America's Cup in Saudi Arabia

America's Cup in Saudi Arabia - OnCourse Ep28

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The Saudi Arabia venue for the second America's Cup Preliminary event was always likely to be controversial, but few expected the AC40 series to redefine high performance racing on foils - Yet that's precisely what the three day series did.
Moving six teams along with the travelling Cup circus to a country and coastline that has never previously hosted a grand prix sailing event of any kind was a bold call. But after a week of training and racing it was clear that this style of high octane racing had changed for good.
From close-quarters boat on boat tactics at closing speeds of over 60knots, to stunning performances from some of the youngest sailors the Cup has ever seen and shocks for some of the big guns, this was an event that will be talked about for some time. PlanetSail was there to witness and report on every minute.
Plus, we talk exclusively to the new IMOCA Globe Series Champion Sam Goodchild about his performance in the Transat Jaques Vabre and discover his pick of the pack in the ultra competitive IMOCA fleet as the focus draws in on the 2024 Vendée Globe.
Plus, in keeping with a season famous for excess, there's two double portions of Docktalk.
00:00 Saudi Spectacular - AC37 Preliminary Event 2 - Jeddah
05:07 Grant Dalton
06:20 Race 1
07:18 Race 2
07:46 Race 3
09:28 Day 2
13:18 Day 3
15:25 Docktalk Part 1
20:45 Sam Goodchild and the Transit Jaques Vabre
33:56 Docktalk Part 2
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@greenstripeypaint 7 ай бұрын

Great episode. Thank you.

@greig39 7 ай бұрын

The AC40’s produced great racing and the limited losses during manoeuvres is key to this. Looking forward to seeing more of them.

@GOODLIFECaribbean 7 ай бұрын

Comment. The best update so far. 👏👍🏻

@barryscott6222 7 ай бұрын

Why here - Money !!!

@Chris.Davies 7 ай бұрын

No sane person would ever go to Jeddah unless someone was paying them an awful lot of money. I mean a huge amount. I hope that is why AC was there: The Saudi prince pouring a torrent of money into the coffers of AC.

@jamsque 7 ай бұрын

Get your mop and your scrubbing brush cos we are SPORTS WASHING. The broadcast coverage of this event was awful, the screen was far too busy with graphics and overlays (which didn't work properly much of the time) that made it hard to see the actual boats. The commentary was dreadful. We are now fully in the era of on-shore 'stadium' racing in the America's Cup but this event might as well have been in the middle of the ocean, it took place in a completely featureless stretch of water with absolutely nil spectator boats in evidence, and it seemed like the broadcasters were embarrassed to show any shots of the shore because there were no spectators to be seen there either. It couldn't be more apparent that this event existed purely to cash a big Saudi check.

@isaacmtamou8070 7 ай бұрын

Oh, so just stand business then.