Luna Rossa Challenge. AC 36

[strider470]

Hey, does the 1000 posts count unlock any superpower in SA AC? I'm asking for a friend!

 

[marlowe]

I read somewhere that Coutts left not only for money, but because the team promised him things they didn't do.

I suppose a prominent role in the team management.

Our friends here will know better for sure, I am curious to know the real story.

Coutts side of the story:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/feb/01/sailing

 

[Sailbydate]

Should Alinghi become the new COR, would EB have to steal designers and crew from other teams to close the gap?

Yes. Given his successful track record in the AC, he'd be unlikely to take the long route to regain Cup glory.

 

[Sailbydate]

Hey, does the 1000 posts count unlock any superpower in SA AC? I'm asking for a friend!

Hasn't worked for me, damn it. ;-)

 

[jaysper]

no coming back to displacement, whoever will win

You don't think Bertelli would go displacement? 

 

[jaysper]

Hey, does the 1000 posts count unlock any superpower in SA AC? I'm asking for a friend!

When I got to 10,000 I found that I suddenly started noticing how cold the water in the bottom of public urinals is.

 

[strider470]

You don't think Bertelli would go displacement? 

Honestly, I think not. Not after seeing what AC75 can do (and all the knowledge they have in its design)

Max and the sailors literally love this class of boats. In a very recent interview, Max said he was grateful to the kiwis to have dared such a radical design.

 

[jaysper]

Max said he was grateful to the kiwis to have dared such a radical design

Might just be some PR spin?

Nobody wants their skipper shitting all over the event you are sponsoring.

And yes, I'm being hopeful here.

 

[strider470]

Might just be some PR spin?

Nobody wants their skipper shitting all over the event you are sponsoring.

And yes, I'm being hopeful here.

That would be stupid, also at a business level, in my opinion. And Bertelli is no stupid.

I fear only EB influence, and this is why I'm very displeased that ENTZ and LR relationship is not going well anymore.

 

[Thewas]

Hey, does the 1000 posts count unlock any superpower in SA AC? I'm asking for a friend!

Congratulazioni!!

 

[erdb]

And autopilots apparently, http://sumtozero.com/consultancy/autopilot-design/

Ladies, Gentlemen and Trolls, start your herbies!

I wonder where the Gomboc name is coming from. My guess would be from here: https://plus.maths.org/content/story-goumlmboumlc. BTW gomboc means sphere in Hungarian.

 

[45Roller]

Hey, does the 1000 posts count unlock any superpower in SA AC? I'm asking for a friend!

Well done mate 

 

[45Roller]

Coutts side of the story:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/feb/01/sailing

Hopefully he'll write a no holds barred book on the whole thing some day

 

[Thewas]

BTW: anything docking out in Auckland? LR still kept in the shed?

 

[strider470]

A fun little break from the wickedness of the America's Cup.

 

[jaysper]

27 minutes ago, strider470 said:

A fun little break from the wickedness of the America's Cup.

What Italians call conversation 

 

[strider470]

Do we know exactly when the plan for the in(famous) final Prada Cup press conference (with the initial missing invitation for the second classified team) was officially published?  @weta27 maybe you have some reliable information?

 

[JJD]

Do we know exactly when the plan for the in(famous) final Prada Cup press conference (with the initial missing invitation for the second classified team) was officially published?  @weta27 maybe you have some reliable information?

Surely that’s old news now.
 

9 days until race one of the Americas Cup. 
I think Burling will have Jimmy in the start box like race one of ACWS. 

 

[jaysper]

Surely that’s old news now.
 

9 days until race one of the Americas Cup. 
I think Burling will have Jimmy in the start box like race one of ACWS. 

I think most people would agree that Burling and Ainslie are both an edge above Jimmy in terms of skill.

So I expect Jimmy to have his work cut out for him.

That said, I expect ETNZs boat speed to make the starts reasonably irrelevant.

 

[Sailbydate]

...I expect ETNZs boat speed to make the starts reasonably irrelevant.

BIG call there, Jays. ;-)