America's Cup: Green Comm Racing capsizes in 20kts at Plymouth + Video

9:49 PM Mon 5 Sep 2011 GMT

'Plymouth (UK) - 34th America's Cup - AC World Series - Plymouth 2011 - Monday Training' Gilles Martin-Raget/www.americascup.com - copyright Click Here to view large photo

After Oracle Racing crews, Artemis Racing, Emirates Team New Zealand and Team Korea, Green Comm Racing became the latest member of the 'AC45 capsize club'.

There were no crew injuries and the damage to the top of the wing is only minor. Green Comm Racing's AC45 yacht is expected to be fully repaired by Tuesday afternoon.

As Vasilij Zbogar, helmsman, stated, 'this incident didn't come as a surprise. Conditions were fresh with a southwesterly breeze between 20 and 25 knots, gusting at 30 knots, and we were pushing the boat to her limits throughout the day.

We had a very intense training session and we were constantly on the edge. At some stage we were sailing upwind with the wing completely released as we were pushing to the limits. Our top upwind speed was over 17 knots while downwind we got up to 29 knots!