sailing is a dangerous sport. heck I dropped my gin and tonic and nearly twisted my ankle at my last regatta… Oh and this one time I was walking barefoot on the deck and caught the jib car with my pinkie toe. Talk about an owie…
There is a good discussion on Sailing anarchy. about changing form T foils on the rudder to L so the foils stay inboard of the sheer. but thats going to be redesign big $$$
But at 40mph the flat side of a 2x4 will probably take your foot off.
But in all seriousness sailing is a dangerous sport. getting clipped in the head by the boom. falling over board, getting fingers and hand caught up in the winches, blocks, rope burn.
When I sailed dinghies, a couple days after an event I looked like I had been in a fight. bruises, chafeing ,cuts, bumps on the head, of lets not forget chance of hypothermia…Heck, I’ve proablyhad mild cases of it and kept on sailing. Heck scooting around a laser while on a plane and stuff the bow into a wave and I’d end up with the wind knocked out of me and bruised ribs as I slid into the mast…
Are they gonna put lifelines on the cats? clip the sailors in… Heck they already wear helmets and probably flak jackets. I guess we coudl pad them up like a hockey goalie…
not to sound callous, but Its dangerous… its part of the allure Deal with it.
Hi Marc,
Every body knows as all others sports requiring movements except sitting in a chair with a beer and watching TV !! heheh!!
Slipping in a shower basin is also very dangerous, it cost me 10 stitches in the head one month ago, but the surgeon (she) was very beautiful !!!.
Lifelines would be worse than hitting yourself on something- you will end up getting tangled in things and drown, so you are better off being thrown from the boat if it flips. Then the chase boat picks you up straight away.
Thanks so much for sharing that video. Wonderful views and fun watching the crews working together. I was blown away (pun intended) around the 13:40 mark when they were in a starting sequence. They were all hobby-horsing up to the line for the start when the Aussie boat (green sail) just blew everyone away with awesome acceleration.
I remember my boat being fast at the starts, but we seldom had that strong of winds. Glad to have had a mainsheet to hang on to ----kept me from sliding off the back of the boat
The NBC Sports Extra was perhaps the worst sports coverage of any event, ever. We got to see the prestart, and the first beat, but as the lead boat rounded, they cut to 5 minutes of ads, most of which were promoting NBC and tehir Olympic coverage. Cut back to the racing to watch the lead boat (not the same) cross the finish line! Other race we got back on to see part of the downwind with no way to know how the boats got where they were. If you wern’t a sailor there would be no way to understand anything that was happening. Since there will be virtually no place to watch the races in Bermuda, we won’t be going, but I was hoping there would be some sort of tv coverage. I hope it’s not NBC.
I thought the ACWS was done, until I saw a notice on the AC application about Fukuoka. Since it was the last one, I bought my $8 subscription this time. Think the video was OK, but I was a bit disappointed with the results from Oracle, especially at the end of the second race. I thought they had a safe lead on France, until they stalled at the last mark. At least they got a point.
Now we get to see what the 50s will do. Jimmy thinks they will be a “weapon”
Don’t forget that the replays of the earlier ACWS events are only 99 cents.
