America's Cup. Viewing

Tickets for the shoreside festival area are free but you should still apply online and print them out beforehand since numbers could be limited on the day.

Fanzone tickets which are for the area around the bandstand are about £48 per ticket and some are still available.

It currently looks like the whole seafront area by the war memorial will be fenced off and included within the festival area.
 
For you guys who are planning to float about the local Portsmouth radio station, Express FM, will be bringing live coverage of the events including live commentary on the races. Listen on 93.7FM or streamed from www.expressfm.com.
 
Giblets said:
For you guys who are planning to float about the local Portsmouth radio station, Express FM, will be bringing live coverage of the events including live commentary on the races. Listen on 93.7FM or streamed from www.expressfm.com.
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Ta - I was hoping there'd be something like that.

Now just got to see if I still own an FM radio apart from the one in my car :p

Pete
 
Giblets said:
Pete are you saying that you don't have an IBE system on t'boat? :rolleyes:
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Not on this boat :)

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Pete
 
Been down this morning, the ticketed area is huge, but to see the racing there's only a small area. If you can get on the bank behind the VIP area, that's best.

Bumped into Bob Fisher, he's really impressed by the set up. BAR building and the team bases are quite cool too.
 
Unsure about the live streaming in the App now... It shows that it is included on the Google play store...

BUT when you look on the America's Cup website it says that live streaming is available in some countries and not others...

https://www.americascup.com/en/news/223_AC-app-to-anchor-enhanced-online-coverage-of-Americas-Cup.html

UK and Ireland:
Second screen experience only (no live racing) on AC+ via the America’s Cup app

USA:
Live racing and second screen experience on AC+ via the America’s Cup app

More countries mentioned when you scroll down their website ...

What exactly is their 'second screen experience?' sounds like live to me when reading their description!
 
Martin_J said:
What exactly is their 'second screen experience?' sounds like live to me when reading their description!
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I saw the blurb about the app yesterday, though I haven't downloaded it. I understood the "second screen" to be things like on-board cameras, as opposed to the main race feed which is reserved for BT Sport customers.

Pete
 
I watched the Americas Cup in Valencia, I'd say without a shadow of doubt that watching ashore will be best.
You'll have (I hope) giant TV screens with close ups of the racing and a decent commentary to make sense of what's going on, plus the atmosphere of an enthusiastic crowd and other things to do between the races. From the water you wont have any idea of what's going on and wont be close enough to get the impression of speed.
 
BlueChip - I'm starting to think the same.. I was thinking of just being on the water on Sunday but will see how it looks Saturday from the shore.

As you say Pete - It looks like 'second screen' could be live view from on board cameras and you'll be able to choose which cameras to view.. App downloaded and it seems to work.. :)
 
Second screen is seen as the next big thing in sports broadcasting, it's a data stream or second video co-timed to the broadcast video.

BBC did a co-timed audience quiz on Antiques Roadshow, Sky have tried similar with football stats. In Germany a couple of broadcasters use it heavily.

The tricky bit is getting the data co-timed so it doesn't appear early. E.g. if a goal is scored, then you need to wait for the satellite delay before showing it.
 
BlueChip said:
Forecast for Sunday is a bit grim.
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Saturday is not great either - we are supposed to be sailing past en-route to Southampton and are looking nervously at the forecasts. Someone was saying in an interview yesterday that the AC45s can manage three times the wind speed - some of the forecasts are for winds approaching 30 knots - that should be interesting on board!
 
maby said:
Saturday is not great either - we are supposed to be sailing past en-route to Southampton and are looking nervously at the forecasts. Someone was saying in an interview yesterday that the AC45s can manage three times the wind speed - some of the forecasts are for winds approaching 30 knots - that should be interesting on board!
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I was out in a RIB yesterday - 350HP at 100% throttle and properly trimmed and Ainslie overtook us with ease.
 
History on wind limits for the America's Cup can be found here..
http://www.cupinfo.com/en/americas-cup-wind-limits-history-13045.php
Limits are decided upon well in advance so it's not up to negotiation on the day of the race... i.e. no one team gets advantage due to races being called off or races going ahead against the wish of some teams.

Full rules/protocol for this 35th America's Cup can be found here...

http://ac.mueva.eu/media/files/m187_protocol-for-ac35.pdf

32. WIND LIMITS
Unless the Regatta Director considers conditions too rough in any case, all
races for all Events shall be started when the approximate average
true wind speed is between five (5) and twenty-five (25) knots measured
as a rolling (box car) average of one hertz samples over 60 seconds using
a Gill Windsonic on the race committee signal boat at ten (10) meters
above the water.
 
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