Climbing high

April 16, 2007 on 3:00 pm | In Miscellaneous |

Vowe, lucky fellow he usually is, is off to Valencia for this year’s Louis Vuitton Cup that serves to determine the challenger for the current holder of the America’s Cup.

The NZZ reasoned in yesterday’s Sunday edition that the Swiss syndicate Alinghi will be very hard to beat because

• they kept finetuning the boat,
• now they have not only one, but two winnings teams that are interchangeable, and
• they have made only few minor managment errors, usually the biggest threat to a defender.

However, despite Alinghi’s professionalism and the past excitement for the team that surely will heat up again, there’s a team that’s also winning many hearts in Switzerland, namely Team Shosholoza from the rainbow nation of South Africa. Based on the Royal Cape Yacht Club, Team Shosholoza (”Move Forward”) is affiliated with Izivunguvungu, a project aimed to let poor children sail and thus have a meaningful and challenging activity and education that serves them later in life. In the current line-up for the Luis Vuitton Cup, Team Shosholoza features members from their sailing school.

More videos:
Alinghi 2007 UBS commercial
Team Shosholoza
Team Oracle/BMW