Cup TV

If you haven't seen or experienced "Alinghi TV," you've missed something special.

Click on the "Cup TV" headline and it'll take you right there. They have captured a series of vignettes or "best of" moments of the past America's Cup campaign (AC32 in July 2007) and tried to offer some of the color and flavor of the event.

This should be required watching for ALL of the officials, lawyers, judges and other hangers-on who have the power to influence, even change, the way the America's Cup activities are run.

For one thing, you'll see these races are somewhat less that just glamour and glitz. They'll also a lot of raw emotions and muscled crews clawing their way to the top, led by immense brainpower, skill and luck, all riding upon the technology of the practical, experimental and futuristic.

This is some powerful and interesting stuff.

Since television treats sailing events as something with a small following (despite the MILLIONS of sailors in most countries of the civilized world), any little shred of televised sailboat racing is golden, indeed. Roll the videotape!