Luna Rossa Challenge. AC 36
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Rennmaus
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FB and Jimmy seem to work well together. Decisions do depend on who is steering at the time, but FB is the most vocal on the boat.
minimumfuss
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Jimmy sounds very subdued. He sounds like the paid help rather than a leader to me. Checco seems to be mostly in charge.
New chapter in the backstays war. I don’t understand what they’re planning. Maybe this last interpretation leave some room to hide them ? Seems a little less categorical on the matter
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Its pretty clear he's either learned some humility or had it very clearly spelled out to him by Bertelli/whoever that he tone it down.
Or as I write that, it occurs maybe it was the other way around: the dickwad persona was part of his Orifice employment?
With the split helms: is leeward 'off' guy taking over doing foil?
Or as I write that, it occurs maybe it was the other way around: the dickwad persona was part of his Orifice employment?
With the split helms: is leeward 'off' guy taking over doing foil?
idontwan2know
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Jimmy has always been calm and professional on the boat.
Winding up Kiwis in the press conference has nothing to do with how he goes about his business on the boat.
Winding up Kiwis in the press conference has nothing to do with how he goes about his business on the boat.
Varan
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No mention of software issues on LR, but their early tack away from the left boundary when left was clearly favored, followed by a boundary violation on the right side makes me wonder if their data were skewed. May never know as it would be bad form to bitch about it now.
sfigone
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LR looked fabulous in the abandoned race and the start of three rerun. But I think the wind moderated a bit (before sqwall) and she looked a little underdone then. Maybe could have had a touch late jib so she have been more on the edge in pressure, but better in the lulls?
Either way, she doesn't look far off at all.
Either way, she doesn't look far off at all.
17mika
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FB confirmed the software issues of last race to ita press and that also impacted their ability to trim boat properly.
He said also at the start they only had a timer
Max Sirena interview about this first Round Robin:
- They made a lot of mistakes, but the boat performed really well both in light and strong winds.
- First race against Ineos was really good. In the second race they should cover more, they didn’t do it because they were sailing really fast, they didn’t want to loose speed in order to cover. Lesson learned the hard way.
- In the second race they started without info about the position of the boundaries, They had also some failures, Pietro Sibello (mainsail trimmer) didn’t swap side since one of the mainsail trim console broke
- They’re happy about the point earned, but they also feel sorry for AM capsize
P Flados
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The lack of reliable boundary info is a big deal. It did not impact the result of any race yet, but easily could.
If they can call off a race due to a windshift, should they consider calling off a race where a team is "unfairly handicapped" by lack of boundary info?
Alternately, should they disable the feed to the other boat, make them rely on the " boundary light" and cut teams slack for close calls on boundaries.
If they can call off a race due to a windshift, should they consider calling off a race where a team is "unfairly handicapped" by lack of boundary info?
Alternately, should they disable the feed to the other boat, make them rely on the " boundary light" and cut teams slack for close calls on boundaries.
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bortolo
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Wondering if the number of tactical errors made by LR can be related to not having a single person making calls. They claim that the helmsman currently driving makes decisions: it may be against his "instinct" to call a tack to cover and give up the helm. But then again, they did tack too early on one occasion at least...
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The Main Man
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MaxHugen
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Mozzy Sails
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Luna Rossa weekend review, including that 'hook or no hook' decision, which, I believe, is kind of a microcosm of their wider issues with their set up.
Feel free to rip our opinions apart!
Feel free to rip our opinions apart!
enigmatically2
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Interesting Mozzy.
I hadn't picked up on the chat being that of 2 helms rather than tactician and helm, but I see your point.
On the idea that LR look fast and its easy- it seems to me that they have a nice wide groove, so they found that groove early and find it consistently. Whereas UK designed a boat with a narrower groove, so it take them a while and a few adjustments to get it right, but now they have they are faster (downwind at least). So the UK boat is harder to sail, but faster when they get it spot on.
Make sense?
I hadn't picked up on the chat being that of 2 helms rather than tactician and helm, but I see your point.
On the idea that LR look fast and its easy- it seems to me that they have a nice wide groove, so they found that groove early and find it consistently. Whereas UK designed a boat with a narrower groove, so it take them a while and a few adjustments to get it right, but now they have they are faster (downwind at least). So the UK boat is harder to sail, but faster when they get it spot on.
Make sense?
