America's Cup update, Sail Racing Magazine on the Emirates Team New Zealand winning the Louis Vuitton Cup and progressing to confront Oracle Team USA for the America's Cup

From the following article on the Sail Racing Magazine website:

Fog and light winds no deterrent as ETNZ close out Louis Vuitton Cup series.

 

August 25, 2013

Thick fog across most of the race course and the lightest flukiest winds so far in the competition did not slow down the Kiwi crew on the Emirates Team New Zealand AC72 today as they dismissed the Italian Luna Rossa syndicate with a massive win in the eighth race of the Louis Vuitton Cup Final.

If anything, the margin of advantage for the Kiwis was even greater in the 12-14 knot conditions which prevailed for most of the race. Both teams flew gennakers on the first downwind leg and ETNZ immediately began to pull away, sailing three to four knots better VMG angles than Luna Rossa. Upwind too they didn't put a foot wrong and by the time they turned at the top mark for the last time they were more than three minutes ahead.

Dean Barker's boys turned on the style on the final reach to the finish, tearing across the finish line at 40 knots to the obvious delight of the crowds of spectators at the Pier 27 America's Cup Race Village.

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America's Cup update, Sail Racing magazine video interviews with Max Sirena of Luna Rossa and Dean Barker of Emirates Team New Zealand after Race 6 of the Louis Vuitton Cup

Post race IV Max Sirena LV Race 6 from Sail Racing Magazine on Vimeo.



Post race IV Dean Barker LV Race 6 from Sail Racing Magazine on Vimeo.

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Sail Racing Magazine talk to Glenn Ashby wing trimmer about the nosedive in Race 2 of the Louis Vuitton Cup

From the following entry on the excellent Sail Racing Magazine

http://www.sailracingmagazine.com/editors-blog/glenn-ashby-explains-the-emirates-team-new-zealand-nosedive

The most heart stopping moment of the 34th America's Cup action so far was the huge bear way crash which saw the Emirates Team New Zealand AC72 nosedive at the windward mark race two. (In case you have been living up a mountain with no internet or left the planet temporarily in the last few days the video clip is at the end of this article).

So what exactly went wrong on the Kiwi boat to trigger such a spectacular nose dive that it thew the majority of the crew into a tangled heap and flicked two of them unceremoniously into San Francisco Bay.

To find out from one who would know for sure, we got Emirates Team New Zealand wing trimmer Glenn Ashby to talk us through it.

First we asked Glenn to explain what he is doing to the massive wing sail when the boat goes around the windward mark.

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And a video of the nosedive:

America's Cup update, Ray Davies of ETNZ on the aftermath of the AC72 catamaran hydraulic failure in Race 2 of the Louis Vuitton Cup

 
Ray Davies Interview Louis Vuitton Cup Day Two from Sail Racing Magazine on Vimeo.