It seems like they are suffering from another bout of light winds at the next act of the Extreme Sailing Series at Qingdao.
From the following article on the Extreme Sailing Series website:
http://www.extremesailingseries.com/news/view/alinghi-dominate-on-open-water-racecourse-as-land-rover-reveals-extreme-40#.UYMRF1pArrd
China’s International Sailing Centre came alive on the opening day of the Extreme Sailing Series™ in Qingdao, where Land Rover’s three-year sponsorship as Series Main Partner of the original stadium sailing series was officially signed before the unveiling and naming ceremony of the Land Rover-branded Extreme 40. On the open water racecourse, the Swiss teams Alinghi and Realteam dominated in testing light winds, edging ahead on the leaderboard at the end of day one as the teams prepare to move into stadium mode over the next three days.
Morgan Larson has taken the tiller from regular helm Ernesto Bertarelli on Alinghi for this Act and after winning three of today’s five races and as the fastest boat on the water (average speed of 8.03 knots) according to the SAP analytics, the Swiss team is deservedly the top of the leaderboard after day one. Larson commented: “I think we just picked up from where we left off in Singapore and it felt pretty good. It would have been easy to have made a couple of errors and then fall apart but it felt like everyone had a good grasp on their jobs and the communication was solid.”
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