Hi Dwight, I like seeing the technology too. These first races were just sea trials. The upcoming races will be better sailed and commentated and the graphics will make them easier to understand too. I Look forward to learning about the crew positions and their responsibilities. The wheel looks pretty complicated with Nintendo game controller.
Ken Read was noting how the crews changed the sail camber during maneuvers. Deep draft form power to get up on the foil and then a flatter camber for low drag speed sailing. I think the keels will eventually evolve into a single centerline canting Tee foil that will work on any tack or gybe. Or the sails will spill the wind after foiling and eliminate sideways forces. Chuck Scheaffer > On 12/21/2020 7:22 PM dwight veinot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have you ever been on a 75 foot monohull sail boat going 40 kts. I say > its top notch technology and takes a whole lot more than most sailors know > how to do imagine Barker, Ainslie, Spitall and Burling steering these > foiling monohulls they are currently the best sailors on the planet and the > crew are also the best that can be had. I like the racing and i like seeing > all the adjustments these guys have to make above and below the water. > Different point of view I guess > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:34 PM David Knecht < [email protected] > mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > > > I taped Day 2 of the Prada series a couple of nights ago. > I was able to record the broadcast at 1AM. I think the boats are > spectacularly impressive and the racing is unbelvievably boring. Races are > won and lost on pure boat speed. There is no tactics other than the start > and it is unclear if that actually matters. Nothing matters except staying > on the foils going fast. The boats are going 35 knots in 15 knots of wind so > it all looks the same, upwind and downwind. No spinnakers, no crew running > around the deck hoisiting and lowering sails, or tacking. Everyone stays in > the same place throughout the race. There is absolutely nothing happening > except the boat going through the water and nothing that a normal sailor can > related to. It is impossible to tell why one boat is ahead and another > behind and why they change places at times. Even the graphics for who is > ahead are really hard to decipher. I also found the commentary to be > unhelpful. I don’t think the people calling the race have any more iidea of > what is happeneing than the famous video of the Irish announcer calling the > Laser race at the Olympics who had never seen a sailboat race before thinking > the starting sequence was actually the race (if you haven’t seen that one- > you should. I can find the link). I know I am being critical and I will > probably watch the final America’s cup when it happens, but I was really > disappointed. Dave > > > > > > > > > On Dec 19, 2020, at 11:11 PM, CHARLES > > SCHEAFFER < [email protected] mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Edd, > > > I'll stay up an d check out the Americas Cup race. I've been > > > watching the Vendee Globe coverage daily and the interviews have been > > > great. > > > > > > Chuck > > > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list > > > to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the > > > list - use PayPal to send contribution -- > > > https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu > > > > > > > > > > David Knecht > > S/V Aries > > 1990 C&C 34+ > > New London, CT > > > > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to > > help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list > > - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > Thanks - Stu > > > > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help > with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu >
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
