3lbgrayling
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has the Cup started.??
Jim
Jim
has the Cup started.??
Jim
Thanks for that Luke. Really amazing stuff - especially when the UK boat was heading directly at those spectators! Unbelievable. I guess the Americans will be desperate to conjure up some 'magic' of their own? Great racing
Reg Wyatt
Team NZ had a huge capsize when the y were helping Ineos Team UK trim and set up their boat prior to this latest Challenger racing.Oh my goodness that capsize was incredible! Amazing spectacle
Reg Wyatt
I think they will say it was dumped but tangled. Who called the manoeuvre when they had such a decent lead.So who’s job was it to dump the running back stay?
When I sailed on the twelve metre yacht Constellation during America cup trials, about 1979, my job was winding the inboard end of the spinnaker pole up and down! That's all I had to do. If any of the current America cup yachts had flown past us doing forty knots, most of the Constellation crew would have either fainted, shat themselves or presumed aliens had landed. (Probably all the above)
An amazing advance in technology but I wonder what the current crews would be like sailing the old twelve metres, apart from bored!?
Reg Wyatt
Racing again on Friday here, so Saturday morning for you. We are currently 13 hours ahead of you.Are the races at the weekends?