ex TL systems 63 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 a possibility of delays or postponement due to light winds Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex TL systems 63 Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 now averaging 9 t0 10 so should be go Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 https://www.americascup.com/en/virtualeye.html shows wind 9.8 - 13kn in various places on the course Quote Link to post Share on other sites
180S 20 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Wind shifts I think. Boat speeds are very similar. Will be interesting in higher wind speeds though. Think we have a boat race on our hands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eruptn 95 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Things have changed ..... roll on tomorrow . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jonathan 4 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 what is predict wind saying for tomorrow? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,220 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 To me the boats look very similar in performance - more similar than before, but even then the difference was marginal. Today we saw Oracle sail pretty poorly in the first race, and well in the 2nd. It really is a boat race, and the team that sails best will win. I don't agree with the press that we had a large speed advantage before, thats now gone. Its all small.... Still confident, but a bit nervous.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Romany 162 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 Good on Peter Burling for poking the bear at the press conference! Got a snap too. It doesn't seem like his style, but I hope he has more. Shifty day and having regained the lead covering would have been the go in latter stages of R 2. I know you have to be brave but win it 1st. I don't do Facebook but opened the link to ETNZ page and a poster noted that Oracle removed something from the boat immediately after race 2. Anybody know anything?? I'm assuming it was something other than a strutting Aussie helmsman. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harrytom 642 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 similar boats speeds perhaps we now need to mix it up a bit and force an oracle error Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Island Time 1,220 Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 I would have thought ETNZ would have the advantage in a covering situation - perhaps even forcing Oracle to run out of hydraulics?? Really down speed tacks or gybes cost several hundred meters..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 What boards did both teams have on today? The footage on sky is just rubbish. Didn't get any descent shots of ETNZ"'s boards today. Almost any time something interesting happens they do a close up, parrot cam or just pan to the f**king crowd (both of them). Very hard to follow the race when they never actually show both boats and the course. They never show mark roundings from off the boat now, and any time a situation develops, descent cross of something, they are showing some pointless close up of some guy panting over a grinding pedestal or such like 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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