Kiwi's Push To Take Cup Today!

Two Wins To Victory!

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Oracle Team Fighting For Survival!

Oracle Team has fallen hopelessly behind the New Zealand team.  All the Emirates Team NZ needs is two more wins.  If those come today, the planned press conference will turn into a final award of the America's Cup.

Oracle Team is defending the Cup.  New Zeland is on it's toes, the entire nation of 4 million anxious for any news.  Oracle Team inched closer to making this an even race with one win during the past race day.  However, they needed both wins to keep the Kiwi's from marching to victory.

The video is of the Luis Vuitton Cup, which helped the Kiwi's practice their style!





Stay tuned to Sailing Savoir Faire for news about the America's Cup and the quest of two nation's to win the Cup.  The Kiwi's push for a steal, while the U.S. Oracle Team seeks to keep the Cup here in the U.S. 

NEWS OF THE MISSING RACING SCHOONER THE NINA!

Volunteers continue to work on the search for the Nina.  Official government efforts halted on July 5th, 2013.  The family believes the sailors are on a disabled yacht, floating in the reverse circular currents of the Tasman Sea.  Eventually, the boat will float to Australia or New Zealand.  Past boats which took this route have floated for up to a year.
You can help find the Nina on satellite images taken by Digital Globe and served on a crowd sourcing site called Tomnod. Why not find the Nina HERE and put your name in the history books?

My First Bit Part In A Music Video, the Sailor's Life For Me!

Colorado Musician Releases Latest Video

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Page 67  Don't Play Cat And Mouse Games With Me!
Page 68  A Special Song Inspires, Kingdom
Page 69  Kiwi's Push For Win At America's Cup 
Page 70  Oracle Team Has Everything To Lose, and Everything To Gain

I am not only a sailor, I am an adventurer.  As a traveler in my own time and upon this great Earth I have had the privilege to get to know some great people.  Franjo Pacifico is one of those.  What counts to Franjo more than anything is his family.  Though his musical talents are eternal, nothing counts like his wife and child.

The photographer and editor, Milter, also is an incredible talent who has many productions to his credit!  We spent two days shooting this video plus Franjo spent more time professionally recording the music track.  I learned a lot on this set, now if I can learn to sing like Franjo...some things have to be saved for the next time around!

Franjo has worked very hard for this opportunity.  I congratulate him for his great success!

Oracle Team Has Everything To Lose, And Everything To Gain

US Falls To Long Odds For Keeping Cup

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Page 69  Kiwi's Push For Win At America's Cup

Will the America's Cup remain in America?  So far, the odds are not on the side of the United States.  The U.S. Oracle Team is down 0-6.  The New Zealand contender, Emirates Team, only needs three more wins to take the coveted America's Cup back to New Zealand!

When things are this lopsided, changes are in order.  This morning, the Oracle Team changed tacticians.  Four time Olympic Medalist Ben Ainslie took the place of past America's Cup champion John Kostecki.  This represented a major change for the team representing the Red, White and Blue.  Although this is a sailboat race, not a horse race, there is an old American expression, "It is bad to change horses in the middle of the stream."  Unfortunately, changing tacticians did not pay off for Oracle Team.

“You’ve got to remember, changing personnel at a time like this has never worked in the past so we’ve got to be cautious about making a change like that,” Russell Coutts, Oracle CEO said. “We wouldn’t be thinking about it unless it had a really good chance at working.”

It is clear the high tech Kiwi boat is better upwind and in heavier winds.  Today, the course was blowing 10 to 18 knots, which gave the New Zealand team a distinct advantage.  Even so, the second race finished up neck to neck in an exhilarating sprint to the finish line.

“We still haven’t seen some conditions. Those guys have an edge upwind and tacking, but we still haven’t seen the light-air end of the spectrum and we haven’t seen the Code 0s,” said Oracle Team skipper Jimmy Spithill said. “We still have to look at the boat and what we can do to improve it. There’s a long way to go in my mind.” 

In New Zealand the America's Cup is major news.  It is on every channel and the subject of excited talk between many of the island nation's 4 million citizens.  New Zealand is a nation with strong maritime traditions.  It's people are proud of their heritage and that heritage includes sailing and racing.

Defender ORACLE TEAM USA and Challenger Emirates Team New Zealand are contesting the 34th Match for the America’s Cup on San Francisco Bay, Sept. 7-21, 2013.

 The America’s Cup is named after the schooner America, which won a race around the Isle of Wight on August 22, 1851, against a fleet of British yachts. The America’s Cup is sailing’s pinnacle trophy and the oldest trophy in international sport, predating the modern Olympics by 45 years.

Four nations have won the America’s Cup in its 162-year history: the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. ORACLE TEAM USA won the 33rd America’s Cup in Valencia, Spain, in February 2010, and selected San Francisco.


NEWS OF THE MISSING YACHT NINA

On June 4th, 2013, the 1929 schooner, the Nina, went missing in the Tasman Sea.  The Nina is a fabled boat that started winning races in her first year, 1928.  She won the Fastnet race for the U.S. and many races afterwards.

The families have started a private search after New Zealand suspended the formal search.  The non-profit organization, Texas Equusearch, (TES) is advising the families.  TES has brought in high technology, including the use of satellite images from Digital Globe.  The Longmont satellite image provider is serving those images on a crowd sourcing web site called Tomnod.  The public is invited to see if they can find the missing yacht, the Nina, on one of those images.  The person who finds the yacht will become famous!

You can see those images HERE.

KIWI'S PUSH FOR WIN AT AMERICA'S CUP

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New Zealand is pushing for a win during the America's Cup finals.  Many Americans don't know, New Zealand is a nautical nation.  Sailing forms a strong part of their history.  Americans follow football, but the Kiwi culture follows things nautical.  

The America's Cup is like the Super Bowl to New Zealanders, but it only comes around every four years.  With the Kiwi's leading, the American team is under pressure to retain the cup for the U.S.

The Kiwi team has worked hard to perform as a strong team, each person taking his own responsibility in running a complicated racing sailboat.  Ego takes second fiddle to the bigger picture, winning the cup.  Personal best and getting priorities clear is part of the process.

The search continues for the grand dame of yachting, the schooner Nina, which disappeared in the Tasman Sea.  The search coordinator, Texas Equusearch, is using high tech social media to help locate the yacht.  The organization is recruiting volunteers to see if they can find the Nina on satellite images taken by Digital Globe and hosted on their subsidiary site, Tomnod.  You can see those images HERE.

A Special Song Inspires The Search, Kingdom

A song for Danielle Wright and the 

crew of the Nina.

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Page 67  Don't Play Cat And Mouse Games With Me!

A special song for special people!  This one was written thinking of the Nina and one of her crew, Danielle Wright.

Thanks to the musical group Kingdom!
The schooner, Nina, an American treasure, went missing in the Tasman Sea.  A private rescue effort has been launched by some of the family members to find the missing seven member crew.
You can help find the missing crew!  Please check out these satellite images taken of the Tasman Sea by Digital Globe. When you spot the Nina, just pin it!
Start looking HERE!

Don't Play Cat And Mouse Games With Me!

Some things have to be seen to be believed.  This movie originally posted on the Sea Shepherd website.

This world has wonderful lessons to learn!  The ocean is spectacular so long as we respect the gifts it has for us.  When we don't, there is an high price to pay!

For many years, the Sea Shepherd led the fight against illegal whale hunting "for research" purposes.  Of course, it was all a sham by a Japanese firm.  They were selling the whale meat on their lucrative market.  No research was really going on!

Do You C What I C? Nina Rescue, Bring Seven Sailors Home

C Means Commonality

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Page 63  Equusearch Ready To Scramble Over Life Raft
Page 64  New Zealand Teaches America A Lesson

One of the things that intrigues me about the Nina crew is their diversity.  After doing my research about the 7 people aboard the American treasure, the Nina, a schooner that went missing in the Tasman Sea on June 4th, 2013, my first thought was, "Wow! Imagine the discussions these people will have together!"

It is not that the Nina 7 have common political views.  In fact, a coming together of the left and the right and an in between in an adventure can only yield good things.  That is how the voyage started.  What an eclectic gathering of people!  No one could have imagined the voyage would turn into a major rescue!

These are seven people from very different backgrounds.  Their life experiences will be great opportunities to learn, one from the other. They come from  both liberal and conservative perspectives.  Add to that the unfaltering optimism of the young, tempered with the wisdom of older and experienced thinkers, and one ends up with an incredibly interesting mix of people.

Robin and Ricky Wright speak at a fundraiser in Louisiana

By now, I imagine, this crew knows each other so well, they consider one another family.  More, I have a suspicion, each will walk away from this ordeal with a more accepting and broader view of the other's most cherished viewpoints.

Bringing Home The Nina And Her Crew

When I was a 16 year old youth, I had a very rigid view of the world.  Some adults used to lavish a lot of praise upon me.  

"Why, a member of the Young Republicans.  And you are only 16, Timothy?  Maybe you should run for office!"

"Others would say, "You are going far, kid," not really knowing how far I would go, but wanting to encourage me in the way adults talk to younger people.  

Maybe I am naive, but politics were friendlier in those days, when my dad stood for election as county judge each four years.  Way back when, people actually walked across the aisle to get to know the other side.  For our English friends, "walking across the isle" is a metaphor which means genuinely trying to work out differences in philosophy between members of political parties with divergent views.  

There was a sense we all shared a common purpose, which was to make America better.  No matter which path was ultimately chosen, America would be better from this collaboration between opposing party members with different points on the political compass.   That was the old days.

Nina Vigil, Bring The Crew Home

Today, one of my biggest disappointments has been the fracturing and polarity of Americans.  If I were to leave this Earth today, it is to a less friendly society.   The elephant and the donkey are bitter enemies in some quarters.  They don't know each other any more because they quit talking to each other years ago.   The word compromise does not exist in their vocabularies.  It is as if they have nothing in common, least of which is how to get wherever our country is going, presumably to a better America.  

 If that is how things are aboard the Nina, our crew is in for big trouble.  But you know it can't be that way.  That is because the life-predicament the seven sailors share in common transcends their greatest philosophical differences.  Working together means mutual survival.  One must look out for the other.  By looking at the life struggle of the other, by seeing what bonds them, rather than how each differs, our seven sailors are collectively stronger.  

It is the collective cause which attracts me to the Nina rescue.  It does not matter where you are on various national or world issues or what political party you belong to or even what country you are from. This is an issue we all understand.  We all know how it feels when a loved one is at risk.  Help is needed, now! 

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Because some of that help may need to come from government, our messaging and our ability to appeal to both sides of the aisle, and in fact, many countries around the world, is critical. My question, can we, as volunteers, find the common bond which appeals to each of us and convey that common bond to all Americans, and to all people?  I think we can, if we try.