Americas Cup

[JK]

Course C today for the first of the semi final days. Decent little breeze out there too. Looks/feels about 15knots SW

[JK]

Down sitting on top of north head and it’s windy! At least 20knots i would say.

Seen the boats out of course and they will be flying on the legs towards rangitoto

[JK]

Geeee American magic struggling and just about got in to some real trouble again

[Kiwiwomble]

@JK Prada flying but they also seem to be touching down quite a bit

[Bovidae]

USA will just be happy to finish race 1 but they have some control issues to overcome.

[Machpants]

So for whoever loses this play, I wonder what the price per race and/or price per actual racing minute of these boats will be?

[Donsteppa]

Tuning in late to this series, and instantly remembered that it pays not to think too much about Am Cup rules. Quite how Dean Barker is the best helmsman the USA has to offer, and that Italian Jimmy Spithill.

[JK]

What max speeds are they hitting? I had a quick look on TVNZ on demand and saw 50knots for USA in race 1.

Any higher?

[Machpants]

@JK said in Americas Cup:

What max speeds are they hitting? I had a quick look on TVNZ on demand and saw 50knots for USA in race 1.

Any higher?

Don't think so

The yanks either have no boat control or the helmsman just turn it wrong there - game over

[taniwharugby]

@JK ive only been watching 10 mins and 45 knots is highest I seen so far

[gt12]

Holy shit, nearly over again!

[taniwharugby]

they had hit 49kn and were about 47kn when they fell off then, very similar fashion to last time, that will test the repairs!!

[Kiwiwomble]

@gt12 im no sailor...but to me it looked like they forgot to drop the foil, they just went around the mark on the same foil

[Bovidae]

If USA can win a start, a BIG if, then we might have a race. Otherwise Luna Rossa wins 4-0.

[dogmeat]

It must all seem very 2003 blue bucket out on the Gulf to Barker.

[canefan]

@dogmeat said in Americas Cup:

It must all seem very 2003 blue bucket out on the Gulf to Barker.

He is the ultimate AC choker

[taniwharugby]

apparently Team USA hit a record speed for these boats of 53.31kn, almost 100km in 21kn winds!

[Machpants]

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

apparently Team USA hit a record speed for these boats of 53.31kn, almost 100km in 21kn winds!

At approx 18 million NZD per race, you'd hope so! I coulda brought and paid for a life time of Hawk flights for that

[Snowy]

@Machpants said in Americas Cup:

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

apparently Team USA hit a record speed for these boats of 53.31kn, almost 100km in 21kn winds!

At approx 18 million NZD per race, you'd hope so! I coulda brought and paid for a life time of Hawk flights for that

By my calculations, if it was about 25deg out there, LSS was about 662kts, they were close to mach .08 at 53 knots. Fast for a boat, but yes very expensive compared to a Hawk in dollars per mach number. Hawk is mid point eights straight and level like an A330 I think?

Cost aside, I think I would rather have a go in the boat.

[Bovidae]

Quite a change in conditions for today's racing.