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    Posted: 10 Feb 10 at 11:38am
1.  What is the pre-race maneuvering going to look like?  Will there be any?
2.  Does the design of the "boats " in any way change the objectives of the pre-race maneuvers.
3.  Will it be a race to the layline, 1 tack and mark rounding?
4.  How will the boats round the mark (I know, carefully)?
5.  Will the down-wind angles be more/less acute than for monohulls?
6.  How hard/easy is to jibe these boats in heavy wind, running down-wind.  And finally:
7.   How long will it take to sail the 2-3 required races? 
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In answer to question 7.  At the current rate, about 5 years!
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I'm sure saw something on Eurosport about Oracle winning
the toss to allow them to start the race on Starboard. Does
that mean the Alinghi have to start on Port?
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A coin toss!  You have to be kidding!  And what if the wind is expected to move in the opposite direction from this tack?

Or will one boat be so much easier to tack than the other, that it won't matter for the easy tacking boat.

I mean look at these things.  They are square.
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one boat enters the prestart box on each tack - before the
start
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Normal match racing stuff, that.
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Originally posted by JMC_DK

A coin toss!  You have to be kidding!  And what if
the wind is expected to move in the opposite direction from this tack?
Or will one boat be so much easier to tack than the other, that it won't
matter for the easy tacking boat.I mean look at these things.  They are
square.
Rumor is that USA17 can tack in it's boat length. The wing
makes these things very different
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Originally posted by Teamvmg

one boat enters the prestart box on each tack - before the
start

Does that mean that the boat with starboard rights can stay out of the pre-start box and do one timed run on starboard so that it hits the line at tthe start gun. Or do they have to enter the pre-start box at 6 minutes to go?
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I know Alinghi tried a timed run on the practice course last week and arrived 10 second early. They lost 2 minutes in going back across the line. At the speed these things are travelling thats about a mile.

I can't see anyway that they'll try a dial up with Zillas.

 



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Originally posted by Laser 173312

I know Alinghi tried a timed run on the practice course last week and arrived 10 second early. They lost 2 minutes in going back across the line. At the speed these things are travelling thats about a mile.

I can't see anyway that they'll try a dial up with Zillas.

 

 

The dialup will be VERY different; I believe that they will not want to get into real close quarters in any real wind and it will be less about getting a foul on the oppo, but forcing them away from where the other wants to be; the change to the line/bouy setup is to (IMO) to keep them further apart and to discourage close in; head-to parking battles.  I can see that we might see timed runs after some closer (but not close in team-racing terms) encounters; again; hitting the line too early at 30+ kts is a nightmare and as said getting back takes some time! 

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