Sailing by Davis: “ORACLE TEAM USA Wing Arrives in San Francisco” plus 4 more |
- ORACLE TEAM USA Wing Arrives in San Francisco
- Vendée Globe : Mike Golding breaks records
- Winning in Both Hemispheres
- Sofía Toro se estrena en la clase 470
- Musto Suffolk Jacket in Zest magazine
| ORACLE TEAM USA Wing Arrives in San Francisco Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:26 PM PST
"The guys have done a fantastic job to get the wing built, and it will go together very quickly. You'll see it out on the water in early February," said ORACLE TEAM USA skipper Jimmy Spithill. "We're really excited to get out there again, and from a sailing point of view, sort of reward those who put all of the work in to get the boat ready again." The wing was built at Core Builders Composites in Warkworth, New Zealand, and loaded onto a Hamburg Süd ship in Auckland that departed on December 23. The ship arrived to Ports America in Oakland Tuesday morning, January 8, where the wing was loaded onto a truck. With height and weight restrictions on the Bay Bridge, the truck traveled around the South Bay and back north to San Francisco. "The wing left Core Builders Composites in a good state, even with the compressed timeline to complete it. It's far more finished, and more details were sorted out," said ORACLE TEAM USA shore team manager Mark Turner. "We've basically got another few weeks of work to get the new wing commissioned. Once that happens, we'll be in a situation to be able to do load tests. "We've made all of the repairs to the platform, and over the next few weeks we're reassembling the platform and finishing off some modifications," Turner said. "We got to where we needed to before Christmas, which was a big effort by the guys, and I'm confident we'll be ready to go sailing again in February." The timeline on the completion of the new wing was pushed up as a result of the capsize of ORACLE TEAM USA '17' in October. The wing will be assembled and fitted into the repaired boat. Remaining repair work includes installing systems and painting, which will involve a 24-hour work schedule. "To see this turn up inside the shed is a big psychological boost for the whole team," Spithill said, as the entire team is anxious for the AC72 to return to the water. "Any day that looks good for sailing, we'll be out there, capitalizing and really trying to put some hours on this wing and the boat." Photo Credit: ORACLE TEAM USA / Photo: Guilain Grenier Tags on NauticNews: America's Cup – AC72 – ORACLE TEAM USA - PR - | ||
| Vendée Globe : Mike Golding breaks records Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:16 PM PST
Lying in sixth place in the 2012-13 Vendée Globe, the solo, non-stop round the world race, this rounding marks the British skipper's remarkable achievement of racing around the tip of South America for the sixth time. Golding's passage between the Pacific and the Atlantic today is his third time solo in a Vendée Globe, rounding west to east in 2001, 2005 and now 2013. And this time – which will probably be his last solo racing passage – the relief has been considerable. After taking something of a beating in the east Pacific Ocean over recent days, with stormy gusts to 45 knots and very big and confused seas, Golding has had to use all his experience to manage his IMOCA Open 60 Gamesa in the boat-breaking conditions. The proliferation of ice, which has drifted north on to the race track, made this his most stressful rounding yet. "I think there has probably been ice before, but we just did not know about it and went around blissfully unaware in years gone by. But now with the ice-tracking technology available to the race, we are all the more aware and it is much more stressful," Golding explained. A former professional fireman, Golding cut his teeth on Sir Chay Blyth's Global Challenge races, westabout against the prevailing winds and currents. Competing in two editions, Golding skippered two crewed east to west passages of the hardest Cape of all. Golding first rounded 20 years ago during the 1992-1993 British Steel Challenge. He rounded again when he set a new record in his solo east to west circumnavigation in 1993-1994 backed by Group 4. He returned again in 1996-1997 en route to winning the BT Global Challenge. Now with his third Vendée Globe rounding solo, he extends his existing record. "The first time we had the most wind – 55-60kts – but it was from the east. Photographer Barry Pickthall was on Cape Horn; we passed a mile and a half away under a poled out yankee and were just flying. I think I was the only person to get a Challenge yacht making over 21kts. The second time was on my own and it was relatively benign. I was on a long starboard reaching tack. But the third time was fully crewed and as we got down towards Diego Ramirez island there was an incredible feeding frenzy with birds attacking fish, fish being chased by seals and dolphins and killer whales circling. It was the full food chain in action in front of us. Of course the crew all thought it was always like this! I had never seen it before, or since! "On my first Vendée Globe it was relatively quiet and I got up close again. What is amazing is that you go around the corner into Le Maire Strait and it is all quiet and flat water and you suddenly smell land, the heather and the lavender and it is quite the sweetest smell after you have not been close to land for so long. The sea state changes so quickly and you are in the Atlantic. But then you pass out towards the Falklands and you can be getting hammered again." Commenting on Golding's achievement, Sir Chay Blyth CBE, BEM said, "Mike's hat trick in both directions is a unique achievement …. it's quite amazing and I know on his return, Mike will personally share his tales and experiences with all of us to inspire the younger generation of future ocean racers. "Solo, offshore racing today is incredibly tough. While we all believe that technology is helping us, and it is, it also adds to the pressure of ocean racing. Now so many people can monitor your performance from the shore, it makes it much harder for the skippers as they have to drive themselves and their boats even harder. "Mike should be very proud of all his sailing achievements. It was clear to me from the time Mike skippered the British Steel Challenge yacht that he was a very determined individual and when he asked if he could 'borrow' the Challenge yacht to attempt to break my record, circumnavigating the wrong way, solo and non-stop, I knew he would go on to achieve great things… " Golding is the only skipper in this current Vendée Globe to have rounded The Horn in both directions. Despite the extraordinary speeds of the front runners in this year's Vendée Globe, Golding retains the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) record from Cape Leeuwin to Cape Horn of 16 days, 5 hours and 26 minutes set during the Vendée Globe 2004-05. Commenting on the retention of his record, Golding said "That is extraordinary. It must have been a real glamour run. My abiding memory is that things just lined up one after another. It was one weather system to another, much like Francois [Gabart] has just had, making high average all the time. And I never had anything on the bowsprit. It was always fore and aft sails, that is to say we were reaching and pointing directly at the mark. I didn't expect to come out of this race with half my crown still intact! I'm delighted to still hold the record." Photo Credit : Mike Golding/Gamesa Sailing Tags on NauticNews: Vendée Globe - PR - | ||
| Posted: 08 Jan 2013 11:46 AM PST Congratulations to Doyle customers who were successful in both hemispheres over the weekend. Torvar Mirsky and crew on Chilli Plum won the Syd Corser Championship Regatta in Australia, while Mark Thornburrow and his crew on Racer X was second. Mirsky was utilizing the new AP Main and his 2010 DCH1 Jib. The regatta serves as [...] | ||
| Sofía Toro se estrena en la clase 470 Posted: 08 Jan 2013 09:46 AM PST  El Centro Galego de Vela vivió ayer un nuevo estreno de una de las medallistas de Oro en los pasados JJ.OO. de Londres 2012. Si la semana pasada era Támara Echegoyen quién se subía por primera vez a la que será su nueva embarcación los próximos 4 años, el 49er; ayer le tocaba el turno a la regatista del RCN La Coruña Sofía Toro en la clase 470.
La jornada comenzó con una reunión con Alberto García, director técnico de la Federación Gallega de Vela y entrenador internacional especializado en el 470, para iniciar a las 2 regatistas gallegas en los pormenores de la clase. La sesión continuó con el montaje y puesta a punto del barco cedido por la Federación Gallega a las jóvenes deportistas y posterior toma de contacto en el agua. Tanto Sofía Toro como Patricia Suárez reunen las condiciones físicas para adaptarse rápidamente al 470. Al contrario que en la preparación de los JJ.OO de Londres 2012, Sofía Toro deberá perder peso para sacar el máximo rendimiento al 470 y Patricia Suárez ( actual regatista de la clase 420 ) deberá subir ligeramente su peso ya que su posición al trapecio requiere que alcance los 68-70 kg. Patricia es una experimentada regatista de la clase 420 y compaginará el nuevo proyecto olímpico con su actual campaña en la clase 420 junto con Pilar Amaro. Sofía Toro hizo una lectura positiva tras su primer entrenamiento en el Centro Gallego de Vela de Vilagarcía de Arousa con su nueva compañera, la viguesa Patricia Suárez, y la nueva embarcación, la 470. Para ella, este primer contacto con la nueva clase olímpica "ha ido muy bien. Hemos estado muy coordinadas. La verdad es que me ha ayudado mucho la experiencia que tiene Patricia en 420, una clase que es muy parecida al 470". Saludos y buenos vientos | ||
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The new wing sail for ORACLE TEAM USA arrived to San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon, completing a journey from New Zealand and around the South Bay before pulling into the team base at Pier 80. The wing is the second built by the team and will be fitted into the Defender's first AC72 to begin sailing again in the coming weeks.
British solo skipper, Mike Golding, rounded the fearsome Cape Horn today at 02:05 GMT, becoming the only person to have raced around this infamous rock three times each way: west to east and east to west.
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