few challenging maneuvers out there – for some of the
guys, they’re learning a whole new level of racing so it was great to take
second.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Renato Faria (BRA) helmed his Dufour 500 Ventaneiro 3 to
another first place today, in the CSA-Cruising class, all the while claiming
his boat really isn’t that fast, it’s his fabulous crew. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s not so fast, it’s a cruising boat!” Faria laughed. “We had a nice sail
today and were happy to win. We just tried to do our best. We got a good start
and followed the coast closely all the time, it was easy racing. We’ve got
really nice team work – one of our crew was trying to qualify for the Olympics
in the 49’er, so we’re lucky to have him on board.” <br />
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Windward Spirit, the Jeanneau 54DS skippered by Serge Bisson
(CAN) took second in the CSA-Cruising class, and Sam of Hamble, a Sigma 38
helmed by Peter Hopps (GBR), took third.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First place in the multihull division was Slow Motion,
skippered by Werner Puche (GER), while the Outremer 51 Ten Directions,
skippered by Glenn Davis (USA), took second. Puche and his family - wife Erena
and sons Leon (11) and Robert (9),
who are just learning to sail, are having a blast in the BVI.<br />
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“We made a few mistakes yesterday – we were seven minutes late for the start,”
Puche laughed. “But today we hit it on the dot, which makes a big difference to
one’s mood! The boat is easy to handle and I’m glad the wind was just at the
limit where we didn’t have to reef so we were able to stay with full sails all
the way – we had a good time, with no mistakes. The boys have been helping with
the timing at the starts, and they’re my look-out guys.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Taking another win today in CSA-Bareboat was Warvor, helmed
by Willem Ellemeet (NLD). This group of seven friends celebrated their win with
a bottle of champagne on the dock on arrival at Scrub Island. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We had a reasonable start but tacked away early so we could
sail our own race and that was a good decision. We stayed as deep as possible
to the shore and that also worked. Our boat is definitely sluggish but
everyone’s got the same challenge. We’re really enjoying the sailing here and
the more intimate feel of the Regatta compared to others.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary Jewell, the Sunsail 50 skippered by Larry Caillouet
(USA), took second in CSA-Bareboat, while ACTIFORCE-Ivoire (NLD), a Moorings
51, skippered by Willem Klomp, took third place in class.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking out to the start of the Regatta on Friday, Warwick
Dunnett (USA), skipper of the Beneteau Oceanis 50 JogFund, is grateful for the
practice racing over the past two days.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I was glad to have this time to get the boat dialed in,”
Dunnett commented. “While we had a great start today, first over the line, we were
experimenting with jib set and figuring out the new SailRacer app which can be
distracting. A navigational error also didn’t help us but we have the boat
rigged well now so are looking forward to improved racing later in the week.” <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></div>
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Thursday is an official lay-day but there’ll be plenty
happening at Nanny Cay, host for the Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival, with
the Maritime Heritage Day featuring VP Banks 3<sup>rd</sup> Annual Tortola
Sloop Spring Challenge - traditional Virgin Islands sloops competing for prizes
and honours - starting at 11am, and presentation of the Sloop Awards following
racing. The Regatta Skipper’s Meeting is at 5:30pm. The Mt Gay Welcome party
kicks off 5-7pm, with live music – the MJ Blues Band - until midnight.</div>
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<i>Triple Jack Takes Home Nanny Cay Cup<br />
SPOOKIE Breaks Monohull Record for Nanny Cay Challenge</i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The BVI Sailing Festival Round
Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup and Nanny Cay Challenge started promptly at
9:30 on Tuesday morning in seas a little rougher than normal due to last week’s
high winds, and an easterly breeze of 18+ knots. The trimaran Triple Jack,
owned by Richard Wooldridge and Steve Davis (BVI), charged off the start to an
early lead in the CSA-Multihull class, making its way around the island in
corrected time of 3:46:38, taking first place overall in the 2016 Nanny Cay
Cup. Their elapsed time of 3:19:30 was not enough, however, to break the
current multihull record for the Nanny Cay Challenge of 2:33:40 which they set
on April 30, 2015, nonetheless spirits were still high on the custom-design
trimaran.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQh_5UhzC1_6-K7WugOalqET5viWJS1Sn7e2SyvHdw9XfO95Mx-GTpJx2fliTCv_SnrGxyfk7pbPudU_vMGQN6CYibFEMKKYrGSYdv2kVn-HOOA2YSMiDP0eK7t113Tz8_sQ4AhGQE_HQ/s1600/Triple+Jack.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQh_5UhzC1_6-K7WugOalqET5viWJS1Sn7e2SyvHdw9XfO95Mx-GTpJx2fliTCv_SnrGxyfk7pbPudU_vMGQN6CYibFEMKKYrGSYdv2kVn-HOOA2YSMiDP0eK7t113Tz8_sQ4AhGQE_HQ/s320/Triple+Jack.jpg" width="320" /></a>Woolridge commented, “It was a beautiful day for it, the
wind was perhaps a little more than forecasted, blowing a good 18 at the start
and gusting 20+. We had a very fast trip down the north side with the spinnaker
up, jousting with SPOOKIE and while they started after us, it was <o:p></o:p><br />
great finishing
before them. We did break our main halyard on the last beat up from West End
and there was also a large cruise ship in West End which made tacking through
the Narrows interesting.”<br />
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Davis said, “Having raced Triple Jack since 1998, improving
our performance over the years has been a combination of racing conditions and
doing a lot of work on the boat as she was built in 1979. She’s like an old MG
so we do have to be a little careful!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Penalized by an over early in the start of the CSA Racing Class
was not enough to hold back TP52 SPOOKIE, owned by Steve and Heidi Benjamin
(USA), from taking first in class in the Nanny Cay Cup in corrected time of
3:48:43.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most significantly, however, SPOOKIE broke the Monohull
Nanny Cay Challenge record in an elapsed time of 3:08:43, a whopping 21 minutes
off the previous record of 03:29:44, set in March 2013 by Peter Corr’s Aiyana,
an Alia 82. With a new record under his belt, Steve Benjamin, SPOOKIE’s
skipper, was one happy guy when his boat pulled into the dock after a fantastic
ride around Tortola.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We were really trying to get inside that record for the
Nanny Cay Challenge,” Benjamin explained. “Once we got into the lead after our
over early start, we beat all the way to the top of the island, fetched the
rocks at the top then set a fractional code zero and took off on a screaming
reach which was beautiful and proceeded to get lifted on starboard as the wind
went right, so we set our 4A, our bigger spinnaker. I guess we hit 21 knots,
saw gusts to 23 and had a beautiful run down the back side of the island,
making it in one jibe and planing a lot of the time. It was really fantastic!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DBsRqNXrY6eWSmJilAZTSFRgr3qghsBxwkOFVUhN1UtLUeH4lJI3h5Met-kuLkVUV88_xVNYqf_iYj6qClF8WT7UEGnfI3wbPjeY0bMS72EUqQ_5U_r97wWavloHPGXjlu1Zkp0qLMk/s1600/spookie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_DBsRqNXrY6eWSmJilAZTSFRgr3qghsBxwkOFVUhN1UtLUeH4lJI3h5Met-kuLkVUV88_xVNYqf_iYj6qClF8WT7UEGnfI3wbPjeY0bMS72EUqQ_5U_r97wWavloHPGXjlu1Zkp0qLMk/s320/spookie.jpg" width="320" /></a>The team will certainly enjoy their Nanny Cay Challenge
prize: a jeroboam of “Drappier” champagne, sponsored by Tico, a BVI
distributor, dinner for 15 crew at Peg Legs restaurant at Nanny Cay, and a
donation of $250 to benefit BVI youth sailing, which the team has generously
matched.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the Racing class, John Bamberger’s Canadian Farr 45 Spitfire
was also over early at the start, having to return to the line along with
SPOOKIE, while the remainder of the 11-strong fleet took off in a tight bunch. TP52
Team Magnitude – Conviction, skippered by Doug Baker (USA) initially took the
lead before being caught by SPOOKIE and finishing second in class.
Quokka-Performance Yacht Charters, the Grand Soleil 43 skippered by Christian
Reynolds, took third.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Renato Faria (BRA) steered his Dufour 500 Ventaneiro 3, to
an early lead and first place in the CSA Cruising Class, while Warvor, the
Sunsail 44i skippered by Willem Ellemeet (NED) took first in CSA Bareboat.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">Wednesday takes the fleet racing to Scrub
Island, located off the north east end of Tortola, for the Scrub Island
Invitational. Race start time is 10am and the exact course will depend on
weather and conditions. An afternoon of relaxation and fun is planned for
crews, their families </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Life couldn't be more
perfect for the crews of 54 boats competing in Tuesday's Nanny Cay Cup (Round
Tortola Race) with the breeze forecast in the upper teens for the first race
day of the 45th BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. Registration opened
at noon today under blue sunny skies, the famed BVI trades keeping the heat at
bay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Nanny Cay Cup not
only sets the scene for a week of great racing with spectacular views of
Tortola throughout the 31-nautical mile race, additionally, the teams can also
race for the Nanny Cay Challenge - a perpetual challenge for the fastest mono
and catamaran record around the island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">For racers to set a
new elapsed time as they make the circumnavigation, starting and finishing at
Nanny Cay, they must beat current records: Monohull record (3hrs 29mins 44secs)
set at the 2013 Sailing Festival by Peter Corr's Aiyana, an Alia 82; Multihull
record (2hrs 33mins 40secs) set in 2015 by BVI's Triple Jack, the trimaran
owned by Richard Wooldridge and Steve Davis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Challenge has
fantastic awards up for grabs if a team breaks either of the current records: a
jeroboam of "Drappier" champagne, sponsored by Tico, dinner for 15
crew, and a suggestion to donate $250 towards a BVI charity of choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Spookie, winner of the
2015 Nanny Cay Cup, a Carkeek HP40 owned by Steve and Heidi Benjamin from
Norwalk, CT (USA), is back with high hopes to retain the Cup. They are
psyched to put their best effort into taking the monohull Challenge record.
Racing with them is Olympic silver medalist Peter Holmberg, one of the
Caribbean's best known sailors who may help them set that record. Either way,
the 15-strong Spookie crew loves the sailing conditions, scenery and atmosphere
at Spring Regatta, especially when it's snowing back home.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Possibly the youngest
sailors in Tuesday's fleet are Leon (11) and Robert Puche (10), all the way
from Berlin, Germany. Their dad Werner will be skippering the Leopard 48 Slow
Motion, which he bought 18 months ago to keep based in Tortola so they can
enjoy events like Spring Regatta. "We're really looking forward to racing
here and are only disappointed in that we have to leave early as the kids have
to be back in school next week," Werner said. This is the first time for
the family to be at the BVI Spring Regatta.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">More first timers,
Renato Faria, from Brazil, will be racing his Dufour 500 Ventaneiro 3, with
friends from Brazil and Germany. A harbor pilot from Rio de Janeiro, Faria is
used to sailing various Olympic class boats so he's not sure how racing
Ventaneiro 3 will work out. "She's really a cruiser, but we'll try to race
with her - we're looking forward to the best racing in the Caribbean and will
keep the boat here to cruise and race in the future."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Team Slovakia, on
board Arthur, a Beneteau First 40, have been in town for a few days now, taking
time to soak up the beaches and a few cocktails while getting to know their way
around the prevailing conditions. The group of seven friends are under the
tutelage of Spring Regatta veteran Chris "Jacko" Jackson, owner's rep
for Arthur. "This is a great regatta for these guys," Jackson said,
"Everything's in one location, it's a two-minute walk to the parties from
the boat, flat water and great sailing - what more could they want?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bob Phillips, Regatta
Chairman, has chaired the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival for 19 years
so has a pretty good idea how conditions may shape up tomorrow. "We're
looking at 15-20, pretty usual trade winds, maybe a little higher than normal.
Of more importance is the direction - usually it's from the east which means a
dead beat for the first part of the race...may not be record breaking
conditions but it'll be close!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Start time for the CSA-Multihull class is 0930, CSA-Bareboat class at 0935;
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Registration opens Monday at Nanny Cay, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, for some 110 boats and crews in
the 45<sup>th</sup> BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival. The buzz is
building shore-side, with the event Village under construction and docks
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Beneteau First 40 Southern Child, is back for her 7<sup>th</sup> BVI Spring
Regatta & Sailing Festival with two new race charter crews: a group of 24
from the company Samsin has chartered Northern Child & will race 12 guests
on, 12 off, throughout the week. Tony Mac & his Team McFly have chartered
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says, “This is my first Spring Regatta and I’m ready for it! I love sailing and
sharing that with other people in a great place – where I live – Paris - the snow is just melting!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jonathan Bamberger, from Toronto, Canada, has arrived with
his Farr 45 Spitfire for his first Spring Regatta. Bamberger says, “It had to
be done, look around - it’s a beautiful place - and the painkillers are great!”<o:p></o:p><br />
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Caribbean 600, and now this week, the BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing
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Christian Reynolds, a director of Performance Yacht Racing, is
no stranger to the event, here for his 6<sup>th</sup>. One aspect of the event he
welcomes is that the BVI Spring Regatta offers up some flat water racing,
unlike other Caribbean racing. “The Sailing Festival is the “fun racing” and the Regatta is
more serious – that mix is good, not to mention, it’s stunning here,” Reynolds
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This past weekend a special event on San
Francisco Bay commemorated the anniversary of the 25-year passing of Tom
Blackaller one of the Bay Area’s most celebrated sailors.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.acsailingsf.com/" target="_blank">ACSailingSF</a>, operated by Brad and Karen Webb, celebrated the
occasion by taking Tom’s family for a spin on TOMCAT, a performance racing
Prosail 40 catamaran which has served as a platform and
inspiration for multi-hull America’s Cup sailing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">TOMCAT, the latest addition to <a href="http://www.acsailingsf.com/" target="_blank">ACSailingSF’s</a> charter fleet, is named
after Blackaller who began campaigning a Formula 40 catamaran with the same
name in the ProSail Professional Sailing Series in 1988, and was leading the
1989 series at the time of his passing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Tom passed away 25 years ago today and incidentally it was
a year ago today that the first America’s Cup in catamarans began, a spectacle
on the Bay and something that Tom actually foresaw more than quarter of a century before
it even happened. For us that’s very special,” Brad Webb addressed the
group gathered dockside at San Francisco’s Pier 39. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Brad Webb toasts Tom Blackaller</strong></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Sailing Journalist Kimball Livingstone helms USA-76</strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To that point, Blackaller was once quoted, “The fastest
boats are catamarans…with the pedal to the metal, flying hulls…I’d be back in
the America’s Cup in a minute if it was held in big fast boats on San Francisco
Bay.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blackaller’s family - daughter Lisa sailing with husband
Teddy Williams and two of their three children - left the dock on TOMCAT while
the rest of the group piled onto USA-76, San Francisco’s entry for the 31<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>
America’s Cup in 2003 and on which Webb sailed as bowman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A spectacular late
summer day on the Bay, a</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong>Blackaller-Williams family: Lisa, Teddy, Allie & Max</strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">warm breeze built to a steady 15 knots by 1pm, about
the time the two boats rounded the Blackaller buoy located just north of the St
Francis Yacht Club, on the south side of the Golden Gate Bridge.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dockside later, Lisa commented, “Dad was a personality and a
lot of fun. I love meeting people who knew him and to hear stories I still
haven’t heard. The sailing world is a little less colorful without him - I don’t
know how he would have ever done if he had to be “media-trained” as he didn’t
hold back! My husband and my kids never met him so sailing today so was fantastic.
To do that on honor of dad was so thrilling – he would have reveled in how
thrilling AC34 was.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lisa described how her dad had become burned out after the 1987
Louis Vuitton Cup, when he was managing the syndicate USA (US-61), raising
money and skippering the boat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“He really had stopped sailing after that. It
wasn’t until this Prosail series came along – these catamarans – that got him
re-energized about sailing as he just loved fast things. I do wonder what role
he would have played in the new AC as he would not have liked the politics of
the whole thing and I am sure he would have had unvarnished things to say about
it all…”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Paul Kaplan, co-owner of <a href="http://www.kkmi.com/" target="_blank">KKMI</a> (Keefe Kaplan Maritime
Inc.) and guest on board USA-76 first met Blackaller through racing, then
the two became further acquainted as colleagues within the maritime industry.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Tom sailed with us on our Quarter Ton yacht and we learned
a great deal from him,” Kaplan recalled. “With regard to what Tom would have
thought of AC 34, I’m sure that he would have been absolutely delighted to see
the Cup finally held on the Bay. No doubt he would have had a few choice
observations about what was wrong with the event and his observations most
likely have been correct. In terms of the choice of AC 72’s catamarans becoming
the yachts for the event, I can almost hear Tom say, “Well what the heck took
you so “expletive” long to figure this out?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Visit <a href="http://www.acsailingsf.com/" target="_blank">ACSailingSF</a> for more info on catching a ride onUSA-76 or TOMCAT.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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necessary modifications so that USA 76 could obtain a USCG Certificate of
Inspection allowing the yacht to take passengers for hire. The most significant
changes included installing watertight bulkheads, an inboard diesel engine,
modifications to the keel and the necessary safety equipment such as railings
around the cockpit.</i></span><br />
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requirements are not as stringent. The work <a href="http://www.kkmi.com/" target="_blank">KKMI</a> did included to get her
charter-ready included painting the hulls above and below the waterline and
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<i>At the 8th Annual Leukemia Cup Dinner hosted by The San Francisco Yacht Club, sailor, commentator and author Gary Jobson asked guest speaker Sir Ben Ainslie whether
he’d like to round out his Olympic
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<i>“No, not really!" said Ainslie, quite candidly, agreeing with Jobson that a hot shower at the end of the day is a good thing. He did add however that his Dad competed
in the first-ever Whitbread race...and had also dealt with the difficulties of cancer.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“The reason we’re here tonight is I think everyone knows
someone - friend/family member - who’s been involved with cancer or suffered
from cancer. It’s obviously a very difficult disease to go through. My father
actually suffers from prostate cancer so I know first-hand what a lot of people
here have gone through. It’s a very difficult thing to have to deal with and so
I think it’s amazing that you’re all here tonight and raising these funds.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Gary J:</b> <b>Oracle
Team USA was a little bit behind the 8-ball there, digging deeper, and there
was a change. And you were the change, coming on board. How did it feel coming
on a third of the way through the regatta and feeling like you had some
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<b>Ben A:</b> We were
obviously in a pretty difficult situation as a team. We were in dire straits
and I think all of you here as sailors would know what the sport is like.
There’s a lot of different components to it. So, yeah, we weren’t going
particularly well, our speed wasn’t that good particularly on the upwind legs,
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My
goal was to try to be Mr. Positive even though things were looking about as bad
as they could be to try and get some enthusiasm going. And of course this
America’s Cup, it was always going to be a development race with a new class of
boat with the AC72 multihulls, foiling and everything that goes with that.
There was always a chance that we could develop faster than the other team and
build some confidence from that. Ultimately that’s what happened. It was
definitely a team effort - the designers, the boat builders, the sailors all
coming together to make some..actually some quite small changes. There’s been a
lot of talk about Herbies? I don’t even know what a Herbie is but maybe someone
else here knows. But it didn’t have anything to do with us winning the
America’s Cup, it was about small changes and looking at technique on the boat
with the sailors and the designers and ultimately winning some races and
getting some confidence.</div>
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Photo: Ellen Hoke/ellenhoke.com</td></tr>
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<b>Gary J:</b> Speaking
of confidence, I was in England last summer when you got your 4<sup>th</sup>
gold medal. You had dug yourself a little hole earlier in the regatta in
Weymouth that you had to dig out of. In the end you had an unbelievable race
when you came through and got the point that you needed and won a gold medal.
The fact that you were able to do that last year, did that give you some
confidence that you could pull it off again this year and at this level in the
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different challenges. I’ve been in a lot of difficult spots in my career as I
know you have and a lot of great sailors have. Ultimately if you’re going to
put yourself in those positions you’re going to end up in a tough spot from
time to time. I think in this particular instance with this America’s Cup, it
was really a credit to the team. There was no finger pointing, there were no
heated arguments, we were clearly at a disadvantage earlier in the event and
clearly behind speed-wise but we just kept to the task and I guess that’s
really got to be credit to the management with guys like Russell Coutts, Grant
Simmer and Larry Ellison to keep sticking with the team and keep trying to
develop increased performance of the boat. It’s very easy when things are going
wrong to start pointing the finger and even give up early on. I think it was
impressive that the team stuck with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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listen to you and Tom Slingsby talk - I think it’s a really good lesson for all
sailors particularly young people that communication makes a difference. Did
you plan that out, because in a Finn you don’t get to talk much to anybody?</b></b></div>
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<b>Ben A: </b>It was an amazing experiment because when they first put me
on the boat it was really like putting three helmsmen together on the back of
the boat. Jimmy and I had never really sailed together and I’d never sailed
with Tommy either. It was a bit of a gamble for sure. I have to give a lot of
credit to John Kostecki who did a fantastic job of tactician up until that
point and it wasn’t that John had necessarily done anything wrong, it was that
there just needed to be some kind of change to up the atmosphere on the boat
because things were not looking good. John was just amazing. They’d made the
change, he’d already left for home and I called him and said, “Look John, I’m
sorry about this,” and he said, “It’s fine, I want the team to do well, I’ll
come in tomorrow morning and we’ll go through all the software etc.” I hadn’t
even seen the navigational software up until that point because I’d been
steering the other boat. To have that kind of support, I think was just a
measure as to the kind of team it was and especially John despite the
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there were some big changes I didn’t know about, I think he was pulling
everyone’s leg. He was impressive, I think you’re right, he was certainly able
to keep the Kiwis guessing about what was going on. You hear all the stories
about us flying boat builders in from all around the world which was complete
nonsense. I think it worked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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pressure was on, you started to go fast and you were making good calls. What
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<b>Ben A:</b> I guess in
the end it was potentially a little bit of karma. As you pointed out earlier we
went into the event minus two points for something that involved a different
class of boat, something that was not the America’s Cup and something that was
a complete balls-up. It was a complete lack of communication and a real honest
mistake. We obviously got punished very hard for that and it was right that the
team was made an example but at the same time it was a very harsh penalty. Maybe
that was things just getting evened out a bit. But I certainly felt for the
Kiwis. I sailed for the team for the 2007 Cup and know the guys really well -
Dean, Ray and the rest of the guys. They’re all brilliant guys, great sailors
and it was tough for them to have to go through that. I think the hardest part
for those guys was that they had a whole nation waiting in the wings to bring
the America’s Cup home. The more out team got better and faster it must have
been tough to deal with.<o:p></o:p></div>
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real game changer. For most of us on the boat that was the first race where we
actually started being competitive upwind and we actually caught them up on
that upwind leg. For whatever reason they had a bad tack, whether they were
rushed or had a mechanical issue, that’s really what put them in that difficult
position. But certainly for us, that situation there gave us the belief that we
could match them upwind and if we sailed well we could beat them and for our
whole team that was a massive boost.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Gary J:</b> <b>The
Olympic Games in Weymouth, I was there and you were in the news like crazy -
you were one of the superstars of Great Britain. How did you react to that
pressure during the Games?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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didn’t deal with it very well in the beginning because for the first six races
I was beaten by the Danish sailor who sailed incredibly well and I was really -
think I need to go to a sports psychologist and work that out. It was a tough
situation, there was a huge expectation on all of the home athletes to perform.
I think the hardest thing is with past Olympics when you go away to compete,
you’re away from home and all the distractions - you get on with it. When
you’re at home, all of a sudden you have to deal with the expectations of sponsors,
family, friends - there were people I’d never met before who claimed they were
related to me in some way - that’s hard! <o:p></o:p></div>
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question that’s been gnawing at me for about a month now...who are you going to
sail for in the next America’s Cup?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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easy question - I thought you were going to ask me something difficult. There’s
a lot going on as you know - it’s an interesting period. We need to find out
what happens with the next event what Russell Coutts and Larry Ellison decide they want to do. I think we’ll be happy
being back here in San Francisco. It’s an awesome venue with great hosts. It’s
no secret we’d like to have a British team involved in the Cup. Having said
that, as we all know, it’s a big boys game. You can’t go into it without the
right level of funds - you have to have the team with the wherewithal to win
otherwise there’s no point. You’re wasting everyone’s time. We’re going to
decide in the next couple of weeks if we can get that together so things are
moving along quite quickly and hopefully that can be the case.</div>
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<b>Ben A:</b> It is a bit dodgy at times, yeah. The funny thing was
we had a lot of software and I had a tablet in the life jacket to help with
navigation and as you all know everyone around the world got into the sailing.
I was getting messages from around the world from everyone saying, “Finally I
can understand what sailing is about, it’s amazing.” Also, I was getting
messages from friends and family at home saying, “This is ridiculous, we’re
trying to get our kids to sleep and the racing’s on at 10-11pm and the kids
wont go to bed.” I had a message from my nephew who is 8 years old. He said,
“Uncle Ben, the racing’s really fantastic but I don’t understand why you keep
opening your life jacket and you’re looking for sweets.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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very early on that both John Kostecki and Jimmy fell overboard. Did you ever
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nearly fell overboard in training when I was steering the boat. The forces on
the boat are amazing. We had designers who went out on the boat and they hadn’t
been on the boat much before. If they were in the wrong spot and not holding
onto anything when we were turning upwind, they’d literally go flying off the
boat. So we did lose quite a few people off the boat. It’s easily done and we
had some scary moments and I can say they were scary as we obviously know what happened
to the Artemis team and to Andrew Simpson who was one of my best mates in the
world. The America’s Cup was great but I think the way that the America’s Cup
and the sailing community dealt with that was fantastic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ben A:</b> The times I’ve known Larry Ellison he’s been very
charming, very approachable, very knowledgeable about sailing. I think he’s
clearly a very busy man. We saw him as a team perhaps three or four times
during the whole 12 months I was with the team. I know he kept in regular
contact with Russell Coutts and was clearly up on what was going on with the
team, certainly he was out there everyday supporting the team - on the phone a
lot to Russell during the races - he’s on it, he knows what’s going on. Certainly
towards the end of the event he gave up his whole business week at Oracle World
which must be one of Larry’s biggest weeks of the year work-wise, he gave it
all up to support us which was fantastic. Certainly this whole thing that we’ve
seen with the America’s Cup - yes, there’s been a lot of criticism, yes, none
of us knew where this would really end up but we were fortunate that the event
ended up the success that it was but we shouldn’t forget that it was really
Larry Ellison and Russell Coutt’s vision to make it happen. The TV production
in particular was stunning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was Groundhog Day all over again
for everyone involved in the America’s Cup, from fans to sailors to event
organizers as Race 14 was postponed Saturday. All except perhaps Oracle Team
USA, who must view each day this regatta is extended as a chance to continue to
improve and develop their boat, whereas for the favored Emirates Team New
Zealand, it prolongs the agony of having that dang trophy in their hot hands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An unusual fall day in San Francisco
saw a rainy front blow through with a southerly breeze during the morning,
making it impossible to set a course. The Race Committee had given the teams
fair warning of the system, offering up an alternate course, but neither team
was interested, preferring to wait until conditions were back to a
southwesterly on the course they’ve become accustomed to. Unfortunately that
never transpired.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile it must be a great time for
Air New Zealand as many Kiwi fans have changed their plane tickets in order to
stick around, while other Kiwis can’t get home soon enough, like Rob Salthouse,
who runs the ETNZ fairings program. As part of the shore crew, Salthouse is
longing for a day off and a sleep-in. The work of the ETNZ shore crew is pretty
much around the clock, as Salthouse explained, “You certainly work pretty long
hours, and you don’t get a lot of breaks. That’s probably the biggest thing
about this event. When I think about what I’m looking forward to the most, a
sleep-in would be good.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Salthouse, a sailmaker and boat
builder from New Zealand, has been involved in the Cup since Perth in 1986-'87.
He worked for the Kiwi team in the ‘88 and ‘92 campaigns, skipped a few, and
then rejoined the Kiwis for Valencia in ’07. He was brought in quite late in
the current campaign to fill a gap that had developed with the AC72: to manage
the Fairings program, a whole new role for these boats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I started off part-time to help the
team from December last year through February, and I’m still here,” Salthouse
said laughing. “The fairings have become a key component with the speed these
boats are doing. As windage and drag become a big thing, we’ve been able to see
potential and real gains in certain areas with the aero package that we’ve put
on the boat. Coming from a sail-making background, this has been really
exciting for me to be involved in. It’s all aero-related and fits in pretty
nicely.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ETNZ daily routine is similar to
their competition down the road. The team’s day starts with a 7 a.m. breakfast
meeting, and by 7:30 they’re into work, with the first part of the day spent
preparing the boat for weighing and measurement, which takes about an hour. A
wing lift meeting is held about 7:40 a.m., and shortly thereafter the wing and
platform are pushed out of the shed. Salthouse says it takes about 70 people to
get the Kiwi wing on and the boat into the water. It takes about an hour from
the time to push out of the shed, lift the boat, and get it onto the mooring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The tricky bit about it is that
we’ve always got to keep the wing head to wind so if you have a swirly breeze
you have to be ready to rotate the boat platform under the wing at any stage,
so it’s quite a critical phase while you’re connecting everything up etc.,”
Salthouse said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By about 10:40 a.m., ETNZ sails up to
the America’s Cup Park and onto the mooring there, where fans get a great
close-up view of the fantastic <i>Aoteoroa</i>, as the Kiwi boat is named, and
support boats. A team of 40 to 45 people are on the water everyday including
sailors, chaseboat and support crew. After racing the morning procedure is
repeated: Two tugs plus a tender placed alongside the boat are used to bring
the 72 to position within a pen, the crane is then connected to the boat to
lift it from the water.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That’s also a tricky stage,”
Salthouse explained, “because once again you have to keep it all head to wind,
and then as you lift and swing the boat over with any breeze you’re pretty
vulnerable to it moving around. We have 10 tag lines on the boat to help steady
it and keep it rotated in the right direction.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boat is pulled out and put on a
cradle, the wing comes out, and the boat is rolled into the shed followed by
the wing. That’s when the shore crew start and get into the post-race checks.
In each of the areas (rigging, wing, structural) every little detail is checked
on the boat to make sure there are no issues. It takes the Kiwis a minimum of
two hours to do a thorough check on everything, a clean and polish of the boat
takes about two hours, then the nightshift crew of seven guys stays on to do
any other jobs that need to be done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Work aside, the Kiwis have made time
for an important ingredient in Kiwi sports: beer. Some of the enthusiasts on
the team got into brewing their own home brew back in Auckland, and the
management of a local San Francisco pub agreed to continue to brew the same
beer for the Kiwis during their stay. The beer is called “Big Cat” after the
bar back in NZ where the boys would have a few quiet drinks every Friday night,
says Salthouse. “I’m not a real big fan of the brew, but it’s gone down quite
well at times for sure!"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Speaking of Kiwi beer, Salthouse is
looking forward to getting home. It’s been a long tour, he says, and breakdown
of the base is already under consideration. He thinks it’ll take a minimum of
two weeks to get the base and boat broken down and packed into containers. A core
team of 20 to 25 bodies will remain in San Francisco to pack up while the rest
head home to New Zealand. This will take place as soon as the Kiwis get their
likely final win out of the way although, Salthouse cautioned, “We may have to
wait for the dust to settle a little bit!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Salthouse has worked both AC and
Volvo campaigns and the obvious difference between the events is the numbers, a
Volvo campaign being a lot smaller for starters with about 30 to 35 people in a
big team. “You’re working a lot closer together in a Volvo because there’s a
lot more overlap than in the AC, so you come out of a Volvo with closer
relationships to the people you’ve worked with, not what you’d get in an AC
campaign."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having said that, Salthouse
acknowledges that this AC campaign has been different to others he’s done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The culture in this team has had a really good vibe and
feel right from the start. There’s a lot of excitement now which keeps us going
so that side of it compared to other Cup campaigns I’ve done has been really
fantastic and a lot of fun. Hopefully we can get the business done!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As posted at: http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/can-we-go-home-yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"><b>Peter Isler shares his thoughts on AC34</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Sir Ben Ainslie is no stranger to
comebacks and the mindset required to overcome setbacks, as he stated just
yesterday following another loss to ETNZ in Race 11, “I think you have to keep
believing. We’re obviously in a very difficult position, but we’ve proven we
can win races—we’ve got to win a lot more races to get even with the Kiwis, but
it's a possibility.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Mindset or not, the reality is that
today the 34th America’s Cup is likely to become the Kiwi Cup. Dawn Riley,
former America’s Cup sailor, commented that, in her book, there’s not a whole
lot Oracle Team USA could have done tactically to save the day; it was more of
a matter of consistency, “A tiny bit of speed deficit was compounded on one
race by a bad start, or coming off foil at exactly the wrong time in another,
or expecting the wind to be lighter in another.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">She concurred, “The jury decision
didn't hurt in points really, but I'm thinking it hurt more than we realized in
distraction.” And, in town for the Rolex Big Boat Series, renowned tactician
Peter Isler weighs in on just that which has plagued the American team from the
outset, but also how they’ve made the best of it to put on a show like
sailing’s never seen before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Oracle’s starts were more favorable
in the earlier part of the series—what do you think has attributed to their
less successful starts since?</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">PI:</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"> The one
semi-obvious thing was they came out with a short bowsprit. I think that may
have been due to the fact that the wind instruments that are now on the end of
the bowsprit—when you bring them all the way back in there, there’s just tons
more disturbance, and they didn’t take the time to learn how to recalibrate
them. I’m sure they’re using some sort of wind direction number to help them
get the timing right at the start, when to pull the trigger, etc. It just
looked like they didn’t have one piece of data when they cut the bowsprit
off—their timing was all off. It could have been due to over-reliance on
electronics that were no longer as tuned up as they had been when the
instruments were out in more of the free flow of the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">Oracle has improved 100 percent, and
they’ve been in the chase ... but just unable to nail it at</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"> <b>crucial points in the race. Your thoughts?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">PI:</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"> A good
friend of mine, Vince Brun, once said, “When you have boatspeed then you look
like the world’s best tactician. When you don’t have good speed, it’s
impossible to have good tactics.” In some ways it's true. A lot of times the
simplistic thing to do is to look at the boats and say, “They’re more or less
even, therefore when they go right and left and back together again, it’s all
tactics.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">But, that’s an over-simplification,
and there’s a boatspeed factor that’s mixed in there. One thing when you’re
analyzing it, it’s dangerous to attribute all or nothing to boatspeed. That
said, the problem with these boats, especially upwind, is that the tacks are
costly (even though they are tacking pretty well now). Because of the short
boundaries—and we saw it with the 45s—once you pick your gate, you’ve pretty
much set up your strategy/race positioning for almost the whole beat, unless
you want to spend another tack, you’re going to go right or left to the
boundary then bang off of it and boundary back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">If you tack in the middle of the
beat, it’s a pretty rare thing. Then add in the mix of San Francisco Bay and
the fact that the current on that part of the course can, with changing tides,
be completely the opposite direction on the right edge to the left edge. It’s
an interesting challenge, and I think all the sailors are trying to get it right,
and sometimes they don’t because of the wind shifts or the current being a
little bit different to what they expected. And of course when the boats come
close and you have a crossing situation in the dial downs etc., then it shifts
over to boat-to-boat tactics which is as much the helmsman as it is the
tactician. You think of Jimmy as being the battler, the boxer etc., but Dean’s
been at times just as aggressive as Jimmy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">How much can be attributed to
Oracle’s capsize as a reason that they’re not as polished as the Kiwis?</span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qDs2E0pYSW334qk2MgwstE4wYVln9Wr9mxlMUNIM7ss4anQFuLt9i0U8Jcx-so9XKcOShGae1EFxuZsCgaLHBFqYivb8M2c-nIkJRSkmUVFU9zMFt9IMSKUoB4WGdgP1-ydPuPUFif4/s1600/AK_AC34SepD18_3236.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qDs2E0pYSW334qk2MgwstE4wYVln9Wr9mxlMUNIM7ss4anQFuLt9i0U8Jcx-so9XKcOShGae1EFxuZsCgaLHBFqYivb8M2c-nIkJRSkmUVFU9zMFt9IMSKUoB4WGdgP1-ydPuPUFif4/s320/AK_AC34SepD18_3236.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">PI:</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"> Two
things: The Kiwis had a couple of weeks advantage by learning to foil first and
really developing it in secret before any of the other teams cottoned onto it.
They did a really good job of maintaining that advantage that they have. At the
same time, the superpower, our home team, had a huge setback with their capsize
that precluded them from being able to play catch up even when they did cotton
onto the foiling. The foiling totally changed the game of this America’s Cup.
Even the designers admit that they are accidentally what they [the boats] are
now. They didn’t intend—at least the version one hulls—to be riding above the
water or foiling upwind. The Americans lost any chance they did have of getting
on with the foiling game early because the boat broke, a double whammy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">What are your thoughts on these boats
as ideal match-racing boats?</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">PI: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">There is no ideal match racing boat, it’s like horses for
courses, it’s like what’s your favorite, there is no ideal horse. All of us,
from the spectators, the media, the viewers, to the sailors, are all almost
daily getting more into these boats match racing. It is spectacularly fun to
watch. It’s the coolest match racing I’ve ever seen. I think they’re great,
there’s obviously other issues and considerations beyond how cool they are, but
in terms of a match-racing boat, they’ve got everything—they’re manueverable
enough that they can play some tactical games. It’s not all the subtleties you
get with a heavy keelboat that goes really deep downwind and the trailer can’t
attack the leader by throwing bad air on them because they’re going so fast,
but I think the whole new game is pretty darn cool. I love it, and if you asked
me, you, or the viewers just back in the Louis Vuitton Cup, the answer would
have been completely different. Good on these two teams to show us really what
these these things can do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">How’s Ben doing at the back of the
boat?</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">PI:</span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;"> He’s a
leader and competitor, and he’s in the perfect position really right now. From
my perspective, he was hired to help the team and bring more experience on
board, but I also saw him hired to put him on ice to keep him out of the hands
of the enemy. With this awkward situation with JK [John Kostecki] Ainslie had
this totally unexpected opportunity to show everybody what he could do. He’s
super smart, a great sailor, and he’s done a really good job of stepping in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">When Cheese got taken out of the
mix—Cheese, JK, Spithill were a powerful team; they’d won an America’s Cup
together, done all the ACWS events together—I don’t think we really appreciated
just how much of a setback that was. All of a sudden, lose a few races,
confidence ... who knows what really went on within the team, but certainly Ben
has come in and kept Jimmy happy. That’s what a tactician does—it’s skipper
entertainment (laughs). Maybe it’s now a Ben, Kyle, Jimmy thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana;">At that level, you can talk about
Ainslie or Kostecki, it’s plug and play. Put any one of those guys on any boat,
and they’re going to look and sound good. There are times that with boatspeed
and other issues where—rarely—one of these guys has a bad day here and there,
but either of those guys are winners and I’d be happy to have either one of
them onboard. At the end of the day it comes down to a kind of comfort
level—the kind of "X Team" factor rather than who is making a better
decision at the time, it’s more the chemistry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/oracles-comeback-not-enough-to-overcome-kiwis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Photos: www.americascup.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s
nothing like a cold beverage or two to calm ragged nerves before, during, and
after watching the insanely close racing being dished up at the 34th America’s
Cup in San Francisco, where tens of thousands of fans have descended upon
America’s Cup Park. An atmosphere that’s nothing short of electric is pulsating
at the Park on the San Francisco waterfront, with two distinct camps each
desperately wanting the ol’ silver trophy.</span></div>
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party-goers, the Kiwis have hit San Francisco full force to support their team
which leads the Cup with a massive six-point lead. Some have been here for
weeks, even months, and others, even at this late stage, are still flying in
just to remind Emirates Team New Zealand that the entire country is behind the
Kiwi sailing team. If San Franciscans didn’t know what the Kiwi flag looked
like before this past week, they sure do now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The American
fan base has been slower to adopt the same enthusiasm as the Kiwi contingent,
in large part because the event just doesn’t hold the importance for the entire
nation like it does for the Kiwis. Nonetheless, like their Kiwi counterparts,
American fans and San Francisco locals are in every bar enjoying every minute
of this grand shindig on San Francisco Bay. With the way the scoreboard is
looking right now, they’d best make the most of it ...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunshine,
insanely good sailboat racing, and cold beer, all the ingredients for a good
party, are being dealt out in large quantities for thirsty bystanders. There’s
no shortage of places to party it up, and a chilled flute of bubbly or a frosty
cold beer can be found on almost every corner of the AC Park. Bright red
purpose-renovated shipping containers serve as bars around the Park, while a
covered pavilion to the rear of the Park hosts venues pouring the famed “Moa”
Kiwi beer, Napa Valley wines featuring premium local wines, and Mumm Napa
serving a selection of sparking wines. Drinks are pricey, but hey, not a whole
lot different to what you’d cough up at any other sports game.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwTR1qkbInX1sy2kZzbCp3zmwpZ1SfuY20M3X03Wl0X1yPouuNLfzD2N6kAsiLisqChX4zi7Sr18Y4MfLy9c4t5R6zaWvIICe4b1g7cSDP0YXfnH9gUCdLYGFoSdVWRbef7TKDWWQyXA/s1600/IMG_1515.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwTR1qkbInX1sy2kZzbCp3zmwpZ1SfuY20M3X03Wl0X1yPouuNLfzD2N6kAsiLisqChX4zi7Sr18Y4MfLy9c4t5R6zaWvIICe4b1g7cSDP0YXfnH9gUCdLYGFoSdVWRbef7TKDWWQyXA/s320/IMG_1515.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With some
50,000 visitors in and around AC Park and Village over the weekend, the
overflow continue to make its way outside the Park to a couple of hot spots,
notably the infamous Pier 23 right outside the Park. It’s been a popular place
to spot ETNZ members enjoying a cold one post-racing as well as a regular haunt
for AC staff. A few hundred yards north of the Park hidden behind the austere
entrance to Pier 29 is the creative Kiwi pop-up, The Waiheke Island Yacht Club.
Kiwi restaurateur Hayden McMillan has brought his dining know-how to the shores
of San Francisco Bay in the form of a warehouse-style restaurant serving dishes
described as “New Zealand sensibility in the San Francisco marketplace.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s
been packed since it opened on July 4 and rapidly become the gathering place of
choice for Kiwis, although manager Tony Stewart says they’re attracting a cross
section of clientele, it’s just that the Kiwis tend to be well, more vocal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“They just
seem to come here in droves, especially in the last few days,” Stewart said.
“It’s been incredibly busy. I knew it would be, but it’s intense, which is not
something we expected.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flicka
McGurrin’s been involved at Pier 23 since 1986, and with the exception of Fleet
Week celebrations, which are always huge in San Francisco, she says the Cup has
been unique because of the event’s longevity and the AC Park being right next
door: “It’s been great, really great. Revenue is way up, and we’re busy all the
time, the energy is great, and we’re having a lot of fun.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simon Towns,
Managing Director of Mumm Napa [who also happens to be a Kiwi], reports that
the bubbly business at the Mumm booth has been “fantastic”, not surprising as
the lines have often been 40-deep to buy a stem of bubbles.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Obviously
it’s built it up during the AC Finals,” Towns said. “Last Saturday we sold
about 25,000 flutes, and it looks like this weekend is going to be just as
good.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the
hopeless quest for a less crowded bar farther south along the San Francisco
waterfront, AC fans have discovered Coqueta, a relatively new Spanish Tapas bar
and restaurant that’s also been packed with AC fans post-racing. An ex-pat Kiwi
named Dave draped in a Kiwi flag was buying rounds of the largest gin and
tonics I’ve ever seen served anywhere. I mean, really huge, fat glasses. Wow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tPuACx52xB3NcOm1HOig26FEFon89iZH5kaFDE4_4oRR_4BFRWzaDR9mkh5RvrsYAgPm3kCNecdq905EzLgCFtUwpLg4Pj-wU1ZzGVcYHt-6xS5rhyqSieNdOopGrvdJqJKNNWqybLQ/s1600/IMG_1519.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tPuACx52xB3NcOm1HOig26FEFon89iZH5kaFDE4_4oRR_4BFRWzaDR9mkh5RvrsYAgPm3kCNecdq905EzLgCFtUwpLg4Pj-wU1ZzGVcYHt-6xS5rhyqSieNdOopGrvdJqJKNNWqybLQ/s320/IMG_1519.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The big
talk, of course, is where the teams and the fans will be celebrating when one
team takes the Cup. Traditionally, the teams host separate parties at their
respective bases. While there’s nothing special planned for the public, other
than the bars that have served them well for the past few weeks, it’s expected
that the action will remain down and around Pier 27.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stewart was
in the throes of figuring out celebrations at the Waiheke Island Yacht Club on
Sunday, and his best guest is that there’ll be something for everyone. “It’ll
be a private/public thing ...” Whatever that really means.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Likewise,
Towns was also working on party plans for the big celebration. “They’re in
progress," he laughed. “Obviously down here at Pier 27 we’ll be partying,
but wherever the party may be, we hope Mumm will not be far behind. It’s the
perfect product to party with.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spoken like a
winner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’ll be many things that stand
out as being both outstandingly good and outstandingly bad about the current
edition of the America’s Cup final match.</span><br />
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Falling into the former category is
that the races have gone off on schedule each race day with virtually no
technical hitches or breakdowns—incredible really, given the extreme nature of
the boats and the equally as extreme speeds and maneuvering witnessed on the
racecourse (who will ever forget Emirates Team New Zealand’s near capsize?).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the sailors may like to keep
sailing the AC72s for a while longer, the shore crew are ready for that
vacation as AC34 begins to wind down. Simply put, keeping the AC72s on the
water and in perfect working condition is a world-class production that
requires countless hours. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the outside it’s easy to wonder
how it all gets done. Andrew Henderson, Rig Team Manager for Oracle Team USA,
explains that there’s a rigid process in place that ensures the maintenance and
development work is carried out as perfectly as possible. Henderson’s been a
rigger for 20+ years and has his own rigging business back home in Australia.
He’s worked for the Oracle team for the past four years and credits the guys he
works with for the reliability of Oracle’s AC72: “They’re the top guys in their
field and great to work with.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">What systems are in place to make
sure all the work gets done?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> There’s a plan at the start of the regatta that we are following,
and if there are items that are failing beyond what we expected, we need to
make sure we’re keeping on top of those as well as the known items to be
serviced.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">What's the process once the boat
arrives back at the dock?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH</b>: As soon as the boat is back at the dock the sailing team gets
together and comes up with a job list with any issues on the boat they’ve had
during racing. That gets added to the master job list, which then gets
circulated through all the heads of department, and then jobs are distributed
out to the shore crew once the boat gets rolled into the shed and all the
post-race checks are done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wing is separated from the
platform, and one guy looks at the control systems, the structural engineers
walks around it with a flashlight to check out the flaps, and the sailmakers
check out the panels of clysar (shrink film that goes over the wing). When we
initially set up for a start of a regatta like this there’s a big visual inspection
on the wing, sometimes we run it through a camera. Next up is the platform
which gets thoroughly inspected for any weak areas. The rudders and
daggerboards are taken out for bearing checks and service.<br />
<b><br /></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What does the post-race checklist involve?</b><br />
<b>AH:</b> Each department has a folder they go through—rigging, for example,
will check all the terminals in the boat, all the individual components for the
wing, the structural system for any cracks or known “wear” areas. That check
takes place before the final job list for the day is put out. If we come across
any problems there, we start working on those and off we go into the night.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">How often has there been issues
post-race that have had to be dealt with?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH</b>: Other than that there’s just a lot of stuff to maintain every day,
we haven’t had any issues with the operating systems on the boat or the ways
that the guys sail the boat, so that’s been good. But, on the flip side, this
has been a massive development program, more than we’ve had in a while so
that’s been a huge amount of work. So, while the wear and tear on the boat
hasn’t been bad, and I think the sailing we’ve done until now has ensured that
everything is in place and hardy enough to get through the regatta, it’s been
the big list of development items that’s kept us busy. We’ve sailed every day
except one this past month and the shore crew hasn’t had a day off in a month.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Does the boat get cleaned and
polished after racing?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> Not really, we’re not getting it ready for a boat show. We’re more
focused on making sure everything works. The night shift guys may have time to
do that kind of detail. Of course the foils get some attention but in terms of
in terms of trying to make it shiny, that doesn’t happen. [Note—ETNZ cleans and
polishes its boat after every race day and following maintenance, it goes into
“lockdown” at 7 p.m. after an intruder was found climbing over the fence to the
ETNZ boatyard at Pier 32 some weeks back.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">How many guys are involved in getting
the boat in and out of the shed pre/post race?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> We have about 30 guys involved in the lift and the launch project,
which starts pretty early in the morning, and same thing in the afternoon,
about 30 people. If there’s a big issue that needs more hands, we have around
50 people we can bring together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Who makes up the night shift?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> Mainly the boatbuilders at this stage. A team comes on at 4:30 p.m.
and work through until about 6 a.m. Any issues, structural or otherwise, for
example there are lots of fairings on these boats which require constant
attention so the guys are often working on the fairings, making sure the boat
is structurally sound so it's ready to go for the next day’s race.<br />
<br />
<b>When and how does the measuring of the boat take place on race days?</b><br />
<b>AH:</b> We have the wing weighed at the end of the day which takes about
half an hour. The following morning the measurers show up again and weigh the
platform with the wing measurement. The measurers are at, or around, the boat
from the minute we roll out in the morning until we start the race.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">What happens between races?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> We have a team that gets on the boat - one guys checks the control
system on the wing, someone checks all the moving parts like the blocks, the
hull is checked, the [hydraulic] oil levels are checked, the electronics are
checked for shorts—we probably have about 10 guys who jump on between races to
make sure it’s ready to go for another round.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">From the shore team’s perspective, do
you feel a responsibility to the sailors once the boat docks out?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> Absolutely. My area is rigging, and for any major rigging failure
there is massive potential for someone getting hurt so we certainly think about
it a lot. We do have processes where we do all the checks, and we’ve done a lot
of testing to make sure that the guys sailing the boat are comfortable with the
rigging, for example.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">How is the decision to make
improvements to the boat conveyed to the shore crew?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> There’s a huge amount of data and a performance team that drives the
backend. The sailors come back with their ideas, the designers and engineers
come up with a plan, and we get a job list from that, we do the work, and then
the guys go sailing. That’s what we’re doing today. It’s continuous, and you
don’t always know where the end is, but everyone knows that now we have just a
few days to go, maybe a week, and so we have to do as much as we can this week
to try and win races.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Are these boats just a massive
undertaking to you?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><br />
<b>AH:</b> It’s a huge project. We’ve done big maxi boats but nothing on this
scale—the people, the technology ... it's mind blowing. These boats are fantastic,
and it’s a great thing to be involved in. We have a great working environment,
we’re given the tools to make our work safe, and the time to make it safe, so
that’s reassuring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As published at: <a href="http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/behind-the-scenes?page=0,1&src=SOC&dom=fb">http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/behind-the-scenes?page=0,1&src=SOC&dom=fb</a></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #262626;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo: Andrew Henderson, by Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heading into the last few days, John Craig, Principal Race
Officer, offers up his perspective gleaned from many days on the water watching
Oracle Team USA and Emirates Team New Zealand.</b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6qYuJSIRys2xWBHXrXA6FOF6iShMKLtbK5QcVIM_we7mWO_nkkzl0oLURzd7vxMOYnv6060vL5ABKdeFijsnXHIsGrbc1O4EhQ2KGRdyknMiyESTgkCr4hY8ticiJjU1At7DrYvxIpM/s1600/R09_2480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD6qYuJSIRys2xWBHXrXA6FOF6iShMKLtbK5QcVIM_we7mWO_nkkzl0oLURzd7vxMOYnv6060vL5ABKdeFijsnXHIsGrbc1O4EhQ2KGRdyknMiyESTgkCr4hY8ticiJjU1At7DrYvxIpM/s320/R09_2480.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If anyone’s been paying attention,
perhaps they’ve made a mental note or two about just how well this America’s
Cup event has played out in terms of on-water management—it’s been a smooth
operation amidst a lot of messy goings-on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">America’s Cup Race Management for
one have held up their part of the AC34 plan to deliver, whether it be the
challenging racecourse or great TV coverage. The disappointment is hanging
heavy around the AC compound for fans who’d hope that the teams were just a
little more even.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">ACRM probably had the best
“well-laid” plan going into this of any part of the event? How has it played
out on the water?</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JC: I would have liked to see it go a
little closer and a little further but I’m also looking at the end of the
tunnel...but it’s been really good. Some of the safety regulations that we had
to implement gave us some challenges, i.e., going from the mark boats to the
soft marks, and our ability to adjust the racecourse as quickly as we’d like to
and as efficiently. That went away a little bit when we had to start anchoring
marks in deep water. But the team rallied around that and figured out how to
anchor and make them stick for the most part. Our operations with the Coast
Guard has been great, and our relationship with them super. We haven’t really
had any major issues as far as vessel traffic, a few spectators getting in the
way but not really a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">What were spectator traffic numbers?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was surprised at how many boats.
The Coastguard estimated that on last Saturday we had 600 plus boats on the
water [Ed’s note: 700 estimated for Sunday]. I knew there’d be some but just
the nature of San Francisco Bay and how rough it can be, windy and cold, I was
surprised to see as many as we did.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">From your point of view on the water
what have been the challenges for Oracle?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was interesting that the dock talk
two months ago was that Oracle was fast upwind and ETNZ was quick downwind, and
ETNZ was probably better in boat handling maneuvers and foil-to-foil jibes.
Looking at it now Oracle’s perhaps a smidge faster downwind and upwind they’re
probably more than two knots slower racing in the conditions and the
configuration they presented on Thursday. Their tacks and jibes are just not as
smooth or efficient as ETNZ.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Did you expect that Oracle would be
more polished?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wouldn’t say they are not polished,
I would say that ETNZ has been from what we’ve seen on the water very
systematic in their training and their boathandling and the data we see coming
off the boats has indicated that they are machine-like in their maneuvers. They
do everything the same all the time. They are so consistent. Oracle just hasn’t
shown that consistency in their maneuvers whether that’s their training with
two boats or the configuration of the boats that they have that hasn’t allowed
them design-wise to have the stability or ability to deliver consistently.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Do you think they can pull anything
out of the bag at this stage?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You never know. I think the
configuration that they’re in right now gives them a lot of stability downwind.
Whether that stability is hurting them upwind is something I’d be interested to
see. I think they may be able to give a little downwind speed away to improve
their upwind and it’ll be that tuning the configuration of the boat that’ll be
interesting to see if they can make it upwind better. They have shown that they
can beat them. The question is whether they can still get to a position where
they can hang on after a gate and get past them after they get through that
leeward gate. It’s going to be a tough feat and I’m sure the oddsmakers are
looking at it a little differently than I am.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">What observations have you made about
the course and this style of racing?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the proof of concept has been
pretty good. The goal was to make it accessible to the public and we’ve done
that—Crissy Field, Marina Green, Piers 27 and 29, along the wall at Pier 39 and
Aquatic Park—everyday has been pretty good. Stan Honey has delivered a TV
product we haven’t seen in the sport before so I think there’s a lot of it that
we can look at and say, that really worked. For sure there’s been some
challenges, the boats themselves, that they weren’t originally conceptually
being designed to foil then the designers making that happen. They’ve created
some incredible boats but with it you have on the edge stuff, which has made
people made people more concerned. But at the end of the day I hope Oracle can
take a couple more at least—there’s been some great racing in boats people said
would never match race because they’re just too fast.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Can anything be changed on the
racecourse to facilitate closer racing?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I look back at the presentation
that we made a year ago about what we were going to deliver we didn’t have
enough challengers and the boats were too expensive but some of the things we
said we were going to deliver we actually did. As I said, I wish we could get a
few more races in just to really show that it actually really does work. I
think the format for the arena works really well. Sure, you have shorelines and
boundaries you have to put in but it really does look like a stadium and the
boats fit within it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think the next type of boats they
come up with you’ll need to look at what works and what doesn’t. We tried to
start the AC45s in New Zealand in upwind format. The problem was that you’d try
and pinch each other up because they’re so efficient—they’d be going upwind at
5 knots because they were just trying to pinch each other out. That didn’t play
out well. The second piece was that we wanted to try and have the boats stay
together for as long as we could knowing there could be big speed differences,
and the reaching start and then the run up and down to the leeward mark at the
same time theoretically or close to it. The percentage of beat to run—again,
the boats show better in the run but they also go so quick that it gets that
timewise—the beat and the runs are the same. For these boats I think its worked
out pretty well. It’s been tight and I know it’s suggested that there are not a
lot of passing lanes but there’s been some good passing going on and good
opportunities. It’s a trade off between having the boats line up and go up to a
corner for a layline and back in one tack but our goal was to force some
boathandling. That means three jibes downwind and five to seven tacks upwind. I
think we achieved that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Have the teams had any concern about
the few penalty calls post racing or have they all been dealt with on the
course?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think everybody has been pretty
cool about it, with the dial-down and a few other maneuvers, which the teams
raised some concerns about. But all of that, the thresholds, how much they can
bear off, what’s acceptable and what’s not was determined between the teams
beforehand so it’s just been a matter of delivering consistent calls as to what
they teams are expecting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">You’ve been RC for everything from
470s to superyachts this regatta what’s been the most challenging?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They’ve all been different. On the
water stuff has worked pretty well. The marks dragged around a little bit and
reverting back to that as I said has been challenging because we can’t get them
exactly where we want them. The guys have worked really hard to develop systems
to get them in the water when we need to and get them to stick. The teams have
been really good. We’ve been really open with everybody and that’s been good.
It’s just been really long days. We had Moths one the morning, ran the AC
races, then tried to run the skiffs. We did that once and it turned into a very
long day. But it’s part of generating excitement about sailing to increase the
content and keep people there looking at stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Have conditions been at all
surprising?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We’ve been close wind-wise a couple of times. We’ve had a
couple of days where we’ve been close pre-start to the wind limits (23 knots in
September) and close to not getting it done. We lost a day with the Red Bull
Youth Series—their final race. We’ve also been lucky, however, that a lot of
the regatta has been in the flood. So our wind factor goes up. It’s September,
you never know what you’re going to get.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As posted at: </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/the-pros-pov</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo: www.americascup.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s probably not a better person to comment on the first
four races of America’s Cup 34 than Ian “Fresh” Burns, Head of Performance for
Oracle Team USA.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJHwidFdKS82iJjftknOgRlknImgj-tt9GkHK-MP1f49ZVrGyfAnkKjkaRYzTeip-Q6AfRBHYHxxq9DUSQ8E2nFEiL3y5Tn-QrMuZXleUZ1U4S5IBOhDdaU_l8EzLPoh5F7YUwoEJwWI/s1600/burns_ian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJHwidFdKS82iJjftknOgRlknImgj-tt9GkHK-MP1f49ZVrGyfAnkKjkaRYzTeip-Q6AfRBHYHxxq9DUSQ8E2nFEiL3y5Tn-QrMuZXleUZ1U4S5IBOhDdaU_l8EzLPoh5F7YUwoEJwWI/s320/burns_ian.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After truly nail-biting,
heart-stopping performances by both Oracle Team USA and Emirates Team New
Zealand over the weekend, we checked in with Ian “Fresh” Burns, Head of
Performance for Oracle Team USA, to better understand some of the obvious
design differences between the boats and how those may be impacting
performance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">IB: What are you observing about your
boat’s performance that is surprising you?</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boats are quite similar in most
regards, so one of the unsurprising things is that they are similar in speed.
What’s a pleasant surprise is that we are able to keep up with them pretty well
and match their performance downwind, which is something we’ve been striving to
achieve for about the last year. They [ETNZ] have been leading the way in
downwind sailing and downwind jibing. It was good to get out there on the
racecourse with them and be able to be on equal terms and even maybe a tiny
advantage to us downwind. </span><b style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s no doubt that if you can’t get to the
bottom mark first, you can’t win the race and your advantage is vastly
diminished.</b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> So, we’re really happy with that. There’s room for improvement.
Kyle Langford is improving every day and really fitting in well with the crew
now, which will get better as he goes from one week to two weeks on the boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">At this point there’s probably little
you can do to change anything on the boat?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IB: </b>Not exactly, a lot of things can be
changed providing they measure in. You can change appendages, wings, and all
sorts of stuff if you wish to. I’m not suggesting for a moment that we’ll be
doing that. There have been opportunities to change things, but so far to date
we haven’t seen anything that would necessarily require that. </span><b style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We’ve been
making changes to the way we sail the boat. </b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We’re coming up against the
best sailing team in the world, except perhaps ours maybe, it’s going to be a
good battle to see which one is going to be the best. The Kiwis have done some
work up to this event and we’re working really hard to match that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Do you have any concerns that the
Kiwis have a self-tacking jib and Oracle doesn’t, especially as one place
Oracle’s been weak has been in the tacks?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IB:</b> The self-tacking jib has its
strengths and weaknesses and certainly allowing more horsepower to go into
different parts of the boat that aren’t grinding the jib on, but I’ll add the
free tailing jib doesn’t require a lot of pulling on. It’s a bit of a deal, but
it’s not a big deal. The benefit of it is that you actually end up with a
little less drag through the tack because the jib is not on tight slides on the
track. You probably end up with a little more options as to how to sheet it.
They’re all plus and minuses. The extra horsepower’s useful in the second race
of the day when the boys have had a hard couple of races. It’s always nice to
have a bit more horsepower when you need it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">Can you comment on the differences
between the bows of the Oracle versus Kiwi boats and what part those
differences appear to play in the racing thus far?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IB: </b>The hull shapes are quite different:
the Kiwis have got very flat sections on the bottom of their hull, which is
quite good for skimming as we call it where you’re just barely touching the
water, but the Kiwis sail a lot of the time with bows out of the water so it doesn’t
make a whole lot of difference what shape it is when it’s doing that. Ours is
probably better for going through the water on the leeward side that’s in the
water but we really have not seen a massive difference created in the hull
shapes no matter what. The hulls are a little different if you look closely at
them, but the differences are miniscule as far as performance. <b>It’s the
whole package—the daggerboards and the rudders are doing almost all of the work
up and downwind, and the wing up in the air.</b> If you have a long skinny
hull—I don’t know what the ratio is, it’s something in the order of 20 or 25-1
width to length ratio—you find it doesn’t make a huge amount of difference if
it’s a few inches wider or flatter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">The performance of the boats in Races
3 and 4: Oracle seemed to do better in the heavier air in Race 4 while ETNZ did
better in the lighter air in Race 3. What are your thoughts?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IB: </b>There was different windspeed, but I
think that the Kiwis didn’t have a great race in the afternoon and we didn’t
have a great race in the earlier race. I know you’re after a design comparison,
but I think it’s much about how the guys get the boat around the course. It’s
incredibly demanding and challenging. <b>Nobody has a perfect race because it’s
too hard to achieve that. </b>Our guys sailed differently in the afternoon
compared to the morning as did the Kiwis. We're really learning a lot from
going up against them. I think the Kiwis have done a great job of optimizing
the way they sail the boat as they always do. We’ve managed to catch up with
them in the downwind stuff, which was one of our primary goals in the event and
now we’ve got a similar improvement to make on the upwind stuff. I think our
guys are really working and learning hard and trying a lot of different things
and some of them are working. I think there was a huge difference between Race
3 and 4. We’ve seen big changes from the way we started the regatta to now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">If you could do something different
now what would that be?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IB:</b> I’d move the America’s Cup back into
October and give us another month. The learning curve and the improvements in
these boats are coming so fast and they’re such big steps that we'll be going
infinitely faster in one month’s time and so will the Kiwis. <b>It’s really a
game of who can improve the fastest.</b> Even though we’ve only perhaps got 6,
8, 10 races, improvements will be made every single step of the way, race to
race. That’s where I think the real advantages are. I think the boats are quite
similar if you look at the daggerboards and the systems and the wing—they’re
really quite similar and I’m sure the Kiwis have looked at our stuff and
thought the same thing and the differences in speed and performance are
relatively small.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #262626;">From a technical standpoint, what do
you think of the racing so far?</span></b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IB: </b>We’ve watched these boats sail for a
long time now and they never fail to inspire awe in anyone who sees them when
they come by close. When we’ve been out on the support boats during training
for example, they come by doing 40 knots on the foils and pass about 1 foot
away from the front of our boat, everybody on the boat, whether they’ve been
designing these things for the past three years or they’ve never seen it before
will say they are the most beautiful sight in sailing. <b>It’s awe inspiring,
it’s kind of scary, it’s kind of wonderful all at the same time, and to see two
boats at that level side by side racing where the first to blink will lose.</b>
You can go from a comfortable lead to behind in the blink of an eye. That to me
is the most thrilling type of sailing to watch. Right now it feels like they’re
on the edge of all times and anything could happen. Add to that, the boats are
being sailed differently, the teams are different, the approach to the
racing—no one really knows how to close race these boats—the guys are changing
their strategies and tactics every day. To me, with a long time involvement in
the America’s Cup, it’s exciting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other thing that really stands out to me looking out a
little longer term is that we’re really a long way from being anywhere near the
top of performance of these boats. For me being a technical person is a great
place to be. You’re only limited by what you can practically do in the time and
with the resources available. Watching it live on the water is great but the TV
pictures are also absolutely breathtaking—the clarity and audio combined give
you an experience that in sailing we’ve never been anywhere close to. The TV
guys have done a great job of capturing these boats and especially in the
environment. I’ve been sailing a long time but the America’s Cup is going to
finish and people are going to say, this is amazing, what month does it come
back again? It’ll be a disappointment to people who suddenly get into it and
learn it’s another three years away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As posted at: http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/the-designers-take-on-ac34s-opening-races</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo: Guillan Grenier/OTUSA</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 34th America’s Cup is proving to be the place for
Nathan Outteridge to showcase his talents both on and off the water.</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> After
a roller-coaster ride with Artemis Racing this past year, the 26-year-old
Aussie talent has taken the best of the experience to apply to his own sailing
in the 49er and the Moth, as well as to position himself in a good place for
the 35th America’s Cup. Over the past week the sailing world has enjoyed the
benefit of his knowledgeable commentary from the racecourse of the Red Bull
Youth America’s Cup, and now the 34th America’s Cup. While it’s all wrapped and
packed up at the Artemis Racing base, the team’s helmsman is taking every
opportunity to train on San Francisco Bay for the upcoming 49er World
Championship in Marseille, France (September 21 to 29), and the Moth Worlds in
October in Hawaii. Here Outteridge talks about all things AC and what’s next on
his dance card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How did you end up commentating for the Red Bull Youth
America's Cup and the AC Final?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO:</b> I was asked by ACTV to do some guest commentating
during the Louis Vuitton Final—being on stage and giving a few comments here
and there between races. I guess they liked what I was saying so they asked me
to do the Red Bull event for them. It worked out pretty nicely for me, and I
was going to be watching the racing anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What was your take-home from the RBYAC?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO:</b> Pete Burling has just turned 22 so he’s pretty
young, but he’s already done two Olympics. Most of these guys are only a few
years younger than me. A lot of guys in the Red Bull fleet who’ve been sailing
49ers I’ve been sailing against for six years. To me they’re basically my
peers. Their skill level was really high even though they didn’t get a whole
lot of time to train in the boats. They could have competed quite easily with
the normal World Series teams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What did you observe in their tactical skills?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO:</b> I thought they were quite aggressive in what they
were doing, but you could see that there was a lack of consistency amongst the
boats. Pete seemed to be the only team that had that consistency and ability to
get back through the fleet. They were making mistakes thoughout the racing,
like they weren’t furling up their sails properly at the bottom mark, which was
costing them when they went to deploy them at the top mark, they had knots,
etc. By Days 3 and 4, there were none of those mistakes, so you could see their
learning curve was still progressing throughout the racing. It was good to see
that they were given an opportunity like that. There were no major crashes, no
one did anything wreckless—they were just there trying to make their mark in
the sport.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Your next event is the 49er Worlds?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO:</b> Yes, we [myself and Iain Jensen AKA Goobs]
haven’t sailed at all since the Olympics. I always like to plan to have
something to do after a big event because if you don’t you kind of feel really
flat. Goobs and I decided to do the 49er Worlds to touch base again with the
49er fleet and make our big decision on where we’re going to go from here. It’s
hard to know exactly what’s going to happen in the Cup until someone wins, and
we know where it goes so we have a little time up our sleeve to get back to some
racing. This year’s been pretty tough—I’ve done two events and normally I do
20. You feel like you’re missing out on the actual racing. It’s been great to
be involved in the team and learn all the America’s Cup team processes, but the
racing’s been lacking. So, for the last two weeks Goobs and I have been putting
the 49er in the water, and I’ve also been doing quite a lot of Moth sailing for
the Moth Worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What have you learned transitioning from the 72 back to
the smaller boats?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO: </b>You just learn how much easier little boats are
logistically—we can show up, be in the water in half an hour, go sailing for 2
hours, come in, pack up in half an hour, and that’s your day done. Whereas just
trying to get the big boat in the water, even the 45, you need extra people to
launch the boats, pack the boats up, you need coach and safety boat support, so
it’s all the extra things required. It’s much more difficult. We’ve learned so
much more about our little 49er sailing just this week, which would take months
to do on a big boat just because of the practicalities of the boats. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Foiling and the Moth: what translates from the 72 to the
Moth?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO:</b> I learned a lot from the Moth to put into the 72,
and then sailing the 72 and feeling how that works and having a bunch of really
smart designers to give you information was really interesting. The main thing
I learned was that your control systems are extremely important, and your foil
shapes are really important. A lot of my Moth sailing was through feel—you try
something, you learn, and you feel the change. I’ve been getting good
explanations from some of our design team as to why something happens on my
Moth, the logic going on behind it because before I’d keep crashing and just
change it until I worked it out. So while translating exactly from the big boat
to the Moth is quite different, the principles are still the same. I don’t
really have much time to try the ideas for the Moth that we have, but I think
in the next year you’ll start to see what we’ve learned throughout the last
three years with the 72 will trickle down to little boats, like the Little
America’s Cup C-Class—they’re all foiling around like 72s. I’ve been in the
49er class where it’s just myself and my crew and our coach, then we get a few
experts come in and help every now and then, and our budget is so small. I
spend a lot of time at the base just trying to talk to people on the team, then
it’s trying to harness that information and follow it in the right direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Moth is a 100-percent development class; what are the
restrictions on improvements?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO:</b> The only rules for the Moth are the length of the
boat, the width of the wings, the area of the sail, and the mast height.
Otherwise you can use materials as you like, have as many sets of foils as you
like for an event. So I’ve got like three sets of foils, the standard set which
I’ve made some tweaks to, another foil coming which we’re going to try to make
some changes to for the Worlds to see if what we’ve learnt at Artemis Racing is
going to help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What’s the 49er fleet looking like at the moment?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NO:</b> It’s pretty much the same as it was at the
Olympics and before that. A few people have stopped sailing, and there are a
few new teams. Pete Burling and Blair Tuke just won the Europeans in the only
event they’ve done this year, and they’re our benchmark. We trained with them
for four years, and the fact that they won is a good sign because it means no
one has jumped up—we think we’re pretty similar to those guys. We’ll be a
little bit rusty in our boathandling and we haven’t done any racing, so we’ll
have to learn how to get that back pretty quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As posted at: <a href="http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/catching-up-with-outteridge">http://www.sailingworld.com/racing/americas-cup/catching-up-with-outteridge</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Photo: ACEA/Frances
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gino Morrelli and business partner Pete Melvin have
been successfully designing state-of-the-art multihulls for a very long time</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, but
other than their involvement in the 27th edition of the America’s Cup, which
saw the Stars and Stripes catamaran win its defense against the Kiwis, they’ve
been absent until recently from the AC scene for obvious reasons. They were
seconded by Oracle for their (successful) 2010 challenge against Alinghi, and
this go around, the M&M team participated in writing the new AC72 Class
Rule before being hired away by ETNZ to design its AC72. Pete joined the team
in New Zealand, while Gino has been holding the fort in their Newport Beach,
Calif., office and been peripherally involved with design team meetings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Morrelli’s hot on foiling as the way to go forward
in all things AC. “Most people don’t realize we’ve been dealing with foiling
for almost four years, before the 2010 Cup," he says. "We designed
the Nacra 20 that’s been in production for five years now, that had curved
foils; prior to that we built an A-Cat with curved foils. We’ve been building
power cats for 15 years with foils. People playing with catamarans have been
playing with foiling for a long time.” We caught up with Morrelli for his
insight on the big picture of the AC72 design:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>The 72 seems to be a designer’s dream and
a sailor’s nightmare. How did you get to the boat we have today?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> Most of the 72 was dictated by
Russell [Coutts] and the Oracle guys. After the 2010 Oracle campaign, they
retained us [morrelli & Melvin] to do some performance analysis on
different sized trimarans— a trimaran being the original contender with a soft
rig. We did all kinds of analysis on things from 60 to 90 feet—cost estimates,
performance estimates, and providing them with a matrix of options there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cat was part of an early allegiance to move
boats from one country to another—de-mounting boats and shipping boats on
planes around the world—cats would simplify this craziness, [with] less parts.
The transition to the wing on top of it—there was no real research done on our
part—was just like a declaration by Oracle, “We want a wing. Tell us how big a
wing we can put on.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, they constrained us with needing to fly a
hull in 6 knots of wind. Once the boat size was determined, it determined the
wing size by the requirement that it had to fly a hull in 6 knots of wind—that
opened up the whole Pandora’s box of the rig being really big for San
Francisco. That’s where the idea of two rigs came about—big and little—with the
rig committee determining the night before the race which rig people would have
to use. That got dismissed because of cost and management problems. The next
idea was to put a removable top on the rig—15 feet off the rig—but the harsh
reality of taking tops of rigs with control systems, etc.? Not really. So we
ended up with the big rig for all purposes all the time. Due to cost and
complexity, the idea of an alternate smaller rig also went by the wayside. I
think it was one of those situations where Oracle ran out of time, and it was
either do nothing or mandate a whole lot of expense. Everybody knew you’d end
up with a boatbuilding team and a wing-building team. The two never really
cross over very much—you end up having to babysit the platform with a set of
guys and same thing with a wing—it now takes 35 guys to launch a wing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>Let’s assume multihulls carry on into
AC35. What will follow the AC72?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> I think the excitement that has
been generated in this Cup has way more to do with foiling and flying than the
wing. If we used the same platform with soft rigs and rotating masts with fully
battened sails, then first you can reef them, second you can launch them at
your leisure like a normal boat, and third you eliminate the wing-building team
and the problem with the handling of the wing, the hydraulics, and control
systems. In reality the difference between the performance of the boats with a
wing on foils and without the wing on foils, won't be much. They’ll still sail
at 40-plus knots. Maybe they don’t sail at 165 degrees downwind, but at 163 to
160, and they’ll probably still fly in as little wind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we did the ’88 campaign with the soft rig and
the hard rig, the delta between the two boats in the end was only about 1 or 2
percent, which is huge if you’re racing those boats against each other. There
is a lot of economic push to go back to monohulls because there are guys
sitting on the sideline that got pushed out in 2010. In fact, when we were
developing the Rule for AC34, we’d get calls like, “Well, how many guys are
going to be on board?” or, “You’re not going to put that engine on board are
you, because that’ll displace about eight guys.” Some of these guys had made
their livelihood off the Cup for 30 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Should the boats continue to foil if multihulls
remain?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> I think it’d be a travesty if
they didn’t foil. All they have to let us do is articulate the rudders, put
flaps on, or articulate the rudders and angle the tack, and these boats will
get way faster overnight. The benefit that we’re tapping into right now is just
beginning. Back in ’88 I was involved in researching the defense of the use of
catamarans in one of the court battles. One of the things we learned was that
George Schulyer who wrote the Deed of Gift, sailed a catamaran. The naissance
of the America’s Cup has much more to do with the American defense program. The
Cup was taken from England when we were just a baby of a country compared to
England. The reason that the AC victory was so fundamental at the time was that
it was a breaking out of American ingenuity and technology, challenging the
English. The DofG was an attempt to create an event that promoted naval
architecture for American defense as it was for a yachting competition, at a
time when domination of the sea controlled your security for trade and
prosperity—all those guys were nation-builders back then. It was the space race
of the time. That’s what the Cup is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>What’s your opinion on the subtleties of
the hull shapes?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> They almost don’t matter
anymore. Even upwind, unless you’re sailing in 2 knots of wind, you’re always
trying to generate a bigger fraction of lift off the daggerboards. When we
first started with ETNZ, the only tools we really had that were highly
developed were all based on monohulls. It took about 3 or 4 months before the
CFD tools got sophisticated enough to start accounting for daggerboard lift
because it’s a very interesting mathematical problem to analyze a hull that
goes from fully immersed in displacement mode to flying in the air. The whole
drag curve tradeoff with the size of the foils, the position of the foils,
angle of the cant—all that had to be developed. A big matrix of hull shapes was
generated, and we looked at every boat that was relevant in the last 3 or 4
years, whether it was an A Cat, a F18 or F20, anything in that genre, and ran
it through the CFD. In the end, from the best to the worst it was like .5
percent. There wasn’t any giant delta to be won or lost. After going through 50
to 60 boats, the fastest hull shape was basically an existing boat. The joke
was, “Don’t let Grant know because he’ll fire us as we’ve just spent four
months trying to find a better hull shape and we couldn’t.” The whole idea of
hull shapes being important has been superceded by how important daggerboards
are and foils are. We joked that the hulls had become “board delivery
devices."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>It was suggested that ETNZ’s hull shape
probably saved them from a worse fate in their recent nosedive?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM: </b>With ETNZ’s recent crash, the
hull shape did come into play, but it was the volume that was important, not
the shape.<b> </b>The only important decision with the hull shape design was
how much bow you stuck in front of that daggerboard to accommodate for any
crash, and that’s where you see a delta between the shapes, between Oracle,
Artemis, and ETNZ—how big a bow to stick on it to survive the inevitable which
is what happened to Oracle when they capsized. Both teams did a weather hull
pitchpole. We’re not capsizing over the leeward hull, we’re starting to capsize
over the weather hull, which is a completely new way to capsize a catamaran.
The hull shapes are not going to determine who won or lost the America’s Cup by
a long way except for the lack of survivability—the nose—Oracle’s a lot finer,
a lot narrower in the front, and we’re a little fuller and taller. We carry
around the extra windage and a little more weight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>You and Pete were part of the team who
wrote the Class Rule then went on to design ETNZ’s boat. What was the benefit
to ETNZ?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM: </b>Obviously we had an insight as to
why it was written the way it was. We were directed by Oracle and Mascalzone
Latino to address any particular fundamental issues, like hull point speeds,
weight, crew limits, that sort of thing. It was very much a big group working
together for months. Like any group decision it’s never perfect. It’s a bunch
of visions pushed together with certain compromises. We [Melvin & Morrelli]
took a bit of a different path—we had about six of us in our office who were
involved in the Rule writing, so we divided the office in half, with half the
team writing the Rule and the other half troubleshooting the Rule. For example,
Pete was writing the Rule, and I was on the other side challenging the Rule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the jokes in-house was that we were very wary that we could write
a rule and have a loophole in it that we would not be aware of, and once it got
published we were particularly concerned that someone like Juan K. would read
the Rule and interpret it to the point where he’d find a loophole and someone
would somehow magically come out with a Rule-beating boat that somehow we had
never envisioned. So we were always saying to ourselves, “How would Juan K.
read this?” In the office we would force internal argument about the definition
of every single line because we were trying to define something that didn’t
exist, that was new.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wasn’t the Rule designed to discourage foiling?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> No, that’s a bunch of crap. When
we were writing the Rule we were really pushing Oracle and Mascalzone Latino to
take all the constraints off the daggerboards and rudders and let it be the
Pandora’s Box: Let’s have active control systems and wands, let’s see what people
can come up with. Oracle was quite supportive of that, and we wrote a Rule. One
edit that survived 2 or 3 weeks stated that there were really no constraints on
daggerboards and rudders—you could have articulation, flaps, moveable systems,
you could have moveable extensions like a Moth or a tri-foiler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ML guys weighed in and put the veto on it—they
didn’t want to let these boats out loose with no Rule. I think the rationale at
the time for them was that they knew Oracle was already going to have a headstart
on the wing, and they knew that we already had curved foils on the trimaran.
They knew that the big boats were already progressing toward higher lift
fraction (the amount of lift that the boards produce as opposed to the amount
of lift the hulls produce, like a fully-flying boat is a 100-percent lift
fraction—all the higher boat weight is on the foils whereas you could have
90-percent lift fraction, where 90 percent is on the foils and 10 percent on
the hulls). At the time Oracle was fully supportive of a full flying boat, all
bells and whistles. But we were asked to back it down so we reluctantly started
trying to carve out a Rule that didn’t preclude flying but made it a little bit
more challenging without all the bells and whistles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>What were the compromises which have
resulted in somewhat “awkward” daggerboards?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> The compromise was to allow the
daggerboards a fair amount of freedom—you could cant them, change the rake,
twist them, rake them up and down, but you couldn’t translate them, which means
move them fore and aft of the boat which is important for certain windspeed
conditions where you may have a big gennaker up front and may want to move a
board forward, for example, but that would have been a big structural
challenge. It was agreed that we could put elevators on the rudders—we still
wanted to have articulating elevators so that the elevators could move like an
airplane with flaps that the crews could actively adjust like a Moth. So, the
outcome was we got elevators but no controls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The joke was it was like giving us an airplane that
could fly but with a dead stick. You don’t get to change its angle of tack or
control with the rudder. It put all the emphasis on changing the flying on the
daggerboards. At the time I think they felt that was going to be a big enough
constraint to keep the boat costs down by not having all these crazy
systems—wands, sensors, crazy hydraulic pressures—and that would make it hard
to fly. Oracle and Artemis made early assumptions that you may not get there
from here, but we knew we could fly—we’d had experience with three or four
other cats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>Where do you think your experience really
kicked in for ETNZ?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> The 72 was designed from the
start as a foiling boat. We’d already designed the SL33 with curved foils. ETNZ
immediately bought two of them, and we tried dozens and dozens of foil
combinations on the SL33 before we built the first 72. By allowing us to have
elevators, everyone knew that we were going to fly. It was just a matter of how
we would control it, and that’s where every team has fought for a various
technique to control flying in a response to the rule restriction. If we could
control the rudders we would have a different daggerboard. We knew we would fly
but not whether we’d fly under control. We were afraid that Juan K. or Dirk Kramers
or one of the other smart guys around the table would figure it out before we
did. As it turns out, we have a solution that gets us around the racecourse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Pete [Melvin] has said previously that multihulls
can be match-raced, a sentiment not shared by many. Do you concur?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM: </b>I don’t care. The America’s Cup
is not about match racing. The America’s Cup is about building the fastest boat
possible to get around the course. Match racing was really only an evolution of
the 12-Metre and boats that go slow. You have to read the Deed of Gift to
understand the intention of the America’s Cup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Can you point out the design differences with Luna
Rossa’s first generation 72 versus ETNZ’s <i>Aotearoa</i>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM: </b>Yeah, they had a generation 1
boat, and we had a generation 2.5 boat. There was a lot of refinement in the
systems that control the boatspeed and maneuverability. You have to have
fully-orchestrated maneuvers now to keep the thing on foils and coming out of
the jibes with the minimum loss of VMG. The difference between a good foiling
jibe and someone basically dropping a hull in the water is around 400 meters.
Now the difference between a good foiling jibe and a bad foiling jibe is still
100 meters. A lot of it is maneuverability, the articulation system of the
wing, the self-jibing of the jib, the crew-weight transfer, daggerboard timing
going up and down—all at 45 knots in racing pressure, or what we call, “racing
in anger." It’s where the big deltas are going to occur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Likewise, what’s with the Oracle boat that stands
out versus ETNZ’s boat?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM: </b>Oracle have a narrower boat so if
we get into displacement sailing, like in 8 knots of wind, they may have a
“slippier” hull which may be an advantage if it’s super light. Just watching
them sail over the past six to seven weeks you can see that they’re climbing up
the learning curve fast. Their daggerboards and control systems have evolved
towards ETNZ’s. They have a theoretically better system, but I think they’ve
basically thrown in the towel and said, "We can’t seem to make this work,
we’re going to have to go to a self-adjusting system, a self-leveling
system." So they gave away, I think, one of their potential advantages in
a breeze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oracle’s biggest advantage is more time in San
Francisco, more money and resources. They probably have the ability to sail the
boat “in anger” than ETNZ may choose to at certain points. Kostecki has
probably got 10,000 more hours on the Bay than Ray Davies or Dean Barker, like
one event last summer in the ACWS where Spithill went from dead last to first
in one blast, literally sailing through the fleet. That’s a clear advantage. I
think Jimmy is aggressive enough that he could drive the boat toward major
league danger and force Dean and ETNZ to flinch. They have the resources to be
able to risk it all unlike ETNZ. Oracle may be willing to risk and pull the
trigger to kill the program in a jibe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How do you control costs in this game?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM:</b> If you mandated all the boats to
go back to soft rigs and change the box so that wings were eliminated, you’d
kick out a bunch of costs. I think the whole argument about money is a
fallacy—every team will spend what they raise. We could make the boat half as
big and Larry Ellison would spend just as much money. The team doesn’t get any
smaller! We’re not controlling costs by controlling boats or people. Even Dean
and Grant [ETNZ] would spend every dime that they raise if they could.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>Is there already some back-room designing
going on somewhere?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>GM: </b>Absolutely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As posted at: <a href="http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/writing-the-rule?page=0,1">http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/writing-the-rule?page=0,1</a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Racing suffered more</b> than just growing pains in its AC34 debut.
Following the tragic death of Andrew Simpson in an unfortunate training
incident, it was highly doubtful that the team would regroup both emotionally
and physically to sail again, but against all odds they did, competing in four
races against Luna Rossa in the Louis Vuitton Cup semifinals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although he’s adamant that it’s been a relentless te</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">am effort that got the team back on the water, it’s clear that Artemis Racing skipper Iain Percy, long-time Olympic sailing partner and close friend of Simpson, was a motivating force behind this massive achievement. Here Percy talks about the end of an era, and perhaps surprisingly, the beginning of a new one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What’s the break down procedure after an AC
campaign ends?IP:</b> One of the unique aspects of the America’s Cup is
that the winner decides the next competition. It’s sometimes one of the
frustrations and sometimes described as one of the unique beauties of the Cup.
Certainly from a planning perspective, it's one of the frustrations. I think
it's pretty normal for teams to stop after a Cup, and personally I think it's
very important that a team takes a break to regroup before very carefully
reforming. That’s what Artemis Racing is doing. Torbjörn, at our final press
conference, very clearly stated his passion to do the next Cup. We don’t want
to repeat mistakes by jumping in without proper thought and proper vision. So,
we’ve stopped and we’re packing up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What happens from a practical standpoint?</b><br />
<b>IP:</b> We have a lot of things of value that need to be maintained and put
away properly. We have a small squad remaining at our base in Alameda packing
up and putting equipment into containers, including things like machine shops
that can be reopened at any moment in the future. It’s a 100-person
organization so there’s a lot of personal gear that needs to be go back to
where people want it to go. It’s a huge logistical challenge. There’s also a
lot of work to be done in taking an audit and doing a genuine inventory of all
our equipment and IP gear. It’s really not much more magical than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Who is still on the payroll, and who has finished
up?</b><br />
<b>IP: </b>There’s a small squad of people here putting things in containers.
There’s an area of the organization that needs to keep going, like answering to
the press etc. Nathan [Outteridge] and I are still here because we’re
passionate about the Cup and Artemis Racing. It’s not for me to announce who is
still with the team, that will come at the appropriate moment. I think anyone
who knows Torbjörn knows that he’s incredibly serious about what he wants for
Artemis Racing, and I think they also know that Artemis Racing has proved to be
a very enjoyable place to work. I think when you see the people who are keen to
stay involved, it’s pretty clear it’s going to be a dominant force in the
America’s Cup. I think the key message is the reason that you’re speaking to
myself and Nathan—is because we really do believe that this team can be
special.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>IP:</b> Yes, absolutely. I see what I think everyone else around the sailing
community sees—that Torbjörn is passionate about the Cup, about winning, that
he’s incredibly in touch with the team. He’s very much a leader and a guider of
the team in a positive sense. That for me is a huge motivation. I’ve done this
game for a little while now, and I’m less naïve than I used to be. So I know
that when these things are done properly, they can be incredibly enjoyable,
good places to work with good people in a fun collegiate environment where we
can exercise the passion for the technology of our sport. If done wrong, it can
be quite difficult. For me Torbjörn stands out as someone able to do something
properly.<br />
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<b>What’s happening with the Artemis Racing boat?</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>IP</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>:</b> [Laughs] It reminds me that after our last day sailing, one of the
crew said to me, “This may actually be the last time this boat sails!” As
history goes, that may well be the case. In a way it’s a shame with the Cup,
particularly with this Cup and the last Dog Match, that they’re not the kind of
boats you go out for an afternoon sail with a few mates, that’s for sure. It
requires a lot of people on the shore and very confident people on the sailing
front to be able to take the boats out on the water, which inevitably means
it’s a huge operation to go sailing. It’s really not worth it unless it’s
relevant to the next Cup. That remains to be seen. The USA tri hasn’t been on
the water and for a reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>In retrospect, what was the high point of the
campaign for you personally?</b><br />
<b>IP:</b> For me it was six or seven months ago after Bart and Iain [Jensen]
had joined the team bringing this can-do attitude coming from the Olympics,
with the Olympic spirit of doing absolutely everything you can to win. They’re
all great guys; I’ve known Bart all my life, Iain and Nathan more recently. We
had a common kind of culture and way of working which came together as a lot of
energy around the base and a lot of other good people who grew in that
environment. We had found out that we were on the wrong path with the red boat
so were redeveloping our boat and our wing, and getting faster and faster at
putting it all together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a fantastic working environment and was the
highlight few months. Nathan was really getting into the foils and foiling
solutions, Bart and myself were taking on the aero side with the wing. We were
grabbing this thing by the scruff of the neck. It wasn’t just us four—we were
joined by a lot of great people—the 100 people in here were humming. It was a
fantastic thing to get up in the morning and come to work. I felt things were
driving at such a speed. I’ve never been in a sailing team or an America’s Cup
team where everything was going at such a pace.<br />
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<b>Likewise, where did things start to go sideways for the team?</b><br />
<b>IP: </b>Like all these campaigns, it usually happens very early on with the
very first few decisions that you make which are exponentially important. We
failed—probably—to capitalize on some of the existing experience in the
multihull world both on the water and on the shore which would have put us on a
faster track to the detail and refinement stage. I wasn’t involved at that
stage, so it’s not fair for me to look back and judge it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>On the occasions you did sail how did it feel being
on the water as a team?</b><br />
<b>IP:</b> It was great fun. Myself, Iain, Nathan—we love racing as do all the
other boys on board. It was a very special moment when we crossed the line in
the first race. We were almost two minutes behind, and I’ve never done that in
my life, but it was the biggest victory I’ve had in almost all my sailing. I’ve
never worked or felt more together as a team. I think Nathan said as we crossed
that line, “We’ve done it boys,” and I think most of us had a tear roll down
our cheeks as we really had done something that all of us thought was almost
certainly impossible. Not impossible emotionally, but impossible practically.
The thing was such a huge challenge and on top of the emotional challenge that
we felt. I keep saying to people, “Those who didn’t go through that period with
us inside Artemis Racing will never understand the mountain it was that we
climbed." And, those words of Nathan’s as we crossed the line kind of
summed it up for all of us.<br />
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<b>What is next for you personally?</b><br />
<b>IP: </b>I have a few regattas coming up, which I’m really looking forward
to. I’ll be doing my first RC44 regatta with Torbjörn. I’ll be doing the
Bermuda Gold Cup with an old team representing the Andy Simpson Sailing
Foundation with myself, Ben Ainslie, Christian Camp, and Matt Cornwall, which
is the team of four of us that Bart would join in a five-man match-race boat
and always came as our coach to Bermuda. We’re really lucky to have been
sponsored by the event sponsor, The Argo Group, to donate to the charity for us
to race for Bart. That’s been great for the foundation and for the four of us
who were all good friends of Bart to go back to a spot where we’ve been
together many times. Racing is something that’s in our blood, and sometimes
with the America’s Cup you get all too little of it so I’m looking forward to
getting out and feeling the adrenaline of the start line again.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As posted at: http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/whats-next-for-artemis?page=0,1</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyC4AQl96Pwr1SjjMykJRgVgnI9O8h8_b81vqNAItLySIHXObmEonhDcQ6ptFYVVbbdlDSv-xakjPp99PUFecHeif4Q6RQjyOukJjVliwPb0YeOs6yvXiK326yRNDUf-4q8gUCZQAYW8/s1600/perry_aaron.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyC4AQl96Pwr1SjjMykJRgVgnI9O8h8_b81vqNAItLySIHXObmEonhDcQ6ptFYVVbbdlDSv-xakjPp99PUFecHeif4Q6RQjyOukJjVliwPb0YeOs6yvXiK326yRNDUf-4q8gUCZQAYW8/s320/perry_aaron.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Aaron Perry</i></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Much attention has been given to the helmsman’s
wheel in this America’s Cup</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, particularly after foiling became the
focus and the need for the helmsman to have control of the daggerboards more
apparent. While ETNZ declined to share its wheel secrets, Luna Rossa and Oracle
Team USA were happy to share their wheel solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here Aaron Perry, a design engineer at Oracle Team
USA, explains the development of his team’s current wheel design. A mechanical
engineer from San Diego and in his fifth Cup campaign, Perry’s focus for this
event has mostly been the CAD modeling of the yacht platform, collaborating
with the sailing team to design onboard systems like the steering, rudders and
the wheel design. Working alongside Perry are design team members Dan Smith and
Richard Kent who built the wheels, wired the electronics, and were responsible
for much of the original button cartridge idea, says Perry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What are the requirements of the wheel?</span></b></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: center;"> We first launched the boat
with an entirely different steering system. It was kind of a whipstaff-crossbar
linkage, because the helmsman wanted to be able to push and pull on a tiller in
effect. They thought that pre-start maneuvering standing while on the center
pod was going to be critical. If you look at early images of our boat, it was
Jimmy standing on the back of the platform steering the boat off vertical
tillers linked to each rudder. We adapted that to a different tiller set up but
still tried to maintain that kind of feel for the helmsman.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Jimmy Spithill at the wheel</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">But then we realized to get enough mechanical
advantage and steering range we really had to go to a wheel where we now have
adjustable sprockets and can tailor the load to different rudders that we’re
using. The second big focus became trim adjustment on the daggerboards for the
helmsman while foiling the boat downwind. We think the buttons on the ETNZ
wheel and the wires on the Luna Rossa wheel are doing something
similar—pitching the daggerboard to trim the wing beneath it while flying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So it’s a real tool for the helmsman?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Yes, in design meetings Jimmy
often talks about similarities between flying a plane and sailing these boats,
being a pilot versus a helmsman on an AC72. The wheel is acting almost like
flap controls on an aeroplane wing in terms of being able to adjust the lift that
you’re getting from the daggerboards. He’s actively controlling that while
flying the boat with hydraulic pressure supplied by the crew on the handles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">That’s another job to add to the helmsman’s already
busy list while he’s driving?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> You’re right—it’s pretty hard
to pull off when you’re also concerned about sail trim, what the other boat is
doing, steering the boat and flying the boat at the same time. But to
Jimmy it’s second nature. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Jimmy Spithill</i></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What are the knob-like protusions around the wheel?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> They each hold one button that
pitches the board forward and one that pitches it aft, and we have a series of
these cartridges around the wheel facing inwards. So depending on where the
helmsman is in the rotation of the wheel, they’re easy to get to and he always
has one close by. Luna Rossa has tensioned wires around the inside of the rim
of the wheel. I believe that being able to pull on either of those two cables
may trigger an internal switch to facilitate making adjustments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What sort of angle change are we talking about that
the helmsman is adjusting?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> It’s small, less than five
degrees. And jibing involves not only pitching the boards but raising and
lowering them at just the right time—there’s been a lot of learning. Learning
how to maintain consistent lift through a turn has become a focus during
practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The helmsman is pretty screwed if the connections
from those cartridges fail?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> We’ve had that happen a few
times. We have spare wheels, but any repair costs time on the water. You’ve seen
how these boats sail, and there can be water just pouring over the crew, so
waterproofing was critical and these small parts had to become removable from
the hub so that was a little design challenge in itself—making sure the cable
routing into the pedestal and into the boat was totally sealed from water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The shape of the wheel—is it designed specifically
for each helmsman?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Luna Rossa's wheel</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> For sure, in fact we have our
own mold for the wheel shapes and so make all our own laminates. Boatbuilder
Dan Smith and electronics expert Richard Kent are responsible for many of these innovations.</span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">There’ll be no further development on the wheel you
have now?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> We’re not going to make any
changes now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What do you think the Kiwis may have?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> They used to have buttons around
their wheel just like what we have. I can only speculate on what they may have
going right now. It looks like they may have—which is clever—some sort of
pressure-sensitive strip glued to the inside diameter of their wheels. Perhaps
it’s proportional so that the harder you push on it, the faster the trim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What could be the next generation of a wheel
design?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> Not sure—if ETNZ are doing
what I’m speculating, that might be an improvement over what we have. But for
us, I think that Jimmy likes to know that when he presses the button, he knows
exactly how much adjustment he can expect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What other things are you working on in these last
days?</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AP:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> We’re just doing lots of small
things, trying to reduce friction where we can, trying to improve reliability.
We’re not testing new equipment but looking at where things could possibly
break. It’s still keeping us super busy every hour of the day, weekends ...
it’ll be like that right up until the first race.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As posted at: http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/whats-with-the-wheel?page=0,1<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Photo credit 1, 2, 3: Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the 34th America’s Cup match racing final less
than two weeks away,</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the anticipation is palpable—who is faster? The
well-seasoned Kiwis who have made so few mistakes in their conquest of the
Louis Vuitton Cup, while also charming the pants off the sailing fans and
spectators with their slick maneuvers and team spirit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or will it be the Americans, who’ve had the good
fortune of ample resources throughout their campaign, but who are now knee-deep
in muck over allegations of cheating, which could cost them races and top
crewmembers? It doesn’t seem to matter who you talk to, the answer’s the same:
Race 1 will tell all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We check in with John Kostecki, one of America’s
most highly regarded sailors and the tactician for Oracle Team USA, to see
what’s been going on at the Oracle camp:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>What did the challenger racing reveal to you? What
did you learn?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> ETNZ is impressive. They look
really strong in their crew maneuvers. They seem to gain a lot there. We study
those moves to try to learn and improve. We look at different helicopter shots
and shots from on board; we study those as much as we can. Things that they’re
doing well we want to learn why and try to apply that to our sailing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>What particularly impresses you?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> Their jibing and their tacking.
As you’ve seen, you can gain hundreds of meters in one jibe. They're very consistent
out there. Probably we still have a ways to go to catch up to them in that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>Do you really think so?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> Yeah, I think so. In some
conditions our consistency isn’t quite as good as theirs at the moment. They’ve
had the same group of sailors for a long time. We have a big group here. Just
recently we’ve gone with more of a racing team and a back-up team, splitting
that onto the two boats, so we’re still learning each day when we’re out
together. That’s a little bit of a factor. I’m not saying we can’t get there,
we still have up to seven more sailing days. Hopefully, we’ll do a few two-boat
days also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Why wouldn’t they all be two-boat days at this
stage?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> Logistically, it’s really hard
to sail, maintain, launch. It’s a major drain on the whole team to do that.
Ideally, every day would be a two-boat day, but logistically it’s hard and
tiring; resource-wise maintaining two boats is really hard. Maintaining one
boat is really hard. We need to do it, but it’s hard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Local knowledge is your expertise. Tell us how
conditions will be different in September here versus what we’ve seen in the LV
Cup?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> It’s pretty far out to predict
precisely, but at this time of year, San Francisco starts to change normally.
Yesterday [last day of LV Final] was a different day already. We start going
into a more fall-type of pattern: lighter air with less sea breeze. The first
four days of racing are going to be in a more flood-type of current, which will
bring the winds down some and make it more time upwind than average and less
time downwind on average than a normal slack tide. Lighter breeze and smoother
water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You got to observe ETNZ in a range of conditions:
lessons?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> Only yesterday did we get to see
them race in lighter air. It’s all been pretty heavy breeze, so we were happy
to see them in one light race to get a feeling of our performance against
theirs. The initial look is encouraging for us that way. They look really good
in a stronger breeze. I would hope that we have an advantage in lighter wind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You’re more optimized for lighter breeze then?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> Well, yes and no. Now with the
lower windspeed limits plus or minus current [23 knots for the match], we’re
trying to optimize within 8-20 knots [laughs] which is a pretty wide range. That’s
what we’ll get during the Cup, and I’m sure that’s what the Kiwis are optimized
for. I don’t think any team has a huge advantage either way—maybe we’re a
little towards lighter air and they’re a little more towards the higher breeze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Have you been able to get much light air training
in?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> Not really. We haven’t really
seen code zero conditions, but we’re hoping we do between now and the Cup so we
can get a few training days in with the zero. There’s a really good chance
we’ll see at least a few legs—it could be less than half the regatta—where
you’d be using the code zero. We’re trying to use it more and get comfortable
with it. The crossover for the code zero is around 10-12 knots, and anything
over that you’re not on it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How do you collect and understand data from ETNZ?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> The racing data is good because
we have their boatspeeds and all their speeds—its GPS speeds so its over
ground—then you have to calculate the current, etc. We do that ourselves and
have a pretty good idea of what their performance is like through the racing.
The racing’s been good to watch, as it’s harder when they’re on their own and
not racing to get a really good idea of what they’re doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Have you emulated the speeds ETNZ have reached?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> I take some of that really lightly
because I don’t have the hard facts because it might be speed over ground. I’d
say what’s been broadcast over TV is speed over ground. If you’re going
downwind at 40 knots, you have 3 knots of flood—there’s 43 knots right there.
I’d really need more information to believe they’ve done 48 knots, but I think
we’ve been close to that for a top speed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Do you have a sense whether ETNZ still have
something in the bag?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JK:</b> No, I don’t think they have
anything that’s big—there’s always little things, and they’ve been working on
upwind foilin,g and they’ve seen us upwind foiling so it's no real surprise,
but I think they’re trying to keep it quiet. I think they were a little
disappointed that way back when they started foiling downwind they leaked that
as quick as they did. I’ll bet they wish they’d held that closer. Now with the
upwind foiling, I can tell anytime we're around them they don’t do it, they try
to hide it. But it’s pretty obvious they’re doing it, and we’re doing it. I
think you’ll see some of it in the race if it’s the right conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As published at: <a href="http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/kostecki-on-the-cup?page=0,1">http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/kostecki-on-the-cup?page=0,1</a></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo Credit: <span style="text-align: left;">John Kostecki, by Guilain Grenier/Oracle Team USA</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The text from Dee Smith reads, “The place I watch
is at the top of Crissy Field. Park bench. Will be there before noon.” I text
back for specifics because Crissy Field is a big place. Smith replies with a
text, ”Dropped pin near San Francisco Bicycle Route 2, Golden Gate National
Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA 94129," and a link to a Google map.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clandestine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find Smith on his perch with a bird’s eye view of
the top end of the AC34 racecourse. He’s conspicuously clad in all-black
Emirates Team New Zealand gear, clipless cycling shoes still on. His black
Cervélo road bike leans against a wire fence in front of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Attached to the
bike is an antenna, and his laptop is powered up. He’s talking by radio to
Roger “Clouds” Badham, ETNZ’s weather guy who is set up in a building that
looks out over the middle and bottom end of the course, and tactician Rod
Davies, who is aboard the Kiwi boat for Race 1 of the Louis Vuitton Finals
against Luna Rossa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smith’s been with the Kiwis for about a year,
providing local knowledge info. Today he’s helping Clouds and Davies assess the
situation prior to the race start, to determine which jib they’ll put on board.
We watch ETNZ and Luna Rossa warm up. “Look how much faster they’re going
[ETNZ]; they’re going really well,” Smith says. A few minutes later, we see
Oracle start a practice race. One boat makes a jibe and Smith quips, “Oop, look
at that, they still don’t know how to jibe on Oracle. That’s a big gain. That’s
where we think we have our biggest advantage.” </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What are you doing perched out here? </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDocbKamrYLi6jOI0kl2SDY539yDwsHhgeHG9LKXPAJEPgS9HImll7R9OoqolbP55ADK1A_FwU7r2c-vKOIng3l6-zFn7YBA3WyRqUvWN8lrOO6LdnmBJImCYNpphtu11mEhZ70tFtbyY/s1600/IMG_1406.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDocbKamrYLi6jOI0kl2SDY539yDwsHhgeHG9LKXPAJEPgS9HImll7R9OoqolbP55ADK1A_FwU7r2c-vKOIng3l6-zFn7YBA3WyRqUvWN8lrOO6LdnmBJImCYNpphtu11mEhZ70tFtbyY/s320/IMG_1406.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>DS:</b> What I am doing is just what you
see—weather opps<span style="text-align: center;">—I’m putting my tactical stuff with the weather stuff and relaying to Ray on a one-on-one basis, understanding what he wants. Clouds understands it, too, but I just have that local tactician knowledge. If I had eyes out here every time I sailed, it would make it a lot easier, especially if it’s your own eyes.</span></span></div>
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Specifically, what are you doing for ETNZ? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>DS:</b> In the beginning I was the local
knowledge teacher, and that was to get Ray, Dean and everyone on the team up to
snuff with everything I know from 40 years of sailing here. That part of the
job is really over because they’re smart boys. They can figure it out; they’ve
been here long enough. They’ve now asked me to come in and observe the west end
because Clouds can see the east end of the course. We go through this same
banter back and forth, what I see and feel and what he knows with the models.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How does the info you feed back supplement what the
weather models give them</b>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> DS:</b> I don’t try to give them the
information and say, “You gotta do this, or you gotta do that," because in
the time lag, when he can’t get the information after the five minutes, it
changes. What Clouds and I both do is we try to tell them what we see, what we
think are the things to watch out for, and try to predict the future the best
we can. Of course we can never be wrong because we’re not making the call. We
want to him [Ray Davies] to have the information to make the call with
confidence, whatever it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b>It’s super light out here today—unusual for this
time of year?</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxr__A5kBiCTvaDfTmnDf-f-raY6I0F7uClEZiwobDUT0LC-wH38uRTSldebPdA-GFhIbiAMN2ygQPmKKNrG7B2lEv3Qa7Gou8VYjS1IWITLkVklQym5_YFSzcmJdOweUK_76o52Tm6w/s1600/IMG_1411.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxr__A5kBiCTvaDfTmnDf-f-raY6I0F7uClEZiwobDUT0LC-wH38uRTSldebPdA-GFhIbiAMN2ygQPmKKNrG7B2lEv3Qa7Gou8VYjS1IWITLkVklQym5_YFSzcmJdOweUK_76o52Tm6w/s320/IMG_1411.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DS: </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don’t think conditions can get
much lighter than this—the main thing is we have a strange weather pattern. We
don’t just have this established high out there pumping in northwesterlies
every day. But the boats are so powerful they can sail in anything. Today we’re
wondering if we want to put a code zero on the boat today or not because in 10
knots of wind it’ll be a lot faster downwind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know the guys at ETNZ well—what’s working for
them? </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DS:</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> They’re an incredibly well-run
team. Everybody’s on the same page, there are no politics, everything is
discussed in a way that would result in the best decision. Ideas flow through
all channels, and everybody thinks about them—it’s just easy and refreshing.
It’s a bit of a management style from Dalts. I went around the world with
him—12 years ago—he’ll squish the politics if necessary. He just doesn’t deal
with it. It’s his team, his style of management and direction. He finds really
smart people and gives them the responsibility and authority to do their job
well. In this big of a team it’s hard to do—like we’ve seen in another team
here who hasn’t done so well. Dean is more of a pilot than a sailor. He’s a
boatspeed guy—he’s taken it on and he’s got it. It’s impressive. They didn’t
know what they were doing in the World Series events only because they were so
busy focusing on their 72.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their foiling jibe is definitely working for them,
right?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> DS: </b>They’ve been doing it a lot ...
they drop in, their timing is perfect, the turn is even, everybody gets there,
and they’re off. It’s not hard for them, but it’s because of the countless
hours of doing it, and they have more hours than everybody else. It’s got to be
a huge advantage. It’s really important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What are your thoughts on ETNZ versus Oracle
performance at this stage?</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_B9CWsoKdDJrLvUb3pwyZNNEm2jg9Qir9_hMOtnBkB-nMQ8l_WP0_eAJJKSk_MdjxKgAQsB0QcOpy46o9SdCerR9vKCSDpkwWDhKsyoAEs_FrWiTUBEaIXQb9UKuYpkTwZEcXevUETc/s1600/IMG_1408.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_B9CWsoKdDJrLvUb3pwyZNNEm2jg9Qir9_hMOtnBkB-nMQ8l_WP0_eAJJKSk_MdjxKgAQsB0QcOpy46o9SdCerR9vKCSDpkwWDhKsyoAEs_FrWiTUBEaIXQb9UKuYpkTwZEcXevUETc/s320/IMG_1408.jpg" width="240" /></a><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> DS:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I hope it's going to be an
exciting match, but I don’t have any real information on Oracle. What I can say
is, that while I was gone on the Transpac, our boys made a significant jump,
and I think they should feel pretty good. ETNZ has never wanted to line up
against Oracle; they’ve always stopped anytime they’ve been on the course close
to Oracle. Oracle has wanted to line up with us a few times, but we just
stopped as we don’t want to give Oracle anything. But now Oracle has all our
information from the races, but we don’t have anything from them. But today we
may have got some off the racecourse ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’ve been out on the 72—your thoughts? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>DS:</b> Amazing, I was just sitting
there going, “Wow," then you watch the guys sailing it. It’s not easy, but
it’s not hard—they know what they are doing. Very impressive—it’s more like
being a fighter pilot than a helmsman, as far as what you have to think about
and do. We’re sailing in three dimensions now, it’s not two anymore. It’s so
much smoother than the 45. You’re talking about speed, we’re supposed race
boats—we’re finally racing something that isn’t the slowest means of transportation
known to mankind for the first time [laughs].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suddenly a cold breeze comes from behind, Smith
immediately picks up on it and radios to Clouds, “Just got a cold puff over my
shoulder from the right, over.” Clouds: “Yeah, the slightly more right has
filled down, it’s not quite at the bottom yet, but the best pressure is still
out in the middle.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* As published at: <a href="http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/doesnt-have-to-be-high-tech-to-be-good-tech?page=0,1">http://www.sailingworld.com/blogs/racing/americas-cup/doesnt-have-to-be-high-tech-to-be-good-tech?page=0,1</a></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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