Yachting: No wind on 32nd America’s Cup 2007 (Valencia-Spain) (news from nzherald.co.nz)

News quoted from “The New ZealandHerald” – nzherald.co.nz ….

and from the Blog: “Peter Lester – Thoughts from the Blue “

Yachting: No wind so America’s Cup turns to ice cream and Abba

Email this storyPrint this story 9:45AM Tuesday April 24, 2007

A crewmember of America’s Cup challenger Desafio Espanol waits for wind to pick up in Valencia. Photo / Reuters

 

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VALENCIA, Spain – The seadog stories are exhausted, the sunbathing is losing its novelty value and the sailors are starting to go stir crazy as the wind fails to blow for the America’s Cup day-in, day-out.

On Monday, racing was cancelled for a sixth day out of eight as the breeze fluttered well below the minimum seven knots (13km/h) needed to start.

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