Americas Cup
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@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
so on the TVNZ Sports piece, they have Burling as the 'Flight Controller' but Spittal as 'co-helmsman'
The correct titles for TNZ are:
Burling - helmsman
Ashby - trimmer
Tuke - flight controllerDo we have co-helmsman too, or do LR have a Flight Controller?
Bruni and Spithill are co-helmsmen (they don't change sides), Sibello is the mainsail trimmer. It looks like they also use some grinders as trimmers.
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@bovidae said in Americas Cup:
@snowy Max Sirena is their skipper.
Thanks. I know who he is but he sure doesn't say much on board.
Pretty sure they had Spithill listed as skipper on the TB. Is Sirena always on the boat?
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@machpants well they could, it'd just be slower...
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@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
@machpants well they could, it'd just be slower...
Racing at 5 knots lol
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@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
@machpants well they could, it'd just be slower...
Couldn't be any more dull than what we've seen recently.
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@damo said in Americas Cup:
@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
@machpants well they could, it'd just be slower...
Couldn't be any more dull than what we've seen recently.
Except the race wouldn't finish, they'd run out of time
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@machpants could start them at 9am and let them go!
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@damo said in Americas Cup:
@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
@machpants well they could, it'd just be slower...
Couldn't be any more dull than what we've seen recently.
A displacement race would make me laugh, except we lost in SF due to a time limit so don't want to go there. About as fair as a CWC decided on boundaries. I'm not bitter at all, well maybe a little...fucking arseholes that make stupid rules...they don't understand the sport... they are all idiots...mutter, mutter.
Going back to the GOM thread.
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@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
@machpants could start them at 9am and let them go!
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@canefan said in Americas Cup:
@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:
@canefan I think all the monohull ACs were more like that, so pre 2013 (ignoring the deed of gift), I’m sure 95-2007 were more like that
I was thinking more recently, either SF or Bermuda
I thought I’d seen these courses were very similar is size to SF and Bermuda, tighter grandstand courses rather than out further like before that
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@machpants said in Americas Cup:
@damo said in Americas Cup:
@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:
@machpants well they could, it'd just be slower...
Couldn't be any more dull than what we've seen recently.
Except the race wouldn't finish, they'd run out of time
Just make it one leg.
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@snowy said in Americas Cup:
@bovidae said in Americas Cup:
@snowy Max Sirena is their skipper.
Thanks. I know who he is but he sure doesn't say much on board.
Pretty sure they had Spithill listed as skipper on the TB. Is Sirena always on the boat?
I don't think he is ever on the boat. The job titles seem to be arbitrary. Bruni and Spithill look to have equal on-board responsibilities for Luna Rossa.
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was stupid having it on same time as the BLues anyway!
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A quick look at the weather forecast suggests light winds until Thursday, when the wind will rise to 10+ knots. Hopefully at least one or two of next week's days will be called off (assuming they are scheduled to race every day). I would generaly regard late February and March as some of the nicest calmest weather in Auckland during the year (no stats to back me up, just the eye test), funny that we should expect more. If they wanted more wind they should have raced in November
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