My brother, Tom, is crewing on an older America's Cup, The Valiant, in Valencia. He speaks of the spinnaker custom made for this wonderful boat for Freerange:

"We flew the FreeRange spinnaker today at practice (out with th Alinghi a*nd Team New Zealand, the America's Cup contestants, who were also out practicing, and it was awesome. We attracted a great deal of attention. I think when this regatta starts on Thursday, the big buzzard (as my crewmates refer to it) will be the talk of Valencia.

We also had dinner...the at head of the sailmaking operation for Team Oracle/BMW Racing (who has been living in Valencia for the past 3 years, and he had on a FreeRange hat when we walked in!"

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