America's Cup update, Luna Rossa video on sailing the AC72

Luna Rossa have released a video on sailing on the AC72 catamaran.  Narrated by skipper Max Sirena.

America's Cup update, Interview with Max Sirena of Luna Rossa on thier AC72 program

Sailing Anarchy have provided this interview with Max Sirena of the Luna Rossa team:

http://sailinganarchy.com/2013/04/18/3-out-of-4-aint-bad/

Luna Rossa’s AC72 hits US waters for the first time, and San Fran SA’er “Monster Mash” was good enough to get the shot.  With ETNZ a few weeks away from the dock, we’ve almost got an AC full house in San Francisco. Well,  maybe more of a busted flush…

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America's Cup update, Vsail interview with Max Sirena of Luna Rossa team.

From the following Vsail interview by Pierre Orphanidis submitted to Sail-World.

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-Luna-Rossas-Max-Sirena-reviews-their-time-in-Auckland/108283

Pierre Orphanidis of leading European sailing website vsail.info spoke with Luna Rossa skipper, Max Sirena, with the Italian team's AC72 yacht scheduled to arrive in San Francisco in a week and the sailing team preparing in Naples for the final America's Cup World Series event, Max Sirena gave us an update on the latest developments at the Italian America's Cup Challenger - Luna Rossa:

VSail.info: You must be happy to be back racing in Italy with Luna Rossa?

Max Sirena: I'm always happy to be back here, especially after last year's incredible event. I had never, ever, seen so many people watching a sailing competition.

VSail.info: Let's talk about the period Luna Rossa spent in Auckland. Do you think you have reached the goals you had set?

Max Sirena: I'm convinced the period we spent in Auckland has been very positive and in fact we might we have done and achieved a lot more than what we thought would be possible. You should keep in mind we started more than a year later than the other teams and, given the complexity of the AC72's, we feared we wouldn't be able to achieve what we wanted. On the contrary, the team worked very well and this allowed us to advance greatly both on and off the water. We were able to do much more than what we had initially scheduled even if, on purpose, we decided to keep a very low-profile communication. We decided not to issue press releases every day, the way the other teams are doing.

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Episode 66 of America's Cup discovered

This edition (66) of the AC Discovered focusses on Team Luna Rossa.

America's Cup, Luna Rossa Team skipper Max Sirena reflects on sailing the new AC72 catamaran

From the following Sail-World article

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-Luna-Rossa-skipper-reflects-on-the-opening-days/104063

Luna Rossa Challenge skipper Max Sirena is embarking on his fourth America’s Cup challenge with the Italian syndicate.

He joined the fledgling team in 2000 as a mid-bowman, but now has chosen every man on the team. Sirena took time out yesterday to review how the team has progressed after its late entry into the 34th America’s Cup.

Yesterday was Luna Rossa’s sixth day of sailing the AC72. What has the team learned so far?

We are still on the learning curve of the boat. Only yesterday we tried to be more focused in performance and proper trim than everything else. Up to day before yesterday was more about sea trials. With this boat you will always be in sea trials until the end of the Cup because every day is different and you discover something new with this new machine.

Do you feel like you’ll be ready, fully prepared for the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup?

You’re never ready enough, for sure. Our goal is to try and arrive in San Francisco in good shape, but the main goal is to have as much confidence in the boat as possible to be able to focus on racing the boat rather than sailing the boat. That is the main goal for us.

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'First sailing day in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland-NZ, for AC72 Luna Rossa: the Italian challenger for the 34th America’s Cup' Luna Rossa / Carlo Borlenghi