America's Cup San Diego

America's Cup World Series kicks off this Saturday in San Diego. Should be an exciting week.
America's Cup San Diego

there will be 7 of us from AZ fleet 42 making the trip to SD next Thursday nite. Cant wait to see the big Cats play!

thanks for the reminder Philip

Are you planning on being there?

You bringing your boats?

No, no planning on bringing the Cats. Figured it would be a nightmare.

Ok, what time(s), channels, youtube?

Dave

There is a live webcam showing the crane where the AC45s will be launched from.
I am not sure there will be any live coverage today actually.
It could be that it starts o Wednesday but am not 100% sure.

live cam team base
They go live at 1:10 pm

Going down tomorrow (Sunday). Check out the Village watch the races then back home buy the evening. We will start pretty early to get down there from Long Beach.

Dan

Old news for those who haven't been following but Darren Bundock to skipper/replace Coutts for Team Oracle.

I guess the "Americas" Cup has to be at a foreign venue to get full coverage.

Is this a 'permanant' change or just for this event?

And did they race yesterday? Weather Channel was showing a lot of rain in So.Cal. yesterday.

no racing yesterday

They where racing yesterday, wins by Artemis and China Team, Bundy had a 4 and a 2.

Technically I stated it wrong, Bundock is helmsman, not skipper, for whatever that's worth.

http://www.americascup.com/

live feed is up
http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericasCup#p/l

My fiance will just happen to be in San Diego this weekend. She plans to attend Saturday.

I was at the event on Sunday. Great day for watching! We were camped out right on the pier next to the USS Midway. There are two fingers you can go to the end of without a pass. The middle one you cannot. That is where most of the teams are. We were right next to actually looking over the leeward mark, then the finish line. That is the best place to watch unless you buy a pass to be on the Midway, which would be a great seat but no closer to the action.

Dan

My fiancé's luck is unbelieveable. Not only does she happen to be in town for the event, but her uncle is flying one of the camera helicopters and has a seat on it to watch the race from

Live Racing starts at 1300 PST

We are live
http://www.youtube.com/americascup

OK, just checked in. What did I miss, how did Oracle 5 (Coutts/Bundy) get so far out front???

Mike

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! Now they're spraying champagne for winning ONE &^%$*&&()*&ing RACE???!!!!!

I think I may have just popped a major blood vessel...

Mike

Going through post-race review now. Spithill and Artemis were OCS, Bundy shot out and let from the first mark to the finish. Spithill managed to foul their chute somewhere during the race (did not want to furl/unfurl), finished 5th.

Mike

Bundy was giving an impressive sailing lesson there, especially considering the talent in that fleet...

5 minute warning is up for Race 2.

watching on YouTube - some of the spectator comments are funny...

Oracle 5 stopped after the start???

They are saying they did a penalty, W/L before start. But, for the first few minutes the commentators had no clue. I thought they were bragging about all the access to the technonology that they have in the booth (feeds from RO, umps, etc.)?

Mike

Korea had a great start and lead at the first gate. Artemis coming on strong...

This is INSANE!!!

Artemis wins Race 2, and Korea passes TNZ just before the last mark to take 2nd. Spithill 4th, Coutts/Bundy 8th...

Mike

Inside 5 minutes to Race 3...

Spithill OCS!!!

...AND a penalty after being protested by TNZ...

Wow, Spithill up to 3rd with 1.5 legs to go...

WOW. Energy wins. Spithill smoked past GreenCom near the end to take 2nd. Artemis 4th, TNZ 5th, Coutts/Bundy 6th.

Hobie was represented yesterday! We had a group from the factory, Ron and Deb Lane plus Jeff and Hobie Jr. aboard.

Fun to have the boys sailing past our boat for a big hello. A lot of these guys have done Hobie and F18 racing over the years.

We had an 80 foot motor yacht positioned right near the start line. Was a line of 3 large ones and then the huge (150'?) sailboat right there. Great day! Cats ripping it up and choppers buzzing all around. We had a choppy video feed, but who needs video when you are this close? I do wish we had better video though. They must have caught some good action! The salon had huge windows and a big screen TV. Viewing from on deck was spectacular!

Match Racing start today at 1310 PST. Format 5 x 18 minute Qualifier Races for Match Race Semi Finals.

Live feed is up.

That huge sailboat was probably Larry Ellisons yacht, its a big blue ketch.
They must have pushed pretty hard to get from Plymouth to SD in two months.
AC45s still doing 17kts in what cant be much more than 10kts of wind.

Q1: Aleph def China
Q3: Aleph def Korea
Q2: Coutts/Bundy def GreenCom

Q4: Coutts/Bundy were leading, but getting smoked at the moment by Aleph

OMG, Annie just said that because of the apparent wind generated by multihulls, the sails are trimmed in more while going downwind "than NORMAL boats."

So much for not taking the Hobie out of the sailor...

Q1: Aleph def China
Q3: Aleph def Korea
Q2: Coutts/Bundy def GreenCom
Q4: Aleph def Coutts/Bundy

Q5 cueing up, Artemis vs. Aleph, last race today

Wow, Artemis kept Aleph out of the box, nice pre-start move.

Aleph rolls Artemis! French have'nt lost a match yet.

Unbelieveable! I step away, thinking it's game over, then Aleph comes back... only to have the race abandoned!

Wow...

Well, the first attempt was abandoned, apparently due to a technical glitch after a major shift.

Now in the restart, after the first gate, the breeze is really dropping... like watching H16s race...

Wow, Artemis was ahead by about a minute at the windward gate, failed to cover, Aleph got a huge puff to the left side, and is smoking down the course. Lucky for Artemis, the course was shortened (distance), so they are able to stay ahead at the next leeward gate, but not by much (17 seconds)...

OMG, Artemis goes RIGHT??? What were they sleeping on the way downwind??? Aleph passed by going back out to the left. Stunning...

I see. Artemis wanted to have starboard advantage at the cross. Almost didn't work, but they got back ahead at the last windward gate.

Aleph should have won that won IMO.

Aretemis wins Q5...

+1

Tony, Luiz: Other than feeling like they got screwed by the abandonment, why do you feel Aleph "should have won" the last match?

It seemed like they were outsailed at both starts. They caught a lucky shift in the first attempt (abandoned race), and nearly caught another in the second.

Yes, they won all the races prior to that, but why do you think they "deserved" to win?

BTW, Artemis definitely know they were lucky to escape with the win. I got tired of the looping video with the commentators (it kept going back to the prior windward mark rounding as the boats were approaching the final leeward mark), so I changed it to the onboard view/audio. You wouldn't believe the looks and comments from the Artemis sailors as they approached the finish...

Mike

SF1, M1: Oracle Spithill (with Uncle Larry aboard as the extra weight), spanking TNZ at the moment...

No extra pressure on Stan's team to "keep the lights working" do you think?

Mike

Well. That was quick. Winning margin for OR4 was over a minute...

SF2, M1: Energy lets Artemis cross in pre-start. Weird...

Artemis led at the start, to leeward, holds it to the first mark...

Energy with a great move, gybed and blew by Artemis.

SUPER short courses today.

Wow. Energy beats Artemis.

SF1, M2 TNZ off to a good lead, small tacking duel going on...

They split off, OR looks to be in a huge glory lift at the moment, just passed in front!

Larry is their guest for today so Jimmy must be happy.
Why are they not wearing gloves?

Looks to be game over for TNZ...

34 second winning margin. OR4 wins SF1 2-0...

Unlce Larry sailing the boat in. Very nice of them to slow it down for hum...

Clearly his first time at the helm of one of these, onboard audio/video is hysterical... "Just come down a little Larry, just 'cause these guys are racing..."

PRICELESS!!!!!

SF2, M2: Wow, Energy just let Artemis walk away at the start. Prestart was great, until the final minute.

Close Leg 2 now...

Just got back from SD and the AC. One of the guys in our group got a room at the Hyatt Regency, had a screw up on his room for Friday night, got upgraded to the PRESIDENTIAL SUITE FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT, and a late checkout today(Sunday)!.
Unless you got a ride in a helicopter, there wasn't a person in SD that had a better view of the racing this weekend. Panoramic views of SD! Birds eye view of the course! The racing was incredible! Winds were in the 15 range today, made for some very fast racing.
Ellison had nothing on us! What a great weekend!
Big shout out to fleet 42 AZ. And a major THANK YOU to Jonathan and Ruby for the accommodations at the Hyatt.
They’ll never know how close they were to having a Coleman stove cooking taco meat on the balcony.
Jonathan and Ruby, Scott, Jim, Manny and Julianne, Kelly...Thanks for an unbelievable weekend!!!

BTW, Not a mention of the racing on SD television, (that we saw), and the security guy at the Holiday Inn(where some of the teams stayed, and which overlooks the births of 4 Americas Cup winning boats, including "AMERICA") said, in response to Jim telling him that we were in town for the Americas Cup Races, "Oh yea, the golf tournament."
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