I'll admit to being in a foul mood this morning, but what was funny or well done about that R2AK video?
Mike
Mike
First and foremost it was understated showcasing the true spirit of the event which I felt was captured well which is not something that's easy to do when you try to do it on purpose. It's also not an event for narcissistic douche bags and to call out the king of all narcissistic douche bags was humorous to me. That's why I found it well done and funny, granted I'm probably in the minority with that opinion.
Have a grumpy day.
First and foremost it was understated showcasing the true spirit of the event which I felt was captured well which is not something that's easy to do when you try to do it on purpose. It's also not an event for narcissistic douche bags and to call out the king of all narcissistic douche bags was humorous to me. That's why I found it well done and funny, granted I'm probably in the minority with that opinion.
Have a grumpy day.
+1!
Thanks Ding. Strangely, that made me laugh...
Personally, I think they should have ended with Kayak Guy.
Mike
The steak knife thing is still funny to me. paddling all the way thru the R2AK is almost unbelievable in this day and age.
On the subject of graphics, one of the hats i wear;
This is an elegant graphic in my opinion. Not only a nice swoop, but it makes an S. The first letter of their name.![[Linked Image]](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KFqPIoIjduI/Vh-1UdfA5YI/AAAAAAAAkwc/ms3Lg4GJ7SE/s1600/AC45SoftBank.jpg)
Refreshing read.
Spithill remains unimpressed. “I was really disappointed and frustrated, because this is a guy who has been incredibly loyal,” he said of Barker. “The guy doesn’t have an ego. He’s doing everything he can, and O.K., if a team wants to go a certain way, that’s fine. But I would have expected his team to send him out the right way.
“If he wants to join another team, no problem, but all the best, thanks for your commitment and what you ultimately did for your country. So that was really sad in my view.”
. . .“I tell you who brokered Dean’s situation: It was Larry, not me,” said Coutts, . . .
Live on Sunday w/ 1hr delay
What the marketing team meant to say
It ain't live you smuck, you'll get it an hour later when you already know who won
14:00 local
boats towed to course
hundreds of spectator boats
helicopter is up
Jack Point S*** for wind
boats towed to course
hundreds of spectator boats
helicopter is up
Jack Point **** for wind
We're not going to see any racing until Sunday after the racing so if you're going to narrate please start with
Spoiler Alert
. I'd like to not know the outcome before I watch.
Hmmmm....not very likely, I guess.
boats towed to course
hundreds of spectator boats
helicopter is up
Jack Point S*** for wind
Thanks. Keep 'em coming.
Light rain, light wind. Forecast is crap.
Need 6 knots to race.
Race delayed. No wind.
judge boat is an idiot and needs his butt whup
I missed it...caught the last second of the replay. What happened?
Guess someone's contract isn't getting renewed.
Is their AC45 still legal after losing all that weight?
Notice he put the code 0 back on the boat for the weight for the third race.
Haven't seen what led up/caused it, but here are some replays...
http:/
Mike
Things were a lot faster, tighter and closer than the vid shows, both were manuevering and looking for an out.
Not a small zodiac, it was very loud.
Not a small zodiac, it was very loud.
Pretty obvious that is not somewhere a non race boat should have been. I'm just glad nobody got hurt or killed. That could've been way worse. The focus and control that Nathan and team showed was incredible. Tamed the adrenaline and made it work for them.
Agreed. When I first saw the crossbar hit the console, I thought, they're lucky to be alive...
Mike
Good informative piece.
Taking a sneaky peek at Land Rover BAR and Oracle Team USA’s latest boats
Oh no!!! It's happened! The reasoning behind the inboard foils and that might not have been enough...ouch. Reports are coming in but it looks like Cammas has at least partially severed his foot when he got hit by the rudder of their training boat, a GC32. <img src="<>/eek.gif" alt="eek" title="eek" height="15" width="15" />
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How do you 'hit the rudder blade' with your foot while sailing? Did he fall overboard and get run over?
My kid did that once on my Hobie 18 on a fast reach, missed his trap hook and fell off. The rudder blade hit is thigh so hard I was sure it was broken, but it wasn't, just left a hell of a bruise (on his thigh, not the rudder!).
His mother was not impressed to say the least!
Yes, he fell overboard.
Reports state
...open fracture at the bottom of the right tibia.
OMG! I've broken a lot of bones but to be in the water and mutilated like that...OMG, unimaginable.
Major, major sympathies go out to him.
It happened on a GC32, btw.
kind of like getting hit with a propeller I would imagine... Not fun to say the least and then someone has to get him out of the water quickly before the
fun
starts (que Jaws music).
But I figure the chase boats were probably on him before he even had to signal for them...
Yeeeouch! This doesn't help our image (or does it???).
Mike