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Fisher's View: Poets in Naples - America's Cup WS - Race Day 2 By Bob Fisher, Naples, Italy , 8:46 AM Sat 20 Apr 2013
Race Day 2 America's Cup World Series, Naples: First up was the quarter-final match for Luna Rossa – Swordfish in the hands of Francesco Bruni and Dean Barker in ETNZ. It promised much, and delivered. Barker forced Bruni over early and after the Italian had taken his penalty, ETNZ led by five seconds at the first mark and held that to the leeward gate. ...[more]

Fisher's View: Watching the breeze die.' - America's Cup WS - Day 3 By Bob Fisher, San Francisco, USA , 7:32 AM Fri 19 Apr 2013
Day 3 America's Cup World Series, Naples: Winds in Naples Bay have a reputation for being notoriously fickle. One old salt once expressed this graphically by altering an age-old instruction to 'See Naples and watch the breeze die.' And it did, during the races with patches of no more than four knots and huge shifts of up to 40 degrees. ...[more]

America's Cup: Kiwi Cup vet receives emergency liver transplant in SFO By Richard Gladwell, Auckland, New Zealand , 6:46 AM Fri 19 Apr 2013
A key member of Artemis Racing team and veteran of several America's Cup campaigns, David Brooke (NZL) has undergone an emergency liver transplant in a US hospital. His father Don Brooke told Sail-World, from San Francisco, that 'David is indeed very ill, and our whole family is here in support. ' ...[more]

America's Cup: Elvis leaves the Building By Richard Gladwell, 8:38 PM Thu 18 Apr 2013
Emirates Team NZ have folded up their tents and started the physical move to San Francisco, where they will be re-erected. A report on the team's website says that the base and boats have been packed into 70 40ft containers ready for shipment to San Francisco. ...[more]

Fisher's View: Wished for a Lay Day - America's Cup WS, Naples - Day 2 By Bob Fisher, San Francisco, USA , 7:04 AM Thu 18 Apr 2013
Day 2 America's Cup World Series, Naples: There was a time, back when Olympic classes regattas were week-long affairs with one race a day, that Wednesdays were always lay days. Some of the sailors in the ACWS final regatta might have wished it were still the case, but all nine boats were out all afternoon for practice racing, just as they had been the previous day. ...[more]

America's Cup: Riding the Beast - Artemis Racing trains on the Bay By Sander van der Borsch, 8:10 PM Wed 17 Apr 2013
Top photographer, Sander van der Borsch, captured this gallery of images of Artemis Racing's AC72 performing spectacularly on San Francisco Bay, after being retro-fitted with foils, and relaunched in April. The team's second AC72, now designed for foiling will be launched in late May. ...[more]

Fisher's View: A gift horse in need - America's Cup WS, Naples - Day 1 By Bob Fisher, San Francisco, USA , 11:42 PM Tue 16 Apr 2013
Day 1 America's Cup World Series, Naples: Today’s media 'conference', for want of a better word, was a shining example of a gift horse in need. It was held in a building with bare walls and more echoes than enough – and the behavior of the 'media' not actually involved was appalling – they talked loudly and the photographers were among the worst. Interviewing a skipper was a painful operation. ...[more]

The America’s Cup: Adding up the scorecard for New Zealand Inc By Grant Dalton, 7:57 PM Tue 16 Apr 2013
Emirates Team NZ leaves soon to begin the battle for the 34th America’s Cup, the team has attracted major sponsorship from offshore; top international brands that are happy to invest large sums of money and partner with a New Zealand sports team. Here Grant Dalton reflects on the 2013 challenge, the team’s achievements in getting where it is today and its place in the New Zealand marine industry. ...[more]

Artemis Racing AC72 video update By Beau Outteridge, San Francisco , 11:14 AM Tue 16 Apr 2013
After going through some modifications, the AC72 has been back out on the Bay training for this upcoming summer. Loïck Peyron talks about how these recent modifications have improved Boat 1. ...[more]

Youth America's Cup 2013 - Zhik announces sponsorship of The Force By Vince Casalaina, , 1:30 AM Tue 16 Apr 2013
The American Youth Sailing Force (The Force) is happy to announce that Zhik is now our official clothing sponsor. Zhik’s Pat Langley is very enthusiastic, 'The team has a great amount of energy and have proven to be winners not only on the water but also on land. ...[more]

America's Cup: Images of a revamped Artemis Racing in San Fran By Sail-World, 10:02 PM Fri 12 Apr 2013
Images of the Swedish Challenger Artemis Racing as she works up on San Francisco after her refit ...[more]

America's Cup: Artemis Racing Update - Three months left to LVC By Artemis Media, 7:55 PM Fri 12 Apr 2013
With only three months until the start of the Louis Vuitton Challenger Series, Artemis Racing has been busy training and preparing for racing, which begins in San Francisco on July 4th. The team spent the majority of March in the shed modifying our AC72 and turning a standard AC45 into a foiling AC45. ...[more]

America's Cup: Artemis Racing release video on AC45 foiling By Sail-World, 6:55 AM Thu 11 Apr 2013
The Swedish America's Cup Challenger, Artemis Racing, have released a video showing their AC45 verysuccessfully foiling on san Francisco bay. Features comment from Nathan Outteridge and Adam May. ...[more]

America's Cup WS: Ben Ainslie and J.P. Morgan BAR head to Naples By Lucy Harwood, Ben Ainslie Racing, 8:51 PM Wed 10 Apr 2013
Naples marks the final event of the 2012-13 America’s Cup World Series season. With two events under their belt J.P. Morgan BAR sit in fourth place overall and will look to improve on their second place result from the last event in October 2012. ...[more]

America's Cup: Luna Rossa's Max Sirena reviews their time in Auckland By vsail.info, 5:33 AM Wed 10 Apr 2013
Pierre Orphanidis of leading European sailing website vsail.info spoke with Luna Rossa skipper, Max Sirena, with the Italian team's AC72 yacht scheduled to arrive in San Francisco in a week and the sailing team preparing in Naples for the final America's Cup World Series event, Max Sirena gave us an update on the latest developments at Luna Rossa: ...[more]

America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ starts packing for San Francisco By Sail-World, 9:11 PM Tue 9 Apr 2013
Emirates Team NZ have started the pack out of their base in Auckland's Viaduct Harbour. 31 containers holding everything from office furniture and tent structures to hydraulics and engineering workshops will leave the base this week alone. ...[more]

America's Cup: Australia II replay of 30th win anniversary special By Sail-World.com, Australia , 8:55 PM Tue 9 Apr 2013
The story of Australia II and the campaign to win the 1983 America's Cup featured on ABC TV's Australian Story tonight. Click on this link to see the replay of Part 1 of the two part series ...[more]

America's Cup: Image gallery - Oracle Team USA training in San Fran By Oracle Racing, 8:33 PM Tue 9 Apr 2013
Oracle Team USA have been putting in the training time in San Francisco getting the wrinkles out of Oracle Team USA 17, as their rebuilt AC72 is known, and ahead of the launch of their second AC72 later this month. Also featured is an interview from the America's Cup UnCut series with wing trimmer Dirk de Ridder ...[more]

America's Cup: Hall of Famer dies in San Diego at 95 By Richard Gladwell, 7:05 PM Sun 7 Apr 2013
America's Cup Hall of Fame member, Jack Sutphen, passed away peacefully at his home in San Diego on March 24, at the age of 95 years. Best known as a key part of the trial horse crew for Dennis Conner's America's Cup campaigns, Sutphen's relationship with Conner had its genesis in 1974, when he was replaced by Conner as tactician aboard the 12 metre Courageous. ...[more]

America's Cup: 'We will keep learning, even in the Match' - Simmer By Richard Gladwell, Auckland, New Zealand , 11:50 PM Fri 5 Apr 2013
Part 2 of the interview with Oracle Team USA's COO, Grant Simmer, whose experience spans nine America's Cup campaigns, including three wins in 1983, 2003 and 2007. Simmer picks up the story, revealing that the launch date for Oracle Team USA’s second AC72 will be prior to the end of April, and elaborates on the program through to the end of the America's Cup Match. ...[more]

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