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America's Cup World Series Venedig
www.americascup.com - Übersicht Venedig
Website AC World Series in Venedig
Thursday 17th May
Fotogalerie
America's Cup World Series - Venice
Sunny, but chilly day here
on the Adriatic of the coast of Lido. It
snowed in the mountains just North of here Tuesday night and the white
hills are a beautiful backdrop to the racing here. Over 100 spectator
boats ringed the race track to watch the fleet of nine do battle in the
8-12 knot breeze.
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Foto: ©Artemis Racing/Sander van der Borch
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On a personal note has been a lot of fun for me to return to Venezia
where I lived and worked in 1990 while preparing the Il Moro di Venezia
Challenge. Venezia is a jewel of a city....maybe there is none more
unique in the world. The city certainly has turned it on for this
America's Cup event!
Two fleet races were held to seed the fleet for Match Racing. Artemis
had a very good first race finishing second to Team Korea but a tough
second race finishing 7th. The fleet is very competitive, so nothing is
easy out there.
Artemis was up against Emirates Team New Zealand for a two out of three
quarter match race series. In the first race, after a dial up by
Emirates Team New Zealand, our boys did a lap around the committee boat
to shake the Kiwis. Both boats were over early, but we managed to lead
at the first mark and stretch from there to win by a large margin. The
2nd race was close at the start, but we rolled the Kiwis again and that
was about it for a 2-0 win for Artemis Racing.
The Artemis boys looked sharp on the boat handling and quite fast as
well. Lots of hard work by the whole team went into that. Very nice to
see!
Tomorrow will start out with two Fleet Races then the Match Race semi
finals which will see Artemis pitted against Team Energy of France.
I am off to California tomorrow to attend my daughter Allie's
graduation from university on Saturday.
For complete results go to www.ac.com
Paul
Artemis Racing
Artemis Racing is the Challenger of Record for the 34^th America’s Cup.
Artemis Racing competes in the America’s Cup World Series, RC44
Championship Tour and Vulcain Trophy.
[1]www.artemisracing.com
Links:
KSSS
Artemis Racing represents the Royal Swedish Yacht Club (KSSS).
www.ksss.se
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