Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 ETNZ have just left the building... I mean the viaduct (wing and all) In the process of resizing image :-/ Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 AC72 Under tow Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 at was to far out for me to take decent photos so heres some video of it. AND WERE BACK WITH VIDEO Link to post Share on other sites
chic014 0 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Was the under tow? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Was the under tow? Was under tow down the harbour as expected If I had a boat and some petrol I would have chased them to Kawau. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 where is the vid? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 where is the vid? Will be back in 5 minutes I just needed to make an alteration to it. Link to post Share on other sites
khayyam 68 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 grrr sailing past my house while i'm at work! not very nice. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I was in one of the glass towers that front the water front, when it went by(under tow). Very impressive. Made the meeting more interesting too. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Awesome work Steven. She looks fast Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Bloody fast but dunno about anyone else, it just looks wrong to me. When I see most boats sailing I get a good feeling but this one looks so unnatural it makes me feel ill at ease, just waiting for it to go wrong. Bizzare. I'm convinced they gonna flip it at some stage or one of the syndicates will. They must have a recovery plan 'just in case', wonder what it is. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Pull out the chequebook? Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I mean for righting the wing rig again, you muppet! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Be interesting to know if the wing would survive going for a swim? (and you are right, I expect to see at least one of these become inverted at some point). Link to post Share on other sites
Variant 2 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I'm convinced they gonna flip it at some stage or one of the syndicates will. They must have a recovery plan 'just in case', wonder what it is. 1200 HP of yamaha should do it. Link to post Share on other sites
VERGE 1 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Surely you've sped the video up Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Surely you've sped the video up thats it at normal towing speed in what might have been 10 knots. This thing is going to fly and I would love to see it in 15 knots and them not holding back. Link to post Share on other sites
Absolution 7 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I'm guessing that it doesn't count as one of their 30 sailing days if they don't drop the tow line??? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I'm guessing that it doesn't count as one of their 30 sailing days if they don't drop the tow line??? They would tow the SL33s from base to past north head so im not to sure if they did drop the tow line or not when they were past Rangi as I couldnt see. It was a great day to have a just a tow around sail as there wasnt that much wind but a lot of rain. Link to post Share on other sites
Marshy 30 Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Technically they could spend half a day towing around creating apparent wind to load test a few systems and Boards etc without ever actually dropping the towline so its not a "Sailing Day"? Link to post Share on other sites
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