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antipodean

Luna Rossi aren't too shabby going upwind.

canefan

@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.

taniwharugby

@kruse yea there used to be a US nautical mile.

The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is 1852 m. The US adopted the international definition in 1954, having previously used the US nautical mile (1853.248 m).[5] The UK adopted the international nautical mile definition in 1970, having previously used the UK Admiralty nautical mile (6080 ft or 1853.184 m).

voodoo

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

@kruse yea there used to be a US nautical mile.

The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is 1852 m. The US adopted the international definition in 1954, having previously used the US nautical mile (1853.248 m).[5] The UK adopted the international nautical mile definition in 1970, having previously used the UK Admiralty nautical mile (6080 ft or 1853.184 m).

We should get one of those "things you learn" threads going..

Kiwiwomble

@taniwharugby said in Americas Cup:

@kiwiwomble isn't it just nautical?

nope

Machpants

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

nautical mile so im going with imperial

Yeah nah, a nautical mile is based on the circumfrance of the earth. It is a minute of lattitude, standardised at 1852m

Kiwiwomble

@machpants so how is it "nah"?

full disclosure, i have a Bachelor in Surveying

Machpants

@kiwiwomble It's both, recognised in both Imperial and Metric systems

Full disclosure Royal Navy Ship and Aircraft Navigator, RAF Navigator - was educated about, trained and worked in Knots for a significant part of my life.

EDIT: It is not an SI unit tho

Kiwiwomble

@machpants so recognised as both but i get a "nah"? not just "its both"?

the metric system is based on the metre...hows is something thats 1852m considered metric? im genuinely curious

nzzp

Damn, that was an important win in the second race.

3-1 down is a long way back in first to 7.

splitting light air races gives yo uthe chance to win. They looked like two different boats out there between races 1 and 2 ... dirty air seems to be a massive impediment, much like F1. Fast boat, no passing, start critical - this IS F1 on the water

Kiwiwomble

@nzzp yeah, definitely more and more evidence that the start is critical, then the commentators have started making comments like “yet again we’re looking at the start” when they go over the important moments of the race

Might not be as simple as “win the start = win the race”...but it’s not far off, you may not have to out right win but I think you can’t risk out right loosing

canefan

@kiwiwomble said in Americas Cup:

@nzzp yeah, definitely more and more evidence that the start is critical, then the commentators have started making comments like “yet again we’re looking at the start” when they go over the important moments of the race

Might not be as simple as “win the start = win the race”...but it’s not far off, you may not have to out right win but I think you can’t risk out right loosing

Didn't we slip up at the start of race 4? But we had enough speed to recover

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