Rich white folks....at it again

Ima have to go all Shervin on my C22 and stick some foils on that Beyotch.
Whadda think some fools, in weld and 2 or 3 layers of duct tape oughtaa do, right?

 

2 part epoxy. Duct tape optional.

Cheers,

dave

 

What's old is new again.

http://cupexperience.com/blog/2017/03/1950s-foiling-sailboat-monitor/

 

Just saw they are using a dainese life jacket on the boats. Cool.

 

The Ocean Race channel has been posting prior event movies since the shutdown started. New vid in the youtube thread.

 

Anyone checking out the vendee globe? Alex Thomson on the hugo boss boat..foiling solo round the world race..I think they left on Monday.. 6 women competing this year.. the start was beautifully shot with stunning footage of the boats leaving in patchy fog and sun. This is the race people questioned foiling the southern ocean.. Dee Caffari commentating.

 

Alex Thomson and hugo boss are officially out.. Just saw a vid saying he's headed to cape town.

 

And escoffier sinks 500 miles off Cape of good hope. Le cam turned around to help. Found kevin in a raft from what I was told. Escoffier was in 4th and le cam in third. The foilers are dropping like flies!

 

Worked on a 67 formosa monohull in the bvis and went to trinidad for hurricane season and had the 52 beniteu to take out for fun. Great boat but since then I'm a cat guy. Worked on cats for years, sailed a lagoon 62 acroos to St. Lucia. Big down winder and you could still have a good dinner and a bottle of wine in 10 ft plus seas, A monohaul, a shit show

 

Ran into some around the worlders racing team Nassau, we towed them out. They had a stupid lead weight draft of 14ft around. told them where to point to and never touch a bank or your fucked. Foils are cool for sailing, you can push things farther than should be allowed

 

Listening to the live report this morning. Le cam foundd him at night with his strobe going. And it was a pretty catastrphic structural failure. The interview with kevin he was like "meh".. sounds like he's very lucky to have been found. I hope jean le cam can win this one. Be great to see the old man beat all of the foilers.

I do wonder how much the increased speeds are playing into the problems of the leaders.

 

I'm guessing you never sailed a boat across the Atlantic in sustained 55 knot winds surfing down 20 foot swells hitting up to 28 knots. And dragging a tire behind you so you don't pitchpole and drown.

 

That looks like a lot of boat!

 

holy crap! Racing starts next week!!

 

62 lagoon

 

Day 1 highlights

 

Its a classic example of people that don't appreciate the top level of all sports, a random person can watch moto gp and unless they crash, no excitement, not noticing the back tire off the ground into a blind corner saving it at the last second and repeating it the next lap on a risk of crashing every corner just to go faster. This is the moto gp of sailing with probably more money pumped up in a team than moto gp

 

How can you equate this with MotoGP? The still shot of the above vid looks like a buncha squids rippin' around in a parking lot. They should be in jail and their boat (prolly stolen) impounded.

 

I watched all of day or but I need to catch up.. In thinking team usa is going to really rise. I love the luna roads prada pirelli boat. Cheering for the Brits too but man it's looking like etnz is going to kick everyone's ass. Looks like they have the most aero boat too..I saw 47kts. They're only going to get faster..

Fwiw, these are very preliminary races.. Kind of qualifying for the playoffs.

I think they said prada lost thier starting software. Then they did a huge digger. I bet they wash a few guys off before the end of the cup.