

BWD wrote:Watching the boats bear away in close quarters at mark 1 yesterday was not boring.
BWD wrote:Watching the boats bear away in close quarters at mark 1 yesterday was not boring.
edt wrote:if new zealand wins today Grant Dalton indicated they are going back to monohulls like the 12m class and a nationality rule of some kind, maybe you need 50%
if larry wins, same bat-time same bat-channel
theres alot of people who feel that if oracle wins it will put the future of the cup at a real crossroads. it has been very difficult for teams to fund this hull class with the entry price tag at 100mil. there were only 3 challengers this year.plummet wrote:edt wrote:if new zealand wins today Grant Dalton indicated they are going back to monohulls like the 12m class and a nationality rule of some kind, maybe you need 50%
if larry wins, same bat-time same bat-channel
I want nz to win. But if the next America's cup is back to mono hulls I wont be watching. I love the fact that these things are crazy dangerous fast.
Perhaps a smaller version that goes just as fast but doesn't cost as much.
plummet that is true if you have the same amount of upwind and downwind legs, it's just math, since you spend more time in the slower leg, that leg is more important to overall time.plummet wrote:Lets face it. Technology won on the day. The first races oracle where refining there new technology and got smoked. They then mastered it and for a while it was an even boat race. The last 3 or 4 races Oracle have had the faster boat. Today proved that. They just sailed past them upwind. NZ made no mistakes Oracle made a couple but the boat with the better upwind won.
Anyone who has raced kites will know this. If you have an advantage upwind typically you will win. Unless you stuff up.
To be fair I didn't watch all the races. I saw it like. this. When the yachts are even the boat who gets the start wins. Unless it makes a mistake. When it is uneven. The yachts with the best upwind wins.edt wrote: plummet that is true if you have the same amount of upwind and downwind legs, it's just math, since you spend more time in the slower leg, that leg is more important to overall time.
But this race has 2 downwind legs, 2 reaches and 1 upwind leg. I saw quite a few races won by the boat with a better downwind speed and worse upwind speed. I think they choose the course carefully this way so it wouldn't be all about the upwind leg.
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