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Where's the Hydrogen foil thingy?

Isn't it best suited as a zero carbon emission viewing/filming platform?

Those carbon offset payments must be stacking up...
 
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Stingray~ said:
Places all over the US get terrible floods every year and few cities are able to cope with 'worst-case' scenarios, but this year was for sure a bad one! Thankfully no major cities got nailed recently.

Slow day, so will ask: If a normal car is parked in water halfway up its doors, does the water leak into the interior?
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my old VW beetle apparantley not.............. i managed to prove them wrong on that one though
 
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It would make more sense if PB and NO squared off AGAINST each other, IMO. No advantage them helming together in AC40, 2 boat training. So 4 helms likely required. Fortunately, ETNZ has no shortage of useful helming talent.
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Definitely need to sharpen PB on the starts. Repeatedly going head to head with the AC40's in a virtual start box would, IMHO, be hugely beneficial.
 
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They look pretty fast but I watched the long video and although the wind chop was handled with ease everytime one of those random bigger swells was encountered they seem to touchdown. Barcelona conditions are a lot rougher than they are sailing in at the moment.
 
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^ that is one great video, being in 3D and everything.

any ideas what the piece at the top of the mast is, in this view?

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NZ started 2 boat testing

And Ineos and NZ swapped a build slot for the Ac40. Presumably Ineos gave up their earlier slot for a later one since they still aren't using their boat. Wonder what motivated them to be so generous
 
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enigmatically2 said:
NZ started 2 boat testing

And Ineos and NZ swapped a build slot for the Ac40. Presumably Ineos gave up their earlier slot for a later one since they still aren't using their boat. Wonder what motivated them to be so generous
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Ineos surely already has AC40-2? But, according to a Palma-based poster here, it has some hull lamination issues? ETNZ does have AC40-1 and AC40-3, which is a touch suprising but maybe another team agreed with that considering the nose rip-off and subsequent design changes. Ineos put in only 1 AC40 order, iirc, and they did get that #2.

We have seen pics of the first of the two Alinghi AC40 ordered boats arriving just yesterday, it must surely be AC40-4.
 
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