Tommy22

Its pretty low. Remember when NZ defended the cup and we had the Italian Flag flying from the Harbour Bridge?

How did Barker go in that race vs Oracle when he was 300m ahead?

I thought it was pretty obvious....

That's old- no pirelli

Interesting its the LV Logo not the AC Logo on the ETNZ wing today?

Agreed. Upwind speed won the last cup- hopefully history repeats.

Kiwis neee the wind to drop

According to Ray Davies interview yes

Since 1pm local time it's gone from 10 up to 20 and is now dropping back to 13, shit talk about a hard job!

Hmmm the wind has built over the last 30min.... fingers crossed it starts dropping soon or at least Artemis went for the light wind foils too or this could be a hard day....

I guess it also depends what Artemis goes for, if they have their low wind set too then as the wind gets lighter both teams will benefit and as it gets heavier may not go quite so well..... oh well- one hour

The wind at Pearl Island is all over the place with the average speed being 5-15 in the last hour? This could make sir some very interesting foil set up could even have different boards on each side to sort of cover the bases? Could end up pretty flukey too!

Yeah thats what I was trying to imply

Two thoughts from today: i) Could Artemis and ETNZ different thresholds for their boards. Artemis has always been quicker in heavier winds and less good when its lighter so perhaps they have more of a medium wind and heavy wind set up, where as ETNZ has more of a light wind and medium wind set up? ii) Could the issue be with the starts be that ETNZ has no eyes looking backwards? Looking at Burling today he is really throwing himself around to look behind him, compared to the Swedes where you can ensure that Percy or someone is looking backwards and giving information to the helmsmen?

anyone know when the second wing is back?