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Rupert
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Topic: Ben Ainslie Racing Posted: 18 Aug 12 at 12:43pm |
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I guess that makes as much sense as all the rest of it... at least NI gets a small nod - better than the western Principality called Wales. |
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SoggyBadger
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Aug 12 at 1:04pm | ||
If you referring to the photo on the previous page of this thread, I can't see any flag being flown. I don't think a Union Jack on a sail (or the hull even) is regarded as a flag. |
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Rupert
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Aug 12 at 1:50pm | ||
Has anyone figured out if Mark got the union jack Y&Y logo the right way up?
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ellistine
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Aug 12 at 2:00pm | ||
Looks fine and dandy to me.
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JohnW
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Aug 12 at 2:15pm | ||
I think you are technically correct. I believe that it is an emblem rather than a flag. However, the emblem represents a flag so perhaps it should be a correct representation of the flag. It the stars and stripes emblem on the other boat was upside down there would be some complaints made. |
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ellistine
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Aug 12 at 11:51am | ||
Rita lives! (Rear beam)
Don't think much of the paint durability mind. |
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alstorer
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 Aug 12 at 12:33pm | ||
The red diagonals weren't added for Northern Ireland, they were added for the whole of Ireland, long before partition. The original flag from 1606 (designed to mark the 1603 union of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England (the latter of which included the principality of Wales long before that) didn't have the red diagonals. They were added for the (formal) union with the Kingdom of Ireland in 1801. The flag of Ulster, after all, is the St George's Cross with the red hand, not the cross of St Patrick. Arguably we should have gone back to the pre-1801 flag (which would of course solve the whole "upside down" issue). |
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ellistine
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 12 at 8:23am | ||
Fixed!
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NickM
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 12 at 2:54pm | ||
Did anybody follow the recent AC43 series in San Francisco? BA blogged it was all a bit of learing experience for him and he was happy enough with mediocre results. It seemed to me (very subjectively - I know nothing about this sort of racing) that in the fleet racing he was quite often stuck behind or under another boat and that his results improved on the few occasions he managed to find a clear lane - which made me wonder why he did not tack off into clear wind in mid course more often instead of continuing on to the edge of the course. In fact most boats seemed to sail to the edges of the course area anyway before tacking/gybing. Given the loss of speed in the turn, the AC43s maybe aim to reduce turns to a minimum.
There was a lot of chat from the commentators about which side of the rather narrow course was favoured but, apart from heading to the "favoured" side after passing a gate, in the long run it did not seem to me to make much difference as the boats went out to both sides anyway.
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ellistine
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 30 Aug 12 at 3:04pm | ||
It all seems to be so timing critical. You need the most perfect start, every start. You need to deploy the gennaker at exactly the right time (too early you sink the bows, too late they have to grind it all in - according to Ben) and somehow be hitting the boundaries in phase with the shifts! I think they're all pretty much similar on boat speed. It's all going to come down to maneuvers and timing. Obviously not spearing the committee boat also helps
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