Moving at the speed they are expected to go at, you’d want to be a pretty good waterskier to do your hobby pulled by one of those !!!
Some air of Decision 35 they race on the Lac Leman, but yet different in shape. Oracle looks more flexible which is strange in my view. ETNZ seems so solid and stiff. What I’d expect to see from these AC72.
We did fine, but still a lot of houses flooded. Water was within 6" of the height of Katrina here, and feet above that level elsewhere. No power for 3.5 days, but generator supplied AC, TV refrigerator and internet. Went through about $200 in gas but glad to have it! I sailed my IOM down the street with a C rig and put video on my FB page along with videos of the storm washing across the lakefront from our yacht club balcony. https://www.facebook.com/hew.hamilton
glad you weathered the storm. when we had a bad storm up here this past year I had a 4400 watt generator able to keep everything going but the AC. generator never stopped for nearly 80 hours… always fun to to do a hot refuel…
We have lift off !!! what great timing, can you guess where I was on Aug 29th ? … truly a historic moment, who said Kiwi’s can’t fly … NZL-2 is one truly bad a§s boat with lots of speed with some very special foils.
This spectacle was well timed to show Oracle that ETNZ has rapidily closed the gap & then heard the bottle did not break on the Orcale christening (can anyone confirm this?) if true, a bad omen.
Who else will be foiling a AC 72 ?
Cheers Alan
I can confirm it was a bouncer. The bottle broke on the second strike.
Probably not worried as they are building another cat…
It’s not a bad omen, the lady was trying to strike the carbon spar, which is naturally resilient. They ought to have a metal spike or something mounted for christening.
Not a bad omen…I’m afraid it usually is.
The three tried and tested methods for a smashing start to your yachts success are:
#1: Mumm do special Christening bottles that break easier.
#2: Scoring the bottle to with a diamond burr using a Dremel.
#3: A piece of 90 degree angle iron, mounted on a board… To strike.
(#4: If you have one- The bulb! But N/A in this case.)
All of these work, and I have had the pleasure of being at quite a few now…
Most famous examples:
The Titanic was not formally named or christened with champagne.!!
The Costa Concordia had an inauspicious launch when the champagne bottle failed to break, later she hit the docks in Palermo and then recently ran aground
If maritime superstitions are to be believed, both doomed from the moment they were launched.
It’s bad luck to be superstitious! :biglaugh:
I will never believe any of that stuff- it can all be explained with very simple facts. The titanic went down because of simple British arrogance… It has nothing to do with champagne, unless the captain & crew had been drinking it in large quantities at the time.
A superstitious way of life is a sinful way of life, and people waste their time, money, and effort on it. It’s very un-American.
Awesome !!!
[video]http://tvnz.co.nz/sailing-news/team-nz-s-new-catamaran-in-full-flight-video-5066890[/video]
wow simply wow
Oracle bust their dagger board the first time they tested their Foil setup…
Another fine example of TNZ getting it right first time… Can’t wait for them to win!
unless oracle gets flying soon, I think the cup will be heading down under…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/boating/7192244/Flipping-Cat
ETNZ was the first to flip a AC45 with the wing extension… : )
I’ve said it since I saw the first video’s of ETNZ AC72 - I’m for them to win but the boat is not everything and we can’t rule out Artemis and who ever else get there.
I wonder if Alinghi had ETNZ then whether Oracle would have still beaten them with their tri. so much work and progress has been made on multi this then it is phenomenal… all good stuff…
well said
Still early days … don’t forget Luna Rossa has access to same design used for NZL-2, unless they had something better (which I doubt) they will flying on shirt tails of ETNZ.
Then there is the small supermarket car park size course, I’m trying to imagine foiling AC 72’s having the opportunity to reach top speed and for how long before tacking … unless of course some-one perfects tacking on foils without coming down :tapedshut … if so it will be all over before it begins !!!
i know the moth guys can tack with out coming off foil, but the moth is a totally different animal…
The old, MicroSAIL r/c trimaran was able to tack and remain on foils while doing so - providing weeds didn’t collect on the foils. Also it is a bit lighter than the 72’s. 
LOL yes indeed and a little bit shorter too - but that’s a small detail :rolleyes:
One question though - are foilers allowed by the rules or are they just doing that for fun ???