Onboard hoops

It’s nice being right. Watching Versus, Peter Isler just confirmed what we thought all along. Craig Hummer just asked him how the teams handle the postponements, and Peter offered how it is apart of the sport, sailors are used to it, and you remain patient while staying cool and chatting with your teammates. However, he said the best times during the many postponements of the early Round Robin series was when the BMW Oracle Racing afterguard would shuttle over to Larry Ellison’s 450-foot ‘Rising Sun.’

We said back on April 19 how it seemed so wasteful that these teams spent all day on the boats during postponement. When the forecast was dismal on these days, they could get indoors and continue preparing for the day. But what we didn’t realize was that for the BOR team, these excursions to Ellison’s yacht also included playing some hoops at the onboard basketball court. Gotta love the pro end of this sport.