Like it or not a very large percentage of the players and commentators still can't stand multihulls, they're just whoring themselves out to make a buck. Jobson and S.A.'s media darling,Genny Tulloch( yeah, she's cute,that's about it) are 2 great examples. I'd venture to guess many of the sailors feel that way also, but you'll never get anyone to admit it until the AC goes back to pig boats, then you'll hear it in truckloads.
I really never liked those multihulls, I'm glad we're back in slow ,easy to sail , mono slugs. that cat stuff was too hard.
Well we may as well have fun with a favorite ACWS bloopers string...they did offer a lot of stupid comment humor.
.....At the windward mark, the boat in the lead is rounding while flying a wing, priceless.
TG
.....At the windward mark, the boat in the lead is rounding while flying a wing, priceless.
TG
Gary, called the gennaker/code zero , the jib multiple times.
Spithill's pitchpole (eehhhh Jake?) befuddled them with GJ saying
he had the wing eased
, but in the replays you see the wing go out long after the rudders left the water.
My favorite was no coverage or explanation, ever, of how Spithill gained all that ground with a penalty in Sat. last fleet race and finished second.
Brilliant!!!
Can someone with video editng skills piece together a 2-5 minute string of those gems? I will use it to kick off the Multihull Council meeting in San Fran (as the opening segment in a web-based meeting).
No budget to pay you, but free advertising and pride are available...
Mike
Can someone with video editng skills piece together a 2-5 minute string of those gems? I will use it to kick off the Multihull Council meeting in San Fran (as the opening segment in a web-based meeting).
No budget to pay you, but free advertising and pride are available...
Mike
I'd do it for free in a second ,but don't have the vid. skills.
The pics I assume you're talking about, Mr brucat. Slide show is in process. I'll get it to you.
Unconfirmed Rumor: Sheet around neck of a crew member at mark rounding. Sheet cut by other crew member, who also cuts his finger. Ensuing capsize due to crew off station. Researching now. Has anyone seen this info published anywhere yet?
No Jeremy, not pics. A video blooper reel featuring as many of the moronic and irritating comments as we can find over the series of the events.
Everything else has been done already.
Mike
No Jeremy, not pics. A video blooper reel featuring as many of the moronic and irritating comments as we can find over the series of the events.
Everything else has been done already.
Mike
Unconfirmed Rumor: Sheet around neck of a crew member at mark rounding. Sheet cut by other crew member, who also cuts his finger. Ensuing capsize due to crew off station. Researching now. Has anyone seen this info published anywhere yet?
I read that Cheese was the one who had to be sliced cut free.
As the wing trimmer he would have the highest risk of getting tangled up.
http://www.sfgate.com/sports/articl...
Jono Macbeth
gashed
his finger.
How 'bout that last fleet race Sunday where Spithill starts DFL and wins!
How 'bout that last fleet race Sunday where Spithill starts DFL and wins!
Kostecki kicks butt...enough said.
Our genius (Todd Harris) is quoted:
regarding Ben Ainsley . . .
He's got a nice grip. . . ah . . . there on the tiller . . . holding on to it!
BRILLIANT
or . . .
But look at his face. He doesn't like where he is
When Harris was interviewing Coutts, Coutts says
you have to read the wind
Harris replies
isn't the wind invisible?
you have to read the wind
Harris replies
isn't the wind invisible?
Surely you jest.
holy crap...
How many times did you hear Gary Johnson saying the lead boat's strategy should be to cover the 2nd place boat only to have the two split for opposite sides of the course at the mark rounding.
I've always seen covering as a boring mono-slug strategy.
Mitch Booth said it right, you start worrying about the boat behind you, you'll lose every time.
TG
you have to read the wind
Harris replies
isn't the wind invisible?
Surely you jest.
Oh yeah, he said it.
You mean it's not invisible? That explains where I've been going wrong all these years...
Mike
see the wind....
feel the wind....
BE the wind....
Dale Earnhardt Sr. could apparently see the wind.