第35届美洲杯帆船赛日本福冈站落幕，英国队夺冠，徐瑞芬女士与环渤海一同受邀观赛
2016年11月19日-20日，第35届美洲杯帆船赛“路易威登美洲杯”在日本福冈举行了分站赛，英国路虎BAR队喜获冠军。徐瑞芬女士与棕泉投资的环渤海帆船赛事公司一同受邀在现场观看了这场精彩绝伦的赛事。
1851年，英国人发明了帆船这项运动，但在132年间，美国却一直处于霸主地位，连续夺得冠军。虽然这个项目叫“美洲杯”，不过昨日全部竞技队伍转战亚洲城市日本福冈。屡战屡败却从未气馁的英国队，在拥有了奥运帆船历史纪录第一人后，英国路虎BAR队取得了美洲杯帆船赛福冈站冠军。历经一个多世纪的努力，英国人离成功近了一步。
◆美洲杯帆船赛是什么？
◆美洲杯帆船赛的赛制和规则是怎么的？
美洲杯帆船赛通常每四年举办一次，目前的赛制分为三个阶段：
一、分站赛
在世界各地共举办13场分站赛。分站赛的形式为“群发赛”，所有参赛船只从同一起点出发，分站赛成绩作为路易威登的分组依据。
二、路易威登杯
比赛采用“两两对决”的淘汰赛制，最终的获胜者作为挑战者参加最终的决赛，与上一届冠军进行对决。
三、决赛
决赛在卫冕船队俱乐部所在国家举行。
◆本届赛事什么情况？
第35届美洲杯从2014年-2017年举行，每一只参赛队伍在每站获得的积分，最终决定他们的“路易威登美洲杯”的排位顺序，赛程采用淘汰赛制，最终获胜的队伍将与上一届美洲杯冠军进行对决，最终确定本届美洲杯的冠军得主。
◆美洲杯帆船赛不仅是浮在水面上，它还能飞呢！
与传统帆船（单体、单帆）不同，现在参与美洲杯的帆船采用的是双体、双帆、多人协同操作的结构。它的原理基本上可解释为水翼船：船身底部有支架，装上水翼。当船的速度逐渐增加，水翼提供的浮力会把船身抬离水面（称为水翼飞航或水翼航行），从而大为减少水的阻力和增加航行速度。
具体来说，“美洲杯级”赛船(Class Americas)对船长、船重，帆的尺寸、制造材料(碳素钢)等等方面都做出了严格限制。它使得赛船拥有更多的运帆空间、更轻的船体，但同时要求船骨入水更深，从而保证了船的稳定性能不打折扣。目前“美洲杯级”赛船船重更轻，速度更快，使美洲杯帆船赛竞争更加激烈。
所以在比赛过程中，我们可以看到传统意义的船体是高于水面的，并不是我们印象中的那种漂在水面上，强大动力和浮力可以轻松推动整个船体前进，远远望去就像是在水面上低空飞行一样。
Land Rover BAR - the British challengeheaded by Olympic legend Ben Ainslie - has won the Louis Vuitton America's CupWorld Series with a first place finish at the ultimate event in Japan thisweekend.
Ainslie's team sailed extremely well tosecure the overall title with a race to spare. With the overall series win,Land Rover BAR earns two bonus points for the next stage of the America's Cup(see below).
ORACLE TEAM USA and skipper Jimmy Spithillpushed hard, finishing ahead of BAR in the first race of the day, but Ainsliewas able to sail with controlled aggression to a 4, 2, 3 scoreline, and intothe overall series win.
"This has been a goal for us for thewhole season and for this event. The guys have done an incredible job,"Ainslie said from the water following the second race of the day.
"For us as a new team it sends out astrong message for all our supporters that we can do it."
For the Louis Vuitton America's Cup WorldSeries Fukuoka, it came down to a tie-break with Land Rover BAR clawing into atie with Artemis Racing in the final contest, and taking the regatta by virtueof a better result in the last race.
But with attention shifting to Bermuda andthe America's Cup racing next year, the focus was on the overall title andbonus points it confers.
By taking first place on the overall LouisVuitton America's Cup World Series leaderboard, Land Rover BAR has collectedtwo bonus points to carry forward into next year's Louis Vuitton America's CupQualifiers in Bermuda.
With a second place finish on the overallleaderboard, ORACLE TEAM USA secured one bonus point for the Louis VuittonAmerica's Cup Qualifiers next year.
Selected quotes from the skippers:
Sir Ben Ainslie, Skipper, Land Rover BAR: “It’s been an incredible day of racing and for our team, Land Rover BAR, to come out on top here in Fukuoka, Japan in the final race of the series, and to win the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series, that was our goal and to achieve that is special for us. We are a completely new team, two and a half years ago we were a blank sheet back in Portsmouth in the UK and now, for our designers, our shore team and everyone back in the UK, it’s a real boost, so now we set our sights on Bermuda for the America’s Cup."
Jimmy Spithill, Skipper, ORACLE TEAM USA: “"We wanted the points. We would have loved to have taken the two points, but one thing we weren't going to let happen was to have Emirates Team New Zealand take our point off us. So we ended up in a bit of match race with them at the end and the boys did a great job to keep them behind us."
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棕泉资本管理（RIC Capital Management），创立于2009年的一个亚洲的资本管理公司和家族投资管理办公室,主要以股权（移动互联，体育文化和健康产业等领域），并购重组和高收益策略为主的多元化投资平台，专注投资于亚洲，美国和欧洲。已经通过中国证券投资基金协会私募投资基金管理人登记备案，团队来自国内外教育背景，具有从业资格和相应金融行业资格的成员。目前已经投资了近30个项目，已经成功挂牌/上市的企业已达8家。
