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34th America's Cup: multihulls!

Discussion in 'Multihulls' started by Doug Lord, Sep 13, 2010.

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Cleffyboy Junior Member

Just wanted to say:

Been loving all these posts, they make for great reading. Thank you.

And now it's game time. Very best of luck to both teams, I'm very very excited!!! Don't know who will win, but I guess by now it's pretty much determined already, and were just waiting for all the cards to be shown.

Awesome!! Wouldn't have it any other way...

Cleffyboy, Sep 7, 2013

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Blackburn Senior Member

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Something interesting from the official AC site:

... Ever wonder what the helmsman sees? Here’s a sampling from Emirates Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker: “You’re looking at all the different factors. You’re obviously looking to sail the least amount of distance that you can, so you’re focused on the mark out of one corner of your eye. And you’re looking at the instruments and where the boat’s positioned and balanced, so that’s foil settings and wing settings and everything else; where we are in terms of trim and angle and everything else; you’re also focusing at the same time on how far it is to the boundary. There’s any number of different items that you’re focused on at any given time, so being able to take in that information and process it and send it out in the right direction is the most important thing.”

Barker sees all of that, and more. While some in the world can’t chew gum and walk a straight line at the same time, Barker can instantaneously take in the position of the mark, the instrument data that tells him the flight of his wing sail catamaran, the wind conditions coming down the course, the position of his speedster on the racecourse with regards to the boundary and his competitor, and the action being performed by each crewmember.

Barker has a recognition ability that allows him to take in large amounts of data in snap shot instances, process it all and make split-second decisions. More than just great hand-eye coordination, Barker has an ability that was discovered during an eyesight check for Team New Zealand’s 2003 America’s Cup defense.

“We did a bunch of different eyesight testing, different things testing eyesight periphery, your ability in snap-shot glances to take in a large amount of data or information, being able to process that, memorize it, read it back, all sorts of split-second decision making,” said Barker. “A lot of those skill sets which are probably, as it turns out, quite useful to a match race sailor; being forced to make split-second decisions, a lot of those skills were useful.”

According to Barker’s eye doctor, Dr. Brett Howes, the ability is known as “visual memory” and is common among successful, high-performance athletes.

“It’s not a thought process; if you have to think about it the moment has passed,” said Howes, an optometrist based in Auckland, New Zealand, who’s been researching the topic for some 30 years. “It’s recognition of one instance in time, one picture.

“Say a baseball player faces a certain pitcher a number of times. He’ll go to that section of the library in his brain with pictures of what the pitcher has thrown before. A certain pitch comes, bang; he hits it out of the park. He might not even know he’s swinging at the pitch. He does it because his brain has a library of instances in time that recognizes it’s time to swing,” said Howes.

During the eyesight test, Barker was shown a series of six numbers for 1/100th of a second and he could recall them without hesitation. Howes said that good athletes usually get four or five of the six numbers, but Barker was getting all six without trouble. So Howes increased the amount of numbers and Barker continued to nail it.

“Anyone walking down the street might have the ability, but they’ve never tapped into it,” said Howes. “Dean has an extraordinary ability to take in images quickly and make a decision a lot faster than others; it’s taking the thought process out of reacting.”

Howes is an optometrist and not a neurologist, so he’s not sure which part of the brain is being tapped for Barker’s ability. “Possibly it’s the mid-brain, but it’s not in the thinking process because when you’re thinking it’s too late.”

Barker often looks calm and relaxed on the helm. And Emirates Team New Zealand’s success under his guidance has been great. He’s very nonchalant about the ability, saying he was surprised more than anything when he learned of it.

“It’s one of those things you don’t really think too much about. You’re eyes are your eyes and you see the world in a certain way. The ability to capture a lot of information very quickly in a snap shot is something that has been a huge benefit to the sailing that I do.”

—Sean McNeill

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Hope Jimmy isn't allowed to read that this morning, he'd be spooked?

So now the Auckland optometrists are helping out with Kiwi mind games...

lol

Blackburn, Sep 7, 2013

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dskira Previous Member

Next America's Cup helmet
And yes it will be an all woman crew
Get ready macho sailors

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple

dskira, Sep 7, 2013

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Blackburn Senior Member

^^^

What coffee does that helmet dispense; Nespresso, or Lavazza?

....

GoPro put up a video yesterday with lots of good onboard footage of Team Oracle, already it has over 21,200 views:

....

Ken Read (TV commentator and North Sails pres) makes a plug for his show!

SAILING GOES BIG TIME

NBC. Prime Time. This Saturday and Sunday. For the first two races of the America's Cup between defender Oracle Team USA and challenger Emirates Team New Zealand, you won't have to go to YouTube or find the NBC Sports Network. Instead, it will be broadcast live at 1pm PT / 4pm ET on NBC on your local TV. Yours truly commentating with host Todd Harris and our man on the water, Gary Jobson.

So what should we expect? That is the half a billion dollar question , which is the approximate total cost for the three challengers and the defender to get here. ...

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Blackburn, Sep 7, 2013

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RumnCoke Junior Member
dskira said: ↑

Next America's Cup helmet
And yes it will be an all woman crew
Get ready macho sailors

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Gotta Love Team Luna Rosa Helmets. Looks like the second coming of Flash Gordon. Well Flashy Anyway. Could it be some kind of reflective advantage, blinding the other teams crews?
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RumnCoke said: ↑

Gotta Love Team Luna Rosa Helmets. Looks like the second coming of Flash Gordon. Well Flashy Anyway. Could it be some kind of reflective advantage, blinding the other teams crews?
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No, because they were so far behind that the light would have taken several
minutes to reach their opponents.

Leo Lazauskas, Sep 7, 2013

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Blackburn Senior Member

^^^

LOL

...

Only two more hours to go.

ARE WE READY?

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Here is another shocking story, right on the eve of the match!

US snub hardens resolve to beat them

The commodore of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron - the yacht club behind Team New Zealand - was fuming last night at what he said was a calculated snub by the America's Cup Event Authority, the body set up by Oracle Team USA to run the event.

Steve Burrett, in San Francisco as part of the challenge, said he had not been invited to an 800-person America's Cup party on Friday (NZT) and was offended that Team NZ had been sent only 17 tickets. Burrett said: "I take this as a personal affront and an affront on behalf of the team. This has been done by people who have little or no idea about the traditions of the America's Cup. It's bloody pathetic.

"It just hardens my resolve - I hope the boys beat them on the water and take the Cup off them.

"I think this is probably indicative of the lack of care as far as yacht clubs are concerned in this America's Cup tenure. This (regatta) is all about money."

Traditionally, the America's Cup is a yacht-club-to-yacht-club engagement.

Burrett brought the Lipton Cup up from New Zealand with him and delivered it to the defending yacht club, San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club, and their vice-commodore, Tom Ehman. Ehman is also director of external affairs for the America's Cup and is closely linked with the Oracle team, representing them in the ill-fated "trespassing" protest against Team NZ.

"Tom Ehman and others at Golden Gate Yacht Club knew I was here but the only way I found out about the America's Cup party was when I overheard a comment.

"I just think this stuff is indicative of how this mob have just lost the plot with the America's Cup."

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Damn right it's pathetic; imagine how many insignificant Oracle sycophants must have received invites to this party - and the challenging club is pretty much excluded. Incredible.

Call your Ambassador home!

lol

Blackburn, Sep 7, 2013

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Blackburn Senior Member

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All right! One hour left before the start...

Don't any of you boatbuilding nerds now start posting about the wonderful old Buccaneer, inflatable russian catamarans, etc.

Or I will call some friends in Haiti and have them make pincushions in the shape of Pivers!

Blackburn, Sep 7, 2013

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cavalier mk2 Senior Member

Nuggets, Nimbles or Lodestars? How about foiling Encores for the budget cup?

cavalier mk2, Sep 7, 2013

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Is this cruel, or is this cruel? It is Mother Nature being wicked again; She very often has a grudge in proportion to the number of hours you've spent organizing a race, was often my experience.

The lightest winds of the regatta have hit the America's Cup today - and they might be even lighter tomorrow.

Regatta director Ian Murray suggested they were "hoping" for 12 knots for today's first of two races when he fronted the pre-race briefing.

He was hoping it may build to 17-18 knots for the second race but there was a lot of hope in his voice.

"It's one of those days where people tell you 'it's never (normally) like this here'. But there should be no issues getting through today's races."

He said tomorrow's forecast loomed as "a tricky day, even trickier than today".
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You suppose they will need anchors?

Blackburn, Sep 7, 2013

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Doug Lord Flight Ready

34th AC

Good luck to the boys on the boats......

yes, it is a Revolution
Fire Arrow Foil System/ 3D SAILING
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Doug Lord, Sep 7, 2013

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Doug Lord Flight Ready

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Two lead changes! Barker got the start and Jimmy passed upwind and then Barker passes! WOW! cant get no betta
Match racing par excellance!

yes, it is a Revolution
Fire Arrow Foil System/ 3D SAILING
WOLF https://sailwolffoiler.com/wolf/

Doug Lord, Sep 7, 2013

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Super first race, well earned for the Kiwis!

It looks seriously hairy when the boats are as close as they were,
at the separation mark and after the 1st leeward mark.

"One hell of a yacht race" said Barker just now.

Most intense race I've seen in a dog's age.

Blackburn, Sep 7, 2013

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My heart was pumping - Dean wins the start, Jimmy goes hard, ETNZ fights back into the lead, ETNZ crosses about 15 metres ahead at 40 knots, Deano has balls. The boats are so close after all this time. I get to watch it at home - LIVE. Good times.

cheers

Phil

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Well, How about it?
Besides the small muff-up at the first mark, Team Gandalf the Grey displayed an outstanding piece of sailing skill. Faster tacks, less tacks, and faster overall boat speed. If the wind does come up, Team Sauron will be just another footnote in the never ending saga of America's Cup Racing!
Go Go TNZ Gandalf!!

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