Buzzman, I have the same idea with an old 505 and Mosquito hulls for amas. It won't be as fast as either of it's original donor boats, but that's...
Hi Doug, While it looks relatively quick on some points of sail, perhaps a good measure of whether they have reached or have come close to their...
Whereas if you are a multihull sailor, you only need 6 boats to get 12 hulls on the water at any one time :D.
One of the main reasons I would consider the trimaran option over adding ballast. Both ways the boat gets heavier, but adding amas means adding...
This topic interests me as I too have an old 505 hull waiting to have something done to it. Mine was originally unsuccessfully turned into a skiff...
If we're discussing what we think the next AC should be sailed in, I'd propose that they replace all the lawyers with accountants. Specify a...
Why am I the only one who thinks this is the best post in this thread ? :D Nationality rule is a bad idea anyway, all those who are crying for...
Doug, I'm not beating up on Barker - I'm just very surprised that he can state that they only figured out Oracle have a huge boatspeed advantage...
This quote from the NY Times, regarding the second race yesterday: “They were going pretty damn well,” Barker said of the upwind leg. “It was...
Xarax beat me to it, if OR win this, Larry will say "screw the deed of gift" let's race 100ft foiling cats, bugger the 90ft waterline rule. If...
I'm a catsailor. If someone tacks that far down to leeward on me, I say "thanks for the position".
Nz just threw the race.
Glen Ashby has won how many catamaran world championships ? Perhaps time to put Dean Barker on wing trim.. And Gashby on helm.
That is too funny.. The thing that made me take note of the way they versed it, is that Ken Read actually stuttered and fumbled his words, before...
Ken Read and his co-comentator talking about Oracle would have just won the AC if they hadn't been docked 2 points by the jury. They used the...
NZ can still win this.. all it would need is a capsize by OR :p
Those who predict that this is the last time we see these amazing boats, I sincerely hope they are wrong. I've said this before - I don't care...
NZ will have to beat OR on tactics, the Oracle boatspeed downwind is faster at lower angles. Not by a small margin, either. If Oracle win this...
Yeah, But Oracle has ridiculous boatspeed on them..
I'm starting to believe NZ can't win this thing..
