Louis Vuitton Final - Match 2

ETNZ went two up on Luna Rossa in Saturday's second match of the Louis Vuitton Final. Once again the sea breeze filled in on cue maintaining a constant 13knots and veering 5 degrees to the right during the race. It was quite obvious in the prestart that both boats wanted to start on the right and go right. Luna Rossa managed to start on the right hand side of ETNZ but were slow when the gun fired and immediately had to tack away onto port. ETNZ quickly followed and both boats took a long port tack out to the right hand side. Unfortunately for Luna Rossa they did not receive a little right hand shift and when they eventually tacked back onto starboard, ETNZ were able to tack directly in front forcing Luna Rossa onto port. Both boats then commenced a tacking duel up the right hand side of the course before Luna Rossa was left with no runway and were forced to follow ETNZ into the windward mark rounding 25 seconds ahead. ETNZ then kept a loose cover on Luna Rossa in contrast to previous races extending their lead on each leg to finally win by 40 seconds.