From time to time ACM publishes the webstats for the official site, www.americascup.com. Below is a chart of the total number of referrals per month from their site to the various team sites. Nice to see that BMWOR continues to get more "click-throughs" from the
ACM site than any other team, including Alinghi. The "Total" column is for all months from July '05, and BMWOR has led every month, not that we're competing. ;)

London, 1645 Saturday

The late, great American TV host, Ed Sullivan, used to open his weekly variety show with those words (in our headline). They sum up nicely the action here at the Collins Stewart London Boat Show at the ExCel Centre in the Docklands area of London.

Mirko and I arrived Wednesday evening to assist our partners BMW, Girard Perregaux and Henri Lloyd with presentations on our large BMW ORACLE Racing stand during the show's final four days.

The centre piece of the stand, of course, is USA 61. Today alone over 2000 people have stood in line (er, queue) for up to fifteen minutes to get a chance to climb the stairs and see 61 up at the deck level.

Between presentations, media work, and meetings/socials with our sponsor-partners we have not found much blogging time. However, we do have some good pix that we will get up ASAP. In the meantime, here is one from Wednesday when Princess Anne, a keen sportswoman and President of the Royal Yachting Association (the UK's national sailing authority) visited our stand -- and spent well more than the four minutes allotted in her very tight schedule.




And a shot from yesterday....



Photos courtesy of Matt Dickens and Tim Stonton/onEdition. Copyright onEdition 2007©

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...to a Boat Show near you, assuming you live in or around London....

Okay, so we couldn't manage to take a full week off without a post....

As previously reported on our main team site and here on the BOB, USA 61 will be on display at the Collins Stewart London Boat Show 5-14 January. This is the first time an America’s Cup yacht has exhibited at the London Boat Show.

The BMW ORACLE Racing stand promises to be one of the leading attractions at this year’s show. The 24m hull will take pride of place in the North Hall on exhibition stand N425 which will also feature two virtual simulators, offering visitors a taste of what it is like to helm these incredible yachts.

The Collins Stewart London Boat Show is anticipating over 140,000 visitors through the doors of ExCeL Centre during the 10-day show. Over 700 exhibitors will showcase more than 1,000 of the world’s leading boats.