PETER BURLING

[TN_Kiwi]

I think there's too much stock being put into the qualifier results. The boat has got faster, and is still getting faster, the team has improved, and is still improving. I don't think the qualifier result has any bearing on whats going to happen in the match. Its clean slate for both teams from now on. The talk after the practice races was Artemis was the faster boat of all of the boats, and favorite, even to win the AC, and ETNZ seemed to be "just ok" this turned out to be wildly speculative and incorrect. Basing anything on the qualifier result when clearly we are a different team since then would also be incorrect IMO. 

+1  not to mention entirely different breeze and sea state now.

 

[MoMP]

This is going to be a sweep for OTUSA.  Berling is the next generation along with Outridge and Slingsby.  "The America's Cup is always won by the fastest boat", historically true...  These boats are too close to call with any certainty one over the other.  Experience, tactics, luck and nerve is going to win it this time around. 

 

[pipo]

I think there's too much stock being put into the qualifier results. The boat has got faster, and is still getting faster, the team has improved, and is still improving. I don't think the qualifier result has any bearing on whats going to happen in the match. Its clean slate for both teams from now on. The talk after the practice races was Artemis was the faster boat of all of the boats, and favorite, even to win the AC, and ETNZ seemed to be "just ok" this turned out to be wildly speculative and incorrect. Basing anything on the qualifier result when clearly we are a different team since then would also be incorrect IMO. 

the concern is not the RESULTS (obviously), but the QUALITY of the pre starts (and first reaches)

for ourselves, I just hope they have just been acting deliberately naive so far, and that Murray and Ray have taught them well enough 

 

[imnotasailer]

Just giving this topic a nug nug cos I'm sure everyone will be on here tomorrow full of praises.

But is this guy the greatest fox ever or what!?

I admit I had my bouts about his starts. Let's face it we all did.

Sorry Sir Peter Burling please except apology.

See you at Auckland in the street parade.

 

[random]

Sir Peter to you.

 

[imnotasailer]

Sir Peter to you.

Edited. Thanks for informing me of my mistake random

 

[KoW]

Isn't it weird that Peter Burling shares the first name and initial of another Kiwi who wasn't bad at competing for the America's Cup?

 

[YeahTheLads]

Isn't it weird that Peter Burling shares the first name and initial of another Kiwi who wasn't bad at competing for the America's Cup?

I think you are onto something there.

 

[marlowe]

Isn't it weird that Peter Burling shares the first name and initial of another Kiwi who wasn't bad at competing for the America's Cup?

If only Dean Barker had been christened Peter! What might have been?

 

[High Flow]

don't like him

thought I don't like outerridge. Turns out i quite like him.

But not so burling.

but he is great.

and he will bring the cup back to NZ.

Maybe not today. but tomorrow.

Dean would not have. So good choice made there by the team.

 

[kenergy]

Another classic thread to read in hindsight

 

[barfy]

I thought I liked NO as well, but his bleating on about the "magic carpet ride" has grown thin. And he could grow some and get over "what may have been" and wish his old mate the best.

Not half as bad as my disappointment in Draper tho.

 

[serialsailor]

This is going to be a sweep for OTUSA.  Berling is the next generation along with Outridge and Slingsby.  "The America's Cup is always won by the fastest boat", historically true...  These boats are too close to call with any certainty one over the other.  Experience, tactics, luck and nerve is going to win it this time around. 

You were sayin' ?

I mean anything can still happen but it's going to be haaaard.

 

[Man Overboard]

Unfriendly and can't start?

 

[Kiwing]

Hey he has Jimmy's head scrambled!!  and he has not endangered the boat.

He's our winner..

 

[KiwiTek]

Unfriendly and can't start?

:lol:   I absolutely loved this little bit of rubbing Shithill's face in it.  I think it kinda shows that Burlings got the nads for the job and now we're seeing he also has the skills so I think for ourselves, we're in good shape and full credit to him.

 

[NSP]

My favorite part of that is the hand waving followed by the "oh fuck, there's a button I need to push, right?"

 

[TN_Kiwi]

OTUSA are going to sweep ETNZ....  I don't think either boat is significantly faster than the other.  It's going to be about experience, sailing talent and chemistry .  Jimmy is going to tie Peter in knots and leave him for dead in the pre-starts.  Let's face it.  Jimmy is probably the best in the world at prestarts and he is training with Dean who is arguably right there with Jimmy.

OTUSA has clear chemistry onboard.  They ar very well oiled.  ETNZ doesn't seem to have the same.

no doubt Peter will have a great career in the AC but not this time around.  They don't have enough boat speed to overcome his vulnerabilities....

So, if you reflect now on your prediction and assessment - how accurate do your think you were?

 

[nzrick]

Another classic thread to read in hindsight

+10

 

[John Ely]

Stephen Still's 'Southern Cross' is the new anthem of the 'America's' Cup...regardless of which boat actually wins.  Ben A. has to go back to the drawing board.....

Optimist, 420, 49er, Mothy mothy moth, 49er....goldy goldy gold...Burling is a man with skills!!! W/ his Mr Tuke on the ailerons...