Day 3 Louis Vuitton Semi Finals - Marginal Monday - America's Cup - 16-9-24

All the two top teams had to do was to go out and score one more win apiece to secure their positions in the Louis Vuitton final.
Easy, both had a score line of 4:0 ….except is was anything but.
Today the weather delivered a marginal Monday, keeping the pressure on just when we thought it was about to ease off.
Matt Sheahan reports from the action in Barcelona.

Recent America’s Cup Features

The Next Phase - America's Cup - Louis Vuitton Semi Finals - Day 1 14-9-24

What They Said - Louis Vuitton Cup Semi Final Press Conference 13-9-24

Elimination Day - AC37 News Report 9–9-24

Stop, Start…Stop AC Challenger Trials - AC37 News Report 8–9-24

Big Day in Barcelona - AC37 News Report 7-9-24 LVC D7

The Unexpected - AC37 News Report 5-9-24 LVC Day 6

Show Stopper - AC37 News Report 3-9-24 LVC Day 5

Super Saturday - Americas Cup News LVC Day 3 - 31-8-24

A Difficult Day - - Louis Vuitton Cup Day 2

Challenger Trials Under Way - Louis Vuitton Cup Day 1

What They Said - Press Conference - LV Challenger Series

Preliminary Regatta - Day 3

Preliminary Regatta - Day 2

Preliminary Regatta - Day 1

Ben Ainslie interview

The First America's Cup & Why it matters

How & Why The America's Cup Began

The American Dream - American Magic’s slippery machine

Playing Catch Up - The Alinghi Story

Human Power - How do teams power an AC75?

OnCourse magazine show:

The Biggest Events in Sailing - Ep34 OnCourse

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[desmondcrosland]

Twice the umpires scrubbed the penalties on LRPP almost immediately. This has never occurred before and deserves explanation. And the penalties occurred when the boats were together so don’t try the excuse they were 50m ahead so only need to drop 25m

[sebastian]

Planet sail and Matthew are doing an incredible job. Thank you.

[skeetamacgyver]

Excellent racing and even better coverage Matt - awesome job!

[pdubltd]

Slingsby seems on the edge of tears in that interview. Lots of emotion hiding just below the surface.

[stevegreen]

Great reporting and content, lots to focus on and get a perspective. GB need to get on with the semi, one day of zero wind light weather shouldn’t rock the boat. Slightly disconcerting not having eye contact though, might be best to look at the camera when presenting this channel.

[dash]

Always like listening to Tom Slingsby in interviews - there's no dissembling or emotionless "professional sportsperson speak", you just get what happened and how he feels about it.

I start neutral on the subject of LR vs AM, but find myself hoping TS et al can pull this back.

[tcdossor]

Why didn’t LR need to drop 75m behind AM when they had a penalty? They seemed only to drop back 35m and the penalty was cleared…

[ezcatch]

Really enjoying your coverage and narration. Would be even better if you are able to include videos that show the part of the races that you describe in your long narrations so we don’t listen to 10 mins of narration without any vids. That would not only be more helpful for us but A LOT MORE ENTERTAINING.

[peterforsythe]

I’m a convert. This foil racing better than the old 12 metre stuff

[GerdKnops]

Thanks for the great summaries! Please show more footage during the commentary.

[pyrokos]

Haha Slingsby sounds so much like Jimmy. The cadence, pauses and emphasis all spot on

[garygavin]

A WIN for Allingi by the rules YES. But a failure by the race Committee. No way was that course providing 40 minutes off their wind test for racing. A torrid day for the Americas cup. If this was between Ineos & Lunga Rossa both dead in the water. How can you decide a cup on a result like this ? There are spare days use them. Displacement sailing is a dead duck race. Americas cup got this wrong . Lets hope that trap is not set again. The racing has been thrilling close & at times on the very edge off dangerous. Lets keep that & drop the drudge stuff.

[ashentmariner]

Beautiful interview's! 🕊️ We know dare concentrating bye the fact nobody's shaving 😊 kinda remind's me of Our Lorde's threshing floor ☮️ KIXI'S AM ❤

[thehighlander]

Why not start the racing earlier?? To take advantage of the earlier wind conditions in Barcelona.
What about two race tracks running concurrently?

[cooldude.]

Both AM and Alinghi won because their opponents touched down in marginal conditions. Whatever it be, at least they managed to avoid a whitewash though the odds are still very much in favour of LR and Britannia.

[mscaptjo]

Ahoy from ft Lauderdale... Here to help

[somyrab]

Ridiculous sailing in those conditions. Need a realistic minimum wind to sail.

[zeropopulation]

These races are no more entertaining than watching non sailors race their radio controlled boats on a city's park pond.

[davidbrinkman]

Shortening the course twice handed the race to Alingi. Should have been a protest against the Race Committee.

[BillGernert]

American Magic has been “Sandbagging”!!…I pray!!