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After four days of racing, the 34th America's Cup had already delivered, | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
but the ultimate hair raising moment was still to come. The Americans | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
trailed New Zealand by seven races. Team USA, with Sir Ben Ainslie on | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
board, seemed stronger for race six. Oracle Team USA with their biggest | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
lead so far in the America's Cup. The Americas lead and headed | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
downwind. Oracle Team USA have the lead but can they hold on? When they | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
turned into the wind... How close can it get? Really aggressive move. | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
The day belongs to the Kiwis as they pick up their fifth win of the | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
regatta. For race seven, Emirates pick up their fifth win of the | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
Team New Zealand for once led from the start. What will the Americans | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
do to counter the speed of Team New Zealand? It is an absolute Kiwi | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
whitewashed, they lead 6-1. A maximum two points to the Kiwis, | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
leaving them three wins away from the ultimate prize in sailing. There | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
was only one thing that could go wrong. The key question is, imagine | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
if they lost from here, what an upset that would be. Oracle Team USA | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
were docked two points before racing started for a rules infringement. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Was their luck about to change? Mother nature had set things up | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
nicely for the Americans. For the Mother nature had set things up | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
first time, the tide was ebbing and the wind was close to its peak for | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
racing. One of the changes was to shorten the bowel spread to take | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
some weight. That is the black hole underneath. The conditions will | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
change slightly and that may be enough to give us the opportunity to | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
get some wins and then anything is possible. If Ben Ainslie has | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
ultimate responsibility, the tactician -- if the skipper has | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
ultimate responsible at, the tactician is the eyes and ears. It | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
was a big ask to fill the role of John Kostecki. They have had some | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
great results. Really it is like taking over somebody's science | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
project a day before the exam. I had to do a lot of swatting to get up to | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
speed with the different software that we have. I think it works well. | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
We lost the two races, we were not happy but we had a great vibe. | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
Hopefully there can be an improvement for the future. The | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
final has been breathtaking. It is what the vision was. To finally see | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
two teams finally sailing these what the vision was. To finally see | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
boats, really it has been a great competition. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
Let's see if the homework has paid off. Time to go racing. | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
COMMENTATORS: The wind is coming out of the West at 20 mph, the current | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
is sweeping out of the bay and we are just under the wind limit. These | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
skippers have to know when to push hard and occasionally, when to | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
throttle back, it will be a very hard day. | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
talking about. Those blue arrows indicate the way the current is | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
going. It is a tide that is going out of San Francisco Bay. It is, it | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
is called an ebbtide. I think this gives a slight advantage back | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
towards Oracle. The problem with Oracle up to now, we all know, has | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
been upwind legs. This quickens the upwind legs and allows them to | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
been upwind legs. This quickens the possibly go from side to side and | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
not just have to play one side, one edge. Because remains the same, it | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
is the blast start and you are off and running. Oracle has a slight | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
reaching advantage. If it is an even start, we could see Oracle ahead at | :05:17. | :05:27. | |
Mark two. Could they finish ahead at America's Cup Park? They really need | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
to win both races today, Oracle Team USA. Will those bold changes give | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
them a much-needed edge. The port entry comes to New | :05:37. | :05:49. | |
Zealand, they get to enter the start blocks first. A ten second start is | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
not really an advantage in the race but allows them to decide where they | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
will position themselves. It is so hard to judge, it is easy to sit | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
here in the comfort of our chairs but to go from non-foiling to | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
foiling and to nail it to be split second is not easy. -- the split | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
second. The ten seconds is allowed to avoid potentially dangerous | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
closing speeds. We saw the two boats playing chicken and the Americans | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
had to give way, that is something the organisers do not want to see. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Oracle has waited a long time before they have jibed to go back towards | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
Emirates Team New Zealand. A huge gap towards the boats. This is a | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
very different strategy. Interesting strategy playing out on the water. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Why do you think Jimmy Spithill is going this route? I like the way the | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
boats are staying apart but the line at the bottom of the screen, you | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
want to be close to that bend. Less than a minute before we release the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
want to be close to that bend. Less hounds and you want to hit the line | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
at perfect zeros. You want to be at the top of the screen and angling | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
down in the past races. Today, where we July to be? For sure, the top of | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
the line would give you a better angle. -- where would you like to | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
be? Jimmy Spithill coming in for a | :07:27. | :07:55. | |
potential last-minute hooker. It is an aggressive move this late in the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
game -- last-minute hook. Race eight is underway in San | :07:58. | :08:12. | |
Francisco. Jimmy Spithill tried to do too much, try to get too cute, | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
just allowed Dean Barker to block and hold him off. The patients by | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
Dean Barker paid off, too much aggression, a bad move by Jimmy | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
Spithill. The consequence is disturbed air off the wing of | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Emirates Team New Zealand. The Kiwis will have a sizeable lead, can the | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Americans reel them in on the downwind leg? I think you really saw | :08:38. | :08:45. | |
the pressure on Jimmy Spithill, to try to do something. Take it as an | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
individual and try to make something happen, it clearly didn't work. | :08:50. | :08:58. | |
Speed, almost identical and the Americans will decide to peel off | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
first. They peel off but they make a poor gybe and they slow down quite a | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
bit. It is amazing, how used to the | :09:07. | :09:23. | |
fact... We are used to the fact that boats go down the Bay at 38 knots, | :09:23. | :09:34. | |
it is incredible to watch. 43.7 mph, the Kiwis have the lead | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
and it is growing to nearly 100 metres. | :09:37. | :09:52. | |
The wind speed is for knots under the limit, it is going to be no | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
problem getting the race in -- four knots. Jimmy Spithill at the wheel, | :10:00. | :10:13. | |
Ben Ainslie to his right. Jimmy Spithill made the changes, taking | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
out the spine of the bow strip, a wise call? It is only there to put | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
up a code zero or a larger sale on the boat in a light breeze. They are | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
not expecting a light breeze but getting rid of every bit of weight | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
that they possibly can. There is that stubby spine. It also brings | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
the wind instruments, those are the only wind instruments. It brings | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
them back closer to the boat which puts them in more disturbed air, so | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
they may get worse wind readings puts them in more disturbed air, so | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
while sailing in this configuration. Right out of the textbook, stay | :10:54. | :11:11. | |
between your opponent and the mark, New Zealand doing what you should do | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
tactically. New Zealand is still New Zealand doing what you should do | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
gaining slightly on these gybes, just a little bit every gybe. | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
This is day five of the 34th America's Cup, the Kiwis have the | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
lead, 6-1. Three more victories by New Zealand and they will take away | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
the America's Cup. Oracle gybing early, Team New | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Zealand jiving for the lay line. Oracle might be setting up for a | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
split and one more gybe, a tough manoeuvre so late in the run. If you | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
are Oracle, you want to do the other gig. | :11:57. | :12:16. | |
At Mark number two, New Zealand in front. They had a three second lead | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
at Mark number one and that has doubled now, as the Americans split | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
the course. Now the all telling legs number three, upwind. -- legs number | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
three. There is not a lot in it right now | :12:35. | :12:47. | |
with current, there is pretty reasonable current, the outgoing | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
current from side to side. We have not mention the dreaded cone behind | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Alcatraz Island, there is no such thing. The Americans were touching | :12:57. | :13:08. | |
speeds around 25 knots, roughly 28 mph, three or four knots faster than | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
the Kiwis. The Americans have got much better | :13:10. | :13:23. | |
at tackling. -- tacking. Right in The Americans have got much better | :13:23. | :13:32. | |
the middle of the attack, it is The Americans have got much better | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
juicing drag and they have learned something from Team New Zealand -- | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
in the middle of the tack. The lead was up to 114 metres, it has been | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
dropped down to 75 metres. Not a bad sign for the Americans. They kept it | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
close on the first set of tax. Gives you an idea of just how | :13:54. | :14:29. | |
physical these boats are. Team New Zealand with the lead and the | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Americans are coming fast. The Americans did a nice job, creating | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
that split and all of a sudden they get out of phase, going up wind | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
automatically. A good job of being aggressive and getting the split at | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
the gate. The wind is coming off the shore when they get close to the San | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
Francisco city front. If they could get a good port left, the USA has a | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
real chance to gain. -- port left. There is the wind shift, they take | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
it right there. A lot of chatter on board this boat. There is more | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
chatter when it is windy. These guys are into it, they have not got | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
tomorrow lysed, they are still fully engaged. -- not got demoralised. We | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
see another cross in the middle of the course on the third leg. | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
This is something we have not seen for this entire regatta, the | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
Americans making a charge on the third leg. This is normally wear | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Dean Barker and the Kiwis distanced themselves. I like the fact they | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
used the opposite gate and they are out of phase. The wind is a bit more | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
favourable in direction and the Americans have taken advantage. Ben | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
Ainslie is doing a really nice job. The anticipated Cross does not come | :15:59. | :16:41. | |
about as been Bargoed decides it is a good time to attack. The | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
Americans have overtaken the Kiwis. The Kiwis put themselves in the | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
right position they're in the lee bow attack. But the fact remains, | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
not only aren't the Americans losing but they at ticking away at | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
the Kiwis. We absolutely have not this - Maxine this in his entire | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
series of this upwind leg. Why not get over to the south side of the | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
San Francisco waterfront? Easier said than done sometimes fall these | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
catamarans. The Americans are not getting them selves pinned to the | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
left-hand edge as they have in the past. This cost is a big one. -- | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
this across. The Oracle team are going faster and that is the first | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
time we have seen that. We did see another hunting move. Right now,... | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
Own, they pop took off their foils. That was a break they did not have | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
to have -- they popped off their foils. It is all about their tacks. | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
They were making again after again. Here is a lee bow and it gives them | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
an opportunity to get in close and closer until one small tiny mistake. | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
It really shows it is just the tiniest thing that will make or | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
break this race. They tack away, doing the right | :18:28. | :18:48. | |
thing. Don't put yourself in a bad spot to go slow. We figured out the | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
left-hand side was doing well for the USA. And when you start | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
catching up, the crew gets excited and it makes the New Zealand crew | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
little nervous. Oracle will now have the star Board tack advantage. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
They are attacking better and it looks like they are going quicker | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
through the water all the time. They changes have made a difference. | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
-- buried changes. The boats are so even in speed. If Oracle gets ahead, | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
they could easily hold them off and take the race. | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
As they come together, Oracle USA has the right of way here on star | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Board. New Zealand almost capsized. Bow, | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
my gosh! New Zealand had the right of way | :19:45. | :20:02. | |
there. Not only that, but they will get a penalty. They almost slipped | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
this thing over. My goodness! The protest is filed by the Americans | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
but the Kiwis are just happy to have their boat back on the water. | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
That is a rattled Dean Barker right now. No other way about it. That | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
was an incredible turn of events. A boat on boat penalty save new | :20:24. | :20:39. | |
Zealand is already behind and the penalty has already gone away. | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
What went wrong? Their wing did not pop. It has not gone over to the | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
new side until right there. It did not actually tack. It is amazing. | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
Whether it is an hydraulic on human failure we are not going to know. | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
It didn't pop. It stayed on port tack throughout the whole manoeuvre. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
It is just like a wall instead of a wing and it almost tipped the boat | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
over. This is the most dramatic footage. | :21:24. | :21:36. | |
I think you can here, "hydro, hydro!" which means they do not | :21:36. | :21:45. | |
I think you can here, "hydro, have the pressure in the system to | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
manoeuvre the wing. If the pressure isn't there, the wing went pop. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
They didn't have the hydraulics necessary to control it. At 83, the | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
Americans have their biggest lead of the race. -- at 83. -- gate | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
number three. I tell you what, the speed and | :22:09. | :22:21. | |
agility we have seen with Oracle in this leg, a lot of airplane tickets | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
are being changed for Monday and Tuesday right now been San | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Francisco. And a rattled Kiwis crew, Tuesday right now been San | :22:27. | :22:36. | |
despite leading 6-1. Now they will try and track down the Americans | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
who are off and running as they make their way to the finish line. | :22:39. | :22:52. | |
The chase is on. Dean Barker in unfamiliar waters as he is looking | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
at the back end of Oracle Team USA speeding away and seemingly making | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
all kinds of Great Menu birds. I speeding away and seemingly making | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
don't know what is more impressive -- great manoeuvres. He stopped the | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
boat capsizing. I think you are seeing a rattled team right now. | :23:18. | :23:31. | |
Now they are off their foils in the middle of a gybe. We have not seen | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
these mistakes from Emirates team New Zealand. | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
The lead grows for the defenders of the America's Cup. Teen USA are 700 | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
metres in front of the Kiwis on Lake fall of five. They trail 6-1 | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
and Dean Barker is dealing with a rattled Crook. -- leg fought off | :24:01. | :24:09. | |
five. When the wing does not pop it goes | :24:09. | :24:22. | |
from an Air Foyle to a wall and it almost flipped the boat over right | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
in front of our very eyes. Oracle teen USA are out in front making | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
fantastic many evils. They made a few small adjustments and right now, | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
Jamie Spithill is making confidence by every metre sailed. A dowry, | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
what a change. This is absolutely incredible. With New Zealand | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
getting nervous, that crew was a little bit rattled. I don't think | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
it was mechanical. I think it was a little bit rattled. I don't think | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
human mistake. The big question is, if you are Team New Zealand and you | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
lead 6-2, do you put -- play your provisional card and postpone the | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
second race and take a break. The Americans are out of cards. That is | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
a very good question. I don't think it is in the Kiwi mentality to take | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
a break. They will want to go back out. You see a smile there from | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Dean Barker! They might stop if something is broken nose. The wind | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
is about 16 knots - going down three or four knots, so they were | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
not be able to use the wind to take a break. If there is a mechanical | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
problem, they will not want to take the next race. But if not, they | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
will be out here again. To bring you up to speed, this | :25:50. | :26:14. | |
Kiwis have six points and the Americans have one went but no | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
points because they were docked two points. In effect, It is six to | :26:18. | :26:29. | |
minus one. This dynamic could change completely. The biggest | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
point is, at if you are on Oracle you have hoped for the first time | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
in many days. The speed they shared and their attacking ability upwind | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
is quite simply something we haven't seen before. -- there | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
tackling ability. Oracle teen USA speed through the | :26:50. | :27:15. | |
water. The Americans are looking very fast. 44.6 lopes -- knots. Are | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
the Kiwis fit to race in the second race or are they issues on that | :27:25. | :27:32. | |
boat? I think there are at issues. They are having trouble with their | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
dagger board getting down. It is Oracle Team USA with a huge | :27:34. | :27:52. | |
lead at mark at No. 4. On the third leg, the Americans turn the tide on | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
the Kiwis. The Americans are now putting the hammer down. | :27:57. | :28:09. | |
For sailors around the world, fans of the America's Cup, this is Anna | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
-- exceptional turn of events. I think people just want to see more | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
sailing. This change is the dynamic so greatly. If they can keep this | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
momentum up in race to come up the so greatly. If they can keep this | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
emirate's now make the turn for home and they are just happy to | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
have the boat sailing because that is as close as you can get to a | :28:34. | :28:42. | |
capsize. Oracle Team USA are approaching 39 knots. Jimmy | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
Spithill and crew will bring it across the line and Oracle Team USA | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
will win the first race of the day. If You heard Jimmy Spithill | :28:48. | :29:14. | |
absolutely pinpoint the biggest difference, awesome tacks. The Kiwis | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
crossed the line just about in one piece. The crowd have loved every | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
minute of the exhilarating race so let's get the views of Jimmy | :29:27. | :29:28. | |
Spithill and Dean Barker. When everything is going well there | :29:28. | :29:43. | |
is the opportunity to make gains. It means we have to keep improving. We | :29:43. | :29:54. | |
all have a bit of a route group -- regroup and get ready for the second | :29:54. | :30:00. | |
race. We have been putting in a lot of work to try to improve our boat, | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
our tacks, are upwind speed. I think we have taken a great step forward. | :30:07. | :30:13. | |
A loss of hydraulics 14 New Zealand made about uncontrollable. Their | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
campaign almost ended there and then. A capsize can destroy an AC72, | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
all credit to Dean Barker for keeping it up right. A rattled New | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
Zealand, ready to go again. As experienced as the sailors are, | :30:26. | :30:35. | |
does Dean Barker need to calm them down and say, it is no big deal or | :30:35. | :30:47. | |
as they would say, no worries? The older statesman on the boat is back | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
on board, that has got to be an asset. Oracle Team USA, getting | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
themselves into position. Remember, Emirates Team New Zealand | :30:57. | :31:14. | |
will have port entry, that means they get to enter the start clocks | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
ten seconds before the Americans. The Kiwis are in. They will cross | :31:16. | :31:43. | |
well ahead of Oracle. Oracle really used a very different strategy than | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
any other start we have seen in this whole America's Cup. Let's see if | :31:47. | :31:53. | |
they go back to more traditional pusher-blocker strategy against | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
Emirates Team New Zealand. Is this playing out to what we saw | :31:56. | :32:23. | |
earlier in the first race of the day? There is no advantage to either | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
end of the starting line. New Zealand want to stay away from the | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
other boat. Look for Oracle to attack and try to get a hook as they | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
approached the line. Oracle is looking to possibly go for the | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
weather end of this starting line. Team New Zealand has set themselves | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
up towards the left on the starting line, I think Jimmy Spithill stays | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
up there at this stage. Just like that, proving you were | :32:50. | :33:04. | |
right and I was wrong, they go for a hook. Both boats are about 15 | :33:04. | :33:15. | |
seconds early. Spithill tries to get underneath Dean Barker and the Kiwis | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
to try to gain advantage, can't get it done. Dean Barker is doing a | :33:18. | :33:24. | |
really nice job of protecting the bottom lay line. He might have the | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
jump yet again. And we are clear to go, race two, | :33:27. | :33:49. | |
day five, underway. Dean Barker protected the left side of the line | :33:49. | :33:55. | |
perfectly, another really good start for Emirates Team New Zealand. The | :33:55. | :34:02. | |
disturbed air is not a factor coming off the wing of Oracle Team USA | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
because the Kiwis have the lead and it will be New Zealand grabbing the | :34:06. | :34:15. | |
whole shot as they head down wind. I really like that tactic of New | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
Zealand sailing high, going in for the mark. It gave them an extra two | :34:18. | :34:27. | |
boat lengths. An identical lead, as in race number one of the day, three | :34:27. | :34:33. | |
seconds advantage for the Kiwis. I think they just prove to us that if | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
there is any sign of rattle on these guys... There was nothing in that | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
pre-start, that is visual. It was a tricky job of blocking by Dean | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
Barker. -- a terrific job. 37 knots, 42.5 mph. A similar lead | :34:45. | :35:05. | |
on this second leg and it is playing out awfully close to what we saw in | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
race eight, the first race of the day. | :35:10. | :35:19. | |
New Zealand are having trouble staying on its foil and Oracle, | :35:19. | :35:30. | |
sailing right past. The question I would have, is the choppy water | :35:30. | :35:38. | |
making it harder to foil? It really shouldn't, it shouldn't have any | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
difference. The foils are living below the water surface, they don't | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
really know that there are waves at this stage. Our point, Fisher, when | :35:46. | :35:54. | |
the hulls are in the water -- upwind, for sure. Literally blocking | :35:54. | :35:59. | |
directly. Oracle has gained almost two boat | :35:59. | :36:10. | |
lengths and the reason is they are doing a better job, staying on their | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
foil. Look at the two helmsman, Barker | :36:12. | :36:25. | |
moving his wheel back and forth a lot more than Spithill. | :36:25. | :36:42. | |
Emirates Team New Zealand will be thinking about how not to have a | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
split at this bottom mark, they thinking about how not to have a | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
to get Oracle to round the same bottom mark as they do. The | :36:50. | :36:59. | |
advantage is with Oracle, they can decide to split at the last second. | :36:59. | :37:05. | |
Speed is certainly a factor as they had down wind. -- heads down wind. | :37:05. | :37:25. | |
Dean Barker, the skipper, number 14. Number ten is Ray Davies, his | :37:25. | :37:33. | |
tactician. If the Kiwis can make it through this gate, that might create | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
the split that Oracle is looking for. You would think it is a good | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
thing but Oracle might have the for. You would think it is a good | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
opportunity to split away at the last second if the Kiwis commit | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
themselves to a thin lay line. It last second if the Kiwis commit | :37:46. | :37:54. | |
a 65 metres lead for New Zealand. With so little turn it won't matter | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
what part of the course they go on. However, the wind in my view is | :37:59. | :38:06. | |
better along the city front. This is a tough manoeuvre. If USA decides to | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
split to the right side gate, it is a really hard manoeuvre | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
split to the right side gate, it is physically pull off. They don't have | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
a choice, they have to make this manoeuvre. | :38:18. | :38:27. | |
At gate number two, the Kiwis have the lead and we do have a split as | :38:27. | :38:34. | |
the Americans, round and they will be behind by seven seconds -- the | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
Americans come around. Can they gains again on the third leg? We are | :38:38. | :38:46. | |
hearing words that the race is going to be abandoned. Oh, no, this is | :38:47. | :38:53. | |
horrible. Not just for us but for the sailors. If you are on Team New | :38:53. | :39:02. | |
Zealand, this is devastating. Emirates Team New Zealand, race | :39:02. | :39:11. | |
committee, do you copy? If you are Team New Zealand, you ignore that, | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
you hope you don't hear what you are hearing cos you are ahead. -- | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
because you are ahead. I don't think they fear him. Race committee, do | :39:21. | :39:31. | |
you copy? They don't hear him, not that it really makes a difference. | :39:31. | :39:40. | |
Do you copy, over? Have you got the message? We have hit the wind limit | :39:40. | :39:47. | |
and we have to terminate the race. The first time in this entire event | :39:47. | :39:52. | |
have seen a wind limit takeover and abandon a race in the middle of it. | :39:52. | :40:01. | |
What a shame. It looks like they are sailing pretty well to me. | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
Officially, the race has been terminated. Race number nine has | :40:06. | :40:11. | |
been terminated here in San Francisco. The wind limits were | :40:11. | :40:18. | |
reached prior to mark number two so the race has to be abandoned. | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
With New Zealand in front it was a tough call to make for director of | :40:24. | :40:32. | |
on water operations, Harold Bennet, but the wind was topping 26 miles an | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
hour. The Americans have completed the two point penalty imposed and | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
for the first time in this is we can say New Zealand lead-0. The winner | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
is the first to ninth so there could be a few more twists and turns yet. | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
A bit of a tussle with the Oracle boys. It was a sort of marginal | :40:51. | :41:04. | |
cross and we made the call to tack. It was a bit rushed. We dismissed | :41:04. | :41:13. | |
the Hydro and with our system, we have to drive the Hydro through and | :41:13. | :41:23. | |
if you don't get it, the boat tacks, the wind starts sucking the boat | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
over. Fortunately, the guys keep grinding. We went through, I guess, | :41:27. | :41:39. | |
a split second to soon. I think about as close as you could possibly | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
get before the thing would have ended on its side. Initially we were | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
going to go for the hook but that didn't look that great as I got | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
closer. At the last minute, we didn't look that great as I got | :41:50. | :41:57. | |
bailed out. We almost went into a crashed tack and I was surprised, I | :41:57. | :42:04. | |
thought they were going to go over. It is these boats, they are | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
powerful, you have got to sail them well. We were at the top end of the | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
wind range today. You have got to make sure you are completely | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
error-free around the course. We made one mistake and it not only | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
cost us the race, it also came very close to costing us a lot more than | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
that. It is just what the team needed. I can't tell you how hard | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
the team works. The design engineering team. Obviously the guys | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
sailing the boat. They are rewarded now with a victory. We have been | :42:38. | :42:45. | |
saying that we can win races. We don't care what the score line is, | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
we are going to fight until the end and at some point it will turn. This | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
is a big moment for us. We made a step in the performance. The crew | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
were sailing it better, we came from behind to date. We did not get off | :42:58. | :43:04. | |
the line well but it did not stop them one bit. I think it is a key | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
moment in the regatta. It is game on, both crews pushing | :43:09. | :43:15. | |
their boats to the limit in their quest for the America's Cup. Expect | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
intrigue, more drama and bow to bow action from San Francisco Bay. We | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
are back tomorrow from 1:30pm on BBC Two. Will it be New Zealand's day or | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
the Americans flying the flag? | :43:31. | :43:36. |