Team American Magic
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Poor guy...New York Yacht Club American Magic made the absolute best of a light-weather training day in Pensacola on Friday with the sailors working hard on technique whilst also gathering crucial foil data as the testing programme continues with their new starboard anhedral on the AC40 that is now in full-on LEQ12 development mode. The team also declared a new mainsail and number 2 jib as they seek to scale-test ahead of their new AC75 that will go into build in the next few months.
Andrew Campbell, one of the team’s key Flight Controllers gave a superb interview after sailing on Friday and is more than keen to get racing the AC40, saying: “I've never sailed in Vilanova before but I'm definitely excited to be there. There are a lot of great spots on that South Coast of Spain facing the Mediterranean that we've all sailed before, but this will be a new one for many of us and you know we're excited about a new venue. Expectations are that it will be similar to Barcelona in a lot of ways, it's not that far away and now we're looking forward to making the most of it…any time we can get the team into a racing format it puts us under pressure and that gives us a better chance to be ready on race day when we get the AC75 on the water so looking to get this team racing in any way we can but you know in a format that looks like the AC75 in the AC40, that's the greatest opportunity we could possibly ask for.”
The Flight Controller's Perspective
America's Cup sailor Andrew Campbell shares his insights into the American Magic's preparation for the 37th America's Cup.
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Sailbydate
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Cup Spy Mar 30/31, Apr 1: American Magic does massive nosedive in a top end breeze
American Magic headed out in top end conditions, staying inshore in flatter water, instead of a more violent sea state in the Gulf of Mexico. Their session ended with a massive nosedive, which had sufficient force to rip his goggles from his helmet.
Rasputin22
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The_Alchemist
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The_Alchemist
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Wow, Goody says they were near 50 knots with the new foil!!!!! Much faster than they could get with the stock foil. He said the foils like different cant angles and pitch. Testing the softness around the optimum settings.
Here are some screen shots of the new foil.
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JALhazmat
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Which is it out of sorts with the claims made by the Kiwis/recon team saying that they’ve done 50 in the AC40
enigmatically2
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So now we not only have to allow for different winds, waves and test strategies, but knots vary too?
I guess navigational NM varies with latitude, so maybe we are using that definition.
Or people are just plucking numbers out of their arse
Just means the kiwis would be doing 60's with the AM foil 🤣🤣
The_Alchemist
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No, that was a speed estimate on the LEQ12 version of the AC40 using their new foil!
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Day 17 video has a couple of interesting moments in reasonably sized swell.
At the beginning the boat is going at low speed in displacement mode, frustratingly they jump ahead to full foiling and we don't see how easily it got up on the foil. Later at 1:57 onwards we see the boat apparently in displacement mode but moving through the water quite well with one crew member hanging outboard to windward to increase righting moment, then gradually speed increased and they foil......
At the beginning the boat is going at low speed in displacement mode, frustratingly they jump ahead to full foiling and we don't see how easily it got up on the foil. Later at 1:57 onwards we see the boat apparently in displacement mode but moving through the water quite well with one crew member hanging outboard to windward to increase righting moment, then gradually speed increased and they foil......
from in the description text,
Determined to extract the absolute maximum from their remaining time in Pensacola, NYYC American Magic ventured offshore to find a challenging sea state with a short period to rifle through a variety of cant angles and aero set ups and extract the vital foil data that will determine the final design direction for the team’s soon-to-be-built AC75.
Speaking afterwards, Lucas Calabrese offered a brilliant insight into just how cool this team is and, talking about the capsize, he almost made it sound fun: “Yeah obviously it's pretty challenging, you have the bustle that is hanging down on the boat and then you have the foil that is coming in and out of the waves so it's hard to manage the balance between keeping the bustle out of the water and the foil not coming out of the water. It was just one of those days, pretty tough conditions and…we stuffed the bow and then got slow and ended up in a pretty fun capsize.”
