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Laser 173312 
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 Topic: So much has happened...Posted: 16 May 07 at 10:01pm |
I'm monitoring on http://www.americascup.com/en/ There is a race viewer that shows distace, pictures, wind speed and has radio coverage. Ideal when your in the office.
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Charlie
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Posted: 16 May 07 at 8:39pm |
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It's on sky sports 2 or sky sports extra live between 2pm and 4pm, and then repeated between 8pm and 10pm each day, usually i don't get to watch it live due to being at work, but i had a half day at college so was able to watch it today.
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Finn GBR 657 - Blown It
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Posted: 16 May 07 at 5:51pm |
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Are you watching this somewhere? |
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Charlie
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Posted: 16 May 07 at 5:27pm |
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Well some more fantastic racing today, Desafio sailed a solid match race the whole way round and really showed it to the kiwi's. And interestingly both BMW and LR were tinkering with their boats last night as new measurement certificates were issued today, but didn't do much for BMW on the race course, another good win for LR.
That brings after 3 races the scores to: ETNZ 2 : 1 Desafio LR 2 : 1 BMW Tomorrow could be very interesting to see how this progresses. |
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Laser 173312
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Posted: 16 May 07 at 10:58am |
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TNZ certainly seems to have the measure of the Spanish. As for gear failure in the other pair. Oracle lost to China due to that, I wonder if that makes them weaker or stronger. The win by Luna Rossa on Monday seemed to be viewed as an upset. I'm not impressed but the sail tv coverage, I just seem to run into problems. It's saying I'm in the wrong country now.
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Charlie
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Posted: 16 May 07 at 7:28am |
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Alinghi are basicaly practicing in the south of the harbour each day and probably watching the other teams like a hawk.
And this is what could be this years hula/winged keel! http://www.nzherald.co.nz/event/story.cfm?c_id=531&objec tid=10435312 You may well be right about gear failure, but i think stronger winds are needed to really see that be an issue. Though the other point is that the teams only have a limited number of sails for the louis vuitton cup, i think it's 45, so if ETNZ are able to save theirs through the semi's they can have a couple of fresh sails for the final which the winner of the other semi may not have. |
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Lukepiewalker
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Posted: 15 May 07 at 10:41pm |
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I'm not sure if anyone really knows what Alinghi are doing. Presumably they are keeping an eye on the LV cup performances so will be able to compare where they are at compared to where they need to be. I think you have the semis pegged right, although with all those forces being bandied around it could be gear failure rather than performance that leads to upsets....
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Charlie
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Posted: 15 May 07 at 10:33pm |
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And to try and start some discussion, After 2 semi finals looks like ETNZ are running over the spannish, but Luna Rossa and BMW Oracle are looking like it could either way at the moment, with one win each at the moment.
So whose your money on to be the challenger? and does Alinghi have this years hula or winged keel? |
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Finn GBR 657 - Blown It
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Lukepiewalker
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Posted: 15 May 07 at 9:41pm |
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Ooh.... ta... I think I registered there a while back....
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Charlie
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Posted: 14 May 07 at 10:05pm |
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www.sail.tv has free coverage if you register (which is also free) You need a reasonable download speed but seems to work well.
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