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Sail-World.com : Abuse penalty marks final day of 1851 Cup at Cowes
Abuse penalty marks final day of 1851 Cup at Cowes
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Passion boiled over, a rare penalty for abuse was the result, but Britain's Jaguar-backed Team Origin whacked the America's Cup holders BMW Oracle to win the 1851 Cup regatta in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Consolation for the American team came in the form of the Royal Thames Cup when winning Thursday’s race round the Isle of Wight, but, in the all-important shorter match races for the Trafalgar Cup, Origin posted a 6-2 scoreline.
Origin, after winning the start of the first of three races in Stokes Bay, was in a tight situation at the top turning mark and appealed to umpire Bill Edgerton, who waved them away.
The volley of fruity reaction was loud. Edgerton was overheard saying: 'I'm not having that' and promptly blasted the Brits with his whistle and waved a penalty flag for 'dissent'. Ben Ainslie, skipper of Origin, accepted his yellow card, though his was not the only voice that those nearby claimed to hear, and, with a smile on his face, added later that, of course, any question of parentage was all aimed at his navigator, Juan Vila.
The next two went to a clearly superior British outfit, which appears to have been strengthened by the addition of four times Cup-winning Kiwi Simon Daubney to the sail trimming department.
Daubney, who has Warwick Fleury alongside him, was one of Oracle ceo Russell Coutts' 'tight five' and both of them are due to be inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame next month.
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by Stuart Alexander
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10:37 PM Fri 6 Aug 2010 GMT
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