[Source: Emirates Team New Zealand] Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa went training off Auckland this afternoon. It was not so much a spectacle as an historic encounter as the two AC72 catamarans met on the water. It was...
[Source: Vendée Globe] At the back of the fleet, Zbigniew ‘Gutek’ Gutkowski (ENERGA) partially revealed the reason for his strange heading – he is testing...
[Source: Vestas Sailrocket] Just in after the most incredible run. A whole nautical mile dipping well into the 60′s on each gust. We peaked near...
[Source: Vendée Globe] The Maître CoQ skipper has reached Cape Verde islands, where he was able to analyse his situation. Along with his shore crew,...
[Source: Vendée Globe] At 2300hrs (French time) on Saturday, Jérémie Beyou (Maître CoQ) detected a malfunction of the hydraulic jack of his keel. He has...
[Source: Luna Rossa] Friday, November 16th at 11.15 AM New Zealand time, while assembling the wingsail (which is 40 metres high), in about 15 knots...
The 34th America’s Cup Challenger of Record took their AC72 yachts had their second sailing session on Thursday on the San Francisco Bay. The Swedish...
[Source: Sailrocket] Just in… 61 + knot peak speed and a 54. something average. Had to stop as the end was coming up fast. Everything...
[Source: Vendé Globe] The Race Village in Les Sables d’Olonne has been open for three weeks and on the eve of the race start, all...
[Source: Hydroptère] French naval defense group DCNS stops its support towards Hydroptere’s oceanic program. Alain Thébault’s hydrofoil trimaran, originally set to attempt the Transpac record...
First of all, I would like to inform all regular readers of VSail.info that this isn’t a typical interview I have been doing for the...
[Source: Artemis Racing] The launch of Artemis Racing’s first AC72 catamaran marks a major milestone in the team’s quest for the America’s Cup. Thousands of...
Saturday morning in Auckland was another open-house, free-for-all moment at the Luna Rossa base. As we said yesterday, this is unprecedented in the America’s Cup,...
Half a year ago nobody would have thought that come November, Patrizio Bertelli’s Luna Rossa would be in a seemingly advantageous position over Oracle Team...
Friday morning’s schedule for the invited journalists in Auckland was to attend a press conference with Patrizio Bertelli, team principal, and Max Sirena, skipper, in...
The 34th America’s Cup Defender publishes a very interesting video, showing how events unfolded the day of the unfortunate capsize of the team’s AC72 yacht:
[Source: D-ONE Gold Cup] Adrenaline pumping finale for the 2012 D-One Gold Cup on Sunday in Alassio. A great showdown was expected, with 4 helmsmen...
So I should be happier about setting a new PB over 500 meters of 50.98 knots. The peak speed was around 53 knots (1 GPS...
[Source: Extreme Sailing Series] It was a full pressure day at the Extreme Sailing Series in Nice, France, as the gusty conditions, short courses and...
[Source: ETNZ Blog] Today was day 12 of testing for our first AC72, NZL2. It was also the first time I went for a sail...
