Sunday, September 22, 2013

Friday races - 34th America's Cup. The racing.


Heading upwind along the city front. The first race was in light air and NZ was over 1 km ahead of Oracle...but they couldn't finish within the 40 min time limit - which for me sounded very unfair since this time limit has nothing to do with sailing and there really no way to tell how light the wind is going to be!

 Oracle downwind with their Code Zero.




 Gybing
 Established on the new gybe


Heading to the mark


 Team NZ upwind and Oracle downwind





An enthusiastic supporter

 In race 2, Oracle was ahead



 flying!
Oracle actually won the race that day (the first race was abandoned) second before NZ could finish.

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