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Gidday,

Today the wind was once again blustery and made boat control challenging at times. We only had three races today with two wins and one loss.

Our loss came to fellow kiwi William Tiller after a very close and thrilling match. We managed to gain a penalty on Will in the prestart dialup. Will was moving backwards and we were forced to avoid, being the right of way boat, moving forward. We had a bad start after this, coming off the line with Will tight to leeward of us, forc... Read More

Greetings from Perth, Today was a lesson for us in how to match race in the breeze as the ‘Fremantle doctor’ came in strong this afternoon blowing 25-30 knots.

It was a fairly brutal day on the water with two big collisions in other matches, with boats holed and points deducted for boats in the wrong. Added to this were a couple of injuries to the team.

Late addition, 13 year old Matt Bindon was flung out of the boat with by the mainsheet through a gybe during the pr... Read More

British Bulldogs v. Kiwi Silver Ferns

by Talbot Wilson

Hamilton, Bermuda (October 10, 2009) - In the Argo Group Gold Cup semifinal match racing on Saturday afternoon, ETNZ/BlackMatch Racing skipper Adam Minoprio (NZL) and his team of Tom Powrie, David Swete and Nick Blackman took the first slot in the Finals with a 3-0 win over Eric Monnin (SUI) Swiss Match Race Team with crewmen Simon Brugger, Ma... Read More

Hi all,

Forecasts aside, it was a nice 13-16 knots with moderate shifts easily visible and a relatively calm sea state. As described in our previous update we had one race which was a must win. Up against Eric Monnin (SUI) who had won his previous five matches and needed to beat us to finish atop of our group in order to avoid the tough repechage. Given port entry we entered into a dial... Read More

AINSLIE, WILLIAMS AND RICHARD LEAD THE CHARGE  Ainslie and Richard tops in Groups 2 & 3 after four flights. Group 1 in a tangle after boat damage… Williams leads with 6 points Ben Ainslie (GBR) Team OriginImage: Charles Anderson
Hamilton, Bermuda (October 7, 2009) - British Olympic Gold medal winner Ben Ainslie was first out of the box in the first match of flight 2 for Group 2 at the Argo Group Gold Cup Wednesday morning. He took the win from Bermuda’s Olympian... Read More

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