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2013-03-15 20:52:13 - America's Cup AC72
Video: Sailing With 17

Sailing around while Oracle AC72 boat '17' practices for upcoming America's Cup on San Francisco Bay — with Cindy Moongirl Morris.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IratRZ5YXgU&feature=youtu.be
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2013-07-12 14:45:17 - Re: America's Cup AC72
Someone posted this on another forum. Polars for an AC72! Lets race these!
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2013-07-13 16:33:26 - Re: America's Cup AC72
A ton of data is going up at http://noticeboard.americascup.com/

They sail in such a limited range of conditions though...
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2013-07-15 12:03:45 - Re: America's Cup AC72
rrrrrrrrrrrricos... BRILLIANT footage... just the best.

FYI the audio on the first YouTube has been muted due to copyright (but at least the vid itself hasn't been pulled)!

Would be fun to play AC Racing on SOL... we could run a sort-of regatta perhaps over the space of a few hours? Folks would need to commit to participating but.. is deffo doable!

SOL races are made up of several elements - to ensure optimal sailing conditions, someone would have to dictate to me the precise spot on earth and the exact coords (Decimal degrees) for me to get it set up on-the-run ... but the world IS our oyster so this shouldn't be too difficult. Just need someone to take this on as a project :-D

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2013-09-26 22:46:12 - Re: America's Cup AC72
These links were posted by Schakel today in chat in the Tall Ships Med race:

AC stats index

ACstats index 2

AC polar plots
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2013-09-27 00:29:30 - Re: America's Cup AC72
It will be fascinating to see a SOL version of the America's Cup-----when our wind drops down to our usual (unfortunately) 4-5 Knots.
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
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2013-09-27 00:46:20 - Re: America's Cup AC72
"Nevah.....In the course of human history -- Has so much data---flowed to so many ---From so few boats-----"
...... to quote somebody who said something the same...once........
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
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2013-09-27 03:11:50 - Re: America's Cup AC72
I would love to see the same polars for races 18-19. OTUSA was getting faster and faster upwind. The best line from the audio feed was by Tom Slingsby to Spithill and crew, "Don't be afraid to go fast here".

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