Event: America’s Landsailing Cup Regatta Dates: 21/Mar/10 – 27/Mar/10 Host Club: North American Land Sailing Assn (NALSA) Location: Primm, NV, USA Contact: Mark Harris | Email: landsail@yahoo.com Phone: 775-355-7035 | Fax: More Info: NALSA open classes of landsailors, one design landsailors. Timed races, 10 race series. On-site camping and nearby casino/hotels.
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America’s Landsailing Cup Regatta @ Regatta Dates
© Chris Cameron 2009It is two months before the start of the first regatta of the 2010 Audi MedCup Circuit season, the Portugal Trophy which will take place on the testing Atlantic waters and winds off Cascais, raising the curtain on what promises to be a fascinating and exciting year for the world’s leading regatta circuit.Activity throughout the TP52 fleet has been building up progressively over recent months. Small changes to the TP52 Class Box Rule mean that all of the teams which plan to compete at this season’s five Audi MedCup Circuit regattas or the TP52 World Championships in October are required to have made the prescribed modifications to their existing boats: adding 150kgs of weight to the keel to compensate for the reduction in crew weight, moving to a ‘square-top’ mainsail with twin backstays and increasing spinnaker area and adopting bowsprits.The Circuit organisers World Sailing Management, a division of Grupo Santa Monica Sports, are expecting to welcome the same number as 2009, or perhaps one more TP52 to the arena this season. Two new America’s Cup teams are well into their preparations.“ We expect 10 to 13 boats in the TP52 class and five or six in the GP42 class, all in all a good line up considering the economic climate.â€? Comments World Sailing Management’s Nacho Postigo (ESP), Audi MedCup Circuit’s Technical Director.“ The TP52 class has gone through the winter modifications without major problems.â€?Great Britain’s TeamOrigin have their new Juan Kouyoumdjian (ARG) designed boat nearing completion at Salthouse Boats in Auckland. Theirs is the only new build TP52 this winter and they are due to ship the boat directly to Portugal.Mike Sanderson (NZL), CEO of TeamOrigin said: “The schedule was always going to be tight but we are on time. The boat is due to leave New Zealand in the middle of March.We have it booked on a fruit ship which means it is pretty reliable because if it gets late then the fruit goes rotten. We will ship it directly to somewhere close to the venue and do its final measurement there and will sail it there for the first time. It is not optimum for how we would have loved to have done it, but we always knew that, we knew that that’s what the schedule was going to be before started building it, so we are just going to have to hope that we can get it on the pace as quickly as possible. We are really looking forward to it. It is going to be an amazing year. We really can wait.â€?Current Audi MedCup champions Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) completed their modifications in-house and have been trial sailing the new configuration on the waters off Auckland in excellent conditions. Otherwise, explains CEO Grant Dalton, the only change to their winning set up is the new paint job. They will sail with exactly the same core sailing team, with the exception of the reduced crew number.2008 Audi MedCup champions Quantum Racing (USA) who … Direct Link
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TWO MONTHS TO GO: COMMENCING COUNTDOWN @ Sail Karma
This from famed photographer Daniel Forster, following his attendance at the 33rd America’s Cup:Some musings, or müeslings as the Swiss would say, from a photographer.I could send you some helicopter pictures from the second race where I froze my assets off, but instead will send you the following thousand words:In the spirit of Jon Stewart, here is some fake news: The 2010 DoG match was the first America’s Cup race started by the radio message: “Gentlemen start your enginesâ€?.Fact: Russell Coutts never said:“Show me another letter from somebody giving us suggestions what boats to use and how to change the event and I will pukeâ€?.When will people realize that the America’s Cup is NOT about sailing?• Do you want exposure? Run the races during the Super Bowl halftime show!• Do you want to experience sailing? Go to the Olympic Rolex Regatta, Key West Race Week, or the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.• Do you want to spend sponsors money and get exposure around the world? Join the Volvo Ocean Race or the future 60 foot catamaran round the world race.Speaking about Russell Coutts: There is no truth to the rumor that he got fired by Ernesto because he could not prove that Lake Geneva is on an arm of the sea and that he is having nightmares now because he has to prove that San Francisco Bay is on an arm of the sea. Speaking about Tom Ehman:There is no truth to the following claim that, after copying and pasting the 1988 NZ challenge papers, Tom Ehman is now copying and pasting the Ten Commandments to create a new Deed of Gift. Now to the movie:Mutiny on the Med. With Johnny Depp playing Tom Ehman and “Silence of the Lambsâ€? actor Anthony Hopkins playing Vice-Commodore Fred Meyer. You might have noticed that there are no women characters in this movie, it would need a Mata Hari to make it a blockbuster, or: Kimberly Skeen-Jones where are you?In the meantime, here in Rhode Island we take the predictions one step at a time, San Diego today, Newport tomorrow. Final thought: What will Russell Coutts do for his retirement? Go back to New Zealand and engineer wings for the flightless Kiwi. PS…Message for Larry Ellison: There is no more room on Mount Rushmore and it is not for sale.. Daniel Forster Photography, 57 High Street, Jamestown, RI 02835 USA Direct Link
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the America’s Cup is NOT about sailing @ Scuttleblog
Foto copyright M-BoatsFoto copyright M-BoatsFoto copyright M-BoatsFoto copyright M-BoatsFoto copyright M-BoatsFuente info M-Boats Acá van fotos del S40 #6 “Drumbeat�, que se va para Michigan USA, va a correr las regatas de los Grandes Lagos, como la Chicago- Mackinac Race.La tripulación esta formada por el Team Widquest, famoso 90’ de Reichel Pugh, todos tienen un nivel pro muy alto.El barco esta generando mucha expectativa en la zona de Michigan y Canadá, y lo están esperando ansiosamente. Esperamos cumplir con las expectativas que ellos tienen, y de ser asà tendremos la esperanza de una Clase S40 en esa zona.Su dueño, Ted Etheridge, es un entusiasta y además audaz por el hecho de haber confiado en este barco construido en un lugar donde no acostumbran comprar. Hasta ahora navegaba en Melges 32, y Farr 40, con el que gano la ultima Canada’s Cup, y el Team Windquest, que pertenece al mismo club, al enterarse de este proyecto, se ofreció para hacer la campaña 2010. Direct Link
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S40 #6 rumbo a USA @ Juanpa Cadario
The third post in this series is about the red flag on SUI and the penalty they received in the prestart. To explain the latter I will have to show you a diagram of the start area.? But first a few words on Match Racing. Because of the special nature of a match race – being one on one – its is not important to finish as fast as possible, as in a fleet race, it is only important to finish first. Finish first is key, however long that may take! Match race is about control. If you control your opponent, you can win. A controlling position is therefore paramount. In the AC 33 dogfight we see little of this because the boats are all about speed. But – yes – if you are ahead far enough, you control the race. And in Match 1 USA managed to control SUI for a couple of minutes in the prestart. To get that control you need to engage your opponent. And that engagement begins well before the start. Now if we do anything like a conventional start as in fleet racing, the two boats in a match race will never know when to begin looking for each other to gain that control. Therefore in match racing there’s a special procedure in the rules which allows a controlled beginning of the pre start manoeuvres. We have a sort of ‘start’ before the actual start line crossing. To get there, each boats is assigned to a side. The Yellow side next to the RC-boat and a Blue side next to the pin end of the start line Picture from a presentation by Henk Plaatje; http://www.plaatje.info/ ?In the AC33 Match 2, SUI was assigned the Yellow boat and USA the Blue boat. From the Rulebook: At her preparatory signal (five minutes in AC33) each boat shall be outside the line that is at a 90 degrees angle to the starting line through the starting mark at her assigned end. …. (C4.1) Within the two minute period following her preparatory signal, a boat shall cross and clear the starting line, the first time from the course side to the pre-start side. (C4.2) To check that precise line the umpire boat and the wing boat each place themselves on that line, one below and one above the starting line. If a boat is anywhere else then in its “boxâ€? when the preparatory signal is given, she gets a penalty. Be it still sailing to get there or be it sailing too soon over the line to get to the other boat. Outside your box equals penalty. In match 2 of AC 33, SUI was still sailing below the starting line towards her assigned end, when the five minute preparatory signal was given. That is the reason SUI was given a penalty. The wing boat signalled this to the umpire boat and they switched on the yellow light. Why, you might ask? Why was SUI not there? Remember … Direct Link
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AC 33 | Rules and explanations – part (3) @ Look To Windward
