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LVACWS Portsmouth final day - fast and furious

While Oracle Team USA did all but everything they could to take the win with a 2, 1, 1 scorecard today, it wasn’t enough to topple the fast and furious tenacity of a Ben Ainslie led Land Rover BAR on the final day of racing at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup…
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LVACWS Portsmouth 2016 day 1: "Bumper" action

The Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series racing today in Portsmouth, with light winds across the course in a slowly building south-easterly sea breeze was far more exciting than any of us were expecting. Feedback from all of the teams put this down to a tight start…
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LVACWS Portsmouth 2016 practice: home team advantage?

I feel like I should buy a lottery ticket. No offence locals of England, but I believe we have had five sunny summer days in a row, which meant for a little sea breeze this afternoon, and four practice races ahead of official racing tomorrow and Sunday. Could this be the…
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A new adventure with NC Sports

I have joined the Nautical Channel (NC) Sports team as of the beginning of June as their new sailing correspondent to an audience of over 22 million people on televisions globally (mainly in the northern hemisphere at present). Check out my segment on the YANMAR Moth Worlds…
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Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Oman 2016 - Day 1

Interviews with Jimmy Spithill (Oracle Team USA) on what they need to improve on tomorrow, Glenn Ashby (Emirates Team NZ) a succinct chat on looking to tomorrow, Adam Minoprio (Groupama Team France) on his first day of America’s Cup racing, and leader Ben Ainslie (Land…