Louis Vuitton Cup: A veil on my gun - Emirates Team NZ win again

  Even without a headsail for much of the race, the Kiwis his boat was clearly faster than Luna Rossa won seven leg, 15:42-mile race in the third round robin of the Louis Vuitton Cup by 2 ': 20 to 16 knots of breeze west-southwest .

Dean Barker and his crew won the start of importance, off to play with 24 seconds to leeward of the Italian ship, then beat their rivals in the line so that Emirates Team New Zealand 10 seconds was the end of the first leg ahead.

Once again demonstrated their ability to go to jibe jibe while maintaining the hull out of the water on the leaves, the Kiwi crew started off a Luna Rossa, which was much improved since their last meeting a week ago. While the Italian team was better, it still has a way to go to compete with the best.

It is the second brand (Lee) ETNZ began his lead to a little more than 300 meters to extend when the luff of the jib halyard clip has (a device $ 100) not soaked. Several crew members went ahead to try a re-raise, but that was not possible, and the sail had to be injected. It was then the forestay and then fell into the sea to support losing to collect boat.

All New Zealand supporters along the Marina Green had her heart in her mouth, it seemed that Luna Rossa was closed, but as soon as the boom authorized with ETNZ further 200 meters on the front, the ruthless gain again. If the two 72-foot catamarans in the third (wind) toured brand before ETNZ 300 meters - a matter of 42 seconds.

The question remained - was the lack of a boom ETNZ wind is slow enough to go for Luna Rossa?

Barker said after the race that the trim of the boat had to be balanced, but once that was done, the Kiwis to win more and were in front at the 1:17 mark 4

Competition, as it was, was over. ETNZ has continued to expand further, increasing his lead. This time, however, the distance between the boats on arrival was much lower than it was when they first met, it was a little more than a week.

Luna Rossa has made significant improvements to his boat and sailing technique, but as skipper Max Sirena admitted after the race: "We must try to improve crew and the boat speed in the coming weeks.