INEOS Team GB

[JALhazmat 1,614]

@rh3000 

so they didn’t get a head start of 6 months and they lost 5 months of water time...

it’s a miracle I tell you.. the plucky underdog strikes again ;-) 

how do you lose time in a boat that you were never going to have access too because you decided to host a fucking stupid ACWS? 

[IPLore 1,116]

27 minutes ago, Forourselves said:

 There is no doubt every Defender has an advantage every cycle, including ETNZ this time, but that’s the whole point of the AC. It’s supposed to be near impossible to win.

There is no doubt the defender has an advantage.

The results over decades bear that out, but more recently the "defender edge" has declined.

Gilded Age : Defender 15  Challenger 0 

 12 meters 8 : 2

IACC   3:2

Cats 1: 1

Foiling Mono.......time will tell.

Its getting more interesting

[Ex-yachtie 1,622]

1 hour ago, uflux said:

So who’s making the tea??

The nanny. 

[chesirecat 715]

1 hour ago, Sea Breeze 74 said:

America's Cup: Grant Dalton warns challengers - write off Ben Ainslie at your peril

Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton has warned the America’s Cup challenging fleet to “write off Ben Ainslie at your peril”.

Ainslie’s INEOS Team UK syndicate has endured a nightmare start to their racing campaign, failing to win a race at the world series warm-up regatta a month ago and failing to finish most of them as they endured speed and technical problems.

They have worked overtime to try to remedy those issues and look to have made good progress, though doubts still remain about their boat Britannia's performance in light airs as the Prada Cup challenger series starts on Friday.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/123944002/americas-cup-grant-dalton-warns-challengers--write-off-ben-ainslie-at-your-peril

He'll know more than most. Ineos has spent the most time "racing" against them.

[chesirecat 715]

11 hours ago, Bazzer-racing said:

I can promise you INEOS lost two whole weeks at the start of lockdown, not a single thing done anywhere, then work restarted but with caution all around and hence a slower pace . INEOS staff were really cautious of Covid all through the summer with good social distancing measures in place.

I made parts that are on the B1 and B2 as a sub contractor, I did not hear of a single covid case in the whole operation, larger sub contractors had INEOS supplied security guards just relating to Covid, every single person going in and out was logged and checked.

All good people to work with.

So many questions for you!

After NDA is lifted.

[TimmyHate 107]

Ainslie "Since the World Series we've got a new rudder, a new elevator, a new mast, a new mainsail, new headsails, we put aero modifications to the hell and we've changed the systems of the hull....so we've been quite busy"

[MultiMono 12]

22 hours ago, RobG said:

I think that original advantage is now well and truely diluted. Given the crop of B2s, LR seemed to be closer to the mark with their B1 than ETNZ, but all teams have had sufficient time to test and compare boats so it's now more or less even in terms of design and development opportunity.

You can only see 50% of the boat. ETNZ still have a 6 month jump on everyone. You've only got to look at how far a team can progress in week's to know how big of a deal 6 months is.

[The_Alchemist 1,426]

4 hours ago, Forourselves said:

They lost 5 months on the AC75, where AM lost nothing as did LR.

 

Wow, you can't even remember the facts!

[uflux 662]

1 hour ago, Stingray~ said:

Name the last time any Defender intentionally gave themselves a 6 month design head start. Name it! 

So umm...how long did Oracle take to develop the ac72 design rules? .....Hmmm they won the 33rd cup in February 2010 and released the AC72 rule in September 2010.....So that would be...7 months? Did I count that right?

[The_Alchemist 1,426]

1 hour ago, rh3000 said:

But what was the original question? Context matters.

COVID hindered all teams - only one lost their only AC75 for 5 months.

Nuance matters....

I was wrong in my assertion that INEOS didn't lose sailing time on their boat - they lost 1 month. But the point continues to stand - ETNZ are not 6 months down the road due to having a 6 month head start.

Please, try to use some logic and at least look up the facts.  

NZ lost time on their AC-75 because it got shipped around the world.  You do recall that AM lost at least a month of sailing in Florida because of covid and then they also shipped their only AC around the world.  It is not the fault of other teams that NZ decided to use the slow boats to ship their stuff around the world.

NZ had hardships, but all teams had hardships (e.g. AM several month waits to launch B1).  Just stop crying on peoples shoulders about how "tough" it has been for NZ.  It sounds like you are already making excuse for them to lose!!

[amc 101]

40 minutes ago, IPLore said:

There is no doubt the defender has an advantage.

The results over decades bear that out, but more recently the "defender edge" has declined.

Gilded Age : Defender 15  Challenger 0 

 12 meters 8 : 2

IACC   3:2

Cats 1: 1

Foiling Mono.......time will tell.

Its getting more interesting

I think, in this discussion another party has been forgotten. LR must have known basically everything regarding the design process, right from the start. If they didn’t they were asleep at the wheel. If at any point they felt they were being bullshitted they would have said “ 90ft on the waterline etc.  see you in 9 months. 
so I don’t think it is strictly correct to say ETNZ had a head start over everyone. 

[MultiMono 12]

1 hour ago, rh3000 said:

But what was the original question? Context matters.

COVID hindered all teams - only one lost their only AC75 for 5 months.

Nuance matters....

I was wrong in my assertion that INEOS didn't lose sailing time on their boat - they lost 1 month. But the point continues to stand - ETNZ are not 6 months down the road due to having a 6 month head start.

But I thought they had always planned not to have the boat for that long? And did they just stop work? Computers off, lights out and feet up? I doubt that very much. So the smaller test boat was planned for the period. So with that in mind, not having the ac75 for 5months wasnt unexpected. You could even say covid had less effect on them than it did Ineos. Ineos planned tonhave their boat out on the water but couldn't. ETNZ never intended to use theirs 

[breezie 95]

15 hours ago, crashtack said:

Interesting phenomenon where the boat closest to the camera always seems to be a bit faster... can anyone explain this to me?

Its called parallax  The same distance traveled closer to the viewer covers a larger angle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax

[Gissie 1,757]

2 hours ago, The_Alchemist said:

Wow, you can't even remember the facts!

This is SAAC, we don't do facts.

[Forourselves 1,691]

4 hours ago, Stingray~ said:

Name the last time any Defender intentionally gave themselves a 6 month design head start. Name it! 

Oracle Team USA 2013.

[mako23 632]

6 hours ago, Stingray~ said:

Name the last time any Defender intentionally gave themselves a 6 month design head start. Name it! 

I can name a defender who made the opposition sail to the USA while the defender built a boat that was so extreme in design and un seaworthy that it would of been suicide to try crossing the pond with it. 

[Stingray~ 2,265]

5 hours ago, uflux said:

how long did Oracle take to develop the ac72 design rules?

I forget how many months (look it up yourself) but the point is: They did not do it in secret, they let all interested parties listen in during the entire process. ETNZ could and should have let parties in on the design possibilities, even if design opinions by those other parties were going to be ignored. No Defender in AC History has pulled this shit before and guess what? You can bet your bottom dollar the advantage taken was intentional. 
 

Do I love what they designed? Yes. Was the process fair? Hell no! 

[uflux 662]

Just now, Stingray~ said:

I forget how many months (look it up yourself) but the point is: They did not do it in secret, they let all interested parties listen in during the entire process. ETNZ could and should have let parties in on the design possibilities, even if design opinions by those other parties were going to be ignored. No Defender in AC History has pulled this shit before and guess what? You can bet your bottom dollar the advantage taken was intentional. 
 

Do I love what they designed? Yes. Was the process fair? Hell no! 

I did....7 months with no challenger input....Next question 

[Stingray~ 2,265]

6 minutes ago, uflux said:

I did....7 months with no challenger input....Next question 

The AC72 design was put together at M&M’s studio in Southern California. Lots of parties accepted the invitation to stay involved, ETNZ included. Later, M&M were free agents and chose to sign with ETNZ.

That was fair play. Big difference! 

[Chapter Four 142]

6 hours ago, Stingray~ said:

Name the last time any Defender intentionally gave themselves a 6 month design head start. Name it! 

If you think Oracle didn't have a head start for 2013 you've got rocks in your head.

If they wanted a fair boat they would have gone back to the IACC.

They started designing a multihull in 2007 and a rigid wing in 2009.

They were miles ahead of the other teams with regard to designing and sailing a rigid wing multihull by the time the rules came out.

The spanner in the works for Oracle was ETNZ got theirs to foil.

[Forourselves 1,691]

35 minutes ago, Stingray~ said:

I forget how many months (look it up yourself) but the point is: They did not do it in secret, they let all interested parties listen in during the entire process. ETNZ could and should have let parties in on the design possibilities, even if design opinions by those other parties were going to be ignored. No Defender in AC History has pulled this shit before and guess what? You can bet your bottom dollar the advantage taken was intentional. 
 

Do I love what they designed? Yes. Was the process fair? Hell no! 

As did ETNZ (Unless you're calling Dan Bernasconi a liar too). Bernasconi talked about how they communicated regularly with all teams during the design process.

[Tornado-Cat 1,082]

1 hour ago, Stingray~ said:

Do I love what they designed? Yes. Was the process fair? Hell no! 

Guillaume Verdier designed the boat, Dalton decided the process, a french design with a kiwi process.

[Tornado-Cat 1,082]

21 minutes ago, Chapter Four said:

If you think Oracle didn't have a head start for 2013 you've got rocks in your head.

They were miles ahead of the other teams with regard to designing and sailing a rigid wing multihull by the time the rules came out.

The spanner in the works for Oracle was ETNZ got theirs to foil.

Do you forget facts ? M&M let a door opened to foiling in the rule and than later joined TNZ giving them at least 6 months advantage, once again. Oracle tried to copy and and could only come back during the last races.

 

[nroose 278]

Oracle seemed to have tried to get a head start. Then M&M did go to TNZ...  Then the rules committee gave TNZ the biggest gift ever. And at that point, it looked like OR spent their head start time going in the wrong direction. But also the TNZ direction was better all around! It was a typical AC Cluster Fuck.

[Chapter Four 142]

21 minutes ago, Tornado-Cat said:

Do you forget facts ? M&M let a door opened to foiling in the rule and than later joined TNZ giving them at least 6 months advantage, once again. Oracle tried to copy and and could only come back during the last races.

 

Yes, M&M designed a non foiling multi, it was only in consultation with ETNZ that the loophole was discovered.

But to say that Oracle didn't have a head start on the design on a rigid wing multihull is delusional.

[Forourselves 1,691]

1 hour ago, Stingray~ said:

I forget how many months (look it up yourself) but the point is: They did not do it in secret, they let all interested parties listen in during the entire process. ETNZ could and should have let parties in on the design possibilities, even if design opinions by those other parties were going to be ignored. No Defender in AC History has pulled this shit before and guess what? You can bet your bottom dollar the advantage taken was intentional. 
 

Do I love what they designed? Yes. Was the process fair? Hell no! 

'Today [the announcement of the Protocol] is the start of that process,' explains Bernasconi. 'We have had informal discussions with members of our team, and various members of other potential teams. We are aiming to have the concept completed for the class of boat in November which is only eight weeks away. Hopefully, we will get all the teams together, have a lot of discussions on the class, what our vision is and start to draft a rule around that.

'The rule is not going to be out at the end of November what will be available then is a presentation of the concept of the boat, so it will be pictures of the boat, a vision for how it will sail, ideas of what will be one-design or supplied components.

'That will be a good time to get all the potential teams together and get input from them and start putting a rule around that boat.

[Forourselves 1,691]

34 minutes ago, Tornado-Cat said:

Guillaume Verdier designed the boat, Dalton decided the process, a french design with a kiwi process.

The ETNZ design team designed the boat whether you like it or not

[Chapter Four 142]

3 minutes ago, nroose said:

Oracle seemed to have tried to get a head start. Then M&M did go to TNZ...  Then the rules committee gave TNZ the biggest gift ever. And at that point, it looked like OR spent their head start time going in the wrong direction. But also the TNZ direction was better all around! It was a typical AC Cluster Fuck.

Agree, Oracle spent their lead going the wrong direction - remember the orginal tiller bar on B1  WTF.

ETNZ eventually got screwed by the rules committee too.

Their boat was designed to sail in 30 knots and proved to be capable of it. Artemis and Oracle both did not.

The lowering of the wind limits significantly helped Oracle retain the cup.

[Tornado-Cat 1,082]

6 minutes ago, Forourselves said:

The ETNZ design team designed the boat whether you like it or not

The design is from Guillaume Verdier, the first design was for a private sailor and included a small central keel, Ray Davies asked him if he could modify the design and get rid of the keel, he did. Team members are good troopers as in any team. The rest is part of kiwi folklore.

[Tornado-Cat 1,082]

12 minutes ago, Chapter Four said:

Yes, M&M designed a non foiling multi, it was only in consultation with ETNZ that the loophole was discovered.

But to say that Oracle didn't have a head start on the design on a rigid wing multihull is delusional.

Right for the wing, regarding the design I would have to find an interview from M&M telling that they intentionnally let a loophole in the rule, he did not tell that they had the solution at that time though, probably conceived with TNZ, but they had the advantage to know the loophole was there.

[Tornado-Cat 1,082]

10 minutes ago, Chapter Four said:

Agree, Oracle spent their lead going the wrong direction - remember the orginal tiller bar on B1  WTF.

ETNZ eventually got screwed by the rules committee too.

Their boat was designed to sail in 30 knots and proved to be capable of it. Artemis and Oracle both did not.

The lowering of the wind limits significantly helped Oracle retain the cup.

Agreed for that, however B2 last version was faster in strong wind after the lay day, mainly upwind.

[Forourselves 1,691]

35 minutes ago, Tornado-Cat said:

The design is from Guillaume Verdier, the first design was for a private sailor and included a small central keel, Ray Davies asked him if he could modify the design and get rid of the keel, he did. Team members are good troopers as in any team. The rest is part of kiwi folklore.

So Bernasconi just watched it all happen? he had nothing to do with it? Yeah right. 

[P Flados 224]

This has been hashed over at length with input from at least one well respected SA poster that was involved around the edges.

Oracle made a good attempt to "level the playing field" on the AC72 design effort by outsourcing the design rule to M&M and not locking in M&M for their program.  

ETNZ got a 6 months head start on the design of the current boat as allowed by how the AC works.  This is totally legal and no one has said different.

Although Oracle did a bunch of smelly stuff that ETNZ supporters love to bring up, the AC72 design effort was one of the notable items where they were a good example of how to play at least reasonably fair.  How ETNZ did the design for the AC75 is  pretty much the opposite (100% legal, as unfair as possible).  

It is pretty obvious that some ETNZ fans have a really hard time admitting the simple fact that ETNZ did use the design head start to their advantage.  All of the denials, excuses and general abuse of those who post contrary to their liking are incredibly "un-sportsmanlike" and just go to reflect very poorly on their team and their country.  

When ETNZ recently put their boat on it's side, the ETNZ team was quick to admit that they messed up.  That is good behavior.  Refusing to admit facts (use of an allowed defender advantage) by ETNZ fans is not good behavior.  

[Forourselves 1,691]

47 minutes ago, Tornado-Cat said:

The design is from Guillaume Verdier, the first design was for a private sailor and included a small central keel, Ray Davies asked him if he could modify the design and get rid of the keel, he did. Team members are good troopers as in any team. The rest is part of kiwi folklore.

https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2018/01/19/americas-cup-writing-ac75-rule/

"Rules are needed for the overall parameters of the vessels including length, weight and sail area. They then have to go into specifics on materials, the types of appendages permitted, hydraulic and electronic control systems – covering every aspect of the design.

The process is currently about halfway through, with the rule issue date of March 31 fast approaching. About 12 designers from both Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa are working together to pool ideas and turn concepts and systems into words on a page.

Other interested challengers are kept up to date as the process progresses, with questions regarding the rule being answered and all feedback being taken under advisement.

The need to meet the March 31 deadline is important, and a number of possible challengers will want know the set rules before paying their US$1 million entry fee by the June 30 entry cut-off later this year"

 

[Forourselves 1,691]

Just now, P Flados said:

This has been hashed over at length with input from at least one well respected SA poster that was involved around the edges.

Oracle made a good attempt to "level the playing field" on the AC72 design effort by outsourcing the design rule to M&M and not locking in M&M for their program.  

ETNZ got a 6 months head start on the design of the current boat as allowed by how the AC works.  This is totally legal and no one has said different.

Although Oracle did a bunch of smelly stuff that ETNZ supporters love to bring up, the AC72 design effort was one of the notable items where they were a good example of how to play at least reasonably fair.  How ETNZ did the design for the AC75 is  pretty much the opposite (100% legal, as unfair as possible).  

It is pretty obvious that some ETNZ fans have a really hard time admitting the simple fact that ETNZ did use the design head start to their advantage.  All of the denials, excuses and general abuse of those who post contrary to their liking are incredibly "un-sportsmanlike" and just go to reflect very poorly on their team and their country.  

When ETNZ recently put their boat on it's side, the ETNZ team was quick to admit that they messed up.  That is good behavior.  Refusing to admit facts (use of an allowed defender advantage) by ETNZ fans is not good behavior.  

https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2018/01/19/americas-cup-writing-ac75-rule/

"Rules are needed for the overall parameters of the vessels including length, weight and sail area. They then have to go into specifics on materials, the types of appendages permitted, hydraulic and electronic control systems – covering every aspect of the design.

The process is currently about halfway through, with the rule issue date of March 31 fast approaching. About 12 designers from both Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa are working together to pool ideas and turn concepts and systems into words on a page.

Other interested challengers are kept up to date as the process progresses, with questions regarding the rule being answered and all feedback being taken under advisement.

The need to meet the March 31 deadline is important, and a number of possible challengers will want know the set rules before paying their US$1 million entry fee by the June 30 entry cut-off later this year" 

 

[Forourselves 1,691]

https://www.sail-world.com/news/203544/Americas-Cup-class-rule-published-ahead-of-time?fb_comment_id=1312128495555313_1312537155514447

“We are pleased to publish the Class Rule on time as per the Protocol. It has been a detailed collaboration with the Challenger of Record on all aspects of the rule, including the one design and supplied parts. We feel we have done a great job containing costs on certain aspects, while leaving the rule open enough for the America’s Cup to continue as the driving force of innovation and technology in sailing,” said Dan Bernasconi, Design Coordinator for Emirates Team New Zealand.

[Forourselves 1,691]

4 minutes ago, P Flados said:

This has been hashed over at length with input from at least one well respected SA poster that was involved around the edges.

Oracle made a good attempt to "level the playing field" on the AC72 design effort by outsourcing the design rule to M&M and not locking in M&M for their program.  

Are you saying they decided not to employ M&M, potentially passing up a successful defense because that would be unfair? Really? Even you don't believe that!

ETNZ got a 6 months head start on the design of the current boat as allowed by how the AC works.  This is totally legal and no one has said different.

This is clearly a common assumption made by those who are looking for excuses as to why Challengers may not win.

Although Oracle did a bunch of smelly stuff that ETNZ supporters love to bring up, the AC72 design effort was one of the notable items where they were a good example of how to play at least reasonably fair. 

"Smelly stuff" like getting caught red handed cheating

How ETNZ did the design for the AC75 is  pretty much the opposite (100% legal, as unfair as possible).  As opposed to replacing one rule with another half way through the cycle?

It is pretty obvious that some ETNZ fans have a really hard time admitting the simple fact that ETNZ did use the design head start to their advantage.  All of the denials, excuses and general abuse of those who post contrary to their liking are incredibly "un-sportsmanlike" and just go to reflect very poorly on their team and their country.  

Piss off. After all the BS Kiwi's have to put up with from bitter losers who never got over Bermuda that continue to play the "Oh they're being unfair" card, while refusing to admit all the crap Oracle tried to stop the Kiwi's from even being part of the last AC (unfair replacement of Class Rule half way through a cycle, Qualifier breach of contract) claiming "its in the past, move on"

Remember those who just a few weeks ago claimed ETNZ and Dalton were misappropriating public money, and heads must and were going to roll? Never happened. Why? Because it was all fake news, just like your entire comment.

When ETNZ recently put their boat on it's side, the ETNZ team was quick to admit that they messed up.  That is good behavior.  Refusing to admit facts (use of an allowed defender advantage) by ETNZ fans is not good behavior.  

Yeah, yet when Ainslie's team had issues it was all ETNZ's fault. I guess you think that wasn't good behaviour too right?

Making up baseless claims and trying to pass them off as facts is also not good behaviour.

 

[zenmasterfred 565]

FFS, let the actual sailing and the childish bickering rest for a few minutes.  The past is gone and none of us has been to the future, all we have is the present moment.

[mako23 632]

17 minutes ago, zenmasterfred said:

FFS, let the actual sailing and the childish bickering rest for a few minutes.  The past is gone and none of us has been to the future, all we have is the present moment.

Thank god the racing starts tomorrow 

[Barnyb 637]

Inside INEOS Team UK's radically redesigned America's Cup race boat Britannia II

13 JANUARY 2021BY BEN AINSLIE

Armed with knowledge from sailing their previous design, Sir Ben Ainslie and his team will take a radically re-tooled boat to the America’s Cup.

 

https://www.boatinternational.com/yachts/americas-cup/intelligent-redesign?fbclid=IwAR3U89dyVfq2WxmI3tR-FoFMZ5jeRZrP1tjPTI1f9D9upZ7HOu3Uz2JRT0g

[Chapter Four 142]

33 minutes ago, P Flados said:

It is pretty obvious that some ETNZ fans have a really hard time admitting the simple fact that ETNZ did use the design head start to their advantage.  All of the denials, excuses and general abuse of those who post contrary to their liking are incredibly "un-sportsmanlike" and just go to reflect very poorly on their team and their country.  

There are more denials of Oracles administration of the AC as defender than there is of ETNZs - some here have asked

"Name the last time any Defender intentionally gave themselves a 6 month design head start. Name it! " Oracle 2013 is the first answer.

I am actually an Oracle Supporter - what they did through 2007 - 2010 was fantastic.

2010 - 2013, yes there was some "smelly stuff" - cheating is never acceptable and the cover up was worse. But to say they didn't get an advantage going in to the cycle is, as i've said, delusional. But the boats were great, regatta was great and the final, epic.

2013-2017 they tried to even up the comp, which I'm not a fan of . Again, there was some "smelly stuff" going on here with their treatment of ETNZ and the realationship with SBTJ, but again, overall, a pretty good regatta with great racing.

The AC is not a one design regatta, never was and shouldn't be made to look like one. Your claim of "100% legal, as unfair as possible" is silly. Watch the interviews from Spithill, Ainslie and Hutchinson. They all know it's not a level playing field and that is the nature of the game - that's the challenge that attracts them - beat the defender on their home turf with the cards stacked against you. It's not for everyone, but that is the AC.

If Oracle were in this cycle, they would be my second favourite team. The last 2 cups were great, my 2 favourite teams in the final and a win a piece, it's a shame they didn't come back for a rematch.

7 minutes ago, zenmasterfred said:

FFS, let the actual sailing and the childish bickering rest for a few minutes.  The past is gone and none of us has been to the future, all we have is the present moment.

You realise this is Sailing Anachy, you might be on the wrong forum 

[36thLatitude 90]

Imagine if the only parameters were waterline length and wind powered.

Then the AC would be interesting.

Who cares about costs. Its an ego rubbing regatta anyway.

[zenmasterfred 565]

15 minutes ago, Chapter Four said:

There are more denials of Oracles administration of the AC as defender than there is of ETNZs - some here have asked

"Name the last time any Defender intentionally gave themselves a 6 month design head start. Name it! " Oracle 2013 is the first answer.

I am actually an Oracle Supporter - what they did through 2007 - 2010 was fantastic.

2010 - 2013, yes there was some "smelly stuff" - cheating is never acceptable and the cover up was worse. But to say they didn't get an advantage going in to the cycle is, as i've said, delusional. But the boats were great, regatta was great and the final, epic.

2013-2017 they tried to even up the comp, which I'm not a fan of . Again, there was some "smelly stuff" going on here with their treatment of ETNZ and the realationship with SBTJ, but again, overall, a pretty good regatta with great racing.

The AC is not a one design regatta, never was and shouldn't be made to look like one. Your claim of "100% legal, as unfair as possible" is silly. Watch the interviews from Spithill, Ainslie and Hutchinson. They all know it's not a level playing field and that is the nature of the game - that's the challenge that attracts them - beat the defender on their home turf with the cards stacked against you. It's not for everyone, but that is the AC.

If Oracle were in this cycle, they would be my second favourite team. The last 2 cups were great, my 2 favourite teams in the final and a win a piece, it's a shame they didn't come back for a rematch.

You realise this is Sailing Anachy, you might be on the wrong forum 

Blah, Blah, Blah, wasn't born yesterday my man and I am fully capable of HTFU when necessary.  Oracle fucking Trump supporting LE, what has he done for us recently?

[zenmasterfred 565]

37 minutes ago, zenmasterfred said:

FFS, let the actual sailing and the childish bickering rest for a few minutes.  The past is gone and none of us has been to the future, all we have is the present moment.

"actual sailing BEGIN"

[phill_nz 862]

call me whatever

but imo this is one of the few times where the am cup has been pretty even for the challengers and defenders

they may have had 6 months of added time for design .. and a package anyone could buy from it ...

but

this is a long throw design

nobody has stuck rigidly to their first design .. of which etnz were of the last to put their design into the water ..

 

the design for the am cup didnt start till b1's were well tested on the water .. by all teams

huge gains were made for b2's in all aspects and all started designing their b2's at about the same time

 

so basically all have had the same time to design build and develop their boat to race for the am cup

 

 

 

[Forourselves 1,691]

39 minutes ago, zenmasterfred said:

FFS, let the actual sailing and the childish bickering rest for a few minutes.  The past is gone and none of us has been to the future, all we have is the present moment.

The past is NEVER gone in the Americas Cup. I would argue, the past is what makes the AC as special as it is, even today.

Without the past, the history, the controversy, the shit slinging by teams and fans, we wouldn't have what we have today - or tomorrow.

 

[Thewas 162]

Just don't forget that this AC is "almost" even (as far as an AC can be) mainly because the COR is not a Defender puppet but a strong one, and they have had a clear and defined deal well before the end of the last AC.
That drove to way less bullshitting from the Defender and no DOG race from the COR.

[enigmatically2 1,475]

42 minutes ago, Forourselves said:

The past is NEVER gone in the Americas Cup. I would argue, the past is what makes the AC as special as it is, even today.

Without the past, the history, the controversy, the shit slinging by teams and fans, we wouldn't have what we have today - or tomorrow.

 

Perhaps, but could you at least keep the sterile arguments about history of spats between NZ and US to. A separate thread rather than splodge it all over the GB thread?

[Forourselves 1,691]

9 minutes ago, enigmatically2 said:

Perhaps, but could you at least keep the sterile arguments about history of spats between NZ and US to. A separate thread rather than splodge it all over the GB thread?

It seems those who bang on and on and on about ETNZ having some kind of mythical 6 month advantage are the ones polluting the thread. 

[schnopp 2]

1 hour ago, zenmasterfred said:

FFS, let the actual sailing and the childish bickering rest for a few minutes.  The past is gone and none of us has been to the future, all we have is the present moment.

This is the whole point of the Cup.

Thomas Lipton had to sail across the Atlantic, New York had to sail down the river.

The defender always has the opportunity to engineer an advantage. We won it, let's keep it.

And of course it needs lawyers. Alinghi: we won it but oops we forgot to have a yacht club which had an annual regatta. Dennis we won it but we stuffed around until there was the Big Boat Deed of Gift Challenge.

Now we have the artifice of the pre-ordained Challenger of the Record. The deal is stitched up before anyone can rush in the door. Mr Coutts thought he had engineered a World Series in Bermuda, and his boat was too slow.

New York want big slow boats. Win it back and sail whatever you want. 

NZ are the holders. We are entitled to use every advantage, we have been planning this design, winds are lighter in March than Jan, we can look at challenger and make some changes.

This is the Cup. Money, law, arguing, but oh such drama when the sailing begins. 

Schnopp

[rh3000 1,883]

12 hours ago, Stingray~ said:

Name the last time any Defender intentionally gave themselves a 6 month design head start. Name it! 

We're all thankful you took time off from Jim Jordan's speech writing to draft such dingenious rhetoricals as this...

[rh3000 1,883]

6 hours ago, Stingray~ said:

I forget how many months (look it up yourself) but the point is: They did not do it in secret, they let all interested parties listen in during the entire process.

It's always telling, the things people choose to know, and the things they declare ignorance of....

[rh3000 1,883]

11 hours ago, The_Alchemist said:

It sounds like you are already making excuse for them to lose!!

Quite the contrary, I'm trying to point out the folly of attributing a 'six months head start' to being the excuse for them winning...

[rh3000 1,883]

11 hours ago, MultiMono said:

But I thought they had always planned not to have the boat for that long? And did they just stop work? Computers off, lights out and feet up? I doubt that very much. So the smaller test boat was planned for the period. So with that in mind, not having the ac75 for 5months wasnt unexpected. You could even say covid had less effect on them than it did Ineos. Ineos planned tonhave their boat out on the water but couldn't. ETNZ never intended to use theirs 

This is a pretty good blend of bullshit... 

[JALhazmat 1,614]

Just now, rh3000 said:

This is a pretty good blend of bullshit... 

Which bit?

So according to you , if what you quoted mulitimino as saying is bullshit, it was a total surprise  that the 75 was put on a ship and they had to sail the little boat? 

the little boat appearing was totally by chance and wasn’t a planned development platform 

or that no one came to work for five months because Covid hence they lost so much time? 

[NZK 584]

15 hours ago, Mozzy Sails said:

INEOS often are using only 6 grinders, 7 maximum. All the other teams often have 8 on the handles. Are INEOS making best use of this extra afterguard free time?

It's a big call losing a grinder to have Giles as standalone tactician. The conspiratorial side of me can't help seeing this being a result of the inner circle keeping GS onboard or perhaps keeping BA happy after he requested a tactician who's not on the pumps. The logical side says they must have run the numbers and been happy with the power output in this configuration... 

When you see Terry Hutchinson managing to get stuck in on the handles on AM whilst checking his fore-arm display and chatting with DB it does make me wonder why INEOS felt they were better off with less power. Extra interesting when LR and ETNZ don't even have a specific tactician (I think this is correct, if not I'm confident I shall quickly be corrected...)

[enigmatically2 1,475]

12 minutes ago, NZK said:

Extra interesting when LR and ETNZ don't even have a specific tactician (I think this is correct, if not I'm confident I shall quickly be corrected...)

LR have 2 helms, one of whom is effectively a dedicated tactician when on the lee side, so similar to GB no?

 

Ignore that, just remember the lee helm is foil trimmer

[Mozzy Sails 953]

5 minutes ago, enigmatically2 said:

LR have 2 helms, one of whom is effectively a dedicated tactician when on the lee side, so similar to GB no?

Leeside helmsman is doing flight control as well as tactics. Giles in a straight line is seeming just dedicated to tactics.

For lunna rossa I'd say both helmsmen are splitting the tactics 50-50 all the time, then swapping roles between rudder and flight control.

Giles is freed to do tactics except when Ben is crossing. But INEOS are often only grinding with 6, which also frees up the windward flight controller to help out ben with rudder pitch. Like the video says, they're often controlling the boat with 5 people, whereas the other teams are mostly using 3 (maybe 4 in the case of AM if you count terry as contributing to the afterguard). 

[JALhazmat 1,614]

2 hours ago, Forourselves said:

It seems those who bang on and on and on about ETNZ having some kind of mythical 6 month advantage are the ones polluting the thread. 

For fucks sake it was an off the cuff piss take of the Cup process to a bloke moaning about F1 being unfair or some shit NOT a direct attack not of the almighty ETNZ 

it happens to have triggered the fuck out of rh300 you and anY kiwi super fan within reach of an internet conection. 
 

so chill out a bit eh? 

[Nutta 454]

2 minutes ago, JALhazmat said:

For fucks sake it was an off the cuff piss take of the Cup process to a bloke moaning about F1 being unfair or some shit NOT a direct attack not of the almighty ETNZ 

it happens to have triggered the fuck out of rh300 you and anY kiwi super fan within reach of an internet conection. 
 

so chill out a bit eh? 

Are you saying NZ is cold??? That ETNZ is dead? Come here and say that!

 

 

[barfy 1,302]

1 hour ago, rh3000 said:

7 hours ago, Stingray~ said:

I forget how many months (look it up yourself) but the point is: They did not do it in secret, they let all interested parties listen in during the entire process.

It's always telling, the things people choose to know, and the things they declare ignorance of....

Spewbot already writing the"dear husband" letter and working up its talking points for the next 4 years..yawn..

Then :Fastest boat, unusually light air..

Now:6 month start, money problems

 

[rh3000 1,883]

45 minutes ago, JALhazmat said:

Which bit?

So according to you , if what you quoted mulitimino as saying is bullshit, it was a total surprise  that the 75 was put on a ship and they had to sail the little boat? 

the little boat appearing was totally by chance and wasn’t a planned development platform 

or that no one came to work for five months because Covid hence they lost so much time? 

I know you don't really need me to tell you...

[JALhazmat 1,614]

What?  the first rule of SA is dont make  and off hand remark about the AC that a kiwi might think is about their team and take it personally? 

[Indio 960]

5 hours ago, P Flados said:

 All of the denials, excuses and general abuse of those who post contrary to their liking are incredibly "un-sportsmanlike" and just go to reflect very poorly on their team and their country. 

Why don't you go fuck yourself, you judgemental sanctimonious POS!! You have a difference of opinion with some faceless poster and you arrogantly pass judgement on a whole country??

[NZK 584]

36 minutes ago, Mozzy Sails said:

Leeside helmsman is doing flight control as well as tactics. Giles in a straight line is seeming just dedicated to tactics.

For lunna rossa I'd say both helmsmen are splitting the tactics 50-50 all the time, then swapping roles between rudder and flight control.

Giles is freed to do tactics except when Ben is crossing. But INEOS are often only grinding with 6, which also frees up the windward flight controller to help out ben with rudder pitch. Like the video says, they're often controlling the boat with 5 people, whereas the other teams are mostly using 3 (maybe 4 in the case of AM if you count terry as contributing to the afterguard). 

I think LR confirmed it's a 50-50 split. Wasn't there a lot of talk about how ETNZ and LR were saying with the nature of the racing they just didn't see the need for a dedicated tactician? I think TH has used the combined tactician/grinder role to keep himself a slot onboard AM which you can't really blame him for - he seems to have done a lot of gym work to keep up...

Back to INEOS - with 5 people 'controlling' the boat is there not a danger of falling foul of the old 'too many cooks' adage? I guess we'll find out in a few more hours...

[dullers 467]

17 hours ago, enigmatically2 said:

That was not my intent (and I may even have been wrong, it has been known, July 1993 I think it was)

Were you not wrong for the whole of July 1993? I heard that one of the statements you made in July 1993 was that you would not be wrong about anything after 1993? I myself have been wrong about stuff from about 64 onwards to present day. This was not known to many until they invented the bloody internet where I went public with my stupidity..

[Dave S 135]

15 hours ago, breezie said:

Its called parallax  The same distance traveled closer to the viewer covers a larger angle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax

Can everyone please stop explaining this? This is a thread about a British team, you're supposed to be able to recognise sarcasm.

[enigmatically2 1,475]

23 minutes ago, Dave S said:

Can everyone please stop explaining this? This is a thread about a British team, you're supposed to be able to recognise sarcasm.

<whispers> word to the wise old chap, it may be a thread about the British team but they let colonials in, in fact they outnumber us. They even let yanks in

[Chris UK 173]

enigmatically2: Sweet jesus, mary and joseph (crossing himself)........you serious???

[enigmatically2 1,475]

5 minutes ago, Chris UK said:

enigmatically2: Sweet jesus, mary and joseph (crossing himself)........you serious???

And Irish it seems

[accnick 1,741]

10 hours ago, nroose said:

Oracle seemed to have tried to get a head start. Then M&M did go to TNZ...  Then the rules committee gave TNZ the biggest gift ever. And at that point, it looked like OR spent their head start time going in the wrong direction. But also the TNZ direction was better all around! It was a typical AC Cluster Fuck.

It was not the Rules Committee. There was no Rules Committee in 2013. It was the International Jury, which threw out an interpretation by the Measurement Committee which was subsequently protested by ETNZ.

[Forourselves 1,691]

7 hours ago, JALhazmat said:

Which bit?

So according to you , if what you quoted mulitimino as saying is bullshit, it was a total surprise  that the 75 was put on a ship and they had to sail the little boat? 

the little boat appearing was totally by chance and wasn’t a planned development platform 

or that no one came to work for five months because Covid hence they lost so much time? 

Oh FFS. YES. The test boat was scheduled to launch and be used while Te Aihe was on the boat. That was how ETNZ planned their campaign. 

Remember, the test boat is NOT an AC75. It is smaller, it handles differently and doesn't employ a full crew, so apart from developing systems and foils, it really is very different in terms of crew work as a full team.

No one came to work for 5 weeks over Lockdown here in April, including the guys at the yard building the boat. The yard was closed to everyone for 5 weeks, after that, it was still a skeleton crew (due to level 3 Covid restrictions) for another few weeks, so the team weren't at full strength for a couple of months.

 

[JALhazmat 1,614]

15 minutes ago, Forourselves said:

Oh FFS. YES. The test boat was scheduled to launch and be used while Te Aihe was on the boat. That was how ETNZ planned their campaign. 

Remember, the test boat is NOT an AC75. It is smaller, it handles differently and doesn't employ a full crew, so apart from developing systems and foils, it really is very different in terms of crew work as a full team.

No one came to work for 5 weeks over Lockdown here in April, including the guys at the yard building the boat. The yard was closed to everyone for 5 weeks, after that, it was still a skeleton crew (due to level 3 Covid restrictions) for another few weeks, so the team weren't at full strength for a couple of months.

 

Ah finally someone seeing sense. 
no one said the little boat was a 75 

it’s usage was planned from the start knowing what it could and couldn’t develop so using it wasnt the great hardship (of not sailing the 75) that others have made out. 
 

those issues of Skelton crew and yards not fully manned applied to other teams as well.

everyone had issues, albeit Prada didn’t ship their boat anywhere and had the shortest time off the water. 

[Barnyb 637]

I say chaps. Cut the bickering over the biscuits and sit down and enjoy a fab day of sail boat racing

Jolly nice weather here in the far reaches of the empire.

Full speed to Sir Ben and the boys. 

May the fastest boat win today! 

[Nutta 454]

32 minutes ago, Barnyb said:

I say chaps. Cut the bickering over the biscuits and sit down and enjoy a fab day of sail boat racing

Jolly nice weather here in the far reaches of the empire.

Full speed to Sir Ben and the boys. 

May the fastest boat win today! 

It's not racing.

[jaysper 1,264]

10 minutes ago, Nutta said:

It's not racing.

Eh?

[enigmatically2 1,475]

Re GB having fewer trimmers and a dedicated tactician, is this enabled because they have a pedestal per grinder which is more efficient. So they still get about the same power?

[mako23 632]

58 minutes ago, Barnyb said:

I say chaps. Cut the bickering over the biscuits and sit down and enjoy a fab day of sail boat racing

Jolly nice weather here in the far reaches of the empire.

Full speed to Sir Ben and the boys. 

May the fastest boat win today! 

Hip hip old chap, best comment of the day, let’s enjoy a day of jolly good racing.  Let’s hope Team GB gives those foreign types a damn good thrashing. 

[Mozzy Sails 953]

16 minutes ago, enigmatically2 said:

Re GB having fewer trimmers and a dedicated tactician, is this enabled because they have a pedestal per grinder which is more efficient. So they still get about the same power?

Partially, but, looking at the teams with 8 man grinders they're not going full on a lot of the time. They instead crouch to get aero. 

Ineos have 6 going full on all the time stood up. With the addition of a extra foil controller helping out. 

So, I think its enabled by single pedestals being more efficient, and the grinders being stronger, but mostly the compromise of having them always stood up and not crouching out of the wind.

[Barnyb 637]

 

[Barnyb 637]

"We are up for the fight"

[phill_nz 862]

19 minutes ago, Barnyb said:

"We are up for the fight"

Stirling words

but you know what happened at Stirling

[Priscilla 2,803]

33 minutes ago, Barnyb said:

"We are up for the fight"

Crikey that's the right attitude old chaps as you ride off into the valley of death...

 

[Chapter Four 142]

3 hours ago, Mozzy Sails said:

Partially, but, looking at the teams with 8 man grinders they're not going full on a lot of the time. They instead crouch to get aero. 

Ineos have 6 going full on all the time stood up. With the addition of a extra foil controller helping out. 

So, I think its enabled by single pedestals being more efficient, and the grinders being stronger, but mostly the compromise of having them always stood up and not crouching out of the wind.

The single pedestals allow all the grinders to grind in the forward direction.

When shared pedestals are used the grinder who is grinding backwards contributes less than the grinder grinding forwards.

So their six singles may put out the same power as 8 shared.

[P Flados 224]

There is of course a possibility that INEOS may have done better with efficient systems that need a little less grinding power than the others.  If so, this may have freed them up with crew usage.