America's Cup AC Series Race

Ok here is the companion to this weekends post. The second AC Series race to take place in San Francisco also happened last week. The final race took place during the Fleet Week air show. Basically the organizers of both events collaborated on timing. The air show started at 12:30 and ran to about 1:50 at which point the final AC Series race took place. After that race, the Blue Angels took to the sky and finished the air show. It was nice to see them work together.

So, here are some pictures of the boats. My previous post from the first AC race here in SF were taken from Point Baker which is on the opposite side of the bay, these are taken from Crissy Field. This meant I was the gate side of the racing box, thus only seeing one turn around point, I was not able to see the finish line. (I was able to get much better pictures of the boats, but I also had to shoot through a lot of spectator boats.) One more race before the big event next year which will give me a chance to work on position. (I may have to spurge and pay for a good spot, unless I can find a boat right. :-)

This is a fun way to learn more about my camera, pictures and technique. Now I have to convince my wife to allow me to get a better lens.

Enjoy the pictures.

America's Cup

Here are a few pictures from the America's Cup AC series race that took place here in San Francisco on August 26th.  I was again at Ft Baker thus rather far away from the action.  All these shots are at 300mm and then cropped a bit.  There where several people there trying to figure out if it would be a good vantage point to view the race and avoid the crowd.  Thus it did not really work.

These where the smaller boats, but the once they change to the bigger boats, I still do not think it would matter much.

This picture shows one of the teams practicing with the Bay Bridge as the back drop.  This is both the old Bay Bridge and the new replacement span.  The large tower is new part and should go into service in about a year.  This is the Eastern span of the Bay Bridge.

Here are more pictures with part of SF as the background.  The bridge you see is the Western span of the Bay Bridge.