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TV Kings Pointer to head to San Francisco as flagship for the America’s Cup Super Yacht Program
TV Kings Pointer to head to San Francisco as flagship for the
America’s Cup Super Yacht
Program
The new training ship is
expected to make a big splash amongst the world’s most amazing super
yachts. With her new KP blue topsides
and sparkling white house she will certainly turn heads. While the other mega sailing yachts will be
racing in their own regatta, Kings Pointer will arrive with her own, bringing a
fleet of 420’s, Sonar’s, and a Melges 32 on deck. After unloading her sailing cargo the ship
will head out each day to serve as the committee boat for the America’s Cup
Racing. Peter Reggio, principal race
officer for the America’s cup, had these comments about the new ship- “This
will be great for setting a start line!
Instead of yelling at the committee boat crew and pin boat to set a
perfect line I can just set the Kongsberg Dynamic Positioning System to
AutoSquare mode and I know that the start line will always be perfect.” And Jimmy Spithill, captain of Team Oracle
was excited about another aspect of the ship- “ With 2900 horsepower and a big
towing winch, anytime one of those pesky cargo ships tries to transit the race course
we can just tow them out of the way!” Official
voyage sponsor American President Line’s threatened to withdraw sponsorship
based on Spithill’s comments, but a solution should be in place in time for the
ships arrival in San Francisco. Kings
Pointer is scheduled for an April 1st departure from Jacksonville,
FL with a crew of eager cadets.
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