Americas Cup

[canefan]

@rotated And the challengers have to sail their boats from their home ports to the regatta

[taniwharugby]

Expect the architypal baddie Mr Spithill to come out all guns blazing over the next few days...patronizing, condescending, praising, I expect we will get the whole spectrum...

[dogmeat]

Martin Tasker / Peter Lester interviewing Shoebridge - seem quietly confident - not worried about starts at all.

[Unite]

Is this boat race on in the AM?

[mimic]

Sunday morning methinks

[canefan]

Two races scheduled on finals day 1. Hopefully we can realise superior boat speed and flip the deficit straight away

[Unite]

@mimic cheers, right you are!

[Crucial]

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

Two races scheduled on finals day 1. Hopefully we can realise superior boat speed and flip the deficit straight away

Too right. we should be aiming to establish an insurmountable lead

[canefan]

@Crucial said in Americas Cup:

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

Two races scheduled on finals day 1. Hopefully we can realise superior boat speed and flip the deficit straight away

Too right. we should be aiming to establish an insurmountable lead

Two races per day no lay days? it'll be over rover either way

[Crucial]

At least this time the biggest lead we could get before losing is 6-1.

Love the way there is a big gap between days 2 and 3 just in case Oracle is losing so Larry can head to the bank and buy a win.

[antipodean]

@Crucial said in Americas Cup:

At least this time the biggest lead we could get before losing is 6-1.

Love the way there is a big gap between days 2 and 3 just in case Oracle is losing so Larry can head to the bank and buy a win.

The idea is to ram them at the start then.

[Crucial]

Quite like this article....

Steve Deane  /  Jun 13, 2017  /  Comment

Time to show Team New Zealand the love

'What held me back from genuinely being fond of Team NZ was the lack of accountability to the taxpayer.'

[mimic]

TNZ winning the first race..

But man another hiccup at the last mark.. Led by 1.49 minutes, and only won by 30 secs

Just saw that the scores started with TNZ at -1 and Oracle at 0. So Oracle need to win 7, and TNZ need to win 8.
I thought Oracle had 1 point already, and only need 6 more to get to 7.

[mimic]

TNZ making errors, and we now have a race

[mimic]

oracle cut the lead from ~600m to almost overtaking them.. and then oracle make a mistake and TNZ break away to a 500m lead

[mimic]

After Day 1, Emirates TNZ lead 1-0 (2 wins, but they started on -1)

[Virgil]

Fucken ripper, 2 more tomorrow and we will get to see Coutts ripping into cuntface again like 4 years ago.
Hopefully the comeback doesn't happen tho

[TeWaio]

That looked awesome, we seem way faster than them in light air

[Snowy]

@antipodean said in Americas Cup:

The idea is to ram them at the start then.

That might be strangely prescient albeit the other way around. There was a comment on the radio yesterday that Oracle have admitted to having a second race boat. Ram us, both boats broken and they can sail around uncontested in their spare. Wouldn't put it past the pricks either.

Still, good to see us with an apparent advantage in light airs. We seem to point higher, or have greater boat speed with a similar angle.

I will now go to Warkworth and nobble any of the bastards wandering around in Oracle shirts before they head to Bermuda.

[taniwharugby]

@Snowy let me know if you need any help