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Pretty sure DR went where he did because it’s the best team he could find where he’d be going into the #1 seat.

Am I the only one that sees little value in these small test boats beyond basic proof of concept and a small amount of CFD calibration? How many test boats did Oracle and Landrover build between them last time round? That worked out well didn't it.

someone's kids are going to be very upset next summer when they go out to the pool and all their noodles are gone.

Speaking of which isn't it about time AS changed its names and handed some consultants an open checkbook to come up with a new logo?

If you were serious about getting the mini maxis etc here you’d pre arrange DYT to do a med-Sydney run arriving in October then a qld-Europe run in late feb.

Will you be storing mast up or mast down? Can’t help but think if you’re dropping the rig a lot the carbon mast would be very attractive.

at least CYCA could say they'd set criteria and it was passed. If you fail a drivers licence test it doesn't preclude you from trying again next week.

no just from racing the event that race was a qualifying race for unless they were able to tick the qualifying box in another way. Honestly I'm just being an internet troll but... Boat A does a qualifying race for Event B. During the qualifying race a "major incident" occurs but boat A is still deemed to have qualified. During event B an even more serious incident occurs and the Authorities are called in to investigate. During their investigation the authorities find out about the first "incident". Who is going to be held responsible?

What’s the point in having a test to see if you can do some betting safely if failing to do so doesn’t stop you doing it.

If you have a serious accident in a Hobart qualification race but still finish do you still qualify?

Of course there will be newer faster boats but not everyone has deep enough pockets and they’re unproven. its also a fact that some of the new boats won’t be faster. HB was clearly half a generation faster than the last batch of new imocas and this step was made with the logical leap to reduce hull beam. It’s not unusual for the next generation to go to extremes when recognising an advance and in some cases over shooting.

Painted them yellow.

Do we know if there is a buyer lined up for the current Hugo Boss? I think we can now safely say there won't be many boats in the next VG faster.

What he said. In the modern world with heaps of options out there it is hard to justify club boats that aren't rotomoulded.

That’s a very nice way to say “reads like it was written by a pissed off 13 year old”.