Americas Cup

[JK]

Yeah at moment its too up (or down) the course and think they need to wait for it to finish swinging around. It was blowing NE earlier today and supposed to come right back around to SW....almost there

[Snowy]

@jk said in Americas Cup:

Yeah at moment its too up (or down) the course

Too across really. From what the graphic showed on the TB the boats could pretty much just reach from one mark to the other which wouldn't be very interesting or involve much skill.
They seem to be waiting for the expected wind shift, rather than realigning the course (they don't have much room for that I think).

[Kiwiwomble]

shit that pass was close to being a port starboard, thought jimmy might have feigned having to avoid

[Kiwiwomble]

loving the wind shadow grahics

[nzzp]

damn, Spithill is some racer. Quality work forcing TNZ out there

[canefan]

I think this is what ETNZ had in mind with racing these boats. It's all on

[Kiwiwomble]

@nzzp i think we made him mad

[Kruse]

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

loving the wind shadow grahics

I've been thinking for some time why the hell they didn't have something like that.
Also - a simple graphic showing wind direction.

All in all - the WWE Americas Cup organisers have listened to the criticisms about how boring it's been, and the sorely lacking coverage-graphics - and re-written the match scripts to add some excitement, as well as finally providing some of the basic graphics/info one would expect.
Well done Vince.

[canefan]

We seem to be faster than them. But Jimmy is keeping us at bay. One mispicked shift and it could be anyone's

[Kiwiwomble]

@canefan yeah, we seem to be able to make up 150m with little trouble but kimmy has always spotted it and been on top to give us some bad air

[canefan]

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

@canefan yeah, we seem to be able to make up 150m with little trouble but kimmy has always spotted it and been on top to give us some bad air

Who had the starting advantage? Need one win minimum to put them to the brink

[Kiwiwomble]

pass and building!

[canefan]

Comms said LR have made that mistake of giving up the right before. Haven't learned their lesson and ETNZ know every patch of their backyard

[Kiwiwomble]

70m behind at the last cross before the gate and now 430m ahead

[antipodean]

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

We seem to be faster than them. But Jimmy is keeping us at bay. One mispicked shift and it could be anyone's

Bingo!

And the result is team NZ get a 40m lead

[canefan]

@antipodean said in Americas Cup:

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

We seem to be faster than them. But Jimmy is keeping us at bay. One mispicked shift and it could be anyone's

Bingo!

And the result is team NZ get a 40m lead

Parlayed into a 500m lead

[canefan]

Give them a bit of wind and these boats are majestic

[antipodean]

That's some good racing.

[KiwiMurph]

What a race that was

[JK]

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

One more to go!