Americas cup sailing

[max]

If anyone is interested in sailing ( if you can call it that ) this is happening in my backyard, it is the preliminary to the real series and may be worth watching;

Streaming live and available afterwards etc.
Having fun shooting video of these teams with my new nikon p950 along the course, no match for the tv teams footage but fun to come home and watch my results on the pc.

 

[emptysea]

LOL@ “if you can call it that”.

My office is decorated with AC posters from the 12 Meter era, when America’s Cup sailing was more relatable to this small boat sailor.

This print is of the 1964 Cup Race in Newport.


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[ampm7_imp]

I sailed for a lot of years in various places and when I lived in San Diego (born there) I could see Dennis Conner from my anchored boat (that I lived on) putting both his 12 meter and his winged catamaran through their paces. Those new cats are amazing and NZ is a great place to sail.

 

[emptysea]

I have a poster someplace depicting that first catamaran in the America's Cup. The new cats are amazing and soooo fast. I enjoy watching them race, but it's so much different than my Laser II that I sailed when I was still lightweight enough for it to make headway.

 

[Cormanus]

When I received my induction into the awful job of being a moderator, my superiors took a great deal of trouble to instil in me an appreciation of the fact that this is a motorcycle forum and discussions which have no connection whatsoever to motorcycles or motorcycling should be brought to a halt. From the excellent example set by the Ferret, I came to understand that this rule could be generously interpreted

In the case of a post only about a yacht race that has become a testing ground more esoteric even than the MotoGP, I think I could be forgiven for wondering how I could allow it to persist.

Fortunately it was easy. The only other activity in my life that gives me as much pleasure as riding a motorcycle is sailing. Although one is powered entirely by nature and the other by the ICE, they both enable the participant to engage with the wind to achieve a serenity not achievable in a humdrum daily existence. Of course the America's Cup is to sailing what the RC213V is to the CB1100 and ordinary motorcycling, but it's still sailing.

For me, the America's Cup has never been the same since the abandonment of the 12-metre class. Fairly or unfairly, I've always put that down to a northern hemisphere petulance that an upstart mob from down under managed to wrest the Auld Mug to the other hemisphere inducing a determination to buy it back by pricing opposition out of the market. I stayed awake all night to watch the deciding race.

It remains only to say two things.

First, thanks Max. I'll look forward to looking at the videos. The catamarans are truly extraordinary.

Secondly, I'll look forward to the continuation of this conversation about the connections between motorcycling and sailing.

 

[max]

Thanks Cormanus i will take all that advice to heart, the idea was that during this c...d thing it may be something to amuse some of us indoors.

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

If anyone is interested in sailing ( if you can call it that ) this is happening in my backyard, it is the preliminary to the real series and may be worth watching;

Streaming live and available afterwards etc.
Having fun shooting video of these teams with my new nikon p950 along the course, no match for the tv teams footage but fun to come home and watch my results on the pc.

Is there a CB1100 included?

 

[the Ferret]

Lol sailing huh?

Chuckk would probably tow his sailboat to the water with his CB 1100

( and that's how you tie the two subjects together lol )

 

[peterbaron]

No need to tow, he would just sail from California directly to NZ...only 11K kms

Google Maps

 

[Cormanus]

After all that the video didn't work!

 

[emptysea]

I'd have to go back 30+ years in the memory bank, but I believe it was the Aussies that were first to play a little more loose with the Deed of Gift than the Yanks. The winged keel that they used to win the Cup should have been banned as non-conforming to the 12M class. It was a loophole in the class rules that allowed it in, if I recall. I'm perfectly willing to be corrected on the facts, but my opinion that the winged keel should not have been allowed will remain my opinion. Interestingly, though, it was this controversy and the Aussie victory that brought the America's Cup competition into public. I thoroughly enjoyed watching those races and the challenge races that lead up to them. We even had a challenger from Lake Michigan The Heart of America Challenge. The skipper was Buddy Melges a small boat builder and racer who allegedly said he sails best with a hangover because his head only stops pounding when the boat is in perfect trim. (I feel that way about motorcycling, by the way)

 

[Chuckk_imp]

sorry to say, I am more of a power boater.. my lithium-ion 100 amp hour battery wouldn't push my kayak quite as far as New Zealand, I'm afraid.. still pondering the thought of installing that trailer hitch to my saddle bag brackets.. I have CF numbers for the kayak because of it having a motor.. I guess that I could add a license plate to it and call it a camping trailer or something .. heh heh ..
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[Henrik_imp]

Interesting to see a number of other members of this forum that also have a strong interest in sailing. As I am responding here, obviously I do too.

One small comment though: the boats in this new edition are no longer catamarans. They are these insane single hull boats with foils. I have watched a number of videos of the various boats training so far, and I find these simply mind-boggling!!

 

[Cormanus]

They are quite extraordinary, Henrik. There's a website for the cup here where you can watch the race live or catch highlights. They go nearly as fast as a CB1100, but the new-fangled course seems to be a race up and and down with the only objective speed. It's amazing, but I'm not sure it's as interesting as an old-fashioned tacking duel. Still and all, I found it very hard to stop watching them.

I remember the final America's Cup race in 1983. It occurred in the early hours of the morning Australian time. When Liberty was a long, long way ahead, I fell asleep only to be woken by a phone call from a friend to make sure I was watching the Australia II win the race. Ben Lexen, who designed the winged keel, would be amazed by these new monohull, foiled boats that can travel at better than 40 knots in seemingly little breeze.

 

[GoldOxide_imp]

Yeah, that is amazing Henrik. The closest I have come to that was sailing on the Sea of Cortez for over a week in a catamaran. Sadly, in the end when we docked in Guaymas, Mexico there wasn't a CB1100 in sight anywhere.

 

[Charlie Bravo_imp]

I've been sailing for almost as long as I've been riding, 45 yrs, and still love it, but, sadly, had to sell my last boat. Couldn't justify the expense/use ration. Here's a pic of my last boat.

 

[Scotty_imp]

Was just out sailing last weekend!