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    ^ under the live video window that I am watching now (at the site I posted) are the news notes,.........

    latest:

    11:56
    So the postponement is signalled on cue. SI 5.7 states After a long postponement, to alert boats that a race will begin soon, the Race Committee will advise both boats by safety radio approximately 15 minutes before a Warning Signal is displayed. Mark 1 is being moved.

    11:44
    And that shift is increasing now offshore where the committee boat is, wind is 270 degrees and 6 knots....looking better all the time in terms of the forecast. The teams both looked to be really up for it when they left the dock this morning, certainly no one looking like it was a dress rehearsal. So as the breeze gets round to where it is expected, tensions will start to rise few notches on board. Of course there is a huge wealth of Cup racing experience on board both boats. The balance of actual America's Cup match experience is with Alinghi. Ooops, the breeze is back to 300 degrees at the committee boat, which is still about 8 miles offshore.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    yep , just saw that , thus the ticker is the go

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    If you are going to watch the race from the site provided by americascup.com you can open the viewing screen (on their page) to full size (of your monitor),…looks better that way

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    Alinghi look the goods

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    AP will be lowered at 59 past

    race start 10 past the hr

    we're gunna have a race

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    AP still up

    breeze gone soft , fark ...................

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    14:18

    So Principal Race Officer Harold Bennett confirms now that the breeze has settled again and he plans to drop the AP flag at 1424 local time, Attention signal 1425h, start planned 1435hrs. USA roll their headsail out again and away they go.

    America's Cup TV - 33rd America's Cup

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    well thats that then , one horse race

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    ^still a long way to go

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    indeed , and a penalty to pay

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    16:04

    And at an hour and a half after the start USA bear away at the windward mark first, unrolling their huge downwind headsail, breeze is about seven knots.

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    both boats preformed pretty well,……..but the Oracle team was just a bit better for the first race

    the filming was terrific

    BMW ORACLE Racing Team’s final Race 1 winning margin of 15 minutes and 28 seconds is the biggest in the history of the America’s Cup since the 27th edition in 1988,……………


    Next race, Sunday 10.00 (CET)

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    Race 2 is due to start at 12.00 (CET),…..6pm Thai Time



    Pictures from the 1st Race,.........





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    That’s it,… the Cup will go to BMW/Oracle after winning the second race.

    One of the notes, on the Americas Cup site:

    17:47
    Alinghi preparing to hoist a gennaker at the gybe mark, USA hits 33 knots.

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    AP had a write up about the races that summed up the event. I highlighted a few parts of the article that stood out, to me.





    By BERNIE WILSON
    AP Sports Writer
    updated 4:30 p.m. ET Feb. 14, 2010

    VALENCIA, Spain - Still bundled against the cold in his white foul-weather gear, software tycoon Larry Ellison hoisted the America's Cup high in the air, then planted a kiss on the oldest trophy in international sports.

    "Valencia — muchas gracias!" the self-made billionaire screamed, following the ride of his life across the Mediterranean on one of the most remarkable boats ever built.

    The America's Cup is back in American hands.

    It was swept away from Europe by Ellison's space-age trimaran, which has a gigantic wing for a sail and easily sped ahead of two-time defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland to complete a two-race sweep in the 33rd America's Cup on Sunday.

    "I am so proud of this team, I am so proud to be part of this team, and I am especially proud to bring the America's Cup, once again, after a long absence, back to the United States of America," said the 65-year-old Ellison, the CEO of Oracle Corp.

    The Auld Mug, as the ornate silver jug is also known, now belongs to San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club.

    BMW Oracle Racing CEO Russell Coutts, who has quite a bit of experience at winning the America's Cup, popped the cork on a magnum of champagne and sprayed his boss, as well as tactician John Kostecki and skipper-helmsman Jimmy Spithill of Australia.

    A blizzard of blue and silver confetti blew across the stage and fireworks went off across Port America's Cup, a festive ending to a tumultuous 2˝-year period that dragged the 159-year-old event to one of its lowest points.

    Ellison and rival Ernesto Bertarelli — two of the world's wealthiest men — had been locked in a court fight since July 2007, and it looked for a while like the result of this race was going to be contested off the water.

    Alinghi raised a red protest flag on its giant catamaran late on the first leg of the triangle course during Race 2, leaving everyone wondering what it was about since there's no communication off the boats.

    The Swiss dropped the protest after the race, confirming Ellison's win. They were unhappy about a prestart penalty, but decided it wouldn't have an outcome on the race.

    Asked if the Americans planned to drop litigation pending against the Swiss in the New York State Supreme Court, Ellison said: "The only thing we ever wanted was to beat Alinghi on the water with a fair set of rules. And that's what we got today."

    Bertarelli wasn't at the handover ceremony, but he and Ellison briefly shook hands when the Swiss exited the post-race news conference.

    The biotech mogul became the first European to win the America's Cup in 2003 with a victory over Team New Zealand, and defended it against the Kiwis in 2007.

    "Congratulations to the BMW Oracle team, their boat was faster," Bertarelli said.

    "They had a strategy, they got a little help from the legal system in New York and that always makes it difficult for us Europeans and that gave them advantages.

    "They were faster, good on them," he continued. "We didn't have a boat that was quite fast enough. We didn't lay down. We fought as hard as we could and we exit with our head high."

    The America's Cup has been away from U.S. shores for 15 years, the longest drought since the schooner America won the silver trophy by beating a fleet of British ships around the Isle of Wight in 1851. Dennis Conner lost it in 1995 to Team New Zealand and Coutts, now a four-time America's Cup winner.

    Ellison and Kostecki were the only Americans on BMW Oracle's crew for the clincher. The massive sailboat was steered by Spithill, who at age 30 was sailing in his fourth America's Cup.

    "The boys are just absolutely lit up," Spithill said as the boat headed into port in the Valencian dusk. "Larry's stoked, Russell's stoked and we just can't wait to get back to shore to celebrate."

    While Ellison's fortune made the victory possible, the true star was his monster black-and-white trimaran and its radical 223-foot wing sail, which powered the craft at three times the speed of the wind, sending its windward and middle hulls flying well above the water. The wing has nine flaps on its trailing edge and allowed the yacht to sail closer to the wind, and therefore faster than the Swiss.
    When the yacht hooked into a breeze, it seemed as if Spithill jammed down an accelerator.

    One of the lasting images of this America's Cup will be that of Spithill, decked out in technology seemingly straight out Star Wars, calmly steering from his airborne helm as the boat sped along the Spanish coast.

    "It's just such an awesome tool for racing," Spithill said.

    The American trimaran took a 28-second lead rounding the first mark Sunday and powered toward the horizon while sailing across the wind on the second leg. The final margin for two of the fastest, most technologically advanced sailboats built was 5 minutes, 25 seconds.

    "That was one hell of a boat race," Spithill said. "I enjoyed every minute of it."
    Alinghi had to do a 270-degree penalty at the finish, the result of its second prestart blunder in as many races. The Swiss boat was in the starting box before the 5-minute gun sounded, giving BMW Oracle an instant boost.

    While the Americans headed out to the left side of the course, Alinghi did a downspeed tack and took the right side. The move paid off when the Swiss gained during a wind shift and powered into the lead about a third of the way up the leg.

    Alinghi crossed ahead of BMW Oracle approaching the first mark, but lost speed during a tack and the Americans sailed ahead — and never looked back.
    "Unfortunately, you could see there was a little bit of a difference in the boats and that's yacht racing," said Alinghi tactician Brad Butterworth, a former crewmate of Coutts with Alinghi and Team New Zealand.

    Ellison joins Harold Vanderbilt, Ted Turner and Bill Koch among the tycoons who've hoisted the silver trophy. He's got a ways to go to catch Conner, though.

    Conner won the America's Cup four times and lost it twice. His victory in 1987 in Fremantle, Australia, was a bit more stirring, as he went Down Under with determination to reclaim the trophy he'd lost four years earlier, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year winning streak.

    Ellison and Bertarelli fought over their interpretations of the 1887 Deed of Gift, which governs the America's Cup. Ellison's syndicate eventually prevailed, forcing the rare head-to-head showdown.

    This was only the second Deed of Gift match in modern times. The other was in 1988, when Conner steered his catamaran to a two-race sweep of New Zealand's big monohull in San Diego.

    The America's Cup likely will return to its normal system of several challengers competing in sloops for the right to face the defender. Ellison confirmed, in a roundabout way, that Italian syndicate Mascalzone Latino will be the next Challenger of Record, helping to set the rules for the 34th America's Cup.

    The ornate trophy itself is headed for the Golden Gate Yacht Club, which sits on a public jetty in the heart of San Francisco's cityfront, with views of one of the world's most famous bridges and Alcatraz Island.

    Rough estimates are that each side spent $200 million on their entire campaigns, a staggering cost for two races.

    When did Bertarelli know the Cup was lost?

    "The first race," he said. "The first beat. I was very surprised by the first 20 minutes of the race. We were out of range most of the time. We were surprised."

    Link: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35393541/ns/sports/

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    I lost interest in the Americas Cup when it became one big legal shitfight.
    Anyway, as a technology contest between two tech billionaires it has some 'state of the art' interest- that boat of Ellisin's is just amazing.
    It's quite different to the old days when it was a race between monohulls of fairly similar specification- then the race itself was the point of fascination, not the boat.

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    It is pretty sad that you spend +200 000 000 usd on a boat that is built to race for 4 hours.
    When the race is won, the boat is useless...
    It was interesting to see that races though. BMW Oracle passed by us at 10 m distance just after they had finished race 2.

    The BOR 90 is f****ng huge when you see it up close. No wonder they call it godzilla

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    Quote Originally Posted by jr666 View Post
    BMW Oracle passed by us at 10 m distance just after they had finished race 2.

    The BOR 90 is f****ng huge when you see it up close. No wonder they call it godzilla

    Did you get any pictures you would like to post here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by jr666 View Post
    BMW Oracle passed by us at 10 m distance just after they had finished race 2.

    The BOR 90 is f****ng huge when you see it up close. No wonder they call it godzilla

    Did you get any pictures you would like to post here?
    Sure I have.
    I will upload some.

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    ^Thanks,............they would be nice to look at.

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    USA just after the finish line.
    Americas cup winners

    90x90 feet hull
    +60m main mast/wing Linger than a Airbus wing
    It is impressive to see it up close.
    Top speed on race day two was about 32 knots in 12 knot winds.


    Team USA just before start on race day 1


    Team Alinghi pre start on Race day 1


    BMW Oracles USA taking off


    USA just before crossing the finish line on day 1



    USA just after finish. Alignhi still have about 15 minutes to go


    BMW Oracle racings USA doing +20 knots


    USA just after the finish line. Winner of Americas Cup 33

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    ^Must have been a nice,…being there. Thanks for sharing the photos.

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    thanxs for the pics

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    I have not followed this event for years and was shocked to see the boats have now evolved into 3 hulls from the single hull beauties that used to fight out these races.

    I watched part of one race and then got bored and didn't switch on again.

    There was nothing as beautiful as seeing the only single hull boats plowing through the seas.

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