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Clone Wars

Just arrived in Valencia, and went out for a look at the America’s Cup boats training. Even though the wind was only blowing about 12 to 14 knots, there were some big, sloppy waves left over from the strong winds the night before. It looked like very wet work for the bowmen as they stood on the bows going into some practice pre-starts.

All in, there were 16 boats that I counted out there today: two Alinghis, two Luna Rossas, two BMW Oracles, two Mascalzones, and two Emirates Team New Zealands, all going through private in-house training sessions; and doing some friendly races against each other were: +39 v Germany, Desafio v Victory, and Areva v Shosholoza.

This is one of the last days of training for the teams before Valencia Louis Vuitton Act… Read the rest