Month: May 2007

Valencia: Louis Vuitton Cup: America’s Cup post # 2

The Louis Vuiton Cup is a series of sailing races that decides which of the 11 challengers may challenge the defender, the winner of the former (31st) America’s Cup (also known as “The Auld Mug”) series, Swiss Team Alinghi.

After a couple of fleet races over a couple of years (13 “acts”) where the defender also raced, now in Valencia the seconds series of round robin match races is nearing its end. To me, with still 3 races to go, it is quite clear that the four teams that will go on with the semi finals are:

  1. USA team BWW Oracle Racing
  2. New Zealand team Emirates team New Zealand
  3. Italian Team Luna Rossa Challenge
  4. For the first time in the Cup’s history ending so high: a Spanish team

It is a great event for Valencia. I wish I could be there.

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China and the "Auld Mug": America's Cup post # 1

America's Cup China
An earlier photo of Team China:
Valencia, 20 04 2007
Louis Vuitton Cup Round Robin 1
Luna Rossa Challenge vs China Team.
ACM 2007/Photo:Carlo Borlenghi

This really amazed me: China Team defeated BMW Oracle team today:

Few would have expected BMW Oracle Racing, leader out of Round Robin One to fall to the bottom ranked boat, China Team. But after showing better speed in the pre-start up the first beat the headsail pulled out of the headfoil on the American boat, a repeat of the problem they experienced in Act 13. BMW Oracle trailed around the course, but it was China Team which picked up a mostly unexpected two points.

The report about the match

Dutch Design (9): The Floating Bed by Janjaap Ruijssenaars

Floating Bed

Thanks to Gadling I came across this magnetically floating bed of $ 1,5 mio designed by JanJaap Ruijssenaars of the Amsterdam Firm of Architects Universe Architecture.