There’s something magical that happens when you take the controls of a microlight or ultralight. The world opens up – not just left-right, forward-back but up-down-and-around whenever you feel like it. You’re no longer an earthbound mortal hemmed in by roads and speed limits. Up here there are no roads. You can truly fly like a bird. You can look around and go wherever your fancy takes you.
It’s more than a dream. It’s a dream come true.
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Peter Wilson, our intrepid Chief Pilot, logged in from Valencia to explain the delay in the first race and other worrying developments…
The [first] race was cancelled due to high swells.
I went to the breakwater whist awaiting the decision and the seas looked perfect, but if one looked at the horizon, you could see the bumps of significant swell out to sea. The parameters re conditions are such that the defender, more or less, can say if they are happy with the conditions, given that they won’t go out in …
12:30 am AESST
And Alinghi has a penalty before they cross the line!
Watch Race 1 of the 33rd America’s Cup here.
UPDATE: Dong Doing. Not good news from Valencia. Peter Wilson explains in Comments below how his earlier prediction that “if something can go wrong it will” came true as technical trouble dogged his electronics. Talk about tempting fate: “…after weeks of faultless calibration, checking and testing, the damn thing decided to take a day off.” On the other hand he almost(?) met Richard Branson. Read more in comments.