Americas cup
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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.
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@sparky said in Americas cup:
There has been almost zero media interest in the Louis Vuitton Cup in the UK until today.
It's going to be interesting to see how much excitement a British boat being in the America's Cup generates.
Wouldn't it be great for them to finally win the cup. For the sport too - NZ winning it all the time is getting boring
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@sparky said in Americas cup:
@W32 The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has won the Cup four times so there's a long way to go to catch up with the New York Yacht Squadron's 25 wins.
Once we overhaul the Yanks, then I wouldn't begrudge the British a historic win.
30 times for the americans and 3 times for the Nzedders
edit - 4 times for New Zealand
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@W32 said in Americas cup:
@sparky said in Americas cup:
@W32 The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has won the Cup four times so there's a long way to go to catch up with the New York Yacht Squadron's 25 wins.
Once we overhaul the Yanks, then I wouldn't begrudge the British a historic win.
30 times for the americans and 3 times for the Nzedders
Different clubs though?
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@booboo said in Americas cup:
@W32 said in Americas cup:
@sparky said in Americas cup:
@W32 The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has won the Cup four times so there's a long way to go to catch up with the New York Yacht Squadron's 25 wins.
Once we overhaul the Yanks, then I wouldn't begrudge the British a historic win.
30 times for the americans and 3 times for the Nzedders
Different clubs though?
Yes...corrected above
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UK residents may be interested to know that the first America's Cup race is available to watch live on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sailing/live/cgq8pvgkyp2t
