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Subject: [Leica] America's Cup - BORING
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 18:36:58 -0500
References: <00ea01ceacde$0d1b1940$27514bc0$@cox.net> <NnAa1m00T0AFV7C01nAbUn>

Probably no fireballs, though - I'll probably pass.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Sonny
Carter
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:10 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] America's Cup - BORING

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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> 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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Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA

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