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Take aways: Despite the speculation here, no major mods were done to the boat ("having to sail it essentially the same as they got it"). No major refit in the down time- planned break to allow team members to move their families to Barcelona. Damage was caused from the rib being alongside the...

I thought it said damage to a foil.. which I had assumed would have been caused by either the tow line during the capsize or the tow line as a result of righting the boat. But that's purely a WAG.

More seaworthy than what exactly? While there have only been a handful of ac 75s capsize events (and only one while racing), we do know that ENTZ has capsized both of their ac75s and continued to sail them on that day. AM b2 is the only AC75 to sustain damage from a capsize event (until Alinghi...

Drama much? All types of boats can get flattened or worse under bare poles in a squall. I found myself on a Corsair under bare pole in sustained 35 knots (gusting higher) once (after reefing etc, it was still too much sail, so we ended up taking everything down. not an easy task) and even with...

What specifically makes you think they are doing a big refit? You don't spend months prepping and painting, etc.. to splash the boat for a day and then mod it. A big refit after one tow session doesn't make sense- given the narrow time they are allowed to sail, and the limitation on the number...

To be fair- most everyone has dg on ignore to maintain some readability of the forum.

Serious question: Are you this fucking stupid all on your own, or do you go to seminars and conferences to achieve this level of being a complete fuckwit?

You do not in any way, shape, or form contribute anything useful to this forum. Your words are wasted 1s and 0s on the cloud storage devices that hold the SA forum. If they needed to reduce the data footprint for storage reasons, they could safely remove every post you've ever made and it would...

I hate it when I accidently read your delusional garbage. Go find Ben in the boat park and call him old to his face. The dude (and anyone on the sailing teams) is a pro athlete- he would wipe the pavement with your stupid face.

Negative. SUI 100 (the last winning IACC from 2003) had the original concept 3Di main. They only had the tape concept in place at that point, and the resulting (orange IIRC) sail was garbage compared to 3DL at the time- It took the North engineers a lot longer to figure out the correct glue...

They had their own production loft in Minden near the 3DL site. They rejected a lot of blanks too... Lots of wasted carbon. And they had on site loft's in SD and Valencia. The sails wouldn't fit in the local lofts.

Got it, you have a pretty narrow opinion of what engineers are capable of.

Exactly. A collaboration at a design level (shared software tooling, etc) with a F1 team is much different than partnering with a company like Airbus. Airbus probably knows a ton about aerodynamics, but in terms of lifting big heavy air planes off the ground, so a cup team is more likely to...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics TLDR: Fluid dynamics is comprised of both areo and hydrodynamics. What I think you meant to say, was that they don't have specific tooling for hydrodynamics, but I believe they would be able to overcome that in short order given their...

There is not really "one tool"... They'll be various specialty tools- maybe one to analyze a foil shape and predict hydro flow results, maybe another which uses those results to gage surface deformation, etc.. Then those various results are used to maybe run a F1 car or AC75 around a track, so...

Yup. That's the one. With any luck maybe INEOS and Alinghi can do Valencia a favor and turn those into carbon chips for the other teams to make the transport bunks and cradles. 

I wonder what the base agreement in Valencia will look like for Alinghi this time around... "Sure, we'll give you the base, but you need to remove that roting 100' shitter you 'gifted to the city'".