Our Dear Leader appears to have taken himself off for a well-earned break. So here’s a nice video to watch till he comes back and here’s how to Tweet us

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.

Thrillseeker extraordinaire, Airescape Chief Pilot Peter Wilson, logs in from Valencia, Spain with the latest on the America’s Cup tussle which begins today.

Here’s a special video from Ireland that will give you a real sense of what it feels like to fly a trike – and frankly we’re not even sure how it was shot. But these are the sort of views you can get trike flying.