America's Cup: Top six qualify for Match Race Championship

8:54 PM Fri 12 Aug 2011 GMT

'Cascais(PRT)-34th America's Cup-AC World Series-Cascais 2011-Racing day 5' Gilles Martin-Raget/www.americascup.com Click Here to view large photo

Six teams have qualified for the America's Cup World Series Match Race Championship on Saturday, following a day of close, compelling competition on the waters off Cascais, Portugal.

On Friday, James Spithill and his ORACLE Racing crew won all three fleet races, but their good work was undone in the 'all or nothing' match race for first place, when Emirates Team New Zealand made a pass on the second lap of the course to secure the match, and victory on the day. It was the third consecutive day of scoring maximum points for the Kiwis, who now proceed directly to Saturday's semi finals.

'It starts again tomorrow,' Barker said. 'The last three days don't matter too much. We've learned a lot in both match racing and the fleet racing. It hasn't been smooth, these boats are challenging to sail well and if you make a mistake you get penalized badly, so it will be case of minimizing mistakes to keep sailing around the track.'

Spithill's disappointment at losing the match race will be tempered by his second place seeding heading into Saturday; he also earns a bye into the semi finals.

'These have been some of the best match races I've ever done,' Spithill said. 'It's physical, and with the onboard footage, I think people watching are getting a real understanding of how high-pressure these decisions are and how hard it is. And I think that's great.'

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" />

by ACM

Click on thumbnails to enlarge and find more photos:

Newsfeed supplied by

#News #Cruising #Sailing #North

Cruising

Night Watch: Stay Useful After Dark

Watch stints, handovers and sleep that holds up

Cruising

The Bar Crossing: Wait for Slack Water

Cross on slack or the first of the flood.

Nearby
Ballarat, VIC	8 kn ESE	14°
Sheoaks, VIC	4 kn E	14°
Windiest in Australia
Rundle Island, QLD	24 kn ESE	21°
Most Windless in Australia
Perth (Coastal), WA	Calm	15°
Hottest in Australia
Marble Bar, WA	10 kn WNW	35°
Coldest in Australia
Liawenee, TAS	4 kn ESE	0°
Wettest in Australia
Yamba, NSW	16.2 mm

Foiling
	Windfoil in the waves
	The foil freestyle wave - mojo tasty 105
Gear Reviews
	Severne Mega 85
	Starboard Isonic 2027
	Goya Obi Pro
Gps and Speed talk
	GPSTC Email Problem
	KA72 Virtual Slalom Event Wrap
	Well done Jase - another entry in the 2-second spot records for TAS
	Another DIY GPS logger approach
Lost & Found
	Lost kite board- Woodies

America's Cup: Top six qualify for Match Race Championship

Night Watch: Stay Useful After Dark

The Bar Crossing: Wait for Slack Water

Live Weather

Nearby

Windiest in Australia

Most Windless in Australia

Hottest in Australia

Coldest in Australia

Wettest in Australia

(Other) Articles

Windsurfing Forum Topics

Buy & Sell

2025 Afs “Fire”V2

2025 F-One 80Cm Uhm Mast, Eagle X 1000 And Jam 1600

2024 Patrik Slalom 130

2025 Armstrong Dw Windwing

2024 Armstrong Wings

2018 Starboard Hyper Nut

2019 Royal Era

Know before you go

Download the Seabreeze app for iOS or Android.

Weather

Activities

About

Other

Support