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[quote=DamonLinkous]This weekend a lot of you probably saw the live coverage of the Americas Cup World Series, raced on the cool beasts called AC45's.

We are lucky that our "West Coast Reporter" and professional photographer Jeremy Leonard was on the scene to take a really nice sequence of the pitchpole crash and recovery. He has allowed me to create an album for the pics in Beachcats Situations.

Take a look here.
[url]http://www.thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=91256[/url]

During a fleet racing on Saturday Oct. 6th, 2012 team USA Spithill managed to completely pitchpole the wing mast monster in the middle of the fleet all lined up for the start.

What is even more amazing is that they were able to right the boat (with two high-power RIB's) without damage before all of the fleet had even rounded the first downwind mark. They got a DNF for that race but were ready for the next one and took 2nd place.

Then on Sunday they handily won the fleet race to win the week fleet racing, oh, and then they beat up on Team New Zealand in the Match Race final and won the Match Racing as well.

These guys are good, but even they can make a big mistake.

[img]http://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=91270&g2_serialNumber=9[/img][img]http://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=91310&g2_serialNumber=9[/img][img]http://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=91375&g2_serialNumber=9[/img][img]http://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=91425&g2_serialNumber=9[/img][/quote]

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