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It has been good. To my eye, Ineos have an edge downwind in the upper range conditions. But forecast is for light conditions for the last two possible race days so who knows? But yes at 6-4 seems like they will probably get there.

I'm enjoying watching this round with close boats. It is pretty much about winning the start though, not much in the way of passing lanes.

Wait for someone to drop a carbon rig and cut down what's left?

Presumably they don't care and just run a reaching course.

They certainly don't care what they block. On the other hand, it's only for 5 hours? Not so hard to work around.

Anyone know if the details of the exclusion zone are publicly available? Searching for it just brings me back to this thread!

I am looking forward to the final. No idea who's faster. LR maybe? But only just.

Amazingly bad decision from LR to go for the penalty at the bottom mark and fall off the foil. Even if they'd got the penalty (which they didn't) falling off the foil would have been death. Too bad, spoiled what was a pretty decent race up to that point. Ineos-Alinghi continues to be incredibly dull despite the nominal improvement in the scoreline. I'd guess that they have a broader boundary for spectator boats, inside of which they can shift the course axis.

USA might get one or two but I reckon LR fairly easily. Inios-LR might be good though.

Cool. The 19m version seems... ambitious but I hope they pull it off.

Penalties can be overcome, but if one boat comes off the foils they might as well just stop the race.

Two of the "yawn" type last night sadly.

The odd race is pretty good (ETNZ v AM last night). But an awful lot of them are quite dull. Nice to watch in replay to skip forward...

Apparently she has a lifting keel. So if it was up, that would go some way to explaining the lack of stability. edit: Oh kestrahl I see you just said that, sorry!

Formentera isn't even that big, so getting round the other side should be (relatively) easy if forecast? Somewhere bigger like Majorca takes a bit more doing to get round the other side. The gulf is amazingly cooperative with anchorages for every wind in a small area, the rest of the world isn't so accommodating!

They do seem to have removed it (or at least moved it), which is too bad. Yes wetmaps is great, but the navionics sonar charts are much more detailed than the LINZ charts in many anchorages.

Pole or swing mooring? I'd imagine the motion detection would be going off all the time on a swing.

Locking just means more damage to the companionway when they force it.

"Steering failure" apparently. Remains to be seen exactly what that really means. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/06/interislander-ferry-runs-aground-near-picton.html

Gone. Lost or eradicated? https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/06/20/invasive-seaweed-quickly-eliminated-thanks-to-ngati-manuhiri-partnership/

They can. It's exciting.

At least an order of magnitude less capacity than needed, if true.

Noticed the obligatory loose headsail in shoal bay this morning. Seems like there's always at least one!

Just a gimmick without a roof. Will be interesting to see how the tech plays out though.