Oracle...Team Emirates NZ

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September 6, 2013
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O.K

Who is supporting who ....come Americas Cup Racing ..starts in 2 days.

Go Kiwis!

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Steven L. Gotz

Inspiring

I grew up in Long Beach, California, so I am familiar with the concept of turning a ship into a building. They did it with the Queen Mary.

I was driving down the road on the way to a job on Friday and much to my surprise, the boat that appears to have been used by Team Oracle has been turned into a monument of sorts. It is up on its side a bit as though fighting the wind, sitting in a pond in front of an Oracle building.

Talk about out of place. Kind of like taking a Kentucky Derby winner and putting it on display at a petting zoo.

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Steven L. Gotz

Inspiring

OK, here's the plan.

The racecourse looks like this:

The picture is rather small, but if you look at Google Maps to get a larger image, it looks like the spot I have marked in red is about where the Leeward Gate and finish line are. Meaning that I might get good pictures from Treasure Island. Free parking and lots of really big boulders to sit in quite comfortably. I am not sure about the sun. I know that shooting towards the windward gate or the starting line might be tough even with my polarizing lens, but shooting toward the Leeward gate and the finish line should be fine.

I don't know much about racing but my guess is that turning around slows down the boats a bit and speeds up the people a lot.

If I am wrong there are plenty more races I can shoot on other days.

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able123

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yeah, depends on tack around the marker what happens ....could be a jibe or it could be "coming about "...

jibe is when on a run ( wind behind ) , coming about is beating into wind ( wind in front ). Either way there's tons of stuff going on .... usually messing around with the spinnaker if on run and messing around with jib and main if beating into...maybe changing sails too.. ( changing sizes )... lots of fun !

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I am not sure about the sun

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cool shots when sun is 'behind' sails sometimes ( shooting into sun and sun is behind boats ).. really looks cool !

just do stuff and see what you get ...that's what everyone else does...

Steven L. Gotz

Inspiring

NZ winning 3rd race - NZ 3, USA -2

OK, enough of that already. Time to watch Oracle win one. No points, but got rid of one of the penalties!

Fourth race finish line with NZ way back.

USA winning one for a change.

NZ 3, USA -1

This is what they look like when you look at the map and find the leeward gate, and it turns out the map isn't worth the pixels it is painted with! Notice that only one pontoon is in the water.

USA in front of Alcatraz Island.

See what I mean about "DOWN IN FRONT"? It was hard to find a spot where another boat was not blocking part of my shot.

Back when it was still close.

It is hard to complain about the fog in Fog City. It would be like someone from Chicago complaining about the wind off of the lake. Pointless. Here they come, out of the fog. I saw the helicopter first, then the racers.