America's Cup: The week that Was- Video from the Regatta Trials

8:54 AM Sun 1 May 2011 GMT

'AC45 Test Event - Day 5 - Match racing' Gilles Martin-Raget/Oracle Racing.com Click Here to view large photo

Catch this summary, in video, of the first week of the America's Cup Regatta Management Trials. Oracle Racing videographer George Johns was aboard the committee boat last Friday for the final day of the ACRM match racing trials in New Zealand. The video captured produced two outstanding segments. In the first, Oracle Racing teammembers Simeon Tienpont, Philippe Presti, John Kostecki and James Spithill recap the ACRM pre-season trials in Auckland. Also, Arthur Spithill, James' father, and John Bertrand, the 1983 America's Cup-winning skipper, discuss what it's like to sail aboard the AC45 and its significance to the America's Cup. 'It's ...

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