AC36: The Match (6-15th March. Reserve days to the 21st)

[Barnyb]

"Good fun racing" Burling

 

[Indio]

ETNZ must be the luckiest team ever

 

[Tornado-Cat]

Yeah we are just consistently lucky

For a "2 or 3 kts faster boat", no.

 

[Horn Rock]

Wow, what a race......one mistake giving away the right, and all over red rover......

 

[sfigone]

Awesome sailing almost beat a faster boat!

Start on target

can't hold them

stay on target

boom!

 

[**ONTOIT**]

ETNZ must be the luckiest team ever

Except for 1987, 1992, 2003, 2007, 2013???

 

[Forourselves]

What a race!! 1 more to go boys!!

 

[hoom]

He also said that couldn't track on NZ at one stage because they were coming back at em so fast they couldn't have made it stick

Yes, would have been an overtake to windward like yesterday Race7.

 

[mako23]

Sad last leg for the Italians, with a perfect LR until that damn last wind shift gave the Kiwis the lead. Until then LR totally outsailed a faster ETNZ, pure match racing 2.0, never seen before in this class of boats. But the winner is ETNZ, so kudos to them. Match point now. Go Luna

A classy response considering the stress you must be under my friend.

 

[Sailbydate]

The sailors are meat in the AC the winner is the designer and he is not kiwi. Nor is Ashby

Oh c'mon, TC. That all you've got left to throw at us?

Exceptional racing there on show and you choose to try and belittle the opposition. Shame.

 

[minimumfuss]

85.7% there

 

[idontwan2know]

LR gained on a big lefty in the middle of the beat and the weather forecast called for the breeze to go left throughout the day, so totally understandable why they'd go that way, especially without the benefit of getting to look at the course from a helicopter.

Turned out to be the wrong call and the breeze oscillated back right. Tough break.

 

[Barnyb]

I don't think the Italians had a choice but do what they did. TNZ really applied the pressure and got the little break they needed to sail away.

Just look at the margin at each mark. Really close race.

 

[Navig8tor]

Never give a kiwi a chance to find a shift, they will mine it like a seam of gold.

And boy did they put the hammer down on that last leg.

 

[Forourselves]

For a "2 or 3 kts faster boat", no.

Haters gonna hate. you'll be crying into your tea for at least 3 more years!

 

[eurochild]

Epic

 

[NSP]

Best AC race since Valencia

 

[Nutta]

Except for 1987, 1992, 2003, 2007, 2013???

These are not the years you're looking for... Move along.

 

[sfigone]

Some great interjections from Pietro Sibello. He helped keep them elbows out longer.

 

[MaxHugen]

Sad last leg for the Italians, with a perfect LR until that damn last wind shift gave the Kiwis the lead. Until then LR totally outsailed a faster ETNZ, pure match racing 2.0, never seen before in this class of boats. But the winner is ETNZ, so kudos to them. Match point now. Go Luna

LR did great with their tactics, until that unfortunate wind shift in leg 5. 

FB and JS better at match racing I think than PB?