Americas Cup

[Bovidae]

Burling said yesterday that it is better to be lucky than good, but that gain on the 5th leg was down to local knowledge.

[antipodean]

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

@jk said in Americas Cup:

That was super. Jimmy sailed a pretty smart race until leg 5.

One more to go!

It's not over. But the lady is warming up

Someone saw "Do they know it's Christmas" and tried the same without much talent to draw on? That's terrible. Absolutely cringeworthy.

[Chris B.]

Larry Ellison to Jimmy - Are you SURE you don't want that new software, Jim? It only takes five minutes to download. I'm tellin' you, boy!

Jimmy to Larry - OK, I'm done with the guesswork. Send it through!

[Bovidae]

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

Lester is good on the water. The interest reporting is

Lester and Robertson are good value. If that other guy would just shut the hell up and let the experts speak.

I agree about the rest of the TVNZ studio coverage. :face_vomiting:

[canefan]

@bovidae Scotty gets no love from the Fern

[canefan]

Ian Murray is adjusting the course. Time is short

[Donsteppa]

Dumb.

[canefan]

WTF?

[Kiwiwomble]

abandoned? just watching and LR did 30knts through the start line on the way back to base, must be bad at the other end

[JK]

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

abandoned? just watching and LR did 30knts through the start line on the way back to base, must be bad at the other end

Yep.

Hopefully same course tomorrow as working from home and will walk out and watch it.

Still a hope for 7-4 as have a bet on it!

[canefan]

GRANT SAYS NO LAY DAYS FOR U

[Kruse]

Jesus - a probable America's Cup win, on St Patrick's Day - the Viaduct is gonna get messy.

[Mokey]

@kruse don't you fucking jinx us with that winning talk. The ghost of Dean Barker lingers.

[Wairau]

how cool would it be to be on the chase boat right behind the teams motoring along at up to 50-70km

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/124340230/americas-cup-dan-carters-mindblowing-day-chasing-team-new-zealands-ac75

[pakman]

[MN5]

@antipodean said in Americas Cup:

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

@jk said in Americas Cup:

That was super. Jimmy sailed a pretty smart race until leg 5.

One more to go!

It's not over. But the lady is warming up

Someone saw "Do they know it's Christmas" and tried the same without much talent to draw on? That's terrible. Absolutely cringeworthy.

Turns out Jeremy Coney was a better singer than Cricketer

[Bovidae]

@wairau said in Americas Cup:

how cool would it be to be on the chase boat right behind the teams motoring along at up to 50-70km

I did a cruise on the Hauraki Gulf a couple of weekends back (the day before the latest lockdown actually). We got to a maximum speed of about 25 kn and were flying along. The AC75s are doing about twice that speed.

[dogmeat]

@kiwiwomble It wasn't a lack of wind it was the wind direction. It brought North Head into play as a disturbing factor and meant the wind was coming from two different directions.

Would have turned the race into a lottery. Which LR would probably have gone for. It is now clear that TNZ have a slightly faster boat. Fickle winds evens it up a bit. Spithill was trying to blame mind games with the race committee.

As for localk knowledge - how many hours has Spithill spent on the Gulf? He got it wrong but it wasn't because of lack of knowledge. It was a fucking brain fart

[canefan]

@dogmeat apparently he lost a race to Deano exactly the same way in the Christmas regatta. So no excuses for making the same mistake again. Lester said its a pretty consistent phenomenon to get a puff there

[Bovidae]

In the press conference Bruni said he was in charge of the boat at that time but they did discuss the decision to go left amongst the three of them.