34th America's Cup: multihulls!

The 34th America's Cup reached a farcical level today, with the release of a revised race schedule, co-incident with an announcement by the Challenger of Record, Artemis Racing (SWE) that they did not expect to be racing until the end of July.



http://www.sail-world.com/NZ/Gladwells- ... ng?/110305

 

(That link doesn't work for me.)

How many AC72 teams are still participating?
I could not find this info on the official America's Cup website...

 

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Tomas-teams remaining: Artemis, Luna Rosa, Oracle, Team New Zealand.
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Luna Rosa- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbdzyuh-okc&feature=player_embedded

 

Thanks Doug, great video.


Regarding the pivoting foil as seen in that video, as well as others: Why is there sometimes quite a bit of water spray, while other times, it is much less? I'm assuming that it at least represents a difference in resulting resistance. Is it that the foil angle is not optimum?

 

They need to take a few lessons from F1 and Nascar

Both fight speed and cost ( not so much cost in Nascar)

You can have a good race at 150mph or 200mph, no different to the spectators but in yacht racing the boats get bigger to go faster, the course gets bigger the crowd is further away so there is no discernable difference except you get less boats, this cup has proved all of these observations.

 

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Surface penetration causes a bunch of spray(and drag) but if you're gybing just as you lower the "new" lee foil there can be more spray until speed builds.

 

slow or fast with the same foil or boat rolls and the load goes off but the AC guys can alter the angle from the deck

 

and, I assume because the foils need to go up the case, they cannot fit fences to stop aeration

Richard Woods

 

Team Oracle do have a good sense of humour.

 

I wonder how hard the Coast Guard laughed.

Cheers,

Earl

 

is that a dory?
stay in the boat? jump? stay in the boat? jump? stay in the boat? jump?
pray...

great vid!

 

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Can you photoshop a video?
UPDATE-6/13/13-- after looking at the video a lot it is clear to me that the rowboat(to the extent there was one!) passed between Oracle and their chase boat.......

 

Sure you can. Hollywood does all the time. Simple tweaks can be done by greenscreening - I built one with my son and he's done stuff that looks incredible.

I don't think this one was 'shopped it looked pretty real to me. The only real danger is hitting the dude in the shell with the lifted horizontal foil.

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CutOnce

 

Remember the movie Forrest Gump? And that was quite some time ago...

 

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Yeah, that could alter his reality...