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Alinghi pre-race day warmups

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Alinghi pre-race day warmups
On a very hot Friday afternoon, overshadowed by the Patrouille Swiss (stunt jets) the Alinghi twins were out checking their boat speed a good three miles offshore. It was only several days ago that they were given a certificate to be able to race at all. So while the New Zealanders have been reportably heavialy going at it in match racing manouvers, probably feeling strong boatspeed wise.Alinghi 100 on the other hand never engaged SUI 91and they prefferred to horse race against them in straight line speed. SUI 100 may have seemed to be trailing all the time yet once they were ahead, they sailed down to SUI 91 and let them jump out In testing their skills, having to come from behind and pass is obviously an important skill to be polished.They have been a little camera shy which is very noticeable by being so far off shore but also when it looked as though they were finished for the day, they let the camera head into port, but once the press was gone, they headed back out even further to sail somemore, Full Story »

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