Americas Cup

canefan

@canefan said in Americas Cup:

Two races scheduled on finals day 1. Hopefully we can realise superior boat speed and flip the deficit straight away

Too right. we should be aiming to establish an insurmountable lead

Two races per day no lay days? it'll be over rover either way

Crucial

At least this time the biggest lead we could get before losing is 6-1.

Love the way there is a big gap between days 2 and 3 just in case Oracle is losing so Larry can head to the bank and buy a win.

antipodean

@Crucial said in Americas Cup:

At least this time the biggest lead we could get before losing is 6-1.

Love the way there is a big gap between days 2 and 3 just in case Oracle is losing so Larry can head to the bank and buy a win.

The idea is to ram them at the start then.

Crucial

Quite like this article....
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/@sailing/2017/06/13/33846/time-to-show-our-team-the-love

mimic

TNZ winning the first race..

But man another hiccup at the last mark.. Led by 1.49 minutes, and only won by 30 secs

Just saw that the scores started with TNZ at -1 and Oracle at 0. So Oracle need to win 7, and TNZ need to win 8.
I thought Oracle had 1 point already, and only need 6 more to get to 7.

mimic

TNZ making errors, and we now have a race

mimic

oracle cut the lead from ~600m to almost overtaking them.. and then oracle make a mistake and TNZ break away to a 500m lead

mimic

After Day 1, Emirates TNZ lead 1-0 (2 wins, but they started on -1)

Virgil

Fucken ripper, 2 more tomorrow and we will get to see Coutts ripping into cuntface again like 4 years ago.
Hopefully the comeback doesn't happen tho

TeWaio

That looked awesome, we seem way faster than them in light air

Snowy

@antipodean said in Americas Cup:

The idea is to ram them at the start then.

That might be strangely prescient albeit the other way around. There was a comment on the radio yesterday that Oracle have admitted to having a second race boat. Ram us, both boats broken and they can sail around uncontested in their spare. Wouldn't put it past the pricks either.

Still, good to see us with an apparent advantage in light airs. We seem to point higher, or have greater boat speed with a similar angle.

I will now go to Warkworth and nobble any of the bastards wandering around in Oracle shirts before they head to Bermuda.

taniwharugby

@Snowy let me know if you need any help

Snowy

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

@Snowy let me know if you need any help

They're nerds who deal with hydro dynamics and carbon fibre. If there's more than 5 of them to beat me about the head with a laptop them I'll give you call...

canefan

@Virgil said in Americas Cup:

Fucken ripper, 2 more tomorrow and we will get to see Coutts ripping into cuntface again like 4 years ago.
Hopefully the comeback doesn't happen tho

Ian Percy talked about the final being down to sailing. That only applies if there is no significant difference in boat speed. We appear to have a significant speed advantage which is massive. We need to try and finish Oracle off as fast as possible to negate the influence of Larry's billions. By the sounds of it we have learned our lesson from SF and ETNZ will continue to improve the boat right until the end. How was Jimmy at the presser?

booboo

@mimic said in Americas Cup:

TNZ winning the first race..

But man another hiccup at the last mark.. Led by 1.49 minutes, and only won by 30 secs

Just saw that the scores started with TNZ at -1 and Oracle at 0. So Oracle need to win 7, and TNZ need to win 8.
I thought Oracle had 1 point already, and only need 6 more to get to 7.

Apparently the -1 was due to a desire to ensure a minimum number of races.

Kruse

Apparently ETNZ "are under no illusions"... jesus, Burling sounded like a retard when he was answering questions, other when he was just completely honest:
"Peter... if Oracle's good news is that they're only one down, what's your good news?"
"That we're one up."
Cue laughter...
and then more rabbit-in-headlights babble with "we're under no illusions" thrown in a few times.

mimic

@Kruse said in Americas Cup:

Apparently ETNZ "are under no illusions"... jesus, Burling sounded like a retard when he was answering questions, other when he was just completely honest:
"Peter... if Oracle's good news is that they're only one down, what's your good news?"
"That we're one up."
Cue laughter...
and then more rabbit-in-headlights babble with "we're under no illusions" thrown in a few times.

That's a bit harsh.
I don't really care what he sounds like, as long as he wins.

Kruse

@mimic Yeah - I'd like it if he wins, but I was cringing when I heard "look, we're under no illusions.." for the third time. And I never got around to counting it, but I think there was another 3 times.
And I also enjoyed watching Jimmy chewing tacks while answering questions, and when Pete made honest off-the-cuff un-politicial answers.

canefan

@mimic said in Americas Cup:

@Kruse said in Americas Cup:

Apparently ETNZ "are under no illusions"... jesus, Burling sounded like a retard when he was answering questions, other when he was just completely honest:
"Peter... if Oracle's good news is that they're only one down, what's your good news?"
"That we're one up."
Cue laughter...
and then more rabbit-in-headlights babble with "we're under no illusions" thrown in a few times.

That's a bit harsh.
I don't really care what he sounds like, as long as he wins.

Anyone remember Fitzy when he started? "Full credit to......"? or Kevvie's "yeah definitely"? Let them laugh all the way to Auckland. For the next AC

taniwharugby

Watched both races while out at lunch, those boats still amaze me, the speed and agility of them is astounding, plus all that pressure on the 'foil things' when they are flying, nose down, look ready for a crash!

The Silver Fern

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