C-Class: Cup for Canadian defenders Eaton&Clarke

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Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke on ‘Canaan’

Photo: Cristophe Launay- www.sealaunay.com Glenn Ashby and Spithill on Alpha

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com

Photo: Cristophe Launay – www.sealaunay.com
All Photos courtesy of Cristophe Launay www.sealaunay.com
Report From New York yacht Club official event website www.nyyc.org
The defenders had an edge with their wing in dowind legs, but they also manage the Math Race attacks from the dream team, and sailed like the experienced champs they are.
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NEWPORT, RI, August 28, 2010 — If wing technology didn’t have everyone’s attention after BMW Oracle Racing’s victorious 33rd America’s Cup, it definitely does now after the International C-Class Catamaran Championship won by Canadian Defenders Fred Eaton and Magnus Clarke, hosted at the New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court Clubhouse August 22-28. The high speeds and almost instant acceleration of cambered foils had members of America’s Cup syndicates, top designers and all sailors in awe.
Canadian C Class Catamaran Team of Eaton, Clarke, Steve Killing, Rob Paterson and Rossi Milev have been along for the entire ride, one way or another. Clarke, Paterson and Milev took six months off from their C-Class program to manage wing protection for the largest wingmast ever built for a race-boat: BMW Oracle’s 223 foot (68 meter) tall wing. Reunited in March, their team brought four wings to the International C Class Catamaran Championship on Narragansett Bay this past week.
“Upwind the camber is moderate, but downwind with the flap set at 40 degrees, the wing will produce almost double the force of an equal area soft sail,” explains Killing.
Eaton and Clarke raced Killing’s latest design, Canaan, to a thrilling victory today in the final day of match racing…
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