Keeler from Russell Coutts

Despite this blog being mostly about dinghy sailing (and weird music videos), I normally sprinkle keelboat posts here and there just to maintain some diversity.

Back in 2007, Russell Coutts developed a mini IACC type keelboat class called the RC44 (RC=Russell Coutts..... makes sense). I guess the original idea of this class was to be the stepping stone, the triple AAA league if you will (American baseball terminology) for pro sailors progressing to the larger America's Cup arena. Well, the switch to multihulls squelched that idea but, from the following video, it looks like the class is doing just fine in Europe.

I like the action in this video of RC44 racing. Not an over produced promo film, this short features simple editing of onboard camera footage as we race around the course in a fleet race.