Continues to impress Emirates Team New Zealand in the Louis Vuitton Cup

       Emirates Team New Zealand today marked his second point of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the America's Cup Challenger Series, in the San Francisco Bay race unchallenged.

Skipper Dean Barker and his crew were planned Artemis Racing races, but the Swedish team still met his second AC72 catamaran sailing wing and will not be ready to sail for another two weeks.

Again saw the New Zealanders on their AC72, Aotearoa black. They finished the 4:16 p.m.-mile course of a mile in 45 minutes, 28 seconds (faster than the race on Sunday minute) and reaches a top speed of 43.26 knots 49.7 miles per hour. The wind was a little stronger today, with a peak at 20 knots to 16 knots Thursday.

"It was a bit more wind today, probably one or two nodes on average in comparison to the other day," said Ray Davies, tactician. "We have some things from the first day, and we worked on it, studied video., It is good to have pictures of the video, so that we can analyze things. This is an opportunity to look, learn and improve."

The Kiwis were the first team to start an AC72 and spent time training them more than any other team. They were the first team to start Hydrofoiling, and put all that practice on display in the first two races of the Louis Vuitton Cup, despite the lack of competition.

"They are smooth in the throat," Murray Jones ORACLE TEAM USA, which has been on the track before the race said Emirates Team New Zealand practiced against the clock. "But our programs are different. Their race and we need not start the race in September. Rectilinear We have on our speed and we are now in the education of our race program."

Speed ??Emirates Team New Zealand has demonstrated in recent days, leaving some of the leading figures in the America's Cup in awe.

"I have only 3,000 to 4,000 hours of sailing 12 feet in front of Fremantle", Regatta Director Iain Murray said, listen again to the America's Cup in 1987 from Western Australia. "The time we spent in trying to tack a boat and reduce our loss rate from 8.25 to 6.5 knots in a turn. Watching the boats go from 21 to 22 knots, and maybe touch 10 of the background rate in a turn , maybe 25 knots as the background in a jibe, it's the speed that we have never seen in sailing.

"Young people, Youth Cup Red Bull Youth America, Children's Optimist dinghies and boards and kites, they are in this technology thrilled and excited for our sport in the future. Development that came from the America's Cup boats committed to these young people is, "said Murray.

The next race of the Louis Vuitton Cup is scheduled for Thursday.