It sailed faster into the wind and, by the time Spithill guided his boat across the line after the downwind leg, Alinghi had fallen two miles behind.
"All ships are built with the expectation they'd have to sail fast".
Enron was sailing close to the wind, but that's the way to sail fast, and in the late 1990s the stock market was rewarding those who did so.
The America's Cup will begin this summer with 15 teams from a record 12 countries sailing fast catamarans in a true World Series.
Soldini won Around Alone by sailing fast and intelligently, pushing hard when conditions were favorable, but easing back when the weather turned ugly.
John Paul Jones, warns us to hold on to our hats: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way".
One should remember the quotation from John Paul Jones, "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way".
By the time we pass the breakwater we're sailing fast, with spray foaming up round the bow and, with the low form of the Star, often up over the decks, over all three of us, and into the cockpit.
Jones did write, however, what has to be one of the greatest sentences in maritime history: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way".
It may be harder to reproduce that combination in the Gulf of Guinea.In the narrow Gulf of Aden, for instance, ships were encouraged to sail fast and in convoys to make it harder for pirates to board; passive defences (such as bullet-proof rooms) and guards could buy enough time for warships nearby to come to the rescue.
