Americas Cup

[canefan]

@dogmeat said in Americas Cup:

It must all seem very 2003 blue bucket out on the Gulf to Barker.

He is the ultimate AC choker

[taniwharugby]

apparently Team USA hit a record speed for these boats of 53.31kn, almost 100km in 21kn winds!

[Machpants]

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

apparently Team USA hit a record speed for these boats of 53.31kn, almost 100km in 21kn winds!

At approx 18 million NZD per race, you'd hope so! I coulda brought and paid for a life time of Hawk flights for that

[Snowy]

@Machpants said in Americas Cup:

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

apparently Team USA hit a record speed for these boats of 53.31kn, almost 100km in 21kn winds!

At approx 18 million NZD per race, you'd hope so! I coulda brought and paid for a life time of Hawk flights for that

By my calculations, if it was about 25deg out there, LSS was about 662kts, they were close to mach .08 at 53 knots. Fast for a boat, but yes very expensive compared to a Hawk in dollars per mach number. Hawk is mid point eights straight and level like an A330 I think?

Cost aside, I think I would rather have a go in the boat.

[Bovidae]

Quite a change in conditions for today's racing.

[Snowy]

Not sure that they will race. The met service has it at 7kph, so well under the 6 knot limit. Forecast is for it to fill in a bit by 3pm. Might end up being a displacement race. No idea how that might pan out or whether they can get around the course in time (doubtful).

[Snowy]

That AC forecast also has a NE -N, the met service has S-SW until 9pm. Completely contrary. A sea breeze is likely so maybe AC have it right, but it might just counter the prevailing to nothing.
I had an afternoon on the couch with a few beers planned. Very annoying.

[Bovidae]

One more race until USA packs up and goes home.

[taniwharugby]

@Bovidae they have plenty of speed but getting done on the starts and arent able to recover.

[nzzp]

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

@Bovidae they have plenty of speed but getting done on the starts and arent able to recover.

They look very slow tacking or gybing too, seem to lose a huge amount of boat speed

[Bovidae]

@taniwharugby That start was even but Luna Rossa got the favoured right side.

USA needs to be ultra-aggressive in the pre-start in race 4 because they won't win unless they force a mistake from Luna Rossa. No point in trailing every leg - again.

[taniwharugby]

@nzzp possibly a bit gun shy after falling the other week turning at high speed and again yesterday?

@Bovidae thats the thing, he was on the wrong side of the start (well, seemed the wrong side) and from there LR built her lead.

[Machpants]

Barker is shit, that start was awful

[Machpants]

Then a tech issue at first turn, time to go home with just ten races... Issue again, off the foils...

[taniwharugby]

poor buggars!

[Machpants]

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

poor buggars!

Yeah but they would've lost anyway

[Bovidae]

@Machpants said in Americas Cup:

Barker is shit, that start was awful

He is just so passive compared to Spithill.

[taniwharugby]

@Machpants its one thing to get beaten by skill but to add in mechanical issues just adds salt to the wounds

[Bovidae]

Team UK's struggles in light winds becomes apparent in the pre-start.

[Crucial]

Surely they must have known in practice that they are a dog in these conditions?
Just punting on strong winds?