Americas Cup

I'm a walking goddamn Americas Cup jinx. The Oracle comeback started when I started watching... the very 1st race i watched, we were about to win the whole thing, then ran out of time. Then.... I watched the rest, as we lost race, after race, after race.
And in this one, Wenerei, I missed race 1, went to pub, watched race 2. Today, watched race 1, missed the start of race 2... I'm just hoping this lead is enough to be jinx-proof.

KiwiMurph

@kruse so you're pretty much not watching anymore races right?

Kruse

By claiming to be a jinx, is the jinx reversed?
I think I've got red socks on too, but can't be bothered checking.

Kruse

@kiwimurph said in Americas Cup:

@kruse so you're pretty much not watching anymore races right?

If we somehow manage to lose this one... definitely.

antipodean

Luna Rossi aren't too shabby going upwind.

canefan

@kruse said in Americas Cup:

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

@canefan you're italian aren't you?

I'm a walking goddamn Americas Cup jinx. The Oracle comeback started when I started watching... the very 1st race i watched, we were about to win the whole thing, then ran out of time. Then.... I watched the rest, as we lost race, after race, after race.
And in this one, Wenerei, I missed race 1, went to pub, watched race 2. Today, watched race 1, missed the start of race 2... I'm just hoping this lead is enough to be jinx-proof.

Barring a choke induced crash we are sweet. We can relax, Dean Barker is not on board

Kiwiwomble

@antipodean said in Americas Cup:

Luna Rossi aren't too shabby going upwind.

its hard to follow, ETNZ just made an an extra 10 sec upwind :man_shrugging_light_skin_tone:

canefan

We start on the less favoured side, we overtake and win by 700m and change. Nice way to hold serve

Kruse

One question, seeing as all of a sudden everybody's a sailing expert, hydro-mechanical guru, and wind physicist....
Is the unit “knot” metric, or imperial?

Kiwiwomble

nautical mile so im going with imperial

voodoo

I hope that's not how the remainder of the series goes. Seems a ludicrous amount of weight on winning the start.

taniwharugby

@kiwiwomble isn't it just nautical?

Bovidae

Hopefully we move to another course over the weekend to make the races a little less predictable.

It's the TVNZ/Stevenson jinx we need to worry about. :crossed_fingers:

Kruse

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

nautical mile so im going with imperial

Yeah, looked it up. It's imperial, but still commonly used as a standard as it lines up fairly well with longitude/latitude degrees/minutes/seconds.
Or some bullshit.

The Silver Fern

Americas Cup