Sailing Education Adventures

If you are interested in getting a taste for what the America's Cup will look like in 2013, you can watch the AC45 boats racing in Cascais Portugal.

This morning AC34 had a live YouTube feed on their website here

The strongest teams led as expected: Oracle USA, Emirates NZ, Artemis SWE, with a nice showing by Team Korea and some bursts by Team China. It will be interesting to see how the French teams do. They and some others started a bit later, so they have some catching up practicing to do. The Coutts team looked to be sailing with an eased jib at times...just doing recon? The French have a very strong tradition of multihull racing and have some key people involved. It will be interesting to see how they do.

It does appear that start position is critical, at least in these light air conditions today (6 knots). First to the start in good position has usually won the race. In 6 knots of breeze the boats do 6kts upwind and 10 kts downwind!! Wait til the winds increase.

Check in tomorrow morning (Sunday) for more live speed competition racing. The winds are expected to kick up to 15kts which means these boats will be ripping through the water, should be exciting.    http://www.americascup.com/       Youtube Channel Direct