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Una explicación de lo que pasó en la regata de ayer. Claves: la virada después de la segunda boya, y el buscar la protección de la corriente de Alcatraz...

Oracle Team USA led on the first two legs Tuesday and then called for a foiling tack, a radical, quick turn around the downwind mark. The crew botched the tack and practically came to a stop, costing it almost all of its 150-meter lead.
"Yeah, I think it was a mistake in the end," Slingsby said. "We wanted to cover the right-hand side but ideally we probably should have kept going straight and tacked when they tacked."
Oracle has made a number of mistakes. This was just the latest, and perhaps the biggest.
"In this racing, you only need to make a couple little mistakes here and there and they add up very quickly," Spithill said. "As we've seen in these boats, what's good or bad, depending on if you're in the lead or behind, you make a mistake, you get absolutely punished for it."
Barker steered Team New Zealand into the cone of Alcatraz, which offers protection from the flood tide as the boats sail upwind toward the Golden Gate Bridge. By the time the 72-foot catamarans had passed Alcatraz, the Kiwis were in the lead. Their advantage was more than 300 meters halfway up the leg.
"Obviously we're very pleased to take the win," Barker said. "It's difficult because these guys are getting off the line well and leading around mark one, so they get to dictate a little bit what's going on down the run. But the boat is going really well upwind.