Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Toulon, Sailing Videos

30 days to Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Toulon:

Video above published August 11, 2016 - Less than 30 days until the best sailors and fastest boats touch down in Toulon, France Sept 9-11, 2016. Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Toulon will mark the first time America's Cup racing has been held in French waters for over 10 years. Groupama Team France skipper Franck Cammas spoke to us about why this event is important to him and his team.

THE LOUIS VUITTON AMERICA’S CUP WORLD SERIES - ACWS 2016 schedule:
Muscat, Oman, Feb 27-28, 2016;
New York, USA, May 6-8, 2016;
Chicago, USA, June 10-12, 2016;
Portsmouth, UK, July 22-24, 2016;
Toulon, France, September 10-11, 2016.

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Video above published August 2, 2016

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RORC Transatlantic Race Updates, Team Concise, Phaedo3, Videos

Phaedo³ breaks 3 world records in one week from Ocean Images on Vimeo.
Phaedo³ spent a week breaking world records. The Fastnet Original Course, Plymouth to La Rochelle, and Cowes to Dinard. Flying along, seeing speeds in excess of 40knots and average speeds of 28.66 knots

Team Concise Day 2 Update - Published on Nov 30, 2015 - An update from Ned and Wouter from Concise 10 with their progress.

RORC Transatlantic Race - Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in association with The International Maxi Association - MOD's flying west and gone fishing on Nomad IV:

Day Four of the RORC Transatlantic Race and the MOD 70s are heading west at alarming speed.Zed 6 is about to have it all on to the north and the IRC fleet is experiencing light winds in the high pressure off the Western Sahara.

Lloyd Thornburg's Phaedo3, skippered by Brian Thompson and Tony Lawson's Concise 10/Ms Barbados, skippered by Ned Collier Wakefield gybed west as the sunset yesterday. Concise took a more southerly line than Phaedo3, recognising the low pressure system to the south.Phaedo3 responded by gybing further south, giving up precious miles to cover the potential advantage. Phaedo3 still holds the upper hand but Concise 10 are still very much in striking distance. Concise 10 sent in the video above via satellite link.

The three Maxis racing in the RORC Transatlantic Race have experienced light winds for the last 24 hours. Southern Wind 94, Windfall, skippered by Irish Olympic sailor Timothy Goodbody fell back after leading IRC overall on Day Three. Will Apold's Canadian Swan 78, Valkyrie cashed in on their southerly route through the Canaries and added to the bank via their tall rig and narrow hull shape, to glide into the lead on IRC corrected time from the other two Maxis. Jean-Paul Riviere's French Finot Conq 100, Nomad IV used the slow going to good measure with their Russian guests casting a line for 'the catch of the day'. Nomad IV should get into better pressure today and significantly, before the other two Maxis, which should see the team extend their lead on the water in the monohull fleet.

Gerald Bibot & Michel Kleinjans Belgian catamaran, Zed 6 gybed south yesterday afternoon after reaching a latitude of 33 degrees north which is further north than all of Florida. No doubt the Belgians will be reaching for the hot chocolate today. The wind direction is predicted to strengthen and turn to the south. This will put the 42ft catamaran into strong headwinds and the potential for big confused seas. "The boat is fantastic!" exclaimed Gerald by satellite link. " It's very fast and very sensible to any bad tuning. We stay very safe, sheets off the self-tailing and mostly in hands all the time. So it is a bit more exhausting than a Class40. We got the news this morning that the MODs are 200 nm closer than us to finish. It will be interesting to see how many days they will lead on us in the end. And who knows? I just heard that Gonzalo (Tales II) stopped in the Canaries for a rudder repair and re-started. That's good news. We have similar speeds on some angles, so it is important for us to have her as a benchmark on both sides of the pressure ridge."

With the light winds experienced yesterday and last night the clutch of 40ft yachts have come to the fore after IRC corrected time. Provisionally, J/120 Nunatak raced Two Handed by Chris Frost and Elin Haf Davies is leading the IRC fleet after time correction. Not wishing to dampenNunatak's fireworks, this may be due to the fact that Nunatak has taken a more westerly route, closer to the rhumb line. In doing so Nunatak has stayed in the high pressure vacuum but bytomorrow morning fresh winds are likely from the east, which will improve their position.

Mike Gascoyne, skipper of Class40 checked in with the RORC media team via satellite and sportingly said he was pleased to see their rival Tales II back in the race: "We had always planned to head for the southerly route and the weather files during the first night confirmed that choice," confirmed Mike. "We gybed south between Tenerife and La Palma but a couple of tactile errors meant we lost a few hours in some light patches before breaking free from the islands and heading south. We re-passed Aloha early this morning having clearly lost some miles between the islands. It was a shame for Tales II to have the rudder problem as they were really flying off the start. I'm sure with the crew they have on board they will be looking to catch us but we will do our best to make life hard for them. Life on board is good, currently pushing south west with A3, staysail and full main in 15kts of breeze and contemplating a full English breakfast for the crew, not easy to do on a jet-boil."

Latest news, blogs from the boats and photos: http://rorctransatlantic.rorc.org/

Follow the progress of the race via the fleet: http://rorctransatlantic.rorc.org/tracking/2015-fleet-tracking.html

Other Sailing NEWS:
Franck Cammas injured his right leg - Groupama Team France: "During training for the America's Cup on Monday, November 30, Franck Cammas, skipper of Groupama Team France was seriously wounded in the right leg. As part of the preparation for the America's Cup, Franck Cammas and his team were training with two boats (GC32) at the National Sailing School in Quiberon Bay.   With winds at 17 knots, and while he was at the helm, the champion went overboard and the rudder hit his right leg while the hydrofoil catamaran was moving at full speed."

Franck Cammas undergoes a successful operation: "Injuring his right leg on Monday 30 November during a crew training session in Quiberon Bay, Brittany, aboard a 10-metre long flying catamaran, the skipper of Groupama Team France will be away from the race zone for several weeks. The orthopaedic surgery department at the University Hospital Hôtel Dieu in Nantes operated on a double Tibia-Fibula fracture early evening yesterday and Franck Cammas will begin his rehabilitation in January 2016...." (read more at the link above)

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3D LIVE Extreme Sailing Series™ Istanbul; America's Cup Press Conference (videos)

3D LIVE Istanbul: Day One - Graphics Only - Extreme Sailing Series™ 2014 -
3D LIVE Istanbul: Day One - Graphics Only - Extreme Sailing Series™ 2014 (September 11)
More info: extremesailingseries.com

Extreme Sailing Series results overall before Act 6, Istanbul:
RANK  TEAM  ∑
1 Alinghi 47
2 The Wave, Muscat 45
3 Realteam by Realstone 34
4 Emirates Team New Zealand 33
5 J.P. Morgan BAR 25
6 Gazprom Team Russia 22
7 Red Bull Sailing Team 20
8 SAP Extreme Sailing Team 18
9 Oman Air 16
10 Groupama sailing team 15
11 GAC Pindar 5

A full replay of the 35th America's Cup Press Conference from London - 

Skippers from the six teams of the 35th America's Cup were introduced at a press conference in London on Tuesday, September 9th:
Nathan Outteridge, Artemis Racing;
Ben Ainslie, Ben Ainslie Racing;
Dean Barker, Emirates Team New Zealand
Max Sirena, Luna Rossa Challenge
Jimmy Spithill, ORACLE TEAM USA
Franck Cammas, Team France
also Dr. Harvey Schiller, Commercial Commissioner, 35th America’s Cup

Cup teams already plotting course to victory - 35th America's Cup: "... Speaking to a home audience, Ben Ainslie told the media his team would draw on a combination of youth and experience in building a British challenger. “We’re putting together a predominantly British sailing team, a mix of experience with guys who have been there and won the Cup a few times as well as some younger, homegrown talent that is coming through. If we were going racing tomorrow, I would be steering the boat, but that might not be the same answer in a few years time.”..."

Sir Ben Ainslie says 2017 America’s Cup could be the most competitive | Sport | The Guardian: "Sir Ben Ainslie claimed the 2017 America’s Cup could be the most competitive in history as the four-times Olympic sailing champion confirmed he intends to helm a team that is targeting a first British title. Last year Ainslie was part of a winning America’s Cup crew, playing a key role in the remarkable comeback of Oracle Team USA who overturned an 8-1 deficit over Emirates Team New Zealand to prevail 9-8 in San Francisco...."

Imperial researchers outline how businesses can learn from the America's Cup: "According to researchers from Imperial College Business School, the America’s Cup can provide businesses with ideas for developing technologies. It can also offer business leaders examples about how to improve their strategic and tactical decision making."

No criminal charges in America's Cup fatal capsize - ESPN: "... According to the report, Artemis Racing designer Adam May told a police officer after the accident on May 9, 2013, that the 72-foot catamaran had just performed a bear-away maneuver on San Francisco Bay "when the port side hull dug into the water and failed structurally. This hull failure caused the vessel to capsize and come to rest with the platform inverted." Simpson, a gold and silver Olympic medalist, suffered extensive trauma to his head and neck and drowned after being trapped underwater for about 10 minutes, according to the autopsy report. There were serious cuts and bruises to Simpson's head and neck, and foam inside his crash helmet "was irregularly separated consistent with being crushed," the report said. The cause of death was listed as "blunt trauma with drowning." "There were no criminal charges in this case. The investigation is closed," Officer Albie Esparza, a San Francisco police department spokesman, said Tuesday...."

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Day 2 of Normandy Sailing Week (video)

#IM34 / Franck Cammas Magistral pour ce jour 2 de la Normandy Sailing (in French) -- day 2 of Normandy Sailing Week (video)

Normandy Sailing Week Results (partial results above)

Normandy Sailing Week - J80s have answered the call to race
Sail World
At Normandy Sailing Week, a fleet of 28 J80s have answered the call to race. This year, the event organised by Sirius Evenements is once again playing host to the prestigious French Cup for the series. And the popularity of the boat is no secret as the ...

Sail World

Llandudno sailing club cancel's Contender championship over slipway
BBC News
A sailing club has been forced to cancel a championship event after storms washed away part of its slipway. Llandudno sailing club was due to hold its Contender championship in August but the last 5m (16ft) of the imperial slipway were destroyed last ...

BBC News

Sailing: Dame Ellen praises brave Josh
Doncaster Today
“Sailing around the Isle of Wight is a long way. It's almost 70 miles, you are attacking and manoeuvring the boat around the island, you are seeing the Solent and the south coast of the UK and something is changing all the time so to have that start ...

Doncaster Today

Sailing: Chris Pyne happy with Round the Island showing
Northampton Herald and Post
Organised by the Island Sailing Club and dubbed 'Britain's favourite yacht race', the crew made the most of perfect sailing conditions to cross the line in 9hrs 23mins 59secs, finishing 12th overall in their class. “I started on Pitsford reservoir when ...

Northampton Herald and Post

CSULB Sailing Team to set sail in China
Daily 49er
Five of the CSULB Sailing Team's top sailors will represent the U.S. in Xiamen, China, in a competition against 13 Chinese college teams in the Pan-Pacific Intercollegiate Regatta from July 15 to 17. The five sailors include team members Mark Ryan ...

Racing and sailing not the same? The future of sailing
Sail World
Long time cruising sailor, Captain Alex Blackwell here ponders the future of sailing and why almost all sailing clubs in every established sailing nation in the world find their numbers in decline. He quotes, memorably, a Velux 5 Oceans race leader who ...

Sail World

Sailing through history on Lake Champlain
North Country Public Radio (blog)
I'm writing this blog post from the deck of the Lois McClure, a replica of an 1862 canal schooner, on Lake Champlain. Each year the Lois, manned by crew from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, sails historical waterways in the northeast. This year's ...

Family and friends mourn an Alameda sailing stalwart
San Jose Mercury News
ALAMEDA -- Boat building and sailing were not just a heritage and livelihood for Svend Svendsen. They were an abiding love that endured from his childhood in Denmark to his life in Alameda, where the boat shop he launched a half-century ago remains a ...

Yachting: America's Cup organisers still treading water
New Zealand Herald
America's Cup organisers are treading water while they await a criticial decision from Artemis over whether they intend to compete in this year's event. There have been no significant developments from a series of meetings in San Francisco this week ...

America's Cup Qualifying Races May Be Cut Back; Impact To City Unclear
CBS Local
Emirates Team New Zealand competes in a fleet race during the America's Cup World Series on October 4, 2012 in San Francisco, California. Teams are racing on an AC45 boat, which is the forerunner to the AC72 that teams will race next year in the Louis ...

How Larry Ellison Is Destroying the America's Cup
Bloomberg
After Larry Ellison finally took possession of the America's Cup in 2010, he had grand plans for the race. He would transform this elite, gentleman's sport into a TV spectacle for the masses: Nascar on San Francisco Bay. Ellison was going to reinvent ...

A Cup of Caen: What's an America's Cup team?
Huffington Post
Oracle is the "American" boat in the America's Cup. I put quotation marks around the "American" in that phrase because there are more Americans on the Swedish team than there are on the American team. Spithill is Australian. As is the CEO of Oracle, ...

Artemis on water after America's Cup tragedy
TVNZ
Nearly a month after their horrific accident on San Francisco Bay, Artemis Racing have returned to the water in their first tentative steps towards re-entering the America's Cupfray. The Challenger of Record for sailing's ultimate prize were rocked ...

America's Cup: Artemis back sailing in San Francisco
Newstalk ZB
Artemis has returned to sailing on San Francisco Bay, but there's no word as yet whether the Swedish challenge will be ready to race the Louis Vuitton series, starting in a month. Artemis has been back on the water for the first time since the death of ...

Newstalk ZB

Ben Ainslie: Round the Island Race perfect preparation for America's Cup
The Sport Review
Great Britain's four-time Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie insists he is acquiring all the skills necessary to mount a successful America's Cupchallenge after a record-breaking victory at the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round The Island Race.

The Sport Review

Kennedys, Vanderbilts, & Liptons: When The America's Cup Was Actually Cool
SFist
There was a time, before evil supervillians got involved and started throwing Sting concerts, when the America's Cup was just a traditional highfalutin boat race between a Scottish tea magnate and an American captain of industry. Now it's all carbon ...

Yours for $100m: top spot in the America's Cup
The Times (subscription)
Participating in the world's most glamorous sailing race has been likened to standing in a cold shower while tearing up £50 notes. Now, one of the world's wealthiest men is being accused of jeopardising the America's Cup – by making it even more expensive.

The Times (subscription)

Route des Princes - Edmond de Rothschild crew ready for action
Sail World
Helmsman on the French challenger, K-Challenge, from 2007 to 2009, Sébastien Col is indeed very familiar with the Spanish bay, where the Louis Vuitton Cup and then the America's Cup were held in 2007. His knowledge of the race zone, combined with his ...

Sail World

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