GC 32 vs MOD 70

[Doug Lord]

Found on AC thread posted by nav:

 

[paxfish]

Very cool. It looks like when they come off the wind a bit, the 32 is right there with them.

 

[solosailor]

Great video but different horses for courses: F1 (inshore) vs. Baja 1000 (offshore)..... no waves to hinder the GC32 here. Both are incredible machines.

 

[GBH29]

Great Video...and nice to see the City of Muscat in the background. Oman seems to be a hotspot for sailing...particularly multihulls. Love it!

 

[3to1]

mod 70 was underpowered. if not, it would have easily walked away.

 

[Big Show]

Me. Want.

Now that's a well dangled carrot.

Only a bajillion to go.

 

[Bsquared]

Pretty even, but camera boat kept moving relative to both boats; impossible to tell from video. I want a ride on both

 

[MR.CLEAN]

mod 70 was underpowered. if not, it would have easily walked away.

center hull flying pretty high

 

[The Frog]

Great Video...and nice to see the City of Muscat in the background. Oman seems to be a hotspot for sailing...particularly multihulls. Love it!

It's Marseille...

 

[Keith]

Love it, now if a could just win the lotto, its a MOD 70 for me.....

 

[Terrorvision]

Great Video...and nice to see the City of Muscat in the background. Oman seems to be a hotspot for sailing...particularly multihulls. Love it!

Yeah, that's not Muscat! oman Sail squanders their millions far away from those shores!

 

[grauniadangel]

Hyeres perhaps rather than Marseille?

 

[pwormwood]

mod 70 was underpowered. if not, it would have easily walked away.

Once you're flying the main hull, any more sail area is just parasitic drag. Given that the Mod 70 was semi-foiling on the leeward ama, it's a pretty good demonstration that size doesn't matter, once you're on the foils. Yes, in rough water the 70 is going to march away, but in the smooth water of the Great Sound, it doesn't seem that there would be a big speed advantage to bigger boats in the AC...it's just that the crashes won't be as spectacular - that is why we watch, isn't it? This is supposed to be like NASCAR, right?!

 

[rbridges007]

Two words, WICKED AWESOME

 

[Vang Tang]

In this vid, the 32 was fast unitl the bow dove under (not shown) The mod was stable fast, the 32 was scary fast. Scary fast isn't sustainable if it takes 110% concentration 110% of the time.

Both very cool though.

 

[Fastisfunner]

If not for the need to attract spectators with large teams running around, it's possible that the ultimate foiling platform would keep shrinking to the point where the AC could be sailed in 25 footers. We could call it the Little AC..

 

[triple trouble]

If not for the need to attract spectators with large teams running around, it's possible that the ultimate foiling platform would keep shrinking to the point where the AC could be sailed in 25 footers. We could call it the Little AC..

Sort of like the Catri 25?

http://catri.catrigroup.com/catri-25-study-plans/

 

[Presuming Ed]

Hyeres perhaps rather than Marseille?

OS themselves are calling it Marseille.

Final edit with suitably dramatic music.

 

[dogedog]

Slight tangent question what is the at rue upwind angle a foiled cat can sustain? Most of these videos show, based on the waves, downwind to the true wind angle. Or on a reach. I'm curious if they can do 30 to 40° angles since they are for foiling