Louis Vuitton Cup: Two Semi Nile and have an air of inevitability
Gucci backpack Already there seems to be an inevitability surrounding the semi-finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup. This match between Luna Rossa and Artemis Racing is strongly in favor of unilateral Italians - Luna Rossa spent more time on the water, against the Swedish team is reflected in the superior performance.
Eight hours of sailing in the boat, which was certainly talented built after the tragic accident, the death of team-mate Andrew Simpson proved totally inadequate for the team in the Big Blue Artemis Racing caused. It is a delicacy in handling and maneuvering the floating AC-72 only the time spent by boat can offer.
Nathan Outteridge, Artemis helmsman, is one of the best judges of the interval racing catamaran for the second day in a row had the advantage at the start. It was a small step ahead of Luna Rossa in the wind, and when they arrived at the first mark, the boats were bow to bow.
Which found that Artemis first jibe and came up with his first problem - no way of time, so that the boat continues to thwart any room for maneuver. Luna Rossa skipper Chris Draper, took advantage of this situation and immediately took over the Italian boat in the eye.
What followed was largely predictable. Luna Rossa won by his ability to remain through the film downwind gybes, but it was against the wind opportunities for Artemis partially address the balance. For the second mark, Luna Rossa 1: further forward and the pressure on the windward Mark 3, where she led from one to build '22 '50'.
A wrong approach to the leeward mark saw Luna Rossa lose some of their benefits - at a time, as much as 880 meters - to round 2 ': 12' Artemis. A change windy almost brought back to the next step Artemis into play. Luna Rossa was ill with a stroke of 20 degrees at the end of a tactic that has seen made with a little more than five nodes and the fall wind of 15 knots. The difference between them in the last door the wind was 1 ': 13'.
These things have a way of balancing and Artemis fell foul of a bright spot downwind so that Luna Rossa was 2 ': 07' in the final turning mark and lost just one second on the scale of arrival.
"We need more time on the boat," said Outteridge soon after, and added: "I am impressed by our group, it's hard to stay motivated when you can see the other boat to sail off to you. "Even after the victory Draper was critical of his team:" Gucci belt bag We know that we can navigate better than that. "