AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed

are they going to dangle all over the side like the AC45's or is hiking not allowed on the big boats?

Saaweeeeet!

thanks for all the updates Philip

I find it interesting that their daggerboards are so far forward...I presume this enhances straight line speed at the expense of tacking speed. If so, I suppose they're not planning on any tacking duels.

The got a nice hole in the stern yesterday when a chase boat got in the wrong place. A nice piece of tape and they kept sailing.

Looks like Jimmy is not the only member of the

stuff an AC72

club, although he gets the trophy.
0:29 in video.

These machines are awesome.

This Dean Barker interview is the second in the series of four. We've already seen team boss Grant Dalton. . . . to be followed up with Kevin Shoebridge (shore boss and COO on the logistics of the AC72 campaign) and Technical Director, Nick Holroyd. Enjoy.

They're that far forward to allow the boat to balance fore & aft when up on the foil. It's not directly under the CG due to the dynamic forces on the wing.

check out the lights on the trailing edge of the new main beam, which is (intended to reduce racking).

Play this back in full 1080P HD. Nice for the first day back. Plus a little foiling action at 2:51

Great way to spend a summer in SF.

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. . . and up wind.

The shot of the boards when it's sailing vs. being hauled ,look like different foils. When hauled and dropped it appears to have a knuckle and the L goes well past 90 degrees, but the shots of it sailing look like a regular 90 degree L foil.

I'm pretty sure they had two different foils in the boat. The starboard board was straight and had the inverted V-wing with the knuckle at the joint. The port board appeared to have a soft curve to the length of it and had a curved radius shaping smoothly into the horizontal foil with no knuckle.

Here is the Kevin Shoebridge interview in the series.

and here is the (last in the series) interview with Nick Holroyd, Technical Director.

Jimmy on the moth.

Some nice eye candy here.

It looks like the hulls will gradually diminish until all that is left is a rail to attach the foils to.

I think it has been mentioned here before, but I can't find it; what is that center structure for, that is in the middle of the boat, below the tramp?

Is it some type of structural support or an aerodynamic end plate for the wing?

Or is it where they put the mechanical systems/gearing, etc. for trimming the wing...or...??

beer cooler

I read somewhere that it contains hydraulic equipment and doubles as an extension of the wing although I wonder just how much it helps.

and the hookers

So how the F are they controlling the attitude of this beasty?

Sometimes it looks like she's running bow up, others nose down. It certainly isn't crew weight doing that much. Angle of attack on the boards? or are they pumping water around to get things done?

I don't know about water ballast - but I know they can control the fore/aft angles of the daggerboard trunks. They're aren't allowed to have movable foils/flaps that articulate under the water.

Well, clearly less racking then before. I'm wondering if this might be a good thing. Very exciting to watch.

Seems like yesterday. It's been 3 years.

Hum. There's a lot of foiling going on without the geneker.