the old style you could cover your opponent. Now... its not a percentage bet. Not match racing anymore.

These bloody sails can cut a dolphin in two in a shot......

Are you referring to the Australian boat in 2015 ?

17 tonnes of steel and lead make a difference

It’s not just the hole. It’s the failure of the hull in all directions from the hole both laterally and transversely. You can see where the hull has failed by the ribbons on glass fibre hanging from the splits. But the hull repair might just be the easy bit, if you call repairing carbon fibre easy. The electronics are also shot and wiring is laid integrated into the hull’s structure. I hope they make it in time because the event would lose some of its sparkle with them.

No lead this time

@@SomeTechGuy666 it was the Australian boat in 95. Carbon fiber was a newish hull material and they didn't understand the lack of flexibility yet. It couldn't handle the weather and cracked like an egg.

I guess it is kinda off topic but does anyone know of a good place to stream new series online?

40 FEET was what i have heard bouncing around the internet. add in the fatct they were doing 50mph in that big gust.

Matthew is good - but it is great to have Nathan (who has skippered foiling AC yachts) and Ken has plenty of AC skippering experience - Matthew it great at the post event analysis.

Your last point is really important. I’ve seen port/starboards where the starboard boat has clearly altered course, but where no penalty was issued. I worry skippers with right of way will stand on further to prove their case, with disastrous effect.

These foils are potential killers. They move at high speeds and will slice through anything.

@@jameslittlewood7663 ahhhh so you’ve been to Cowes Week then?

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Was a magic trick

Like accidentally sawing the volunteer in half....

FWIW, they rounded the *left* mark, not right, specifically to stay on the left side of the course where all the wind was (multiple people were talking about it being a "one track" course). Taking the right mark into decreasing wind would have required an immediate jibe to get them back over to the left side of the course where the wind was. Note also that Prada made the same turn to the left as American Magic. They just didn't initiate the bear away after they saw what happened to AM caught by a 23+ knot gust, and purposely ran straight out of bounds. So what's wrong with right turn followed by a jibe? Not long before this rounding, one of the other crew stated on comms, that the wind was "very light" around the right mark. Wind was only 9 knots at the bottom of the course and had been only 12 knots 40 seconds before the turn, so the skipper interpreted "very light" as possibly less than 9 knots with potential to drop off the foils (which would mean an instant loss if Prada could stay on foils in the strong pressure), so he chose the left mark despite warnings that it would be a "real hard maneuver". If we assume that getting swatted down by the wind gust was not inevitable, I think their error was simply rushing from a tack (point where boat speed is lowest at 25knots) straight into a bear away (point where pressure on the sail and acceleration is highest) with nothing in between. It's possible that had they tacked and then waited a couple seconds more to regain any speed lost in the tack, before attempting to bear away they could have absorbed the gust, or at least recognized it coming before bearing away directly into it. But then again, sometimes getting turned downwind ASAP is the best way to deal with increasing pressure (for any boat that sails faster than the wind speed) so who knows. The goal was to win the race, not to avoid the wind.

@@daemn42 this ☝️Also it’s easy to say they shouldn’t have turned down so fast but at that speed it’s only seconds to the boundary. Split second timing and it probably wasn’t the helm’s job to release the runner.

@@daemn42 absolutely.... I’ve capsized my Laser in exactly the same manner - although not with foils, not with a dozen guys on board, not with a huge rig (although it is the full size sail I’ll have you know), not in the Southern Hemisphere... So I totally concur with your marvellous debrief 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@@daemn42 O.K. I mistakenly said the right hand mark instead of left hand. You know what I meant. Your analysis shows sailing knowledge and is worthy of consideration, however I stand by my point, why risk it when one is substantially ahead, going for a win but then pursuing an admittedly risky maneuver and using a football term causing an "unforced error". I believe this mishap will be talked about and debated on for years. Good Sailing.... Go American Magic.

Just saw a Luna Rosa video tacking and staying on foils in 7-10 knots of wind.

Dean Blooper

Harsh..

@@PhilbyFavourites why risk it wen you have it in the bag? Sorry I'm confused on who made the call but in my opinion a point is a point... My point is who was the helmsman? A win is a win That was shameful... Now if I wanted be Nasty like most Kiwis then thus be a Different story haha 🤣 Not Harsh only Facts and Data... Starlink style P.S I'm sure Dean knows how shifty the wind can be here...!!!

I think they're actually safer in capsized than the cats were because they don't bury their hulls in the water and pitchpole

Not at all. Its just that people have lost their desire to live on the edge - a species in decline.

Leeward runner runners go from eash side of the mast to each stern quarter, backstay serves a slightly different purpose.

@@bigkiwial thx u for the confirmation. We spoke of the same parts, funny to compare the languages. Backstay (english) = Achterstag (german), in the center of the stern. port (leeward) runner is on the port side of the stern. confusing, we would call it BACKSTAGEN in german. Of course it is accented different. in German no term for "runners", e.g. backstay vs. running backstay.

With comments like that you show your biases and poor sportsmanship.

A lot of parallels for sure.

I think you mean fitting and timely for end of the Trump administration. Biden's team hasn't been launched yet.

I don’t get it. Biden isn’t president until Jan 20.

Why does every video on youtube recently have an American in the comments making it about their politics? So annoying.

its over your head - dont worry about