PUCK DROPS IN TO CAPE TOWN Dec 27, 09:40
Congrats to BMWOR's Brian "Puck" MacInnes (CAN) and the ABN AMRO ONE Team for their win in yesterday's windy (40 kts) and rough Boxing Day "inshore race" off Cape Town, South Africa, that scores as part of the VOR.
The rules permit the VOR teams to add one sailor for the inshore races. In recruiting Puck, it would appear skipper Mike "Moose" Sanderson chose wisely. A member of our sailing team (grinder), Puck adds a heap of around-the-buoys experience, to say nothing of strength and stamina. Puck is featured today in a nice interview on that team's website.
Taking his family to Cape Town for a warm, albeit working, holiday, Puck helped his adopted team stay atop the VOR leaderboard -- and garnered some nice ink along the way. An excerpt from Puck's interview....
Cape Town, Monday, 26 December 2005 -- For some extra firepower on board ABN AMRO ONE during the seven in-shore races of the Volvo Ocean Race, skipper Mike Sanderson has brought on Canadian America’s Cup veteran Brian McInnes as a grinder. We recently sat down with him to talk about what he does in his ‘other’ life and why he was invited to temporarily join our TEAM.
What’s your racing background?
Right now I sail with BMW Oracle Racing, for their America’s Cup campaign. I live in Valencia with my family and train with the team year-round. This is my fourth America’s Cup campaign. I sailed with Young America in 1997 in Auckland, Abracadabra in 2000, then Oracle BMW Racing in 2003, then BMW Oracle again for the 2007 challenge.
In these in-shore races, every team can have an extra sailor on board. In crew ONE’s case, we chose for a grinder. What are the other campaigns choosing?
Here in the in-shore races some of the campaigns have chosen a tactician, and others for a grinder. The Pirates also have one.
What is it like, sailing with all these nationalities on one boat?
How a team evolves is with the input from all those nationalities. When you look at BMW Oracle, [we] have 16 different nations on the team. It’s taking not just nationalities, but the experience from all the teams and making it work. It’s also about ‘forgetting’ your old team in a way. That is, not saying ‘that’s how we did it then’. You get to say, ‘this is how we do it now going forward’.
Read the full interview here.
Brian "Puck" MacInnes on the perpetual summer program -- above, on
USA-76 in September at balmy Trapani before Acts 8 & 9, and now enjoying
the Southern Hemisphere summer in Cape Town -- both a far cry from the
weather most any time of the year in his native Nova Scotia.
The rules permit the VOR teams to add one sailor for the inshore races. In recruiting Puck, it would appear skipper Mike "Moose" Sanderson chose wisely. A member of our sailing team (grinder), Puck adds a heap of around-the-buoys experience, to say nothing of strength and stamina. Puck is featured today in a nice interview on that team's website.
Taking his family to Cape Town for a warm, albeit working, holiday, Puck helped his adopted team stay atop the VOR leaderboard -- and garnered some nice ink along the way. An excerpt from Puck's interview....
Cape Town, Monday, 26 December 2005 -- For some extra firepower on board ABN AMRO ONE during the seven in-shore races of the Volvo Ocean Race, skipper Mike Sanderson has brought on Canadian America’s Cup veteran Brian McInnes as a grinder. We recently sat down with him to talk about what he does in his ‘other’ life and why he was invited to temporarily join our TEAM.
What’s your racing background?
Right now I sail with BMW Oracle Racing, for their America’s Cup campaign. I live in Valencia with my family and train with the team year-round. This is my fourth America’s Cup campaign. I sailed with Young America in 1997 in Auckland, Abracadabra in 2000, then Oracle BMW Racing in 2003, then BMW Oracle again for the 2007 challenge.
In these in-shore races, every team can have an extra sailor on board. In crew ONE’s case, we chose for a grinder. What are the other campaigns choosing?
Here in the in-shore races some of the campaigns have chosen a tactician, and others for a grinder. The Pirates also have one.
What is it like, sailing with all these nationalities on one boat?
How a team evolves is with the input from all those nationalities. When you look at BMW Oracle, [we] have 16 different nations on the team. It’s taking not just nationalities, but the experience from all the teams and making it work. It’s also about ‘forgetting’ your old team in a way. That is, not saying ‘that’s how we did it then’. You get to say, ‘this is how we do it now going forward’.
Read the full interview here.
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Brian "Puck" MacInnes on the perpetual summer program -- above, onUSA-76 in September at balmy Trapani before Acts 8 & 9, and now enjoying
the Southern Hemisphere summer in Cape Town -- both a far cry from the
weather most any time of the year in his native Nova Scotia.
Racing | by TFE
