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Always hard for you guys to mention the French naval architects who made the job , joubert nivelt for stars and stripes and vplp for oracle ??? not a word ???
the problem is (when you look at the results) he has moved to a bigger pool and he is just not cutting it, Slingsby, Outtridge and Spithill and Burling are handing his arse to him on a plate.
Got up in the early morning to watch the final race. Living in Coffs Harbour NSW. Took my wife for a good lunch then was told by the boss to b-off for the afternoon. So down to the yacht club. I was pretty late arriving but what an afternoon/evening.
Not a gentleman. But these things happen when people make a career from their sport, they have to win no matter what. Get yourself a decent profession and stay amateur, you‘ll have much nicer weekends with your comrades.
The first America's Cup was presented in 1851, attended by Queen Victoria.... it was won by a yacht named AMERICA. Would it be fair to run the New Zealand boat against that one? Not even. The squacking smacks of hurt feelings. If you want to win either get the rules changed or build a faster boat. Bunch of rich guys fighting over who has the bigger d**k....
The 3 times New Zealand have caused permanent damage to America's Cup: 1. Faye's stupid ambush stunt in 1987 2. Removing nationality requirements, allowing a landlocked country to win the AC 3. Changing the formula to the foiling monohulls, which are both hideously ugly and always result in terrible racing NZ is by far the worst thing to ever happen to the cup.
Ainsley is overrated. He exhibits terrible sportsmanship and arrogance when beaten fairly and squarely. As head of Ineos competing for the Americas cup the Brit’s have been off the pace for over a decade. And then has the gall to say the kiwi sailer Burling is arrogant. Someone who has won the Americas cup twice.
I went to school with a guy called Sean. His Father had salvaged one of the Ragamuffins that got wrecked on a reef near Fiji (I think). That boat was my first experience of sailing out of the heads of Sydney Harbour. Epic memories.
When Australia took the cup off the Americans that was it . After that it became a real shit fight and it would never be the same again in all its glory. To see all these old fellows from the New York Yacht Club in tears as the cup was thrown around by Bondi and the crew was precious and it would never be the same again.
I was in San Diego for this Cup. The Kiwis had their lawyers pour over the original Deed of Gift for the America's Cup to find where the boats were limited to 12 meter-class boats, and couldn't find anything stating that. The only stipulation was that the boats couldn't be more than 90 feet (27 meters) at the waterline. They also couldn't find anything that prohibited issuing a challenge every year. Their 90 foot challenger they were planning to use would allow a much taller mast than a 12 meter-class could mount, and therefore the sails could be much larger - catching a lot more wind to move the boat. Team Stars and Stripes - figuring turn-about was fair play - noted that the Deed of Gift ALSO didn't specify the boats had to be a single hull. Their resulting design was a catamaran with no more than 45 feet of waterline per hull. The Kiwis cried "FOUL!" because everyone knew a catamaran would slice through the water faster than a mono-hull could.
I remember this day well. My family all got up early to watch the race. I was told by my sister that we were losing. Then a bit later I heard them in the living room getting that bit louder and being very tense. And then there was this almighty yelling and screaming and we'd won. I got up after that. Still had to go to bloody school that day though. Yeah you had to give the Americans and Dennis Connor their dues though, got very close in a boat that was almost there. To be honest I think it was the crew training the Australians had under their belt by that time that was at least 50% of the win. The Americans were a very good crew, and so were the Australians.
I em9igrated to Australia from UK in 1981 and when the race was won, I felt like I was an Australian.....oh what a feeling........it's now 40 years since the race but I still call Australia home.
The simple fact is that for decades everyone understood what the rules were and how the cup was being contested. It was fair and it worked. Fay choose to be a jerk and start playing games designing and building a new radical unheard of boat and then dropping a short notice challenge on San Diego knowing full well that because of the timing he had a massive advantage. The US side forced to meet this challenge simply built a better more radical boat which, as was determined later, legal under the deed. Fay’s ego cost everyone involved untold millions of dollars and was in the end a waste of everyone’s time and seriously detrimental to the health of America’s cup racing. That waste of time and money and damage done to the Sport is his real legacy.
I find it funny how many people in the comments hating sail lasers? Even just club racing? Cause if you’re in a club where the sailors are good and competitive then you know that the rules are more important than your emotions.
Keep 'em focused on a keel they can barely see, so they don't notice the state-of-the-art sails! That was the key that doesn't get mentioned in docos like this.... The design and mix of lightweight fabrics in those sails was revolutionary and won us the cup! After all, most racing yachts these days DON'T use a winged keel...... :)
@16:50 "The average American...really wanted Australia to win, they didn't fit into the mold of the NY Yacht Club." Tom Paxton's "The Day We Lost the America's Cup" (you can easily find it here on YT) from 1985 is a good reflection of this sentiment: Yeah, who are the souls who lost the cup And had to let go The New York Yacht Club did you say Please tell me it ain’t so So the New York Yacht Club blew the tin And the flag at half-mast waves Jack, please excuse my lack of tears But some of them cats owned slaves They got houses big as Rhode Island They got blood as blue as the sky And I hope they wore their Sunday best To kiss the cup goodbye
It's never been the same for me since the 12m. Cats and the winged boats are not most who sail can relate to. I miss the days when you could tell when a team was ready to tack because those on the rail would flick their cigarette butts away all at the same time, LOL.
Maybe I`ve got that wrong, but doesn`t the race usually takes place in the country of the defender? Wouldn`t that be in Australia? Why now in Barcelona? That made sense when Allinghy was the defender once, since there are no huge lakes in Switzerland (except for the Bodensee. That would have been big enough, but the winds there are not really reliable for such an event). What have I got wrong?🤔
When showing the damage at Southwestern yacht club, that's my father's Grand Banks 32 next to the broken concrete dock. Now im living on a Leopard 48 Cat in keywest
