Americas Cup - thrilling racing at last

flaming said:
This AC is turning into a great regatta ruined by some absurd rules.

A 40 min time limit, but no facility to make the course shorter so no chance of completing a race in sub 10kts of wind. But never mind, let em race anyway.

A wind limit that is so strict it cans racing well after the start of a race based on a 15s gust 1 knot above the limit.

And now a time limit to start the second race that conflicts with the required break between races, after a mere 30 min delay in getting the first race off.

If this is what was required to make sailing exciting to non sailors, then it's failed, big time. How the hell would you explain any of that **** to someone new to sailing? I can barely get my head around it....
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I totally disagree
I do not see what you cannot understand by a time limit & TV gets to explain the rules
Our club has had time limits for years- albeit longer. But hey!
I think it adds to the excitement & suits TV as it extends the experience
 
Daydream believer said:
I totally disagree
I do not see what you cannot understand by a time limit & TV gets to explain the rules
Our club has had time limits for years- albeit longer. But hey!
I think it adds to the excitement & suits TV as it extends the experience
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right, but I bet your club doesn't set a course that is impossible to complete within the time limit. Especially when the time limit is short and the wind conditions pretty consistent!
 
A1Sailor said:
The timings are supposedly to suit TV - but if they even started 15min earlier at 1pm local time, they would be more likely to get 2 races in!
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If that is the case then they have scored an own goal - days with one race rather than two, or even no races at all - that is a nightmare for broadcasters
 
moodyNick said:
Because they were expecting a consistent breeze coming in to the bay for the duration of the regatta, but its gone up, down and sideways as well!!
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I think the broadcasters will be feeling reasonably pleased with races to cover/airtime to fill and people actually watching.
 
Call me a cynical old git (along with lots of other names) but .................. anyone else get the feeling that TNZ have 'thrown' some races so as to prolong the series and make the end result more exciting than what it looked like being, 9-1 to the Kiwis.

It astounds me that the change in Oracle has been so great when in the first couple of races they looked like a load of novices and got poor performance out of their boat. I know Sir Ben is good but that was only in dinghies.
TNZ look like they have made some bad calls, tacks , gybes compared to what they were doing and 'let ' the USA win races.

Still enjoy watching it though and feel that the barnacles on my Centaur are the root cause of me not achieving 18 knots SOG!!!!!;)
 
UncleAlbert said:
Call me a cynical old git (along with lots of other names) but .................. anyone else get the feeling that TNZ have 'thrown' some races so as to prolong the series and make the end result more exciting than what it looked like being, 9-1 to the Kiwis.

You're not the only one to speculate on that. Twice the Kiwis have gybed badly just after Oracle messed up a a gybe or took a risky gybe when instead they could've held on and got a very useful overlap. As someone put it to me recently, a helm like Dean Barker just doesn't make those mistakes.
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Next Race NZ wins.

Time to get their payback for allowing those business men facing defeat to sell maximum TV hours!

Conspiracy? Professional Sailing?

Who cares, it's done our sport a great deal of good. Peeps knowing nothing about sailing are now talking about it.

Great stuff. Well done Ellison.
 
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