Images from the LittleAC: US Challenger's wingsail demolished

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9:13 AM Fri 27 Aug 2010 GMT

'Aethon - USA 104: Steve Clark Oliver Moore Little America's Cup 2010 - Day 1' Daniel Forster

Top international sailing photographer, Daniel Forster, was on hand to catch the action in the Little AC (aka the Little America's Cup) as the US challenger, Aethon's wing sail was demolished just a few minutes into the opening race of the 2010 event. The wingsail which had been used by the previous (1996) winner of the trophy, Cogito, was a marvelous piece of design, engineering and construction and in the words of builder Steve Clark could be fitted into a shopping trolley after the incident, which began when crew Oliver Moore, slipped off the trapeze after hitting a disturbance created ...

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