I'm still going through our California shots. I found this one and wanted to post. I did edit it today :)
While we were in San Francisco, the city was hosting the 30th Anniversary Louis Vuitton Cup. In this shot are the Luna Rosa and Emirates Team New Zealand doing a training run in the San Francisco Bay. You can see Alcatraz in the background.
Best viewed large if you have time.
The Louis Vuitton Cup, the America’s Cup Challenger Series, is the regatta that determines which challenger races the defender in the America’s Cup Finals.
Scheduled July 7-August 30, three teams are entered in the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup: Artemis Racing of Sweden, Emirates Team New Zealand, and Luna Rossa Challenge of Italy.
Significantly, 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the first Louis Vuitton Cup, which first took place in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1983. It was an auspicious debut, as the winner of the first Louis Vuitton Cup, Australia II, went on to become the first challenger in the 132-history of the America’s Cup to beat the defender and take the Cup from the United States. Prior to the first Louis Vuitton Cup in 1983, no challenger had ever found success in defeating the U.S. defender.
