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I just avoided getting put on a jury myself today for a forecast 5 day trial here in San Pedro. That would be very bad with racing now very likely to start next Monday! Only 3 days until it's time to head for LAX!
Meanwhile the boys in Spain have been talking to the International Jury for AC33 and getting things sorta worked out for the first race next Monday! Kimball Livingston has some good words about all that on his blog http://kimballlivingston.com/ More great pictures too, and there's some more great pics on the BMW Oracle blog site at http://bmworacleracingblog.blogspot.com/
The official website is up also at 33rd.americascup.com That is probably going to be the place to go to find internet TV coverage if you're not in Spain, or maybe Europe????
One interesting quote I heard today was that neither boat had succeeded in sailing upwind for 20 miles yet without breaking something! Not positive that's true, but it does raise another obvious issue with these giant multis. There's probably more R&D than usual out there on the water. Nobody has ever sailed two boats like these two before.
And we should mention that our pal Stan Honey is currently doing 27 knots southbound in the North Atlantic on Franck Cammas' Groupama 3 aimed at the Trophee Jules Verne again! They were doing 30 a little while ago, but things look much lighter before they get to the Equator. OK, one more linky http://www.cammas-groupama.com/fr/index.jsp
Bon voyage to us all!

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