Mar 02 2011
ORACLE RC44 Cup San Diego
The Oracle RC44 Cup San Diego will take place on San Diego Bay, March 2 - 6, 2011.
After the inaugural U.S. event in Miami at the end of the 2010 season, the class is now heading west to make its 2011 debut at the Oracle RC44 Cup San Diego. The event features 11 RC44 teams representing nine nations, among them Marinepool sponsored AEZ44 of Austria. Regular Skipper Christian Binder has other obligations this time around and will be replaced by Peter Evans who won the America´s Cup twice, 2000 with Emirates Team New Zealand and 2007 with Alinghi.
Match and fleet racing will take place over five days on San Diego Bay with spectacular free spectator viewing areas from portions of Broadway Pier, Harbor Island and numerous areas along the downtown waterfront.
Among the top sailors set to compete on the 2011 RC44 Championship Tour are class designer Russell Coutts (NZL), American yachting legend Paul Cayard and San Diego native son Rod Davis, Audi MedCup winners Morgan Larson (USA) and Jose Maria Ponce (ESP), Olympic Gold medalist Kevin Burnham (USA), along with some of the world's top match racing talent including Cameron Appleton (NZL).
The RC44 class was conceived and co-designed by four-time America's Cup winner Russell Coutts. With an evenly split amateur and professional crew line-up, the class attracts the world's leading business minds as their owner-drivers, along with many of the world's top sailors.
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