America's Cup: Media day on San Francisco Bay

7:52 PM Mon 13 Jun 2011 GMT

'ORACLE Racing press conference at GGYC - America schooner replica with AC45 moored at the GGYC' Gilles Martin-Raget/www.americascup.com Click Here to view large photo

A large contingent of media has assembled in San Francisco to launch the sailing side of the 34th America's Cup in the Californian city. Sail-World understands that about 40 or more media have attended the first of a series of media conferences and events designed to acquaint local and international media with the event and the new catamarans that will be sailed in the lead-up to the Match. Normally such events would attract a handful of locally based media. Part of this media exercise involves getting the media on the water to see the two Oracle Racing AC45's sailing on ...

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by Richard Gladwell