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Titolo: PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES

Dear Salvatore
PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES
Tuesday, 9 November 1999
Bruno Troublé, Press Conference Moderator: “I’d like to stress that the
conditions on the race course today were well within the conditions of the
rules. It was about 17 knots of wind with some gusts.”
Ed Baird of Young America, on how his boat broke and nearly sank: “We were
up near the windward mark and literally on layline to turn for our last
tack. We were fairly close to rounding and we were starting into a tack.
There were just a couple of very, very big waves, very close together, and
as we started turning we started going off one wave, and hit the next, and
that’s when we stopped being able to race!”
Baird, on rescue support efforts: “I’d like to thank the folks from Prada
and the other syndicates as well as the police for standing by and assisting
us with additional pumps to the ones that we had. At one point I think we
had about four pumps going on the boat. Really that made the difference
because there would have been a point if we’d let the boat get too low where
we would have lost it. You know it’s a credit to the seamanship of everyone
out there.”
Ken McAlpine, Chief Measurer, on rule limits: “In the case of this
particular boat and obviously in the case of oneAustralia, their
mathematical models, their fundamental analysis, was found wanting. It still
remains that it’s  their decision, it’s not a place for the rule. I don’t
think its really appropriate to have a scantling rule in there because it
just leads to massive amounts of compliance initiatives on our part and is
very, very difficult to police.”
Baird, on crew remaining aboard the boat: “I think the right thing to do was
get the group off the boat and we did, in fact. At one point there was no
one on the boat and it appeared to stabilise and stop breaking. We slowly
got people back on board and it’s at the dock now and we’re really happy to
have done that with everybody safe and now we’re going to start assessing
what’s next.”
Baird, on the possibility of sailing Young America (USA-58) tomorrow: “I don
’t at this point know how we could possibly sail tomorrow. Clearly some
things are similar between the boats, some things are not. Until we learn
more about why this failed . . . it may have been something different than a
calculation. We have to go and research it.”
Baird, on motivating his crew after the accident: “They have to be settled
down. They’re so fired up about how to get the boat racing again. They did a
great job getting the boat ashore. As any of the teams would, they see this
as not a setback to the racing for the immediate future, but as a way to
pull the team together and be stronger in the end.”
Baird, whether USA-53 is the stronger built of the team’s boats: “I hope
not!”  [laughter]
For more information, visit the Louis Vuitton Cup website at
http://www.louisvuittoncup.com
 or contact Bruno Troublé, Marcus Hutchinson
or Keith Taylor on 
(+64 9) 359 1200
.

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Dear Salvatore
PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES
Thursday, 11 November 1999
Terry Hutchinson of AmericaOne on Asura’s dismasting: “The rig came down!
You know it was a little disheartening to see because we had a really good
race going with them and it was obviously going to be a real battle getting
around the leeward mark. Both teams were full on. To have it end like that
was kind of disappointing.”
John Kolius of Abracadabra on beating Young Australia 2000: “We haven’t
sailed enough and we’re still kind of running hot and cold. Sometimes we’re
going okay and sometimes we’re not but we did get the beast going pretty
good down the last run.  We got it over 17 knots before we looked back and
saw the other guy had broken down and said we thought we should take the
spinnaker down before it takes something else down”
Ken Read of Stars & Stripes on passing Luna Rossa in a rain squall: “Peter
Isler . . . had his navigating hat on when the real nasty part of the
squalls went through. It was kinda cool. Francesco and our boat were the
only two boats we could see on the racecourse, the rainsquall was so dark at
the time. Peter stuck to his guns about where he thought the mark was and it
was that tactical decision that got us by.”
Francesco de Angelis of Luna Rossa on his team’s first race loss: “None of
us thought you could sail all the races without losing one race. We were
trying to do our best on the water as described. Then it was quite dark to
find the buoy on the leg and we were expecting to find the buy more on the
right. Stars & Stripes got ahead there. They sailed a very good race. We had
no opportunity to pass”
John Kolius of Abracadabra on gear breakages: “We broke a batten in our last
gybe, I was pretty excited that that was the only thing.”
Ken Read of Stars & Stripes on weather conditions: “We had anything from
probably nine or ten to 22 knots in all those rain squalls. We finished the
leg with asymmetricals in 12 to 13 knots true. Five minutes after the race
ended it was blowing 31 true! It was an interesting day. Somebody told me
Auckland was going to be tough. Nobody said it was going to be this tough.”
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