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America's Cup- Emirates Team NZ foiling to windward and rolltacking

by John Navas on 8 Sep 2013
America’s Cup - Day 1, Oracle Team USA vs Emirates Team NZ - NZL 5 lifts off upwind Richard Gladwell www.photosport.co.nz

Videographer John Navas was bayside in San Francisco for the opening day of the 34th America's Cup and caught this sequence of Emirates Team NZ foiling upwind and then falling into one of her roll tacks which proved so profitable on the upwind legs.

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