Why arm power and no pedals this time?

[michael_w]

Why no ICE powered hydraulic pump? Much lighter than all those blokes cranking away.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Continually grinding to supply power seems weird to me. If they need the power give them batteries or just ban it..

We might get a tech trickle down if they could have a weight limited battery bank.

Weight limited battery banks are established technolog and the costs would be lost in the noise of the solicitors' fees. What we need are cost limited battery banks, and racing is unlikely to develop these.

 

[LittleSister]

If only they had a way of harnessing the power of the wind. Oh, hang on . . .

 

[Pete7]

I am rather taken with the sailing. Overlaps, safe leewards, luffing, covering- it all seems to be there.

You play chess and bridge no doubt

My take on it is the public, particularly women, want to see big muscled blokes working hard, just like Rugby.

 

[Kukri]

You play chess and bridge no doubt

My take on it is the public, particularly women, want to see big muscled blokes working hard, just like Rugby.

Did you notice that the crew make the Olympic Gold Medal winners in the Finn class look small!

 

[Wansworth]

Surely they could be sailed by three men/women using power supplied by a motor of fixed capacity supplying power to whatever type of power requires,hydraulic or electric

 

[Kukri]

Surely they could be sailed by two men/women using power supplied by a motor of fixed capacity supplying power to whatever type of power requires,hydraulic or electric

I think perhaps they could be sailed by two people with powered winches and a battery of computers and sensors, but I don’t think they could be raced that way. There are two headsail trimmers, a mainsail trimmer, a flight controller and so on. Most of us can sail our boats with two people but we can’t race them with two.

 

[ltcom]

Changed my mind. Enjoying the racing. Come on GB. That Italian machine does look very sleek.