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watched the start first race to see who crossed line first,went off mowed lawn,2nd race watched start and realised it was over for tnz went to sleep.

might as well be racing r/c yachts.No wait more passing lanes r/c yachting.

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14 hours ago, harrytom said:

 

might as well be racing r/c yachts.No wait more passing lanes r/c yachting.

That’s because the boats are even but have different traits. LRPP are more manoevreable  ETNZ have slight straight line speed. When it gets close it will be interesting. Match racing is like that. 
 

a worse outcome is that one is clearly superior to the other and that becomes a procession. So I’m grateful that there is some tension, if only at the starts. 

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They should chuck a lap of an adjacent island in - sort of like the joker thing on rally cross on tele on Sundays. Or make them send on crew member ashore to have a pie and 2 pints, sprint back down the beach, restart..

Bring back the fun.

 

 

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Or have two race days where both teams have to wear fancy dress, theme chosen by a 3 year old from a school in each of the 2 competitors 'home' country, with additional points awarded for imaginative use of the theme

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Currently 7 knots on course E.  TNZ is foiling. LR have a techinical issue, cannot foil, people on board trying to fix the boat.  Wonder if they will call for a 15 minute delay?

 

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It doesn’t make sense that once a boat starts to gaP off they extend and extend. But they are supposedly similar in speed. So you’d expect the gaps to remain similar. we have extended 75m each leg. Is that a speed advantage we couldnt use in the first race because we had to do some many manoevres?

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TNZ was a completely different boat.  Pointed higher, better boat speed, and so better VMG.  No errors, better overall handling than the first race.

Still a pretty boring procession.  Watch the start and the first 3 minutes, watch the last 3 minutes, and you pretty much have seen everything worth watching.

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Is it because the course should be out further in the Gulf to provide more chance of windshifts, but they want the course close in for the "benefit" of the spectator fleet?

If the latter, utterly ridiculous, because at the moment its a bit like cricket in that if you win the toss you win the match, and if you win the start in this AC you win the match race.

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