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Subject: [Leica] America's Cup - BORING
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 16:54:53 -0500
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Do they at least have wrecks, like NASCAR?

Ken

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From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
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lrzeitlin at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 12:19 PM
To: lug at leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] America's Cup - BORING

 To a real sailor the America's Cup race is a joke. It is a contest between
multibillionaires, using thoroughly impractical boats, and hired crews
racing around a very limited course. True, the boats are fast. Up to 40
knots in the right wind conditions. But that's slower than the speed of a
bicycle racer. Perhaps it is faster than watching grass grow, but not much.
The boats fly across the water on hydrofoils. They are so delicate that
races are cancelled when the wind is over 20 knots. Wing foils the height of
a 13 story building cannot be reefed and, of course, will not pass under
most bridges. Naval architects claim that the adaption of America's Cup
technology to commercial waterborne transport is almost impossible.
Commercial ships actually have to carry cargo not just a passel of hired
crank turners. Besides the races are BORING. Watch one and see.
Larry Z


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