On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 04:41:30PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > I saw an interview done with Oracle owner Larry Ellison where he > said one of the reasons for the A C 72 boat was to get more > spectator involvement and move the sport closer to the more extreme > sports and hopefully get a younger crowd interested. > > When questioned about the costs of the 72's he said he might propose > a smaller boat, A C 45, along the same lines as the A C 72's, with > about a third the wing area of the 72, with a crew of 5 vs 11.
So I watched a bit of video of the last race last night and couldn't help but wonder what one of those boats would be like if it weren't required to rely on human power to turn the cranks. A race of high tech cat sailboats, with one pilot and a 10hp generator and some electric motors to trim the sails could be a lot of fun to watch. If you make it a spec class, you could even drive down the cost of the boats, and keep the racing a lot closer. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mann" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT - ORACLE WIN > > > >On Sep 26, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>On 25/9/13, Larry Colen, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> > >>>Boats seem to be the form of transportation that hold the least > >>>interest to me. Mind you, ships can be pretty cool, when you > >>>start talking engines bigger than some houses that I've lived in, > >>>that's getting pretty cool. > >> > >>The sailing in these big catamarans with hydrofoils is superb. Sailing > >>racing is a bit like chess - tactics and the ability to think several > >>moves ahead are crucial. No engines here mate - wind, water and winning > >>ability. > > > >You can say that again. I'm no sailing enthusiast but I'm still > >highly impressed watching these boats. > > > >Have a read... > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC72 > > > >Cheers, > >Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
