Will there be no end to this?

   I'm enjoying the whole thing - lets face it, there is plenty of sailing elsewhere to keep us interested, so why not have a court case or 7 to laugh at, too?

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Rupert Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rupert Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Will there be no end to this? Posted: 01 Nov 09 at 10:47pm
	I'm enjoying the whole thing - lets face it, there is plenty of sailing elsewhere to keep us interested, so why not have a court case or 7 to laugh at, too?
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Laser 173312 Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Far too distracted from work Joined: 08 May 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 416	Post Options Post Reply Quote Laser 173312 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 03 Nov 09 at 9:41am
	Rupert does have something there. Last Thursday I was logged in to another forum and there were people with their blackberrys posting on to the forum from the court. I think at one stage there where 150 people looking at the one forum. A lot more interesting than writing software.

Boris Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Newbie Joined: 27 Aug 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Post Options Post Reply Quote Boris Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 14 Nov 09 at 4:26pm
	The legal wrangling isn't pretty but I actually don't think it is all bad with the AC. The traditional event has never made much sense to me. It is suppose to be the pinacle of match racing and the boats, 12m or AC class, are not bad for that purpose except for one thing - they are not equal. The irony is that huge sums of money are expended in trying to make the boats unequal. Consequently in over 150 years the event has only twice produced exciting racing. This could be forgiven if the competion was an exciting design contest. While I accept that there have been some useful spin offs, the boats themselves are not particularly exciting (good match racing boats aren't) and much of the development has centered around silly rule cheats (hulas, batwings etc). In short in the past the AC has fallen between two stools being neither an exiting racing or an exciting design competition. Doubtless the multihulls will not produce a close race, but as a vitually no holds barred desgn competion I think that it is exiting and has produced two truely spectacular machines.