In the latest race Luna Rossa paused to do a spot of fishing before continuing on to claim a point towards their score in the Louis Vuitton Challenger Series.
From the following article on Sail-World submitted by Bob Fisher:
http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Louis-Vuitton-Cup:-Luna-Rossa-hits-fish,-breaks-rudder,-takes-point/112440
Luna Rossa sailed alone around the five-leg course in her scheduled fourth Round Robin match with Artemis for ten minutes.
Then the Race Committee hoisted a black flag, indicating that Artemis had not crossed the start line within the allotted time and the race was awarded to the Italian team, who could add another point to its scoreline.
Maybe just as well, since the rest of the race was not all plain sailing for the Italian team. As skipper Max Sirena put it: 'we were foiling downwind close to top speed when the boat stopped dead in its tracks.' Luna Rossa had hit a big fish. 'It broke the rudder this far from the bottom,' he said, spreading his hands about 45 cms, 'and we took it slowly from there.'
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