"Life is never as you expect it to be. We have seen more of that in this America's Cup than any one before. There could be more surprises to come." - Paul Cayard.
"It's about trying to get all those guys and sharing that experience with the rest of the sailing team. Once we get on the boat everyone needs to understand how it works. It's not just the people driving or trimming the wing that need to know when to adjust the boards to foil, it's also the grinder who has to know that 'oh he's going to need the board adjustment now,'" Depending upon your standpoint, Artemis' determined refusal to allow their 34th America's Cup campaign to end with the destruction of their first boat and the death of a crew member, could be viewed as a laudable and valiant quest to overcome insurmountable odds, or a vain and foolhardy attempt to recover the reputation of a campaign which has stumbled from one crisis to the next almost since its inception. Certainly their chances of any meaningful competition in this Cup seem highly unlikely. However, as we all know, our sport is not like any other and in sail boat racing there are few certainties or guaranties of what happens next. Paul Cayard for one appears to be banking on the unexpected happening this summer in San Francisco: "I have lived enough life in sport and in sailing to know that things change," he told us. "Life is never as you expect it to be. We have seen more of that in this America's Cup than any one before. There could be more surprises to come. "So what you do as a competitor in my opinion is to let the guys in Las Vegas worry about the odds and what it looks like on paper. We are here to race and our heads are focused on what we are doing and we are going to put 110 per cent on the line every single day - whether that is in the shed or on the water."
Artemis skipper Iain Percy talks to visiting memebrs of the media while polishing one of the AC72 foils.
Image credit: Sander van der Borch/Artemis Racing 31
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