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.
That sounds like an old interview. The AC45s hit the water in early 2011, and were what was used in the preliminary "America's Cup World Series" events used to publicise the upcoming 2013 America's Cup (and, not coincidentally, to give potential crews some experience sailing high-tech winged catamarans). -- 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.
