America's Cup Racing Teams
The lineup, so far:
1. GGYC > ORACLE Racing (Defender, USA)
Club Nautico di Roma > Mascalzone Latino Audi (Challenger of Record, Italy)
2. Royal Swedish Yacht Club > Artemis Racing (New Challenger of Record, Sweden)
3. Aleph-Equipe de France (Challenger, France)
YuuZoo Big Boat Racing Team (Challenger, Australia)
4. Yacht Club de France > Energy Team (Challenger, France)
Multihull Yacht Club of Queensland > Team Australia (Challenger, Australia)
5. Mei Fan Yacht Club > China Team (Challenger, China)
6. Sail Korea Yacht Club > White Tiger Challenge (Challenger, Korea)
Club Canottieri di Lauria > Venezia Challenge (Challenger, Italy)
7. Emirates Team New Zealand (Challenger, New Zealand)
8. Real Club Nautico de Valencia > Green Comm Racing (Challenger, Spain)
9. Circolo della Vela Sicilia of Palermo > Luna Rossa (Challenger, Italy)
Time running out for America's Cup challengers
The prospect of an America's Cup with just three challengers is growing stronger as the runway to build a monster multihull for the 2013 regatta gets shorter.
Only four teams have begun building the new 72-foot wing-sail catamarans that will duel for sport's oldest trophy in San Francisco in September next year. Emirates Team New Zealand is among those now building the new design, as is the Auld Mug defender, Oracle Racing. Read more »
Sailing in Marin: Hall-of-famer Cayard takes another shot at America's Cup with Swedish Artemis team
FOR A GUY who has achieved the highest awards in the sport of sailing, Paul Cayard must have just a small degree of frustration that the one prize that he's not been able to capture is the America's Cup.
The 52-year old, who was recently inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame, has a string of accolades behind him and has competed in events ranging from Round the World to the Olympics. But the Kentfield resident says he's still got plenty to achieve in the sport and he's working on it.
First, he'd like to win the America's Cup. Read more »
Team Korea Seeking Skipper to Replace Chris Draper
Team Korea to Announce New Skipper for 2012
Following an exciting start to White Tiger Challenge's America's Cup campaign this year, Chris Draper and Team Korea have agreed to part at the conclusion of their arrangement for first three ACWS regattas.
Presently ranked equal 4th overall in the Americas Cup World Series, the team has enjoyed tremendous success through an eventful period from its start up earlier this year and is looking to the next phase with continued development and experience. Read more »
Oracle Sweeps Rivals in America’s Cup
Spithill sails to victory with no traffic at final leg of competition
Minutes after winning the fleet racing championship in the third stop on the America's Cup World Series on San Diego Bay, Oracle Racing skipper Jimmy Spithill was handed a bottle of champagne from a chase boat and began spraying his crew.
First on the hit list was Larry Ellison, the Silicon Valley maverick who heads Oracle Corp. and bankrolls the team that brought the America's Cup back to America last year. After soaking his boss, Spithill worked over the four other men on board.
"It feels good, actually. I've had a couple of goes at it now," said Spithill, who also got to douse Ellison after winning the match racing championship Saturday. "But he got me back on the stage yesterday ... I'm one up on him. I've got him two saturations to one.
"It's not often you can say you're up 2-1 on a billionaire." Read more »
Local knowledge aids Kiwi sailing win on San Diego Bay
Rod Davis was eight years old the first time he sailed across San Diego Bay with his father in 1963.
The late Whit Davis was a submariner in the Navy and one of the area’s best at negotiating the tricky conditions on and around San Diego Bay with a sailboat.
Plus, being from Coronado, the Davises spent many hours battling the tidal conditions and wind shifts of San Diego Bay.
“Even if we were sailing out in the ocean, we had to sail up the bay to get to the courses,” Rod Davis remembered Sunday.
“Sailing on San Diego Bay is always a balancing act. You’ve got the current. And you have the normal winds doing funny things as they come off North Island and Point Loma. Read more »
