34th America's Cup: multihulls!

You're right. Ignore my ****.

 

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Are you kidding me?! Giving up that easy? I raised hell for at least two posts..
Before long you'll be agreeing that the 17ers are gona whip dat boat from down under(and a little to the left), right?

 

The Kiwis will just shout across the difference in ancestral heritages - aussies were not allowed on deck ... Spit will be so devastated by this undeniable truth and honesty that he'll suicidally swing the wheel down with an on coming SF skyline williwaw ....and that will be the end of that.

 

Artemis stopped dragging their butt and finally got something to foil. Boat 2 better be good if they expect to only have 2 months to test before the LV.

 

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Evan, is that a 45? Whats the story-do you know when the pix was taken?

 

It's a 45 from the past week in SF. Here's the story Artemis posted a bit ago:
http://artemis-racing.americascup.com/news/4345/foiling-ac45

 

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Thats a great find ,Evan-thanks! And they're looking real good-now for some video-I hope. Nathan is a great championship level Moth sailor...
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ETNZ LR practice race, not best video, but a good angle being a bit overhead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXPdwZMca1k&sns=em

 

I'm still struggling to get my head around the size of these things !

 

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Great shot by Oracles Grenain Grenier illustrating the old with the new:
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I think Nat Herreshoff would be too.

 

Oracle capsizes one of the foiling 45's. It had the RBYAC wing but has OR crew and you can see the foil on the port hull.

 

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Great find ,Evan-wish you had more info.

 

Shannon Falcone (on other 45) said the boats were in between runs going less than 10 knots, they must have been hit by a wave or a gust and not been paying full attention to react soon enough.

Turns out Ben Ainslie was at the helm.

 

AC Uncut interview with Nathan Outteride: https://www.youtube.com/embed/BL345vJw4v8

Interesting he says that they are doing modifications to boat 2 to make it foil, so it may not have been built to fully foil, shocked that it took Cayard and the team so long to figure out that foiling was the way.

Also they put a picture on twitter of boat 1 being lifted out, you can't tell too much by the picture but you can see that no big change to the boards which surprised me.