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San Francisco Extreme 40 sailing

I was in San Francisco last week, which is one of the windiest sailing venues i have ever been to!!

Great, but it did cause plenty of problems as i was there running a weeks worth of corporate sailing for iShares, as the Skipper of their Extreme 40.

San Francisco bay is amazing and the wind generally blows from the West through under the Golden gate bridge and down the harbour side, most days. usually with the wind speed of around 20-30 knots. fine if your sailing a laser, but when trying to sail an Extreme 40 catamaran which is one of the most powerful boats on the planet, it is rather problematical.

We had a great week with the 1st April a media and promotional day with the press, we were main line NBC 11 TV and in all of the major local papers, thanks to our friends at Ogilvy PR agency. Then we did 6 days of corporate guest sailing, out around Alcatraz and across the bay to Sausalito.

The team worked hard all week and id like to thank them for their efforts, Hugh Fletcher, Adam Piggott, Andrew Macphereson and Nick Moloney.

Now we have the boat in a container being sent to Europe and it should arrive in the first week in may for an event in Valencia. this will be the first chance to sail against the likes of Alinghi and other boats since last year in Amsterdam.

Thats all for now.

Hugh