INHO, Magic was just slower than Luna Rossa for some reason(s). I also think Spithill was better than Barker in the prestarts—maybe because Magic was slower—it’s complicated. OTOH, Luna’s victory over a slower/handicapped boat and crew in this round robin is unlikely to mean much when they face the Brits! Further, I have little doubt that NZ will repeat and win the cup—I no longer have “...a dog in this fight...”.OTOH, in spite of the close racing I hope to see in the Defender Cup and AC, I prefer someone take it from the Kiwis so there might be a chance that the next edition will be both less expensive to participate in and thus draw more challengers. Hell, we can very close to having only 2 challengers for the oldest competition in sport history! Something has to change and if the Kiwis win, I doubt they will have any incentive to make the changes necessary to get more competitors. FWIW Charlie NelsonWater Phantom
Sent from the all new Aol app for iOS On Saturday, January 30, 2021, 7:31 PM, Graham Collins via CnC-List <[email protected]> wrote: I don't think NZ had much choice but to help fix the boat, otherwise the series would have immediately lost 4 to 7 races - a big hit to advertisers. And this running of the AC already looks fairly sad in terms of number of participants. At one point Ken Read was going on about the teams and threw out the number that it costs $100,000,000 to field a team. Crazy... Graham Collins Secret Plans C&C 35-III #11 On 2021-01-30 3:10 p.m., CHARLES SCHEAFFER via CnC-List wrote: Hi Dwight, I think Italy got faster, during the time America needed to repair their boat plus I think America tweaked some things on their boat that complicated their performance and reversed the progress they had made. It's a shame they didn't win one race. The bigger story that I'm hoping will come out regards the help America got from the Italians and New Zealanders that prevented the sinking and the repairs. New Zealand laminated the big panel for them. What great sportsmanship. Chuck On 01/30/2021 12:59 PM dwight veinot via CnC-List <[email protected]> wrote: American Magic lost those races before they crossed the start line. They had no confidence in their repaired boat and a reason for that showed up in the last race. The foil got stuck up so they had no way to tack. I thought for a moment they might run her into the spectator fleet or go aground on shore. I suppose they might have had capability to drop sails but that would have been a mess too traveling at about 30 kts way outside the lay line and way outside the course line On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 12:31 PM CHARLES SCHEAFFER via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: America's Cup News FWIW, America patched their boat (amazing story) and got back racing but lost four races to Italy. They're out. England and Italy will race each other to decide who will challenge New Zealand. Thanks to YouTube I'll get to see the amazing coverage with so many onboard cameras, audio of the skippers, aerial drones and helicopters. Ken Read is commentating. Chuck S 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 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
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