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America’s Cup Closer To Valencia

Alinghi and BMW Oracle may have reached an  agreement on 33rd America’s Cup. They met in Valencia planning a probable racing event in february. But Alinghi is still waiting up until the 17 of december to confirm. Alinghi is waiting for a ruling from the court in the hope to validate his will to race in Rak.

More from Pierre Orphanidis at valencia. blogspot on 10 december 2009 .

Valencia, 10 December 2009.  Pierre Orphanidis / Valencia Sailing

 Alinghi and BMW Oracle have reached on the celebration of the 33rd America’s Cup, if of course, the Appellate Division upholds Justice Kornreich’s ruling on Ras al-Khaimah not being a legitimate venue for a match in February.

Image by DaveBolo via Flickr

It’s nice to see Valencia Sailing finally writing about sailing in Valencia, especially if it’s the America’s Cup…

 

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Groupama 3 Is Now En Route For France

This is the latest news about Groupama 3 leaving Cape Town. The tri brokes a bulkhead in an attempt to break the Jules Verne Trophy. They are going up to France to get ready for another attempt later this winter.

From Groupama site

Skippered by Fred Le Peutrec and sailed by a total crew of 10, Groupama 3 has thus completed her South Africa stopover. In all it has taken no less than three weeks for the maxi trimaran to be operational once again after suffering damage in the Southern Atlantic, at a point where the crew were ahead of the reference time for the Jules Verne Trophy set by Orange in 2005.

Indeed once the float bulkhead was repaired and then reinforced by the Groupama team’s shore crew, with the assistance of a handful of South African’s from Team Shosholoza, it was the generator which was to give up the ghost. Forced to order a new unit from France and have it transported down to Cape Town by plane, the crew of Groupama 3 had no option but to wait patiently in Cape Town and attend the live draw for the World Cup football.

 

“All that is behind us today and all ten of us are delighted to be at sea again. We had to get free of the coast to find the wind, which has enabled us to retension the rig. We’ve done that and we’re now sailing under two reef mainsail and staysail in a 25 to 28 knot SE’ly making the equivalent boat speed” explains Fred Le Peutrec, who in the absence of Franck Cammas, has taken on responsibility for Groupama 3.

 

Types of Sailboats

Well,

 Types of sailboat is  an intro category head for the blog.

We are talking about fast sailing here, so the best types of sailboat for us are multihull: catamaran and trimaran. And monohull: the high tech composites hull with huge sailplan.

For multihull, we can think at the 2 out of space ac33 boats: Alinghi5 and Bor. The new Banque Populaire and Also Groupama3. The orma 60, the Hydroptere down to the A-class catamaran.

For monohull we can think of supermaxi like Wild Oats, volvo 70, open 60, tp52, sportboat down to the moth anomaly.

And of course anything in between. 

Add go fast features like canting kell, wing rotating mast, huge asymetric spinnaker, square top mainsail, hard sail so you get hte picture of modern fast sailing.

Image by alexeiz2002 via Flickr

So let the blog see in time more in depth reviews of all these wonderful wind machines.

Christian

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