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Very impressive website www.louisvuittontrophy.com showing current racing at Nice, South of France in Americas Cup boats. There are video extracts of all the races and very good graphics explaining each match race. Ben Ainslie is the skipper of Team Origin and has been very aggressive pre-start(and spot-on with his timing) The way these guys handle the huge boats, is awesome!

And there is also an ex Albacore sailor sailing in the event...........

Chris wrote:

And there is also an ex Albacore sailor sailing in the event...........

Who is that then?

Jim Turner (Chris' brother) sailed Albacores in his youth on his way to the Fireball World Championships among other prizes. He now crews on Americas Cup boats and other exotica for his living - tough but someone has to do it

Mary is also there but as a non-combatant - she is riding shotgun on the back of the boats, acting as an assistant for the umpires who follow in ribs. Her job is to indicate overlaps etc. She would really like to have a go steering!