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August 29, 2012
Earlier we shared a pic that’s floating around the net, mostly on Facebook, of ETNZ above the water on foils. It’s hard to reconcile that pic, which is not universally trusted, with Emirates Team New Zealand’s video of the day. Then again, try stopping this at 36 seconds. Disinformation and hyperbolic over-interpretation are built into [...]
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August 29, 2012
ETNZ’s AC72 apparently on foils. First look via Facebook/Sail Racing Magazine Oracle Team USA was the first to tease us with a full-foiling catamaran, months ago, when it revealed an AC45 flying above the water on test-version-only foils . . . It is widely expected (conservative statement) that Oracle’s first AC72—to be revealed next week, [...]
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August 21, 2012
You probably don’t need to know who “won” the practice race of the America’s Cup World Series, but you might want to know there was another Luna Rossa capsize, and China Team went down too, and it was not exactly a rip-roaring day, and the hot media pool is booking on how many boats will [...]
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August 20, 2012
Photo by Kimball Livingston I dunno just how my America’s Cup friends will feel about it, but the real fastest sailboat in the world will soon be ripping up San Francisco Bay. That would be l’Hydroptere DCNS, subject of some of our favorite recent posts. At just about 1100 Friday, Alain Thébault and company departed [...]
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August 19, 2012
Photo © Gilles Martin-Raget May I remind us all that the win that brought the America’s Cup to San Francisco Bay was a rescue mission. No one outside of Larry Ellison and his racing team had the wherewithal—much less the obsession of a junkyard dog—to break the Alinghi machine and come away with the prize. [...]
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August 16, 2012
What do you do for a headline here? John Kostecki and Stan Honey Named to National Sailing Hall of Fame Oracle Team USA Releases Teaser of AC72 Observers of the Emirates Team New Zealand AC72 Say She’s Built for Stout It’s all good. I’m thinking most of my readers don’t need for me to list [...]
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August 10, 2012
l’Hydroptere in close-up. Photo by Kimball Livingston They missed an opportunity in early July, but they weren’t ready in early to July to take off on a Los Angeles-Honolulu record. Today Alain Thébault and crew are looking at a weather pattern over the Pacific that doesn’t convince them to push the Launch button, but they’re [...]
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August 7, 2012
They keep chasing it down and demanding to have it pulled down. But even though they are the International Olympic Committee, it reappears. Why? Because it’s hotter than a June bride in a featherbed. Te voila, IOC, Some boats in a race is still with us. And if you don’t get it there, try HERE. [...]
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August 5, 2012
Emirates Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton admits that “it doesn’t necessarily make you fast,” but he also reports that his team members are “working like hell” and doing it seven days a week with their first boat in the water for test sailing (so far, 20 knots in 8 knots true, the man says). [...]