Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The winner of the previous AC gets to choose type of boat and location for the next AC. john -----Original Message----- when did am cup switch to that narrow hull cat design and rigid sails? ric On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > The Oracle capsize was a spectacular event, captured in this video. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNql99zT6s > It was really a pitchpoling rather than a capsize. This is relatively > rare in sailing and occurs when the bow of a very fast moving boat > catches up with a wave and digs in. The kinetic energy of the boat > flips it end for end. The Oracle catamaran must have been sailing at > at least 20 knots, light speed for a sailboat, when the bow of one > hull dug in. The skipper of the boat, Russell Coutes, is one of the > best. The boats contending for the America's Cup are hardly > traditional sailboats. Rather they are specialized racing machines > with wing sails that bear as much relationship to the boats that many of us sail in as a Formula One racer does to the family car. > Larry Z > >