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1550 Emirates Team NZ round the top mark for the final time with a 23 second lead

1549 BMW Oracle get their berth in the finals

1545 BMW Oracle Racing suffers a luff down the luff of the genniker and go for a peel (the first we have seen this regatta). Vv nice maneouvre, the string drop system sucking the genniker down below in just a couple of seconds 

1543 As per the forecast there has been a right shift. BMW Oracle Racing lead around the top mark with a 58 seconds lead. It is looking like neither series today is going to go beyond two races…

1540 Emirates Team NZ cross ahead of Mascalzone by 130m allowing the Italians to take the left up this first half of the second beat

1538 Emirates Team NZ round the port leeward gate mark and immediately tack. Mascalzone round the opposite mark, 15 seconds behind, and continue on off to the right, 

1532 Further up the course, BMW Oracle round the starboard downwind gate mark, All4One following 26 seconds astern. 

1530 The Kiwis round 14 seconds ahead. 

1528 At the layline Mascalzone Latino are ahead but are slow to tack and Emirates Team NZ on starboard nail them for failing to keep clear. The Italians are penalised. Major error on their part

1525 Big split between Emirates Team NZ and Mascalzone, both neck and neck but with the Italians on the right. At the cross the Italians are ahead and cross ahead allowing Emirates Team NZ to take the right

1522 BMW Oracle Race lead the Italians around the top mark 8 seconds ahead

1521 Meanwhile Mascalzone Latino attempt to get the hook on the Kiwis. Mascalzone tack away on to port and might just lay the committee boat. The Kiwis take the pin, bow forward – split tack start

1519 V close up the beat between BMW Oracle and All4One. Approaching the weather mark the US team are half a boat length ahead both boats heading towrads the port layline. 

1517 Emirates Team NZ and Mascalzone come in. Dial up boats going backwards. Mascalzone tack away. The Kiwis follow them

1515 BMW Oracle duck the transom of All4One. All4One tack on top of them but are forced to tack away on to starboard

1514 BMW Oracle nail the pin and tack while All4One are slow off the committee boat end of the line. 

1513 All4One trails BMW Oracle back to the line with the Americans up to weather. Small luff to lose speed

1512 Col peels away on port. BMW Oracle follow, not as aggressively as in the previous race

1511 All4One coming in from the right this time. Dial up with All4One slightly aft of BMW Oracle Racing

1507 One minute to the warning signal. Both crews have swapped boats. 

1503 Getting there for starting the sequence for the second round of semi-finals.  

1434 Emirates Team NZ claim their first semi-final point, despite a valiant effort by the Italians. Final delta 28 seconds

1429 Up the course, All4One caught up with BMW Oracle Racing during their tacking duel to round the top mark for the second time 18 seconds ahead but are unable to close further on the last run.  Final delta 18 seconds. 

1428 Emirates Team NZ overlaid and with the shift they thunder into the mark to cross clear ahead of Mascalzone, rounding 13 seconds ahead. 

1427 Emirates Team NZ pick up a nice LH shift on the port layline, launching them back into the lead. Mascalzone will be on starboard when the two boats come back together 

1423 The two boats come back together and Brady’s Italian team edge ahead. Emirates Team New Zealand is forced to tack under them. Both head up to the port layline with the Italians regaining the lead. Emirates Team NZ luffs and Mascalzone is forced to tack away. 

1422 Emirates Team NZ tack back, both boats now heading for the right with a large separation, but both boats neck and neck

1421 At the gate they cross, Mascalzone ducking the Kiwi transom, Emirates Team NZ taking the left. 

1419 Emirates Team NZ and Mascalzone neck and neck up the first part of the upwind. 

1418 Tacking duel halfway up upper reaches of the second upwind between BMW Oracle Racing and All4One with the Americans 45m ahead still

1415 Mascalzone Latino are forced to gybe take the port hard leeward gate mark but are slow. Emirates Team NZ continue on to the starboard mark and gain the lead – 4 seconds ahead.

1414 Emirates Team NZ surge ahead coming into the leeward gate and get the overlap on the Italians.  

1413 BMW Oracle cross clear ahead of All4One the two boats swapping sides

1411 BMW Oracle tack to the left while All4One just round up and head right – All4One has made a nice gain recovering to just a boatlength astern of their American rivals

1410 BMW Oracle lead into the starboard leeward gate mark (looking upwind). All4One follow in trailing by 28 seconds. 

1409 Up the course All4One has got in phase with BMW Oracle en route to the leeward gate

1407 22 seconds lead to Mascalzone Latino at the top mark

1405 Further up the course there has been a big split on the first half of the run with BMW Oracle 90m ahead of their Franco-German opponents coming into the half way gate

1403 Emirates Team NZ come across to engage with good pace. Can the Italians cross… Yes, they can, but it is vv close

1402 Big split between Emirates Team NZ and Mascalzone with the Italians now coming in from the left and still holding a small advantage, but the Kiwis with the advantage of the right

1400 All4One come in from the left and dialled down. The two boats paralleled up to the starboard layline with BMW Oracle Racing to weather, tacking first and leading into the mark to round with a 22 second advantage (and a penalty up) 

1358 Both head back to the line with Mascalzone on the layline to the pin with Emirates Team NZ just above them to weather. The Kiwis tack off. Split tack start. Mascalzone have better speed across the line to gain the early advantage.

1356 Dial up. With 2:30 to go Emirates Team NZ bear away on port and Mascalzone follow 

1355 Emirates Team NZ and Mascalzone into the box now, the Kiwis coming in from the right

1353 BMW Oracle tack away. All4One bow forward

1351 Both boats start on starboard with BMW Oracle tight to windward

1350 They separate – All4One to leeward, BMW Oracle early for the line 

1349 BMW Oracle Racing controlling the pre-start perfectly. And inevitably – Spithill plants a penalty on All4One for not keeping clear during a gybe

1347 Dial up. But Spithill ducks it then rounds up as both boats bear away on port towards the committee with All4One up to weather  

1346 BMW Oracle Racing has the favoured starboard entry. What will Spithill do? 

1344 Into the starting sequence. 

1335 Event meteoroloist Roger ‘Clouds’ Badham came ashore yesterday saying that the sea breeze had failed to kick in – ‘a lemon of a day’. He fears that today conditions may be the same with the best breeze, around 4-5pm local time. We shall see. 

1334 First is the mighty BMW Oracle Racing v All4One. They will be followed by Mascalzone Latino Audi Team v Emirates Team NZ. The format of the semi-finals is ‘first to two points’

1332 Warning signal still on track for 1345

1030 – Dockout is scheduled for 1300, with no race start before 1345. The forecast is a bit different today – gradient wind rather than the normal sea breeze. But the result is similar, with winds forecast to be between seven and 12 knots from the Northwest all afternoon.

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Race Day 2 – Running commentary – Louis VuittonTrophy News

1710: Provisional results following today’s races:

 

•   1.  BMW ORACLE Racing, 4-0, 4 pts
  
•   2.  Emirates Team New Zealand, 3-1, 2.5 pts
•   3.  Synergy Russian Sailing Team, 2-1, 2 pts
•   4.  Artemis Racing, 1-3, 1 pt
•   5.  Mascalzone Latino Audi Team, 1-2, 0 pts *
• =5.  All4One, 0-4, 0 pts

 

1700: Peter Reggio postpones today’s final race until a later date

16:59 - Another race is scheduled for today but it is surely getting too dark?

16:57 - Morgan Larson on Mascalzone: “The port jib sheet broke at the start and we reled it to the halyard winch, but we were slow making it happen and it hurts you in manoeuvres particularly downwind. Those guys did a nice job on the last run and we got unlucky with the halyard breaking.”

Rod Dawson “In the pre-start we came off the start line with a small edge, capitalised that up the beat and we did an upwind penalty which was a marginal call and it brought them closer to us…” 

1654 – Synergy win, taking the point that Mascalzone lost, with the biggest delta of the regatta – 1:19

1649: The Italian team’s crew make a valiant attempt to rehoist the errant kite but they have lost too much speed and by the time they are back up to speed, Synergy are 400m ahead. 

1647: Kite on Mascalone Latino unexpected has dropped out of the sky during a gybe.  Synergy overtakes… 

1644: Mascalzone Latino gybe set at mark. Synergy bear away set. 

1643: Unfortunately for Synergy, Mascalzone Latino managed to get the inside berth at the top mark and have rounded the top mark ahead by a mere 3 seconds

1642: Synergy manage to carry out their penalty on the port layline en route to the top mark. THey are still ahead…just

1640: Mascalzone now heading for port payline, Synergy follow. Wind continuing to get lighter 

1636: Both boats on port with Synergy off to starboard heading up the second beat. 124m lead to the Russian team. 

1632: The wind is slowly easing as the boats approach the gate. Synergy take the right hand gate, looking up. The clock ticks off 27 seconds before Mascalzone Latino take the opposite gate. Synergy very close to having enough distance to do their penalty turn now.

1628: Synergy extending on the run, looking to get a big enough lead to make their penalty turn.

1626: Synergy lead Mascalzone Latino around the top mark by 11 seconds. 

1623: NB For this race because the wind has built slightly they are sailing course Alpha which has no gate in the middle of the upwind and downwind legs. 

1622: Out at the starboard layline, both boats have now tacked on to starboard and the Russian team on Synergy has nosed ahead. 

1620: Both boats have headed out to the starboard line, Mascalzone both leading and a penalty up. 

1617: Sorry a few site issues… Synergy picked up a penalty in the pre-start when trailing Mascalzone back to the line their bow had contact with the safety lines on the stern of the Italian boat. Synergy came close to shovelling out the Italians the wrong side of the committee boat, but were unsuccessful. 

1545: For those in the UAE, or with hefty satellite packages on their television, Dubai TV is running the racing live on their Sport Channels.

1541: Next up Synergy v Mascalzone Latino Audi Team

1539: 4-0 now for BMW Oracle Racing who beat Artemis with a 37 seconds delta. The AC defenders surging away in this round robin

1536: Victory for Emirates Team NZ by 17 seconds. John Cutler on All4One losing the lead: “We just didn’t do enough job. We positioned ourselves badly and that’s what you get.”

1534 – BMW Oracle Racing looking comfortable. 38 seconds ahead on the final top mark rounding. 

1530 – Early gybed for both ETNZ and All40ne on the run, the Kiwis far enough ahead to be able to cover

1527 – Emirates Team NZ 19 seconds ahead of All4One at second top mark rounding 

1523 – 41 second lead for BMW Oracle Racing over Artemis at the leeward gate

1521 - after going out to the port layline, Emirates Team NZ lead Artemis past the port end of the gate on the second upwind leg with 60m lead and building

1519 – BMW Oracle leads through gate on the downwind leg, still with a substantial lead over Artemis. 160m according to Virtual Eye

1516 – Barker and his crew gybe ahead of All4One and the Franco-German protest is green flagged. The Kiwis lead around the leeward port hand gate mark, but make a less than perfect drop

1515 – Emirates Team NZ have rolled All4One. 

1514 – BMW Oracle leads Artemis around the top mark with a 0:31 delta

1513 – Peter Reggio announces a course change to 045 (10deg left)

1510 – BMW leads Artemis up their first upwind, Spithill crosses ahead and the two boats swap sides, BMW Oracle heading right

1508 – Emirates TNZ on the back foot again with All4One leading around the top mark by 10 seconds

1506 – BMW Oracle lead Artemis back to the line. Both early. Artemis by the committee boat tacks away. Split tack start. 

1505 – Artemis and BMW Oracle sail off towards the spectator fleet on the right side of the start area

1503 – Long dial up between BMW Oracle and Artemis, Artemis having come in from the right. 

1459 – Boats early for approach to line, Emirates Team NZ have held the right 

1458 – Much more aggressive pre-start. 

1456 – Emirates Team NZ duck out of the dial-up

1449 – New course 055deg. Bigger shift than Clouds forecasted. 

1447 – Warning signal will be at 1453 for All4One v Emirates Team NZ

1443 – Race team getting set up to resume racing

1439 – Breeze seems to be stabilising. 13 knots at the top mark. Closer to shore there are some vicious little gusts coming through 

1434 – Or not. PRO Peter Reggio says wind is ‘cranking’, which presumably is the RH trend we’ve been expecting. Standby to standby

1432 – Warning signal imminent for flight two match one. 

1422 – BMW Oracle Racing beats Artemis by 27 seconds. James Spithill and his America’s Cup defender crew are the only team with a perfect scoreline

1416 - BMOR lead Artemis by 27 seconds around the top mark for the final time. 

1413 – Emirates TNZ beat All4One by 23 seconds at the finish

1410 - Emirates TNZ first to gybe but All4One stay put on on port

1407 – Emirates Team NZ and All4One still just ahead coming into the top mark for the second time. Seven second delta. All on still. 

1405 – Artemis play out their hand at the leeward rounding but it is green flagged by the umpires and BMW Oracle still lead, rounding nine seconds ahead. 

1403 – On Artemis the familiar tones of Iain Percy advise holding the kite to try and get the overlap at the leeward mark. Kite blow out on BMW Oracle Racing. 

1400 – Artemis and BMW Oracle Racing are almost neck and neck at the gate on the first run 

1357 – Emirates Team New Zealand and All4One even coming into the leeward mark/gate, rounding separate marks, Kiwis heading off to the right back on the breeze

1355 – BMW Oracle Racing lead Artemis around the top mark by 17 seconds

1353 – At the gate on the run , Emirates TNZ try and plant a penalty on All4One who are slow to come out of a gybe. Green flagged. 

1352 – According to Aussie met guru Roger ‘Clouds’ Badham, the wind is supposed to go right to 000-030deg and build to around 14-18 knots over the course of this afternoon. 

1348 – in the first match, Emirates Team NZ lead around the top mark with a 12 second delta over All4One

1347 – Big separation between Artemis and BMW Oracle Racing on the line with Artemis up to boat, both boats crossing on starboard tack. Again the leeward boats noses ahead

1345 – A little more contention in the start between the American and Swedish yachts. 

1344 – Artemis v BMW Oracle Racing with BMOR with starboard entry. Dial-up

1340 – Both cross the mid-boat end of the line together on starboard at speed. Small early lead to the Kiwis. All4One inevitably tack away. Kiwis follow

1339 – One minute to go and All4One roundup and head back for line. Lot of separation between the boats with the French/Germans still to weather. 

1337 – Three minutes to go and boats still diallup. All4One to weather, tack away. Emirates TNZ follow. Small error on Emirates TNZ boat as they bear away with checkstay caught around the end of the boom. 

 

1335 – All4One have favoured starboard entry. Into a dialup

 

1334 – Warning signal has gone. 

 

1328 – Weather mark at 348 degrees. Again they are running course B which has the start mid-way up the beat which then forms a gate midway up the beat and run.  

 

1320 – They need a little bit more time to set the course. But the breeze is in, so racing soon. They’re hoping to set warning signal at 1333, for a 1340 start.

 

1300 - Racing has been delayed. The start sequence is expected to be at 1325.

 

1232 – Flight 1 today will see

Match 1 – Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL92) v All4One (NZL84)

Match 2 – Artemis (USA98) v BMW Oracle Racing (USA 87)

 

1200 – The leaderboard, following scoring penalties assigned by the Umpires last night, looks like this:

 

  1.   BMW ORACLE Racing, 2-0, 2 pts
=2.  Artemis Racing, 1-1, 1 pt
=2.  Synergy Russian Sailing Team, 1-1, 1 pt
  4.  Emirates Team New Zealand, 1-1, 0.5 pts *
  5.  Mascalzone Latino Audi Team, 1-1, 0 pts *
  6.  All4One, 0-2, 0 pts

* Scoring penalty deducted by Umpires

 

In this video clip, Umpire Bill Edgerton explains the additional sanctions.

 

1120 – Good conditions in the forecast, but the wind isn’t fililng in as fast as we’d like. So the Race Committe is holding the boats ashore.

1200 Race Boats off the dock
1300 Earliest Warning Signal

 

0945 – According to event forecaster Roger ‘Clouds’ Badham, we can expect a good northerly sea breeze today, with up to 18 knots expected late this afternoon. Good racing conditions!

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