America's Cup: AC45 back sailing with repaired wing

9:21 AM Sat 26 Feb 2011 GMT

'Artemis Racing testings - Day 2' Ivor Wilkins/www.americascup.com

'It is fantastic!' This was Paul Cayard?s verdict after a four-hour sail on the AC45 catamaran in beautiful conditions on Auckland?s Hauraki Gulf today. Cayard and a crew from Artemis Racing put the cat through a thorough testing session. Weekend sailors out on the water in force were thrilled to see the America?s Cup cat fly past ? less than a week after it capsized in a freak wind gust in the Rangitoto Channel. After the capsize, the damaged wing was taken to the Core Builders facility in Warkworth, north of Auckland, where a small team, including the America?s Cup ...

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