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Jack Sparrow
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Topic: New boat Posted: 28 Nov 17 at 11:31am |
I'm all for doing different. Loved the cats. I just think it might be a tad dangerous, is all.
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JimC
Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Online Posts: 6649 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Mar 18 at 12:46pm |
Well, it seems the new AC rule has been published...
http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/203544/Americas-Cup-class-rule-published-ahead-of-time You can get to the actual rule at the link below. I must be getting old: I started skimming it and gave up bored. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jlbGdGZ-XERd63SGESoMamTgGZdRiPZJ/view Whatever the merits and otherwise of this new style of boat, I would like to have been party to the thinking that evaluated all the perceived issues with recent AC platforms, and produced this as the best possible fix to those issues. Their evaluation of the problems must have been very different to mine... Edited by JimC - 30 Mar 18 at 12:47pm |
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Rupert
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Mar 18 at 12:53pm |
People trying to be radical for the sake of it, having dug themselves a hole by saying it would go back to monohulls.
Real radical would have been to run it in something slow and tactical this time round. Maybe 80 foot long Fireflies, with 10 people running back and forth for the roll tacks. Teamwork, not technology, would really win out then. |
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Mar 18 at 2:12pm |
Going to end in tears.
The best helms still manage to crash, what a crash will be like with that blade? |
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PeterG
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Mar 18 at 6:43pm |
The best helms still manage to crash, what a crash will be like with that blade?
Looks pretty scary to me. Most concerning, from the point of view of the sailing from my point of view is that the foil is both so vulnerable and dangerous that close quarters racing is going to be something to avoid. That's a real shame.
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Aug 18 at 10:13am |
Short video on home page, looks even more dangerous in real life.
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Aug 18 at 12:48pm |
Have you seen the video the 'the crash' from a couple of days ago? If the ineos produced video makes you feel it's dangerous, then the third party video of the big stack will scare you sh*tless!
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Aug 18 at 2:58pm |
Got a link ? Can't find it.
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Aug 18 at 3:25pm |
It's on SA front page.
The video went up on facebook, in bad, but slightly better quality. It then went down hours later. This video on the page seems to be a very low quality copy of the already shaky video! But it gives you the idea. I can't get teh link to work, but on the SA homepage, then scroll down to 30th of August, beneath Holy Trinité post.
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