A crack yesterday in the wall of part of the canal that will unite the interior part of Valencian Port with the sea resulted in the entire area being inundated with seawater.

Initially, the Port authorities had considered trying to block it using trucks filled with sand, but finally last night the America's Cup works team stated that they would let the flooding go ahead and end the work with the seawater already in place.

This is not the first time that works for the America's Cup have encountered problems. Just after the first preparations began, two unexploded bombs dating from the Spanish Civil War were discovered.

Source: Valencia Life newsletter.

To see our post in September with aerial views of the canal construction, before the crack, click here.

Am posting this in the Munich airport en route to New York for the first stop on our BMW ORACLE Racing USA Yacht Club tour, so am unable to grab a picture myself. If anyone has pictures they would like us to post, please send them to blog[at]tfehman.com.

Apparently the canal has filled with water a bit ahead of schedule.