35th Americas Cup: Foiling Multihulls!

Qualifiers Race Day Three: 5/29/17
Looks like good wind: EarthCam - Bermuda Cam http://www.earthcam.com/world/bermuda/pembroke/?cam=bermuda

For reference: 35th America's Cup https://www.americascup.com/en/results.html

starting 1pm EDT --


Race 1

Land Rover Ben Ainslie Racing (port) vs Groupama Team France (stb)--Spectacular 53 sec. come from behind win for Groupama!!!!

Race 2

Artemis Racing (port) vs Emirates Team New Zealand (stb)--TNZ wins after multiple(9) lead changes on a port/stb penalty against Artemis.

Race 3

Groupama Team France (port) vs SoftBank Team Japan (stb)--Overwhelming win by Team Japan!

 

Team France wins one! See Martin Fischer enjoy the result-one happy guy!

 

I watched all the racing yesterday on my friends DirectTV's reception of the NBSsports broadcast. It was a very good presentation.

Too bad, as I understand it NBCsports will NOT be covering today's racing (monday)

 

There was something rather strange that happened to Landrover BAR in its race against NZ (or was it Oracle). As they rounded a downwind mark with NZ(Oracle) just barely having captured the lead, BAR suddenly bore off to starboard and touched down on the water. Of course that ended up costing her the race.

It was rather strange as first it appeared she was going to smoothly chase after NZ(Oracle). But suddenly swerved to the right and touched down off her foils. Here are a few references I can find that document it, but no discussion, or video yet that investigates the problem she might have experienced?...(perhaps a foil or control problem?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV2Agh1HQPk (minute 2:22)

(minute 5:13 in this discussion)

 

I may be wrong about this programing for today, as according to their website that will be broadcasting the racing today?

 

It's on NBCsports now, or I should say, in a few minutes.

 

TNZ vs Artemis-penalty-9 lead changes- the umpires say now that they called it wrong-but no redress for Artemis:

 

Qualifiers Race Day Four: 5/30/17
Looks like good wind: EarthCam - Bermuda Cam http://www.earthcam.com/world/bermuda/pembroke/?cam=bermuda

For reference: 35th America's Cup https://www.americascup.com/en/results.html

starting 1pm EDT --


Race 1

TNZ (port) vs (stb) Artemis--TNZ won......

Race 2

Groupama (port) vs Oracle(stb)--Oracle wins overwhelmingly.......

Race 3

Artemis (port) vs Landrover(BAR) (stb)--BAR wins overwhelmingly......

 

That is a shame isn't it. I think they gave enough room as well.

 

Team USA on the first series of races:

 

AC 35-standings so far:

ORACLE TEAM USA (USA), 5-1 – 6 pt (1 pt from ACWS)
Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL), 5-1 – 5 pt
Land Rover BAR (GBR), 2-4 – 4 pt (2 pt from ACWS)
Artemis Racing (SWE), 2-5 – 2 pt
SoftBank Team Japan (JPN), 2-3 – 2 pt
Groupama Team France (FRA), 2-4 – 2 pt

 

Is it possible to watch recordings of full races anywhere? (on t'internet) I get really frustrated with the 6 second clips.

Cheers.

 

TT, I don't think thats possible yet but I don't know for sure....

 

Qualifiers Race Day Five: 6/1/17
Looks like good wind: EarthCam - Bermuda Cam http://www.earthcam.com/world/bermuda/pembroke/?cam=bermuda

For reference: 35th America's Cup https://www.americascup.com/en/results.html

starting 1pm EDT --
Race 1

SoftBank Team Japan (port) vs Groupama Team France (stb)= Japan won

Race 2

Land Rover BAR (port) vs TNZ (stb)--TNZ won

Race 3

Oracle Team USA (port) vs SoftBank Team Japan (stb)--USA won

Race 4

Groupama (port) vs Landrover BAR(stb)--Bar won

 

Light Air Foiling an AC 50- the legal wind range for racing is 6 knots to 24 knots:

Instagram post by Groupama Team France • Mar 26, 2017 at 2:46pm UTC https://www.instagram.com/p/BSGu5S-Dubv/

Probably meant a speed of 30 kilometers an hour=18.6 knots boatspeed in a 6 knot wind......