Americas Cup 37 about to commence

[SaltIre]

Thread two is here: Americas Cup today
It was vying with thread one for posts for a while, but kind of died...

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Why open a new thread? This one is perfectly serviceable!

 

[richardh10]

Which channels are televising the races?

 

[14K478]

Which channels are televising the races?

YouTube. Live.

The BBC were, I understand, offered the chance to cover the Cup for free, and turned it down.

 

[14K478]

Meanwhile, the best commentator by a nautical mile is this chap:

 

[flaming]

YouTube. Live.

The BBC were, I understand, offered the chance to cover the Cup for free, and turned it down.

Sort of. They were offered the world feed, which has adverts, so essentially had to turn it down.

 

[doug748]

Which channels are televising the races?

The other bloke sounds like he has one wing down, a bit chippy, try this:

.

 

[benjenbav]

Which channels are televising the races?

TNT for live.

 

[bedouin]

TNT for live.

There is an on line feed on the AC web site.

 

[benjenbav]

There is an on line feed on the AC web site.

For which I was quite grateful this afternoon when my TNT feed suddenly experienced an issue.

 

[14K478]

Since this is the thread for anecdotes from the Cretaceous era, and there has been mention of “the era of the Twelves” on the other thread, has anyone else heard the story that when the Sovereign syndicate were meeting in the RTYC they were discussing picking a helmsman “with experience in Twelves” and Sir Peter Scott, overhearing the conversation, said “I’ve done quite well in them” and was instantly given the job.

He had meant National Twelves.

 

[Wansworth]

Some very good contributions from people who have real experience, here.

I just learned a lot. Thanks.

The next contest will be in AC75s, as I understand it, because teams seeking to enter for this event had to agree to that as a term of their entry.

Fist picture almost looks like a bigger Tally Ho