Americas Cup

[sail]

Oracle brings the Cup back home to San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club. These boats are something else:

https://www.americascup.com/en/regate/regarder-la-course/show.php

 

[DNK]

I am very disappointed. I am a big fan when it is on the tele. saw a couple of SMALL news stories about the court battle. Didn't have a clue what it was about and I didn't see any thing if it was televised.
Guess I am gonna have to wait for the Comcast On Demand replay

 

[sail]

I had heard nothing and was suprised it was going on. If you hit medium on the link you can see & hear video without downloading anything.
Maybe next time they will sail real boats on windy SF Bay.

 

[ecurie_ecosse]

They whole thing was held up by the weather on the first day.
I can't see how that could be consider a competition with just two boats. Which were considerably different,a trimaran(Oracle) and a catamaran (Alinghi).
And I too would like to see real sailboats from all over the world competing in future.

Oracle's sail was like a huge wing.

Stuart.

 

[bgbassplyr]

WOW. The most amazing boats I think I have ever seen. Also had not heard anything about the race.

 

[ecurie_ecosse]

That's what you can do,when money is no object. :thumbsup:
I hread about the race in a New Zealand news bulletin.

Stuart.