SailJuice Blog

They say that the measure of a good team is not by how much it wins, but how well it copes when things start going wrong. Well, on the fourth day of Louis Vuitton Act 13 in the America’s Cup, we saw both sides of Alinghi yesterday – dominant from start to finish in the first race, and then somewhat error-prone in the second race but still able to salvage a third place despite a poor start and a penalty turn later in the race.

The signs are ominous for the challengers, as Alinghi looks the match of anything the other teams can throw at them. BMW Oracle’s crew work has looked impeccable up until recently, with the broken spinnaker pole an understandable error, and a big wave washing across the bow yesterday causing the headsail to be ripped out… Read the rest