34th America's Cup: multihulls!

Auckland would produce more swell and unpredictable gusts. I cant see this class sailing there.

 

So the AC is now forever doomed to be for bath-tub smooth racing only?
That's hilarious! Foilers won't ever become more than curiosities if they can't
be designed to cope with a bit of swell and gustiness. You might as well
conduct the whole AC indoors with giant fans providing ideal winds.

 

Spithill looks dangerous - and a little demented - a couple of times he swung across ETNZ's stern near mark 1 while both were reaching at God awful speed - and knowing the aft facing camera has a wide angle lens, that Oracle bow sprit was swiping across too damned close for my liking.
If he was angry and wanted to punch the Kiwis out by poking phallus there, it would have been an insane move - imagine the tangle, both boats dropping off foils and burying.
Spithill needs to lay off the juice ... or whatever anger crap he is on.

 

It puts race 4 in a different perspective. It is a valid tactic to press the other guy and see if he goes splat. Maybe the Kiwis wanted to size up the Oracle bow situation as it breezed up.

 

34th AC

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You be missin a stage bruda-we past curiosity a long ways back-we be in the
kick *** stage about now.....

 

Big sailboats(!)

And now for a change of pace-JNavas video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglidodLf7M

 

same reason they never changed those Extreme 40's stone age designed cats...
very exciting to watch

 

they were before their time, break a mono in half you get 2 long hulls, they just broke in along the wrong axis

 

I must say Doug I was one of those predicting boring racing
I was wrong

 

All the data is published: http://noticeboard.americascup.com/ac13/

Have fun!

 

More so than motorsports? I do not agree.

 

Sure, Doug, but if they won't be modified for some slightly flukier conditions
that exist outside of SF Bay they'll remain curios. And there I was thinking you
were a breathless fanboi for a style of vessel that was robust and versatile.

Maybe the AC will get a big girl's blouse firm to sponsor them: they would go
well with the LV handbags and Prada shoes on sailors' shopping trips around SF
on those windy, wavy days.

 

You blokes seem to have forgotten ETNZ 1 sailing in a nearby twister period (well, it was in the upper Waitemata) on Hauraki Gulf; there were some heavy wind and decent waves running then ... and the first tractor was hard flying ... and got home safely - and quickly put to bed.
Of course Oracle (1 or 2, doesn't matter which) would have been pitch poled and inverted had they been there - but Tractor 1 survived.

 

They will design the boats to suit the prevailing conditions at the selected event venue, once the defender has been crowned we will know where that is.
None of us need to speculate whether these current boats would survive Auckland, since none of these boats would be re-used in the next AC even if the design rule remained unchanged. Gary is right though, we do know one of the boats was designed to sail in Auckland safely, in up to 33knots.

 

Pitchpole?
Yes, it is a half Revolution!