36thLatitude
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Its bloody entertaining watching landlubbers trying to anchor their boats...I watched one guy try about 20 times...I doubt any of his chain was even touching the seabed
AC36: The Match (6-15th March. Reserve days to the 21st)
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shanghaisailor
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kenergy
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Well, my heart agrees, but a thing such as "the wind you deserve" simply doesn't exist. You have to deal with the wind you have, or you don't have, in this case.
shanghaisailor
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kenergy
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They've been sailing a lot in very light winds, unfortunately it seems the lack of another boats wash makes some of that practice obsolete.
Makes you wonder what a CZ would have looked like today.
kenergy
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Jesus, you cant spend 30 mins of your day to keep an eye on this?rantro said:
rh3000
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Which brings me to today. Here is a bit of a stream of consciousness, and some walkaround videos I decide to film to give those that can't be here, a small sample of what it's like. Apologies for shaky potato-cam :-(
Managed to knock off early to head down the Viaduct at 4. Dead easy parking at Downtown, and quick skip across the walkway down into the Village. Scanned COVID-QR and wandered over towards ETNZ.
Sunny, balmy, enough of a late arvo breeze to keep racing likely. All the bars and areas were as busy as you'd expect for a weekday afternoon. Amazing amount of ETNZ shirts and NZ flags - they've certainly been successful at shifting fan gear for one team at least!
Good bar area (Mumm sponsored) overlooking the big-screen arena space, but had queues so continued down over the Viaduct bridge beyond ETNZ base towards Good George (which was fullish) and then onto the Wynard Pavilion, which touts itself as the official bar, and is really just a large generic watering hole. Got a table inside with a great view of the match TVs, but discovered even more empty tables out overlooking the water so found ourselves out there to enjoy some jugs of Catalina and the two matches.
The energy on the Viaduct was great, everyone was having a great time, kids, Italians, dogs, Brits, Kiwis, you name it. It was a moment to savour just how lucky we are here, and a great payoff for the sacrifices made in Aotearoa to keep Covid under control.
The races speak for themselves, and you can imagine the rollercoaster ride of screaming in agony and ecstacy over those few hours. I must admit that much of the population blindely cheered at each start, as if ETNZ was somehow crushing it, when in reality for the first at least, they had LR on their hip and there was nothing to cheer about.
Here is a sample of the famous comeback moment.
Managed to knock off early to head down the Viaduct at 4. Dead easy parking at Downtown, and quick skip across the walkway down into the Village. Scanned COVID-QR and wandered over towards ETNZ.
Sunny, balmy, enough of a late arvo breeze to keep racing likely. All the bars and areas were as busy as you'd expect for a weekday afternoon. Amazing amount of ETNZ shirts and NZ flags - they've certainly been successful at shifting fan gear for one team at least!
Good bar area (Mumm sponsored) overlooking the big-screen arena space, but had queues so continued down over the Viaduct bridge beyond ETNZ base towards Good George (which was fullish) and then onto the Wynard Pavilion, which touts itself as the official bar, and is really just a large generic watering hole. Got a table inside with a great view of the match TVs, but discovered even more empty tables out overlooking the water so found ourselves out there to enjoy some jugs of Catalina and the two matches.
The energy on the Viaduct was great, everyone was having a great time, kids, Italians, dogs, Brits, Kiwis, you name it. It was a moment to savour just how lucky we are here, and a great payoff for the sacrifices made in Aotearoa to keep Covid under control.
The races speak for themselves, and you can imagine the rollercoaster ride of screaming in agony and ecstacy over those few hours. I must admit that much of the population blindely cheered at each start, as if ETNZ was somehow crushing it, when in reality for the first at least, they had LR on their hip and there was nothing to cheer about.
Here is a sample of the famous comeback moment.
Barnyb
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you betcha, even a 5 dimensional durry wont make foiling boats fly in 5 ktsrantro said:
strider470
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kenergy
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Fuck me, today had all the drama you could wish for, I guess you're dreaming of going back to the processions we saw at the start of the match. Obviously the winds were enough to sustain foiling, there wasnt a second when both boats were off foils at the same time.rantro said:
36thLatitude
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I believe Blair said in the presser that Te Rehutai was sailing with a Code 3 in the second race but the 1.5 would have been better in hindsight. Can’t see a need to for a zero based on that.
kenergy
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ETNZ also made a mistake to fall off the foils in the first place, so if they had lost, that would have been the reason too.
36thLatitude
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Yep, but in my opinion if it was the other way(if LR dumped it first) around im not sure we would have given them the same opportunity
