Americas Cup

Snowy

have they done this because we might be able to win it today

More because it is orientated to the SW. Only other course would be "E" and why would they do that when we can have crowds in level 1? Only reason for "E" would be if there thought that they might get more breeze and it was marginal.

Kiwiwomble

yeah, it was tongue in cheek, obviously the best course first, the last thing they would want is for races to have to be called off, just luck they best course is a great one for the home crowd to watch from

Snowy

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

yeah, it was tongue in cheek, obviously the best course first, the last thing they would want is for races to have to be called off, just luck they best course is a great one for the home crowd to watch from

It is convenient. Let's hope they get enough puff to make it work.

Machpants

@snowy said in Americas Cup:

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

yeah, it was tongue in cheek, obviously the best course first, the last thing they would want is for races to have to be called off, just luck they best course is a great one for the home crowd to watch from

It is convenient. Let's hope they get enough puff to make it work.

And that we win, obviously

Bovidae

@nzzp

Murray said officials had been going over repeated penalties awarded against Luna Rossa on Monday for sailing well outside the course in a bid to find wind to get it foiling, after becoming almost becalmed.

“The penalties probably were on the generous side of not disqualifying (the Italians) for going out that distance,” he said.

The umpires would be letting the teams know for the next races, that “boundaries are boundaries”, he said.

JK

Look pretty good out there with the breeze on the build.

Kiwiwomble

why is it postponed?

Toddy

@kiwiwomble I think they're altering the course to make the most of the wind

Unite

@kiwiwomble wrong wind direction, they are just tweaking the course alignment

JK

Yeah at moment its too up (or down) the course and think they need to wait for it to finish swinging around. It was blowing NE earlier today and supposed to come right back around to SW....almost there

Snowy

@jk said in Americas Cup:

Yeah at moment its too up (or down) the course

Too across really. From what the graphic showed on the TB the boats could pretty much just reach from one mark to the other which wouldn't be very interesting or involve much skill.
They seem to be waiting for the expected wind shift, rather than realigning the course (they don't have much room for that I think).

Kiwiwomble

shit that pass was close to being a port starboard, thought jimmy might have feigned having to avoid

Kiwiwomble

loving the wind shadow grahics

nzzp

damn, Spithill is some racer. Quality work forcing TNZ out there

canefan

I think this is what ETNZ had in mind with racing these boats. It's all on

Kiwiwomble

@nzzp i think we made him mad

Kruse

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

loving the wind shadow grahics

I've been thinking for some time why the hell they didn't have something like that.
Also - a simple graphic showing wind direction.

All in all - the ~~WWE~~ Americas Cup organisers have listened to the criticisms about how boring it's been, and the sorely lacking coverage-graphics - and re-written the match scripts to add some excitement, as well as finally providing some of the basic graphics/info one would expect.
Well done Vince.

canefan

We seem to be faster than them. But Jimmy is keeping us at bay. One mispicked shift and it could be anyone's

Kiwiwomble

@canefan yeah, we seem to be able to make up 150m with little trouble but kimmy has always spotted it and been on top to give us some bad air

canefan

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

@canefan yeah, we seem to be able to make up 150m with little trouble but kimmy has always spotted it and been on top to give us some bad air

Who had the starting advantage? Need one win minimum to put them to the brink

The Silver Fern

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