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Sail-World.com : Brits have a new goal after early shower in Louis Vuitton Trophy
Brits have a new goal after early shower in Louis Vuitton Trophy
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'NEW ZEALAND, Auckland, 18th March 2010, Louis Vuitton Trophy, Elimination Day 2, TEAMORIGIN vs Artemis,'
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It’s not exactly all over for TEAMORIGIN on Auckland waters, now they’re out of contention for the Louis Vuitton Trophy. Tomorrow, they head back out on the harbour to sail their shiny new Transpac 52 yacht, for the start of another phase in their campaign.
Mike Sanderson, managing director of TEAMORIGIN and on runners in the race crew, said the team were 'utterly disappointed' to be eliminated before the semifinals of the Auckland event. But they now have other business to attend to.
'This gives us a great opportunity to spend more time on our TP52, which went in the water last night. I’ve been struggling in my head how we were quite going to make it work, if we got through to the finals. Now it’s pretty clear… we are into the new boat tomorrow,' the ever-optimistic Sanderson said.
Sanderson conceded the crew, despite 'acts of brilliance' in the last 10 days, needed more work to achieve their next goal – to win the Louis Vuitton Trophy event in La Maddalena in May. 'We need to spend more time together, as all of us do, to close the gap to Team New Zealand,' he said.
'We had big hopes for here, we had big hopes for Nice, and for Auckland a year ago. We are going to La Maddalena to win the event. We will do everything we can, and we’re very busy as a sailing team. We need to make sure we’re much better than this when we come back, because we have the talent, we’ve done the work, but we don’t seem to be getting the points on the board.'
Sanderson said the Auckland event had been spectacular, and the 12-25 knot winds on the Waitemata Harbour were challenging, but not unexpected.
'In our debriefs in Nice, we often said ‘We’re not going to get away with this in Auckland - our crew work will have to be sharper, it’s more about boat handling. It’s been an amazing event – sunny and windy – really spectacular.'
The All4One team, who also had high expectations for Auckland, were also a denied a semifinal spot, losing to Italians Azzurra. Skipper Jochen Schumann was disappointed that his team bowed out on a messy note – first incurring a penalty before the start, then losing their spinnaker under the boat.
'It was a close race, but we couldn’t get around them. The whole race was very much in a right-hand phase so we couldn’t make it round to the left-hand side,' he said.
But Schumann wasn’t downhearted about the German-French team’s overall performance in Auckland, after finishing fifth in Nice.
'For sure it was exciting racing, in very tough conditions - high breezes close to 20 knots. Fighting to be in the semifinals was a good success for us.'
by Louis Vuitton Media
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