Americas Cup
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@snowy I guess if you lose the start and the wind is not wildly shifting the better risk reward is to stay in touch and see if you can pressure the leading crew into making a mistake rather than going for the all on black option of taking the less favoured side of the course.
If starts do remain the critical race decider we may see more sailing off on your own as the match progresses, but then the leading boat just covers.
The perceived 'wisdom' after only two races
is that LR is more manoueverable and thus will come out better in a tacking duel. It didn't seem that way to me in the last upwind leg yesterday.All that physics stuff was the dark arts when I was sailing, look at the water, look at the sky, stay between the other boat and the mark - pretend you know what you're doing and don't fuck up.
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@dogmeat Agree with all of that. As someone mentioned the dial up allowed one boat to protect a side of the course for either expected pressure or a shift. Failing that, force a mistake to get ahead over the line. In displacement boats they had so many pre start moves it was more likely than now it seems.
As for that dirty tart, physics, yes, she is still back in the shed (or behind it) while the sailors are moistening their fingers and raising them.
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@antipodean said in Americas Cup:
@snowy said in Americas Cup:
Applied maths, pure maths, chemistry, and the gold of them all, physics
Physics is the ugly sister of pure maths. Her popularity is based on her low morals.
there's only two kinds of science. Physics and stamp collecting.
disclaimer: I studied physics
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@nzzp said in Americas Cup:
@antipodean said in Americas Cup:
@snowy said in Americas Cup:
Applied maths, pure maths, chemistry, and the gold of them all, physics
Physics is the ugly sister of pure maths. Her popularity is based on her low morals.
there's only two kinds of science. Physics and stamp collecting.
disclaimer: I studied physics
There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's sciences, and physicists.
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@dogmeat said in Americas Cup:
@chris-b General Science wasn't even an option for us at School C. You had to specialise.
I bet @Snowy took Biology - and worked after school in the Butchery Department at Foodtown (as was).
Sailings more physics anyway.
My school only offered about 9 subjects and three of them were Home Economics, Woodwork and Typing.
You were only allowed to take five.
However, it was in North Canterbury with various Wyllies, Deans, Loes and Earls floating about at the time - which is why I know more about The Art of Rugby Football than all you fluffybunnies!
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And this doesn't help either:
“There’s a very high percentage we won’t get any racing today. The prognosis going forward isn't a whole lot better the next couple of days,” Murray warned as a high pressure system envelopes the country.
“We will go out and try our hand on Course E. We could get a NNE coming down the channel. It’s just a tricky day, I’m afraid.”
A return to level 1 also means Murray can use the “stadium course” that runs between North Head and Rangitoto Island through, frustratingly, it isn't a good option in very light winds. -
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@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:
@jk said in Americas Cup:
Yeah cant see any racing at the moment. 2-3knots out there!
more sail!
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@voodoo said in Americas Cup:
@bovidae said in Americas Cup:
New start time of 4:23 pm. piston wristed gibbons on the race course.
Wish they'd stayed on the course...
We're getting smoked upwind and downwind. Fair play Italy, long way back from here
