Shamrock V
/The original still at it..
Photo by Ricciardo Smith
The beauty is in the Bow?Photo by Ricciardo Smith
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Photo by Ricciardo Smith
Ranger
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J's
/Now here is a change of pace. The beautiful J's
Photo by Ricciardo Smith
The Story in a Picture
/The hand brake is off..no need to hide the speed anymore...
Photo by Ricciardo Smith
Oracle
/The need for Speed....5 Days to sort it out
AC 1 and 2
/By now we all know what happened but here are some of Richie's great Photos.. When it looks fast and it looks right it usually is right..
Photo by Ricciardo Smith
The Blue Room...
/A beautiful evening and a lovely dinner ahead for the guests..The girls set a lovely table..
Photo by Renee Boudria
Sailing....Finally our Turn
/Great day for a sail. weather was perfect 12kts of wind and 11 knots of boat speed..as some say...
Beam Reaching through Life...
Photo by "Where is my Waldo"
Town cut St Georges
/With no racing it is back to normal Rosehearty activities...Sea bobs..Swimming. Snorkeling and good food. we went up to St Georges and as you see the weather was great. A nice change from the week of unseasonably wet weather (it is never like that here in June), But when the Weather is fine..Nothing beats Bermuda.
Photo by Emu
Over to you Oracle
/This one will go down to the wire. The rumor here in Bermuda is the cup will leave either way. A real shame as it is very well suited to this island. Clearly if TNZ wins it goes to NZ but where will it go if Oracle Win. Rumors of Spanish and Italian entries...
Photo by Richard Smith
New Zealand Chapeau!
/Not much to say but they can win even when they lose the start. might not be so easy against Oracle though..
Photo by Richard Smith
New Zealand 5 Artemis 2
/Artemis did well to win 2 races..Against the rest of the LV Fleet TNZ is just too strong
Photo by Richard Smith.
Au revoir Artemis
/Artemis were strong and sailed well but they could only win if they were perfect in every way
100% Fly time a great start and good match racing..
And this is how it goes! maybe 5-6 times in 3 hours
/All superyachts, This is the SY Marshal please go to Ch 67. OK Guys the line is set..Behind Bouys 10,11.12..We all move up..Some anchor some don't. Hovering.( not easy to do in a superyacht with 15-20 of your best friends. Adversaries in this case) waiting to pounce. As soon as we are all settled back comes the call on VHF 67. OK we are going to move in follow the bouys 11.12.13...
Mayhem continues till we are nearly all settled. 25 Superyacht Anchored. Missing each other by Meters as we swing but well done as gentlemen. Then in comes Mr No Manners in his 200-250' mega yacht. and the whole thing goes to pot just as we get the call on 67..The dreaded move back... in the middle of a race because with a wind shift we are now course side!!! if moving in is bad..Moving back is, well special.. Enjoy Richards Photos..
Photo by Richard Smith
Louis Vuitton..or The Challengers Finals
/We have not written for a few days but we are super busy still. The Elimination trials ended and we were very sad to say goodbye to Bar and TJ. Lots of great mates in both teams...
We have switched our guests out and as sad as it is to say good bye to our guests it is always nice to say hello to our new friends... The weather however was as they say "less than perfect"
Arriving in rain is never fun but we got everyone on board dry (Ish) and started our next Charter.
Aftermath
/Long night ahead for TNZ and also I suspect for all the Teams Oracle kept there Powder dry today. Lets see how windy they let them race in on Wednesday.
Photo by Emerson Carlin
Pitch Pole!
/Wow and Wow again. All caused by SBA and BAR pinching them out so they could not turn down to the start. Watch it on You Tube.
Photo by Richard Smith
What goes up!!
/Everyone, even the mighty TNZ were out of control. This was in Race 1.. They managed to win this one..
Photo by Richard Smith
Chris and Dean on the E ticket!
/46 knots.....They were never challenged in there races, winning both starts and due to Artemis control issues managed to get the 2 wins comfortably.
Photo by Richard Smith