They still only have one foil down at any time. It’s amazing how the one foil can lift and support the weight of the entire boat on only about 2 square meters. Isn’t water a neat thing? It’s all thanks ro Sr. Bernoulli and the Wright brothers.
Both LR and ETNZ doing a little of upwind foiling on race 5 just now! Put the bow down and float the leeward hull above the water!!
I also love the roll tacks where the two hulls are only in the water for a moment.
Hew, at least you have ESPN3. and can watch. I can’t even get youtube to work through a proxy server…
Maybe I’ll be able to watch a replay in a few days…
Finaly we have got 2 races where BOTH BOATS crossed the finish line… I dont think prada has the boat speed to keep up with the kiwis… prada did not make many mistakes on race 5 , but just could not gain any ground…
Marc… you can watch it on you tube… but you have to go through the americas cup website… that is how i have been doing it…
The moth class has been around since the '30 without foiling, the first foiling moth showed up in 01, declared illegal it had 3 foils so was declared a multi hull, only in 03 the first legal foiling moths were developed and raced, but until all the hulls were foilsless, much as the AC72’s before developed by the kiwis.
Technically on two foils, keel and rudder.
In any case, as for the race itself, it may have been two full races with the all the boats starting and finishing, but somehow, someway, they managed to make a race between to foiling 72 feet behemoths speeding at over 30 knots, something so anticlimactic, boring and predictable to watch that sometimes it was really painful. Really, upwind stay in the current, downwind stay outside the current and if you are the boat behind (and slower) there is nothing you can do, baring something breaking in the leading boat, to gain on the boat ahead let alone try to pass it. If the idea was to make sailing interesting and exiting to watch they failed miserably on all counts. Lets hope that NZ beats LR and oracle as fast as possible, so hopefully the will be able to fix this whole thing, or at least try, but with sailing in mind not business and ego.
in delay…in the US they are not allowing live streaming on you tube since its being broadcast on espn3…
Im the U.S., you can watch the YouTube video of the racing, but you have to wait a few hours after the TV programme finishes.
Marc,
Try http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player?id=1100291
to watch ESPN3 online. It is a replay of the last race now, but it was live stream yesterday.
That’s how I have to do it because I’m at work and don’t have ESPN3 on my DirecTV package anyway.
I’m tired of seeing the boats go deep into the start area. I’d like to see a classic dialup.
as fast as these boat decelerate and then accelerate, all you got to do is get below a guy and then luff them up and then bam off like a shot… at least with the mono hulls, they had momentum so it was much harder to luff another boat.
the typical starting duels are things off the past now. Sadly
Look at what Mr. Spill did in the start of the second practice race, after about the 4:00 point.
another snoozer…
Yeah, the excitement level it’s ridiculous … Although this one is totally on Cris Draper and Luna Rossa, 4-1 behind and their strategy is “follow the leader and wait”? Did he ever won a start or was he ever ahead at the first mark? even against Artemis?
LR may be slower but he could try something, if not being more “aggressive” at the start then maybe changing the live preservers colors, paint the helmets green but he has to do something more than what he’s done so far, because it looks like LR and him are not even trying …
Have stopped watching the L.V series as in my book it is done and dusted but was refreshing to finally see some close racing (O.R 2 boat practice racing) with the ebb tide & wind conditions that produced some great match racing with plenty of passing lanes.
It looked like Ainslie gave away the start leeward position deliberately as he not normally that passive and he did a far better job getting around the course in what is clearly the worst of the two boat designs (what would he be like on Spithills boat?) neither of the two boats were doing flying gybes or sailing with stability anywhere near as clean as ETNZ. Both O.R teams need to refine their mark rounding’s which I’m sure they will be focussing on.
Looks like we may have an interesting AC “if” ETNZ & O.R boat speeds are similar in the same conditions …if not, it will be a boring white wash !!
What is for sure, we will never see this type of boats sailing ever again so fingers crossed there is some good racing in the AC series.
I was caught at leg 4
:sleep:
http://sailinganarchy.com/2013/08/22/why-and-why-not/
sounds quite reasonable, wait until your cat is flat!
otherwise:
gybing with leward heeling: touch down!
gybing with windward heeling: wheelie or bronco!
And with those 2 knots ebb tide, you have not much time to get things sorted.
(And when not, 7 tons go down!)
props to SA
to funny…
This realy is starting to get to me… ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT… Maybe we should call it the postponement cup… people I hate saying this. but theses ac-72 are a failure… we cant race. when the wind is up… we cant race in rough conditions. we cant race agian… seems to me that in 83. they only stopped the race when they COULD NOT SEE THE TEAMS… in 2003 they raced period…
but now. they seems to stop all the time… I hope the kiwis win this. because they cant race ac-72 in san fran
signed fustrated
You spoiled it!
I have to wait yet another hour to see the sailing on TV, (2 hours for YouTube) and now I know what will happen… :nuts:
At least there will another day of racing. It’ll all be over one way or another, but we prefer to watch it instead of hear about it, even if LR is a slug.
Yes, the AC72s are a failure for the CUP. Maybe they could get the boats more even (4 or 5 years from now) but the course in the bay sucks. Only 5 legs? It’s like the local sailing here where they just do a circle instead of the Olympic course, so the regatta is done in an hour.
Bring on the IACC boats!