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16-09-13, 11:42 AM | #1 |
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Anyone else on here been following the Americas Cup? I appreciate not everybody is into sailing but do you need to be to enjoy watching these awesome boats?
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16-09-13, 12:37 PM | #2 |
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Off and on. But mainly off. I watched new zealand thrash America by about a minute and a half the other day.
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Watching every race live on You Tube
Go ETNZ !!! Sailing Anarchy have a sub-forum especially for the AC - quite a 'lively' place at the moment !!
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Watched some of it last weekend. Was truly mind blowing to see the boats doing 38kts in 10kts of wind while balanced on the smallest of hydrofoils.
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16-09-13, 12:54 PM | #5 |
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However, as exciting as these boats are to watch, I doubt we'll see them after this AC - unless of course OTUSA upset everything and actually win the regatta !!
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16-09-13, 02:04 PM | #8 |
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I grew up racing Hobie cats and have a small trimaran now, but these things taking sailing to a whole new level. The consequences of even just a small mistake or mechanical hitch (as we saw on Saturday) can be huge. Watching them being pushed is like watching Marc Marquez coming round Woodcote, you just know that eventually it's all going to go pear shaped!
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When you consider that Larry Ellison (Owner - Oracle Team USA) is thought to have spent approx $200m on this defence campaign alone (some say almost $1b in total over the last 12 years) & the estimated cost of one of these boats is in the region of $10m (ETNZ & Oracle both have 2 each) and that's before you even think about the number of shore crew required to run a campaign or the guys who are actually going to sail the thing - (sailing 'rockstars' don't come cheap !!) you can see where he's coming from !
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Ive watched most of it and its cool stuff,but like formula one,it is clearly just too expensive.
They have done traditional boats,now flying boats,so how about sailing submarines next time?
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