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Why? Whatever else they may have done, they gave us Dogzilla, the awesome AC72's, and the 30-knot match racing in AC35.  Now the mantle has passed to another competitor, who has quite an act to beat. The king is dead, long live the king.

The reason peoploe are upset by the "Little Herbie" allegation is that the yaw damper is NOT a simple piece of kit and never was, even when it was introduced on the B-47 bomber (NOT the Boeing 747!). It takes inputs from a rate gyro to control the rudder, which clearly makes it illegal in the...

A control system similar to a yaw-damper that sensors (such as a rate gyro) to directly affect the position of the foils, as you describe, would be illegal under the rules, and the measurers would certainly recognise that. I think that the origin of the "Little Herbie" story is the diagram of...

Incidentally the originator of this rumour, whoever it was, didn't even get his facts right. A quick search on google reveals that while "Little Herbie" was indeed the name given to the first yaw-damper, it was installed on the B-47 bomber (not the Boeing 747 civil airliner) and entered civil...

I've been watching the races again on youtube to find this Eureka moment, and there isn't one. ETNZ owned Oracle in races 1-7. Actually the boats were very well matched, except for the tacks at which Oracle sucked. The fact that the kiwis were continually bouncing Oracle on to the wrong side...

Luck, and the weather, works both ways. A little more wind in race 8 could have left the slower boat with the cup.

Is it supposed to? You're pretty good at calling others trolls..... had a look in the mirror lately?