On Saturday 14th April, Port America’s Cup will celebrate one of its most long-awaited moments, the official opening Boat Parade for the 32nd America’s Cup. The final stages of the event will begin two days later with the first racing of the Louis Vuitton Cup. The winner will face Alinghi in the 32nd America’s Cup Match starting on 23rd June.
The Boat Parade represents the true countdown to the America’s Cup Match, a contest for the oldest sporting trophy in the (...)
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This weekend, April 14-15, the teams and drivers of the XLR8 Home Loans Australian F1 Superboat Series will return to Toukley’s Lake Budgewoi for Round Two of the 2007 Championship.
The F1 powerboats easily exceed the speed of 107 kn in the straights and keep up 86-97 kn in the narrowest turns around the buoy.
The acceleration from standstill allows them to reach 53 kn in 3.5 seconds because of the amazing weight/power ratio closing on a horse power per kilogram.
These power catamarans (...)
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The fleet racing of Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 13 was the opening act of the decisive year of the 32nd America’s Cup. Beginning with the fleet ‘unveiling’ and continuing with seven races, Act 13 marked the opening of the season, the debut of the final configuration of Port America’s Cup and a chance to set the scene for the climax to come.
Ashore, Port America’s Cup was bustling with activity. Nearly 230 000 visitors came to the Port to enjoy the racing, (...)
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The Superyacht Cup in Palma is attracting some of the finest sailing yachts in the world. All the leading yacht designers and top shipyards will be represented in the fleet of up to 60 yachts and Wally will have 5 of their individually unique performance cruising yachts taking part.
The latest entries to confirm this week are Tiketitan, Dark Shadow, J One and Open Season and the latest Wally, Y3K which is launching this week will also be heading to Palma.
Wally is the world-leading (...)
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It was another difficult day to be racing on the waters off Valencia. The wind was strong, but still very shifty, and no lead was safe until the finish line had been crossed. But in these very difficult conditions, it was the Defender of the America’s Cup, Alinghi, who excelled, earning two race victories to vault into the overall lead.
Behind them, the mixed up results mean five boats are within two points of second place, with BMW ORACLE Racing and Emirates Team New Zealand a shade (...)
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First Day
It’s been a wild and wonderful time for racing in the first day of competition in the 2007 BVI Spring Regatta. Wind was not lacking but rather too much for some boats that struggled to keep from broaching in gusts up to 26 knots. Others reveled in the brisk breeze and turned wind into pure power. Sailing in over 15 knots of breeze from the northeast, rather than the prevailing southeast, under cloudy skies and intermittent rain, boats on the Norman course sailed one race in (...)
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British boats currently occupy five medal positions heading into the last two days of racing in Palma Bay, as the scramble for top ten positions to qualify for Friday’s Medal races gathers pace.
European Champions Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes have resumed the top spot in the tightly contested 49er class, while birthday boy Paul Campbell James, 24 today, and crew Mark Asquith also broke into the top three with the help of a first place finish from their third and final race of the day. (...)
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In one of the most extraordinary races ever witnessed in America’s Cup racing, BMW ORACLE Racing sailed from 7th to 1st on the final fickle run of Race 1 in Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 13. Starting in 7 knots of breeze, the American team had won the left-hand end of the start line an hour and a half earlier but, with Emirates Team New Zealand next to them, sailed into oblivion as the boats on the right started to benefit from better wind from that side of the race track.
Alinghi who (...)
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Louis Vuitton Act 13 begins with fleet racing on April 3 in Valencia, Spain, the final Act in which the Defender, Alinghi, will compete. At the conclusion of Act 13, the Louis Vuitton Ranking for challengers is established and bonus points are awarded. Teams carry these points with them into the Round Robin stages of the Louis Vuitton Cup where all eleven challengers race each other. Eventually two finalists emerge, with the winner advancing to face Alinghi in the 32nd America’s Cup (...)
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Alinghi, Defender of the 32nd America’s Cup, unveiled SUI91 and SUI100, their two new generation racing yachts, on the 1 April at 09:30. For the occasion, the Defender was exhibiting the America’s Cup, won by Alinghi on 2 March 2003, and the Louis Vuitton Cup, the latter soon to be at the center of the challengers fight for supremacy over the coming months.
Under the America’s Cup rules, the yachts have been skirted since 1 January 2006 allowing the teams to develop (...)
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