Andy Rice: Alpari World Match Racing Tour.


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The unique demands of the 34th America’s Cup have created opportunities for high-speed specialists from small multihulls and skiffs to make their name in the world’s most celebrated match racing event. But a number of the leading protagonists are specialist keelboat match racers who have adapted themselves to multihull sailing, not least Oracle’s Jimmy Spithill and  Dean Barker from Emirates Team New Zealand. If anything, they’re the two most likely skippers to be meeting in the America’s Cup final, more so than the 49er Olympic medallists at the helm of the other two challengers, Luna Rossa’s Chris Draper and Artemis Racing’s Nathan Outteridge.  But really, none of that reflects very much on any of the sailors.  Predominantly the 34th America’s Cup is a design race more than a sailor’s race. It’s still a match race, though, and the question for the Alpari World Match Racing Tour is what effect the new direction of the Cup is having on the Tour and the wider world of match racing generally. For the Executive


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