ACWS San Fran PART TWO

It's a tiny view but you can watch from the web cam from the St. Francis Yacht Club. I must be the only one watching since I've had free control to point the camera anyhere I want. All of you, STAY OFF MY WEBCAM!

There's Team Korea, right out front! Cool!

St. Francsis Yacht Club webcam

Live broadcast on YouTube will begin at 4:30pm PST and include coverage of the Match Racing on tape, before switching to live coverage of the Fleet Races

David, quit hogging the webcam.

Yesterday (Wednesday) was just KILLER to watch on this cam! Silly to say but it was like I was standing on the beach in SF. The weather was foggy, the wind was blowing, the water was rough, the boats were CLOSE and the bow spray was smokin'. I grew up in Marin and spent countless hours surfing nearby at Ft. Point and drinking Colt 45 out of a paper bag. That hometown beach view was so real I could smell the Bay and taste the beer. I just MUST be there for the 72s in 2013! We should organize a Catsailor Forum beach party for the 2013 finals. First round is on me (as long as less than 100 of you show up).

I'll be doing the YouTube thing at 4:30. Thanks for posting the full video time.

David,

I believe it will be 8:30pm EST for us right-coasters...?

Am I missing something, are you not 3 hours ahead?

Great, see ya in a bit.. (if only i show up i get all 100 drinks right?)

Florida math works diffidently

Booooo! 4:30 PST means 7:30 p.m. EDT and I will be at a Little League game. I hope they rebrodcast the YouTube match racing. Fleet racing is next and broadcast live I think. No cats visable on the web cam right now (5:15 EDT).

Andrew, only you would consider drinking 100 quarts of Colt 45, each in it's own paper bag (legal way to drink on the street in SF). Hey, 99 for you, one for me, OK? But only if you go to SF in 2013 for the 72s.

I am going...
no colt for me ... <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" /> rummy please

Great coverage yesterday!

Thanks for the reminder/links

Races were great, commentators were lame.

Reminded me of the guys you get on lower level division II college football games. Calling gibes tacks and how the skip needs to run across the trapeze to get to the other side were hilarious.

Bring back Mitch Booth and the other guy from the August races.

TG

announcers may effect viewership, so it's important, but i put my big stereo on surround sound, and lower the front center (announcers) and hear the wind, the mic-ed up captain breathing hard, and screaming orders in surround sound ... and pay no attention to announcers ...

I liked Ansley cussing out the crew for gybing slow near the finish of fleet race two (Thursday). Must be used to singlehanding...

Good work by the kid on Artemis White (Thursday) with a pair of 4s in this fleet....

I am guessing neither of the announcers has ever raced a Cat nor on one.

If they keep it up they will ward off more new viewership than attract.

Good tip on shutting down my center channel, thanks for that one MN3.

TG

Where's Ashby? If NZ canned or shelved him that's a HUGE mistake. Best sailor out there.

edit: Found out he broke ribs in a capsize and flew home.

Jump to segment between 1:12:00 through 1:13:45. Terry Hutchinson and team escape a close call. Hutchinson has great presence to stay clear while keeping an eye on the mast coming down on them.(1:13:00 to 1:13:07). Great remote camera work!

The commentary sucks. It's like watching Dumb and Dumber. Every time Todd Harris sticks his foot in mouth, Jobson has to correct him. Get rid of these annoying clowns, at least Harris.

Why in the hell is Todd Harris commentating sailing??

Don't forget live coverage on NBC this afternoon.

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At least Ainslie didn't assault anyone...

No chance Jobson got through this round without reminding us that

they

say you can't match race on multihulls?

Mike

Pissing off the boat was a nice touch. Makes him seem human ,like the rest of us.
Be nice if he attacked Jobson, that'd boost some ratings.

Preferably with an axe!
Yesterday Jobson explained that catamarans had two hulls, who knew!?
I would be ok with dumb comments as long as it where correct but most of what he says isnt.

Bunch of haters, oh wait... carry on.

I liked the comment,

His strategy is to sail faster and get out in front.

Again, who knew?

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Full sequence here.

well, jeeze, even I can do THAT... <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

Terry was on the ball steering around that mess, and seemed to stay pretty calm throughout.

Jobson's refusal to call that a pitchpole drove me nuts. We've worked hard and developed this terminology over years and years of catamaran sailing. This was not a

capsize

...it was a

Pitchpole

.

The man refuses to assimilate. Can't blame him though multihull racing is just a fad.