Saturday 13 July 2013

America's Cup update, Luna Rossa claim their first point by default in the Louis Vuitton Challenger series

 Luna Rossa's has taken their turn to sail around the course alone in their scheduled match against the still absent Artemis Team (still completing their AC72 catamaran).  First true race will be on Sunday where Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa will go head to head in the first true race of the series.

From the following Sail-World article

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-Luna-Rossa-takes-her-first-point-in-Louis-Vuitton-Cup/111856

Luna Rossa Challenge 2013 took to the America’s Cup racecourse today for its first action of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the America’s Cup Challenger Series, and came away with 1 point.

With the wind blowing around 13 knots, helmsman Chris Draper guided the silver AC72 around the 12.07-nautical-mile course in 28 minutes, 58 seconds.

After consulting with the race committee, the Italian team chose to sail the five-leg course, shorter than the 16-mile courses that Emirates Team New Zealand sailed in its first two races on Sunday and Tuesday.

'Today was pretty light and puffy, but I’m sure we can do a better job,' said skipper Max Sirena.

read more here

and a video by John Navas


No comments:

Post a Comment