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Dave Bristle
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Initially Posted - 03/01/2003 : 21:40:34

Alinghi wins by 45 seconds in 15 knots wind. See it starting at 11:30 EST on ESP2.

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Bryan Beamer
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Response Posted - 03/01/2003 : 21:59:20

Alinghi defeated Team New Zealand by 45 seconds in decisive Race 5.
After days of delays, Alinghi became the first European team to win the America's Cup in 152 years. The Swiss syndicate swept the cup 5-0 over trouble-plagued Team New Zealand, which withdrew from two races in the best-of-nine series. Alinghi skipper Russell Coutts extended his streak to 14 consecutive wins.

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 03/02/2003 : 10:22:56

It was a merciful end to the slaughter.

I imagine team NZL could stage a fundraiser by selling sledgehammer wacks at NZL-82. Enough folks would line up that the boat would be gone in a day or two.

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Response Posted - 03/02/2003 : 11:18:02

I think that Team NZ were WAY too conservative in their races. Why, after gaining 2 boat lengths in 3 tacks, would they break off a tacking duel? Why not initiate a gybing duel on the downwind legs? They must have known that they couldn't beat Aligni with straight-line boat speed.
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Response Posted - 03/02/2003 : 15:31:48

Didn't the Kiwis get a Frenchman to be their tactician?

No, I won't go there........

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Ben
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Response Posted - 03/03/2003 : 10:45:15

I too was pretty disappointed in the TNZ showing this year. I would have thought they they would have made it more of a contest. Certainly they only lost the second race by seven seconds, but to not even finish two races seemed ridiculous.

I did, however, see a show about the Vendee solo around the world race that took place in, I think, 1996. That was very interesting. Seemed to me like a fun thing to do until they hit a hurricane near antarctica. I think they said of 16 boats to start, only 6 officially finished the race. One person tragically died.

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 03/03/2003 : 10:56:25

The AC is a garden party in the Hamptons compared to the Vendee when it gets into the Southern Ocean--those people are CRAZY! I'll watch from afar in awe...

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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Response Posted - 03/03/2003 : 18:17:21

I don't even want to watch - it scares the heck out of me! <img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 03/03/2003 : 19:10:51

I followed the last Vendee Globe rather closely. The subsription to the virtual spectator or whatever they called it was cheap and I thought very good.

It posted the tracks, current position, current boat speed of all boats as well as current wind information each boat was experiencing. Ellen McArthur kicked butt.

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Response Posted - 03/03/2003 : 21:26:59

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...the virtual spectator...posted the tracks, current position, current boat speed of all boats as well as current wind information each boat was experiencing.
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But what it didn't show, and would require an Imax movie (at least), was the incredible desolation, forces, and overall danger they subjected themselves to. They're usually out of range of any kind of rescue operations (except from other competitors who may be several days away)--sometimes climbing the mast of a boat screaming along at double-digit knots in house-sized waves... I just do not understand.

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