shit show (front page)

[full circle]

from the video on the front page "shit show", i'm thinking these boats and teams will have such a high learning curve to control them, that any team that does not mostly master them will be a joke. the video makes it look like it just fucking spun up and out of the water.

 

[Archytec]

Just remember how f---ing stupid you looked when you started to walk!!!  Maybe you didn't change. These ducklings will learn.

 

[Spyro The Dragon]

Weren't we saying the same thing about foils in general just a few years ago. Innovation only comes with experimentation.

 

[ROADKILL666]

YES BUT I WILL BE FUN TO WATCH :lol:

 

[Glenn McCarthy]

Haven't we all sailed dinghies on windy days where the one who kept the mast vertical was the one who won the race?

 

[bplipschitz]

YES BUT I WILL BE FUN TO WATCH :lol:

No, you won't.

 

[ronnie_simpson]

in the absence of Oracle Team USA, at least Ben and the new Ineos team give us all a villain to root AGAINST. on a forum like this, i think that's definitely worth something. 

After ditching their loyal sponsors and team ethos of environmental stewardship and sustainability, and instead selling their souls to the devil and aligning themselves with a Trumpy Brexiteer who made his money off fracking, i was surprisingly giddy to watch this crash on a loop.

i'm excited to see the Kiwis come out swinging and controllably foiling around the Hauraki Gulf. When does that video come out?!

 

[CordRipper]

This isn't just happening to AC boats: 

 

[bodega87]

Video pulled. Not surprisingly. These new boats suck worse than the last round. Why try to reinvent the wheel? Make something competitive that people can understand. Not everyone gives a shit about foils.

 

[Xlot]

Video pulled. 

  Can anybody describe what happened?

 

[DarkHorse]

boat sailing on foils. boat tripped. wipe out.

 

[Chix & Dumpling]

I know it was a pretty short video, but I failed to see it begin to self right?  It looked like the one foil was stuck in the up position and the leward foil deep in the water?  That mast seemed planted horizontally.

mpt

 

[weightless]

I know it was a pretty short video, but I failed to see it begin to self right?  It looked like the one foil was stuck in the up position and the leward foil deep in the water?  That mast seemed planted horizontally.

mpt

Does that test boat even have ballasted foils?

 

[random]

I get that the AC50s were not suitable for rough conditions ... but ... but they were awesome.  I still watch the races every know and then.  They just needed to ditch people pumping oil, that was stupid.

From what has been reported, it is the Italian financiers who have insisted on the mono-hull returning.  Then they got ambushed by the success of the foiling spectacle and had to then make a foiling mono. 

 

[Sysfx]

Does that test boat even have ballasted foils?

If it doesn't, it's not a test boat.

 

[Sysfx]

I get that the AC50s were not suitable for rough conditions ... but ... but they were awesome. 

To some extent they are. Lower the jib, dial zero lift, partly raise the boards and sail like a normal cat.

 

[weightless]

If it doesn't, it's not a test boat.

I think they may be testing systems rather than trying to make a true analogue. Haven't been following closely enough to know for sure.

 

[mad]

What happened to the link on the FP?? Taken down already?

Edit, 

nice to see some new socks and posters here with this as well. We need more spy’s on the water. 

 

[VWAP]

  Can anybody describe what happened?

Why yes

It was a hot summer day at the pool. Two identical twin sisters and their friends also identical twins were on summer vacation from the all girl college they attended. After consuming a few boxes of cherry fizz wine coolers two of the women jumped in the pool and started to.... Oh wait this is a family site. Never mind