Americas cup
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NZ will have to bid like everyone else, they want to shorten the time to the next cup, pre-event regattas might start within 12 months, in the AC 75s
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i think they had committed to keeping the same class hadn't they? so the cycle should be able to be shorter
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@Kiwiwomble said in Americas cup:
i think they had committed to keeping the same class hadn't they? so the cycle should be able to be shorter
Yup. So lower costs for those already with a boat. I seem to recall TNZ had standardised many aspects of the class previously, to try to keep costs lower. Not sure if my memory is correct though
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@canefan sounds familier
you assume there are tweaks they can still make (different foils etc) so teams can keep improving
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@Kiwiwomble said in Americas cup:
@canefan sounds familier
you assume there are tweaks they can still make (different foils etc) so teams can keep improving
Yeah. With more regattas, making it more like Sail GP I guess. It's fair to say the AC does not feel like a competitions between nations anymore
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@Kiwiwomble said in Americas cup:
i think thats the point, they couldnt afford to do that again, they want to get back to the days where there were 8- challengers
6 apparently.
*"More teams?"
“If you want to be in an event with lots of teams, go with one design,” said Dalton, meaning that wasn’t what the America’s Cup was about.“If we had one more team, that would be good. I don't advocate that you need more than that. It's not that event. This is the top of the food chain in technology.”*
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@W32 said in Americas cup:
Fantastic racing today. Americans still in it. The cool thing is if a boat is way behind with this design they can still win., in previous displacement designs the result would often be a foregone conclusion,
How big a problem is the breakage on Luna Rossa?
Is it easily fixed or do they have to fix it and improve it in 24 hours.
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@DaGrubster said in Americas cup:
@W32 said in Americas cup:
Fantastic racing today. Americans still in it. The cool thing is if a boat is way behind with this design they can still win., in previous displacement designs the result would often be a foregone conclusion,
How big a problem is the breakage on Luna Rossa?
Is it easily fixed or do they have to fix it and improve it in 24 hours.
Sounds like the traveller broke. Big question is what else was damaged as the main sheet/traveller is effectively the backstay. They were lucky not to lose the rig
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@W32 said in Americas cup:
Fantastic racing today. Americans still in it. The cool thing is if a boat is way behind with this design they can still win., in previous displacement designs the result would often be a foregone conclusion,
i think the thing thats changed for me is previously it was more dependant on conditions...yes there were foregone conclusions but we also saw dead air on parts of the courses and so a trailing team could catch up by seeing what had effected the leading boat and avoid it....these machines are just so fine tuned for wringing every ounce of wind that doesnt seem to be the case or even possible any more
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@W32 said in Americas cup:
Fantastic racing today. Americans still in it. The cool thing is if a boat is way behind with this design they can still win., in previous displacement designs the result would often be a foregone conclusion,
What was cool about displacement boats was that there isn't a risk of falling off the foils and we saw a lot more +10-15kt days on the water and the boats could handle a greater variance in conditions. Also, if they got so far behind they could, as a hail Mary, head out to the opposite side of the world in search of wind and cum back. Boats could also get closer to each other.
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@LatsToTheMax said in Americas cup:
@W32 said in Americas cup:
Fantastic racing today. Americans still in it. The cool thing is if a boat is way behind with this design they can still win., in previous displacement designs the result would often be a foregone conclusion,
What was cool about displacement boats was that there isn't a risk of falling off the foils and we saw a lot more +10-15kt days on the water and the boats could handle a greater variance in conditions. Also, if they got so far behind they could, as a hail Mary, head out to the opposite side of the world in search of wind and cum back. Boats could also get closer to each other.
Sounds like a v niche ‘yacht race’
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@scribe said in Americas cup:
@LatsToTheMax said in Americas cup:
@W32 said in Americas cup:
Fantastic racing today. Americans still in it. The cool thing is if a boat is way behind with this design they can still win., in previous displacement designs the result would often be a foregone conclusion,
What was cool about displacement boats was that there isn't a risk of falling off the foils and we saw a lot more +10-15kt days on the water and the boats could handle a greater variance in conditions. Also, if they got so far behind they could, as a hail Mary, head out to the opposite side of the world in search of wind and cum back. Boats could also get closer to each other.
Sounds like a v niche ‘yacht race’
An orgy of sailors.
