America's Cup: Coutts capsizes in San Francisco - crew injured + Video

11:33 PM Mon 13 Jun 2011 GMT

'Russell Coutts survived this near capsize on San Francisco, last week.' Gilles Martin-Raget/www.americascup.com Click Here to view large photo

San Francisco sources have confirmed that four times America's Cup winner, Russell Coutts was at the helm of an AC45 which capsized on San Francisco Bay, today. At the time Oracle Racing was participating in some practice starts with the America's Cup Race Management Team. Earlier in the day Media had been on the water to see the AC's 45 sailing on the venue for the 34th America's Cup. Coutts was bearing off in a pre-start and pitchpoled at 22kts. The AC45 was capsized for about 10 minutes and apparently the wingsail was undamaged, after from some torn skinning fabric. ...

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