Barcelona AC37

[JALhazmat]

Not that loyal, you described Ashby and a mercenary, not really a term of endearment is it.

 

[Forourselves]

Not that loyal, you described Ashby and a mercenary, not really a term of endearment is it.

No, no. You did. Ashby has been with the team for 10 years now, as has Bernasconi. Ashby is even a member of the NZ order of merit. A true Kiwi hero!

 

[JALhazmat]

Lol, I asked you a question and yes he is was your reply, this was while you were maintaining that dan is a kiwi and that glen was bought in hired help and if he wanted to go back to Oz it was fine as he was a Merc just doing a job 

 

[Forourselves]

Lol, I asked you a question and yes he is was your reply, this was while you were maintaining that dan is a kiwi and that glen was bought in hired help and if he wanted to go back to Oz it was fine as he was a Merc just doing a job 

Ah i never used the term mercenary. You did. He isnt a mercenary, and he was hired in 2011. 

 

[IPLore]

In your dreams, Stinger. As soon as the NZ public see that TNZ has the legs again, those 'disaffected' by the move offshore will be back in front of their screens again, screaming their heads off. And as 4OS suggests, they'll be lining Queen Street to a three-peat, ticker-tape parade.

Winners are grinners, as they say.

Still remains "post of the month" on this thread

 

[Stingray~]

Down the coast, 

69F Cup Europe – Pay-Per-Play event hosted by Valencia Mar – Sailweb

(1) Learning to fly (3): Persico 69F first racing… wowwww - YouTube

 

[Stingray~]

Will AC40s sail two-foils down too?

 

[167149]

The Australians didn't. There was huge popular support for kicking Djokivic out

from both sides of the tasman

 

[Sailbydate]

Will AC40s sail two-foils down too?

No. Unless they want to slow down, or add stability. It's all more drag.

 

[Stingray~]

No. Unless they want to slow down, or add stability. It's all more drag.

Agreed. There was a simulation video posted somewhere but.... I am too lazy to try find it

The P69's look really great but that AC40 will be something special.

 

[dg_sailingfan]

No. Unless they want to slow down, or add stability. It's all more drag.

Unless they use the AC40 after the Youth & Women's Events for something else they will be a waste of time IMO though! For which Series would you use them after 2024?

 

[167149]

Unless they use the AC40 after the Youth & Women's Events for something else they will be a waste of time IMO though! For which Series would you use them after 2024?

Ummm they could possibly start with the AC40 series if they pan out as per advertising

 

[nav]

Will AC40s sail two-foils down too?

Maybe watch it again...

3 foils in the water all the time, 4 through the tacks.

 

[Stingray~]

Joan Vila: "Having the Cup in Barcelona excites me because I didn't expect it" - Sports Center - ABC Color (www-abc-com-py.translate.goog)

Joan Vila: "Having the Cup in Barcelona excites me because I didn't expect it"

Barcelona, Apr 18 (EFE).- Barcelona native Joan Vila, the only Spaniard to have won the America's Cup and the Volvo Ocean Race, acknowledges, in an interview with EFE, that the 37th America's Cup to be held in Barcelona in 2024 , is a competition that makes him "very excited" because he was not expecting that the Catalan city would host the event.

 

[slug zitski]

Joan Vila , names from the past 

Pachi . Pepe   Ronaldo , Juan Carlos Toubes……

any Spanish guys here remember the Spanish America’s cupper keel failure ?  The Spanish navy minesweeper keel  recovery 

Is Juan Carlos involved with the new AC in Barcelona ?

 

[Stingray~]

'The America’s Cup is gone but not all is lost for the brave and bold.'

 

[dg_sailingfan]

An AC40 World Series Regatta in Auckland seems more like a Pipe Dream to me. With Emirates Team New Zealand & Alinghi slated to be in Barcelona by the Summer of 2023, INEOS Britannia moving to Mallorca for the 2022/2023 European Winter and then to Barcelona by Summer 2023 and Luna Rossa staying in their Home Cagliari Base before moving to Barcelona the chances Auckland gets an ACWS Event are very small and dim because none of the 4 Challengers wants to move their Equipment halfway around the world to have a one-week Event. I can't imagine Sir Jim Ratcliffe/Ainslie/Bicket agreeing to that.

All 4 Challengers would have to suspend their Testing & Training Programme. Conversly if the World Series Events are being held in Malaga, Jeddah or Cork Challengers can still train and ain't compromised.

 

[Gissie]

'The America’s Cup is gone but not all is lost for the brave and bold.'

What a pile of fluff. So the whole time spent in Barcelona will cost less than 12 mill?

I guess the enforced AC40 aren't considered part of the cost as they are built in China.

As for having an event in Auckland, where will it be held? The water front will be used for commercial returns.

Just a pile of dreams, unwilling to accept that the time of NZ involvement in the cup is over.

 

[Stingray~]

Just a pile of dreams, unwilling to accept that the time of NZ involvement in the cup is over.

Duncan Johnstone is likely parroting GD again, this time trying to sell the idea Auckland should pony-up to pay for an ACWS event despite the big middle-finger given to that city. Good luck, I guess.

I bet they have as hard a time trying to find lucrative-enough AC40 venues outside of Auckland as they did to find (by last minute luck, basically) a venue for the AC37 event. The AC40's are no more attractive than TP52s, RC44s, the new Persico's, or any other regatta. 

But maybe men in Jeddah (pushed-for in that article too) are really keen to watch the spectacle of women racing, if GD can throw that in?

Cagliari would seem a logical spot for an ACWS this time, as with last time, but it seems GD has burnt even that bridge. Malaga could work for a weekend.

 

[Kiwing]

If America ever wins the Cup again, I will enjoy, doing a spinray negating all his positive spin.