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this month is this the toughest race in

Europe pressure and success at the 52

Super Series we're just hoping not to

bogey at here that's really the deal

plus extreme views from a top skipper

but first it was a big day for a very

old trophy and a fresh start for some

top teams winning the America's Cup

brings responsibilities not least

creating the next event

and when Emirates Team New Zealand

revealed the design for the new

America's Cup boat the sailing world

stopped in its tracks a 75 foot long

mana hole with gecoo like arms and no

keel this was new territory for the

sport some called it ambitious others

simply wacky but the Kiwis were serious

and so too were the three teams that

made official challenges for the oldest

trophy in international sport but the

boat is only part of the big step

forward for the 36th America's Cup

although Auckland and 2021 will be the

venue the racecourse and format along

with the specific dates were yet to be

confirmed each has a big impact on how

teams will plan their campaigns over the

next two years so when the Kiwi cup

holders announced a presentation of the

latest details at the birthplace of the

prestigious trophy the America's Cup

world turned up including the 167

year-old trophy

cows on the Isle of Wight was the venue

the Royal Yacht Squadron the hosts and

all the big guns were together for the

first time thirty-six America's Cup

which has been in play for 167 years

well it really marks a milestone I mean

yes we won the Cup a year ago over a

year ago and it's been running since but

we we needed to mark the start as such

and what better place to come to than

world all began 1851 the Cup will be the

6th of March 2021 to love 21st to March

now why where those dates sort of sit or

is they straddle two weekends first of

seven as I said they Sunday then a

Wednesday and then sad day Sunday and if

it needs to continue then it will

continue on from that point when the Cup

was in New Zealand and two fails and

brought live to their famous seafaring

notion of Switzerland in 2003 it was a

long way out and so realistically unless

you're watching it on TV or on a boat

you couldn't see it so we wanted to be

able to be viewed from the shore and in

their natural amphitheater that's

actually Auckland Harbour one of those

courses so those are you know Auckland

Harbour you can see it from a lot of

places there's a thing called North Head

where you can shoot right down onto the

boats Bastion point you could probably

get I would suggest on the shore 300,000

people to watch the race and that was

really important to both ourselves and

in the challenge of record to create

that environment the significance of

what happened today is Team New Zealand

just announced of course which is quite

a big deal for as a competitor gives you

the opportunity to know really what

you're designing for rice's team to sort

of start one or two o'clock in the

afternoon normally but again those who

know Auckland we're a narrow Island and

in the summer you get two opposing sea

breezes and you end up with a dead zone

so we're moving it to later in the day a

30-minute race would say a three or

four-minute pre-start

and we want to be in and out in two

from a TV point of view that's why we're

running a light on the afternoon

the Challenger record Luna Rossa to

defend the team New Zealand they really

writing the script for this event and

we're going to try and keep pace with

them and adjust our program adjust our

strategy as we get that key information

talking of challenges is there any room

for anybody else yeah

there's four teams that right now could

make it and they ain't sitting in this

room okay and they're real I think it is

our responsibility to now work with

those teams to try and make it easy for

them to make it I think it's an

important day for the kapre I know

everyone was expecting more team I'm

pretty confident there will be few more

coming in the next couple of weeks and

is they one basically of this desire of

this new campaign of this new America's

Cup and I think there is a lot of excite

and I think I never saw so many

journalists in the last few years for a

press conference of the America's Cup so

I think that is already good at the

result but while all three challengers

have been busy in their design offices

only one has been getting to grips with

the new concepts on the water

we've been out in our 2835 as we call it

test boat and that's been really

invaluable for us to get out in this new

concept of both see how it performs but

from a sailing perspective but probably

more importantly for the designers to

see how the boat performs together

feedback to our design programs our

simulation programs when we slow down or

we lose control of the foils and

inevitably we end up we seem to end up

swimming around so thankfully we

purchased some dry suits at the

beginning of the summer and they've been

various you know all of the teams have

been out there watching us there's no

reconnaissance role so

there's nothing we can do about that but

you know for sure the learning is for us

his first time and we'll we'll make

developments from that and use that and

the others to say miss Dennis still

guessing what we've learned what we're

up to and what's coming next

so when will the new boats appear the

first of the next protocol things is the

launching date which is March next year

no one's going to launch a March next

year more safe we're not going to launch

a March next year and everybody has to

do the first row gathers all the

rillette is actually about there in

September next year so you'll see boat

side my guess is you'll start seeing

votes in the spring and then it'll be a

bit of a flurry you know PR etceteras

boats are launched and that's really

where it goes now is when you're heading

into winter here in the northern

hemisphere from Holograms to a who's who

of America's Cup celebrities the 167

year-old trophy had made a flying visit

back to its spiritual home the 36th

America's Cup cycle was officially

underway

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there are few race courses in the world

with so many potentially dangerous

corners startpoint Lands End mizzen head

and Michael Pfleger are just a few along

the UK's jagged coastline yet these are

some of the key points that make up the

course for the 7 star round Britain and

Ireland race ad in volatile weather

along with some of the strongest and

most complex tidal flows in the world

and you have a race with a fearsome

reputation around an unrelenting course

in the last two editions the organisers

had to reverse the 1,800 mile route

shortly before the start to prevent the

fleet from barreling headlong into

advancing storms because it's so tough

we run it every four years so it's much

tougher than a typical transatlantic

race and that's what the attraction is

so we have a record entry this year

we've got 26 boats

from fully crewed to double handed from

professional to entirely amateur Grand

Prix to traditional the race attracts a

wide range of sailors and boats among

the Grand Prix entries that lined up was

a fleet of class 40s designed for high

speed passages offshore these 40-foot

pocket rockets eat up the miles a total

of 12 had entered this race among them

Paralympic sailor Hanus total she had

charted regional Normandy and was using

the race as a stepping stone towards an

even bigger goal aiming to read the

first disabled person to sail one dayglo

so yeah it's quite a big plan a big

dream the timings right you know we're

sailing means off the Paralympics which

is obviously heartbreaking it's the

right time to show it can be done and

it's not just about the one-day globe

it's about the bigger picture if I can

inspire some other disabled people to

take on massive challenges then

brilliant and that would be my whole

campaign made among others who had their

eyes on the prize filled Sharpe and his

crew on Emery's clean energy as the

reigning class 40 champions sharp steam

has been on a podium every time this

year

but while they're good in a straight

line across an ocean in this race they

would need to be good at turning corners

to you we've got some good results under

our belt this year but this race is

going to be a lot more tough than the

other three races of the championship

we've competed in we've got about three

boats that we're going to be worried

about during this race and I'm sure

we'll be presenting us some strong

competition two of those are quite new

boats one brand new much more powerful

design than us so we're going to have

some good good intense competition to

deal with it didn't take long for sharps

views to be perfect well then we got out

the stone at first the Mac 3 of Nicollet

reefs our Cora Overlord us so but sharps

team hung in

first corner of britain right alongside

us

the rice

the one lady Cora

which is a very very nice sign of day

you had a batter with

Paula's last night and today they got a

lot of crowds in us today but we've led

us to Mora way back into it

the edge

36 hours later as conditions changed the

advantage started to shift

well we're pushing very hard last night

we sailed the length of Ireland in these

awesome downwind conditions

Amos has just been absolutely flying off

so really pleased to take the lead with

bass score and very close last night but

the breakneck pace proved too great a

Zimmer is blew out a spinnaker we have a

lot of damage to repair the tapers

basically removed from the whole height

of the spinnaker and it's it's basically

a major repair job the question is

whether we prepare in time but we're

gonna give it a go we're just gonna draw

it first

you see this is the torn edge

we got everything throwing at it on this

it we basically put epoxy on it

Dacron nylon so yeah here is the join

and we're going over with this with

these strips then lastly were putting a

mile a strip parallel to the join which

is actually really sticky after a day

spent preparing the sail their hopes

were that the boat would now be back up

to full speed we hoisted it just after

dark

so I display the whole thing ripped

apart straight away after all that work

so so we have no choice but to go back

to our original very small code five but

we were very pleased to see that we this

morning have lost any distance at all on

the other boats meanwhile on board

bridge on Normandy the opening days have

been a baptism of fire this is a tough

thoughts around Britain and Ireland I'm

not gonna lie whether it's a enjoying it

in the loosest sense we love it the

challenge but we're looking forward to

it 10 going downwind this afternoon I

must say feels like we're in second day

of our full cycle now and it feels quite

good and we're sort of making some

adjustments as we go on we we're

learning as we go which is the biggest

thing for us which we're all quite new

to this and we're definitely learning

from our mistakes on my face but at the

front of the fleet Emrys was approaching

the top of the course and there was

drama at school join us

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coming up pressure in puerto portals at

the 52 Super Series and a candid view of

the state of play in the extreme sailing

series but first we rejoin the 1,800

mile race around Britain and Island at a

crucial stage well the mayor has arrived

we're about to pass the most northern

point in the British Isles

Michael Pfleger it's just that

this is a pretty barren place either you

want to set up shop there

but as amorous rounded the notorious

headland chorim had retired with a

damaged rudder after colliding with a

shark the crew were safe now it was

concise skippered by Jack trigger that

was immerses closest competitors really

relieved to

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enjoy an extended weekend but the

weather was starting to build again

it's gonna be gonna be a long long night

we've got it's a quite windy night ahead

of us with a big load of Scotland up the

other the rest of fleet are probably

gonna be fighting against students crew

we're in the thick of it how much wind

we go

it's out of 52 we're averaging around

3540 elevator Vince is doing a stellar

job as it's all alive

at the front of the fleet conditions

were also tough so it's a wet morning in

the North Sea we were going out with the

whole night it's been read bloody

uncomfortable place be slamming it's

just really hard enough staying standing

on the deck eventually the storm passed

through the Emirates had taken a

pounding as you can see the radar is not

good shape so that's one of our several

problems on board

because now we don't have any more wind

information so we're sealing like

traditional sailor's just feel the wind

in your hair and go for it

on the plus side the finish was drawing

closer well last night see and we're

quite excited because we can the chance

of seeing the White Cliffs of Dover 18

hours later is Emirates approached the

finish line in Cowes they were not only

about to take line honors but sharps

film and crew included Julianne proved a

fabulous Saturday and Sam Matson would

enter the record books the new Guinness

World Record

completing the 1,800 mile course in just

over eight days they'd taken 15 hours

off the previous record for yachts of

under forty foot it's been a dream

finish to what was a very tough race and

I think I made it all the more

incredible finishing the race because I

mean a race like this is is it's

probably the toughest in Europe it's

very much a race of attrition as we've

seen in this edition there's been a lot

of boats that have just struggled to

finish so so the fact we're here is

great but the fact we've actually

managed to do what we set out to achieve

by by winning and then and then taking

the world records is is fantastic and it

hasn't really sunk in yet

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it was the penultimate 52 Super Series

event of the season the pressure was

building

I enjoy the pressure that's why I'm here

and I'm why that's why I still do the

Olympics because if I don't have the

pressure hard to get into the boat you

feel pressure all the time in this

circuit and in this venue because it is

so unpredictable no breeze on the

opening day in Puerto fatales Majorca

proved this but when racing did get

underway on day two

it was platoon that led the charge once

again winning was anyone's game with

three different teams taking the opening

three races as winning margins have

become tighter so performance analysis

has become a crucial part of any TP 52

campaign each team has a slightly

different approach but all have coaches

in this field takashi icarus sled team

at one of the world's leading lights rod

Davis the perfect team set up is a

really complicated thing but because for

each team there's a different

combination that needs to work really

the common theme across it is having a

team that can communicate well together

and there are no egos or no defensive

shields go up when you when you sit and

have a debriefing so one of the rules

that we use in the debriefing is you can

say anything you want but it's got to be

followed by why you think that and

that's a way of breaking down a little

bit of the tension this season because

mr. ocurro comes in late it's just

before the practice races I steer the

boat and all the tuneups which works

pretty well because I can give direct

feedback of the setup and how it feels

on the helm and and coach from onboard

the boat rather than off the boat so

that that works well our program is to

prepare the boat and the team 100% so

that when mr. Acker comes then I then we

coach him and that's really my job in

the whole thing is the one on one

coaching with mr. Kura and then

obviously the after guide I'm having a

good season so far who was just hoping

not to bogey it here that's really the

deal

two wins suggested they were on the

right track but four results at the back

of the fleet brought their overall score

down instead it was quantum racing that

managed to hang on to their overall lead

by the end of the regatta by just three

points to take their second win in a row

for owner driver Doug DeVos the victory

was his first at the helm suggesting

that he had mastered the pressure you

don't think about the stress but it's an

amazingly stressful thing where you're

just like wow yeah you know and that's

at every position everybody's doing that

you just never know in this fleet right

you know lead is safe everyone is still

working on it focusing on it so we're

gonna have it to full-on I'm sure right

to the end next stop Valencia for the

final showdown of the 2018 52 Super

Series

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when the Extreme Sailing series hit

Cardiff it was a bruising affair strong

winds

big gusts tight courses and hot

competition with two events left and

five teams capable of winning the

competition is getting even tougher as

the pressure continues to build Omar now

skipper Phil Robertson gives a candid

assessment of the racing and his team's

performance the challenge of foiling and

how the Extreme Sailing Series might

affect other areas of sport

Linnaean SI p they've been the forum

team so far this season but we've sort

of been sitting around third and we've

got nes rebels and also redbull sort of

nipping at our heels and I think

probably the most oppressive as the

young guys on the newest rebels that

have made a mess of step this year had

some ups and downs for sure and it's

been a bit of a challenge to be honest

we've coming to the season obviously off

the back of a third last year and really

put all our eggs in the basket to come

and win this year and we've been pretty

fired up for that and hasn't quite gone

to plan we've sort of been sitting

around third got a couple of seconds and

more thirds but never won an event

the ESS is a pretty unique sort of I

guess style of sailing and basically

what they've done is put the fastest

boats on the smallest race courses so

for instance we've got roughly six

seconds here from being away at the top

mark onto the foils into a foiling job

and for the guys to keep up it's pretty

tough so we're learning faster I think

the biggest thing that's going to filter

down is the knowledge of how to sort of

maneuver a boat on a short course and

effectively and efficiently by the crew

in that that's sort of filtering down

pretty quickly and for sure the guys

sailing on the ESS are pretty valuable

when it comes to falling boats elsewhere

in the sport I would say he's sort of

the barrel way into a quick foiling jibe

that's yeah really really difficult

thing to do and for the crew to keep up

and keep it here that the boat is quite

difficult so as I said before we got you

sort of have six seconds to go from you

go from 15 knots to 30 knots and you've

got to sort of reduce all the rakes off

the pours that you're flying on and then

drop the new board and get straight into

a dive and to move in one across the

boat within six seconds and do

everything correctly at the same time

yeah very very hard maneuver to pull off

so that's where the gains are made and

that's what we're trying to perfect

next month we find out how one man will

handle the Atlantic and his giant

foiling try Gitano 17 alone

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