Such good analysis - - Thank you! Hope to see your breakdown of how Giles Scott sailed the last leg plus a bit of the medal race! The broadcast cameras were all watching the race winner, while GS moved from 7th? to 5th?... and we never saw how.
Hi Mozzy, congratulations on the fantastic sailing results at the current Olympics. Italy defended itself in the mixed Nakra 17 class. I am pleased to see you again, as usual, I listen very carefully to your competent judgments on the regattas. Good, keep going this way'
As always insightful and interesting commentary. I'm still extremely green on windward leward tactics so this stuff is of particular interest to me. Thanks Mozzy.
I only caught the medal race so thanks for another great insight / analysis of the defining race I didn't see. And gathering all that data, then analysing it, then producing great video content...just a big thank you! I know it light sound silly...cos it does to me when I see other I'm sailing showing off ti**ies youtube videos promoting this.... but in your case I would definitely contribute to a patreon if that helped.
Great analysis as always, the go to channel for those with some, but limited understanding. Love to see the analysis on the key races start (-1min) to finish, if one could get the footage? It would really help explain race strategy for fleet racing.
Percentage game in fleet racing. Guess you can't win them all. Keep the boys humble and hungry :-) Congrats to Dylan and Stuart!! And GIles, of course.
GBR completely rang the bell on the layline (Hooray..!) They had to, to try to get the advantage over NZL. But GER had a different agenda for the race. Tactically, I suggest that GER was playing it sensibly - avoiding the layline and getting back to the middle of the course. The GER team lost a handful of yards to GBR, and probably consolidated the rest of the fleet (8 boats) as a result..... of course, they sacrificed the win for the second place.... but a second in the medal race was probably the right thing to do for them at the time.
How about doing a video about the GBR penalty at the windward gate from JPN coming in on port in the final SailGP race in Denmark. Not sure of the rule that was infringed. Thx.
Does anyone think that the NZ’ers were a bit rusty on fleet racing? Their first two races created a huge deficit to overcome. I think that is where they list the gold. However, GBR outsailed everyone. Well done guys!
Their first race was their discard which wasn't great! The second race was a third though. In Rio their average first mark rounding was 5.8. Their average finish was 3.3. So overtaking more than 2.5 boat per race, which is incredible, but crucially at these Tokyo games their first beats just weren't up to scratch, rounding the windward on average lower than 8th.
@@MozzySails perhaps that was g to he point. Great sailors starting poorly would create the opportunity for passing lots of boats, while starting brilliantly limits the number of boats available to pass. Hence, the idea they were rusty at fleet starts given Am Cup and SailGP are very different starting strategies.
It wasn't that dominant position that the Germans had. With a small lead you are very susceptible to being rolled in the gybe (as happened between GBR and GER in rave 6). So instead elected to gybe out early hoping GBR wouldn't gybe on them and instead go to layline, which is exactly what happened. I think GER larger mistake was not heating up earlier as they came in to finish. The big benefit of gybeing out early is that you get to come t the finish on starboard. But they came in to late and GBR only had to gybe on the line. If GER had gybed back to starboard earlier, or heated up a bit earlier they could have force the GBR boat to gybe well before the line and possibly sail them past the layline.
@@MozzySails golden rule of short course sailing, sail the longest tack/gybe first, they broke that. Sorry but they were is a super comfortable position. I can’t imagine the British or Kiwis gybing out of that position if they were leading can you? Not taking anything away from the British win BTW, it was just so frustrating to watch. If I had any hair left I would’ve torn it out. Thanks for your America’s Cup analysis too, really enjoyed it👍
Port was actually the long gybe, GBR did 2:04 on starboard and 2:54 on port. GER had done 1 minute on starboard when they gybed, so port was very much the long gybe at that moment. GBR were 4 boat lengths behind, so well within range to roll over the top after a simo gybe had GER gone all the way to the layline. So, in my opinion, it wasn't a bad option to gybe out, the only negative being extra gybes are costly in light winds. The GER mistake, for me, was not really effectively using their starboard advantage later on the run. If they had gybed back to starboard slightly earlier they would have met GBR before the finish and forced GBR to gybe back to starboard (and then held them past the layline) or forced GBR to duck their transom. Like I said in my analysis, this wasn't the first time GER had lost positions during a race, maybe their strength is starting and upwind and downwind and closing out races is a weakness?
@@MozzySails I think that they could watch not GBR but further boats up in the wind, far behind them. If there is a change (a pressure or a shift), you would notice it among these boats first. Ie. you still have some time to react in advance. Otherwise I would expect them "to cover", ie. to be in the same wind as the 2nd boat. It does not give a sense to risk just to be first not 50 meters but 100m. Perhaps they did not trust themself just on the clear downwind boat by boat speed competition. It can be, that the technique of one boat is slightly faster. If this is the case then they would be in the trouble, too.
