ETNZ 72 foiling - 35+ knots

 

Nope, didn't miss the AC45's or the "extreme series" and I thought that was great stuff, really well shot and produced*.  I'm not sure what you mean by the Star racing being boring at the Olympics; it went down, litterally, to the last pump on the very last wave in a just-the-bow-fitting-overlap being the difference between gold and silver.... I'm damn sure that AC organisers will be quite willing to swap several limbs for that kind of racing in the next edition of the auld mug (you know, the kind of thing we saw in 12m's and IAAC boats and has been sadly lacking since).

 

*the problem, for me, in scaling up to 72's from the 45's is that you'll lose the inherent maneuouverability with the increase in length and loads and that effectively you'll be lucky if you don't get a half-ar$ed stand-off instead of a dial-up pre-start followed by a drag race to one side of the course and a v.boring procession round the rest of the race, barring mechanical or handling failures, given the first boat to round clear at the windward mark will extend so far (and fast) over the other, that the racing will basically be over, unless both boats round practically in each others pockets

 

Alternatively can the jury just sit behind a monitor and use all the video and data feeds from the boats.