Even if the team that had represented NZ wins, they will just shop it for money with absolutely no regards for the fans in NZ. Unfortunately, New Zealand’s direct involvement in the AC has been sold and it will be a very long time before the country has the stomach to support/trust another...
That seems very late according the our original production estimates and that AM expects to be sailing their AC40’s in March
1- July 14th
2- Aug 19th
3- Sep 23th
4- Oct 28th
5- Nov 2nd
6- Jan 6th
7- Feb 10th
8- Mar 17th
9- Apr 21st
10- May 26th … etc
with:
Hull 1 - TNZ
Hull 2 - Ineos
Hull 3 -...
In one of the earlier videos I remember them saying they noticed a difference between the two foils. It would be interesting to try to find out what those differences are? In the last couple of videos they are using the anhedral foil to lift out of the water.
I almost feel sorry for these guys. They are going through the growing pains of sailing this new class boat on one of the most unstable versions ever built. You can tell it is very squirrely, it was for ABNZ at times and they designed and practiced on simulators for it.
Alinghi has very...
Could explain why they wanted Defiant that would follow along their design schemes. It was a very fast boat, just didn't have the lower sail area and volume of NZ and some possible foils control issues. NZ did lead the ultimate package design, but Defiant lead the way on many performance...