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ColH
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Topic: BAR personnel Posted: 01 Jun 17 at 8:18pm |
Anyone else wondering whether Ben should be doing the tactics and someone else (skif/cat/moth) be doing the driving.....?
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Noah
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jun 17 at 9:02pm |
That thought did occur to me, then I recalled he won the ACWS while driving so I think and hope he's in the right spot. They seem to have difficulty setting the boat up for differing wind strengths. Fortunately, tonight, FRA were worse, but NZL took BAR apart.
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JimC
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jun 17 at 9:33pm |
One suspects Mr Ainslie retired to avoid getting into the history books with the all time greatest losing margin...
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iGRF
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jun 17 at 9:58pm |
Always the same once they become celebs.. hunger all gone.
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jun 17 at 10:55pm |
You would have thought rigging issues would have been sorted out well before main event, that he seems to be an adjustment behind other boats.
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jun 17 at 11:23pm |
Who trims the foils? That's seems the weakest part. They beat NZ to the first mark, but splash down too often when turning.
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rich96
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 17 at 7:58am |
It does seem that all of the other teams have a specialist helm
Cant really imagine Ben giving the helm over to anyone else though |
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davidyacht
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 17 at 8:34am |
Boatspeed makes you a tactical genius... no boatspeed makes (even Ben) look like an idiot. Our observation is that our grinders seem to be spinning slower and less smoothly than everyone else, and by yesterday's performance they need bigger and more stall tolerant foils
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Happily living in the past
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Notl
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 17 at 9:29am |
NZ were sailing 50percent faster than BAR.
That is what happened. Light wind sailing is a skill and art developed by years of experience doing it. I sailed many light wind races in wind speeds below force 1. Great fun especially being able to sail twice the speed of the rest of the fleet. Ben needs some experienced light wind inland sailors to help him out. When the winds are light you need to know all the secrets. |
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FreshScum
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jun 17 at 2:00pm |
So,,,,what actually happened... there was a breakage and the foil in the starboard hull wasn't able to be adjusted during the first gybe against ETNZ.
In order to be able to sail in the race against Groupama Team France they needed to make repairs. In order to have enough time to do that, they retired. Arguably they should have retired against Softbank Team Japan. The damage that was found to have occurred at the end of the race almost ended their campaign.
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