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f 3, 12

Itching to Get Started

by Stuart Streuli
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© 2012 ACEA/Gilles Martin-Raget
With Oracle Team USA and Emirates Team New Zealand already sailing their first AC72s, Terry Hutchinson is eager for Artemis Racing to join the fray, which he expects will happen sooner rather than later.

While the focus this week for Artemis Racing is very much on the America's Cup World Series, even skipper Terry Hutchinson can't help but look past this event to the impending launch of the team's first AC72.

Artemis Racing caused a fairly significant ripple in the America’s Cup world when it launched the first AC72 wing early last spring. While teams were prohibited from launching an AC72 before July 1, there was no such provision against testing the most complex part of the boat—the towering wing sail—on a different platform. So Artemis mounted its wing on a modified 60-foot trimaran and went sailing. The experiment ended in May when the wing collapsed for reasons that have yet to be publicly released.

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f 2, 12

Painful Memories, Vendée Globe Hopes

by Bruce Gain
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© Bruce Gain
The Safran team has had more than eight years under its belt to ready what it says is one of the more technologically advanced boats in the fleet.

Bruce Gain goes for a spin on Marc Guillemot’s IMOCA-class Safran and gets the scoop on Guillemot's hopes for the Vendée Globe, which starts this November.

Sailing on Marc Guillemot’s IMOCA-class Safran was exceptionally calm the other day in the bay near Trinitié-sur-Mer along the Brittany coast of France. With a 10-knot warm wind over water that was as still as a lake, it was easy to forget the harsh conditions Guillemot will face when he sails around the world alone in the Vendée Globe race.

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f 20, 12

The Upside Of Global Warming

by Tim Zimmermann
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Exploring the unknown

The shrinking ice cap in the Northwest Passage affords unique opportunities to explore the unknown for those adventurous enough.

There is no question that global warming, on the whole, threatens all sorts of catastrophe for the earth and its inhabitants. But any time there is dramatic change there is also dramatic opportunity. Take the Northwest Passage, which connects the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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f 17, 12

Schooled, Again

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© Kattack Screengrab
Imagine trying to pick your lanes through this mess of a 96-boat fleet. Race 1 winner Saramouche had a terrible start, tacked at the race committee boat, dug hard into the bottom right corner, tacked once and led all the way around.

It's amazing what you can learn and not learn when you sit and look at the replay of a 96-boat world championship.

Sailing World editor Stuart Streuli and I are at the 2012 J/24 Worlds in Rochester this week, which started today (Monday) with two incredibly tough and shifty races. There were 96 boats on the racecourse, so it was nearly impossible to keep track of who was winning, who was losing, and who was gaining on one beat or the next, and what was really working at any given moment. Every time I looked across the racecourse, bows were pointed every which way.

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f 14, 12

The Dark Clouds Behind the Silver Lining

by Ryan O'Grady
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© Volvo Ocean Race/Farr Yacht Design
A new canting-keel 65-footer from Farr Yacht Design is the new face of the Volvo Ocean Race

Will the move to a one-design for the next Volvo Ocean Race be enough to bring eight quality teams to the starting line come 2014?

With the recent announcement that an all-female team has placed a deposit for the first VO 65 One Design, the decision to move to a one-design boat appears to have been vindicated for the next Volvo Ocean Race. "I reckon that with the old boat, the Volvo Open 70, we would not even have thought about this," says Richard Brisius, head of Atlant Ocean Racing, the management team behind the female SCA team. "The new 65-foot design is still a monster--still a huge boat--but it's now at least possible, even though you could never say it's going to be easy."

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f 12, 12

Almost Perfect

by Ryan O'Grady
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© Ryan O'Grady
Fernando working at the end of the pole

Visions of a fast Vineyard Race and Saturday afternoon finish dashed through my head. Could it really happen? Or was this just another forecast destined to fail?

Sometimes I’m amazed that anyone chooses to distance race in the Northeast. The events lack the fun factor of distance sailing in most other places. Take the Vineyard Race for instance. Taking place every Labor Day weekend since 1932, the race starts off Stamford, Conn., rounds the Buzzards Bay Light tower to starboard, Block Island to starboard, and finishes back in, err, Stamford 238 miles later.

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f 11, 12

Tall Ships, Big Lessons

by Bruce Gain
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The Etoile Polaire weathered tough conditions with youngsters on board en route to Lisbon, Portugal.

A micro and macro account of this year’s Tall Ships Races shows what lessons beginner sailors can take away from the world’s largest offshore event of its kind.

As anyone who sails knows, almost anything can happen on the water, especially during long-distance stretches of 500 miles or more. The stakes are especially high for the skipper when they are responsible for the well being of an inexperienced crew. These two risks were compounded by the sheer number of participants during Sail Training International’s annual Tall Ships Races that took place in July and August.

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f 7, 12

Where Have the Tacking Duels Gone?

by Tim Zimmermann
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© 2012 ACEA/Gilles Martin-Raget
Match racing at the America's Cup World Series just hasn't been cutting it for Tim Zimmermann.

The multihulls of the America's Cup have speed and excitement, but Tim Zimmermann finds the subtleties of match racing tactics and strategy to be lacking.

Stu explained why he declined to watch the ACWS the other night. I guess I should explain why I am worried I may decline to watch the America's Cup Match itself. Well, let's be real. I'll watch it. But I am worried that it's going to be boring.

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f 4, 12

A Tale of Two AC72s

A look at the new machines of the America's Cup: the AC72s of Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA.

The clock is ticking down to the 34th America's Cup, and two teams have splashed their AC72s thus far.

Emirates Team NZ hit the water in their new AC72 last month. Their fourth day of training on Aug. 29 saw speeds in the 30-knot range. Just check out the chase boats trying to keep up!

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f 27, 12

Why I Didn't Watch the America's Cup World Series

by Stuart Streuli
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In their post-competition interviews, USA Pro Cycling Challenge winner Christian Vande Velde (top) and America's Cup World Series champ James Spithill said basically the same thing. Why did Vande Velde's comments seem so much more heartfelt?

The America's Cup World Series has the wow factor nailed, but it still struggles to attract the long term viewer.

Last night, between putting the kids to bed and doing the same for myself, I had a few hours to kill.I thought about trying to catch up on a few of the TV series I have on the DVR, but I just wasn’t sure I had the focus for anything with a complicated plot line.

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