[Leica] America's Cup - BORING

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

Most Yacht races have some collisions, but not so much on mericascup.

Nice thing about NASCAR, if there is a wreck, and you are napping, they
will play it ten times, so you get to see it.


On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Do they at least have wrecks, like NASCAR?
>
> Ken
>
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>  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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