The stream just stopped here also, it was scheduled between 7:00 till 12:45.
If I had more time I would set up a proxy server at our datacenter for you guys.
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(dont think that would be legal, so it would probably not be a good idea. Copying between friends on the other hand is usually legal in many countries)
looked like a good day for the code 0. I just saw one shot of the US team dead in the water upwind without it.
Where can I get one of those Stars, thats where its at.
~YYYAAAWWNNN~...thanks to a touch of insomnia last night, I got to see some stars bounce around in the chop.
Yes, for those not getting the feed...you're not missing much really. The coverage was the Star race...100% of the time. Occassionally you could catch a glimpse of the Tornado or two slicing throug the fleet. I had the rounding & results web page on screen beside the viddy to try to follow the actual T boat race. Without that, it would have been not worht looking at the Stars bobbing about.
Here's the link (but right now theres no data coming up for some reason):
Probably the cameras can't keep up with the speed of the Tornados... thats why they follow the slower Stars. Maybe, kinda, sorta!
C
Glancing through the replay video on NBCs webpage it is pretty neat to see the Tornado's speed compared to the Stars. Downwind the Star's crew stands facing backward on the foredeck. The Tornado crew were on the leeward side but the speed difference was large. Seemed as though the Tornado had to use the Stars and obstacles. I thought I saw a spinnaker going to weather but cannot be sure. As the wind builds they obviously cannot use it but I thought that in the early part of the race there was one...hope against hope, maybe.
If you are a Star sailor you should video the race. There were some nice close shots of crew work. I hope that they choose the Tornado for at least one race coverage with the same detail, it will be good to have for training video with some editing.
Later,
Dan
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According to Gary Jobson, the Sopwith Camel helped win the Battle of Britain.
I think that shows a basic lack of understanding between the Cat world and the leaners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoopy
Just tried watching them. SUCKS if you don' have cable or Dish, feed won't come to your computer. LOL OH WELL!!!!
Doug
Only T coverage today seems to be the mark Roundings ...as of the 4 mark, USA is 13th, again in 7-8 kts of wind. CAN went from 10th to 5th on the 4th leg.
Mike.
Has anyone heard why USA did not seem to be running the Chupa yesterday?
Must be VERY shifty.... Some big positional changes over the course of each leg.
GBR loses 4.50 min on last upwind. From 1st to 8th
Posted on SA's front page:
Team USA's Toronado sailors Charlie Ogiltree and John Lovell describe their first race. They crossed the entire fleet and then...
We blasted out of the blocks today in the first Tornado race at the Summer Olympics. From there, weather and circumstances conspired to flush us to the back of the pack. We crossed the finish line 14th out of the 15 boats competing but at least we can say we’ve got over our opening night jitters.
After a lack of breeze forced cancellation of our practice race yesterday, we were looking forward to two races today on Course A, in front of the TV cameras and the spectators arranged along the massive breakwater that protects the yacht harbor and Olympic venue. With a 1:00 pm start we left the dock at noon for the short sail to the course. Out on the water the skies were dismal and the breeze very light and fluky. At 1:10 pm the committee signalled a postponement and sent us back to the harbor where we waited ashore until the weather brightened at 3:30 and we were called back out.
Our only race of the day finally started just before 4:30 pm in a puffy, shifty northeaster that was coming off the shore. The race committee had the breeze at nine knots but just before the start it got very light and we had an opportunity to hoist our Chupacabra Code 0 gennaker that’s designed to power us upwind in the light stuff. We made a great start at the pin end, hitting the line on full afterburner with both of us on the trapeze at times, and tacked across the whole fleet and then tacked back again to cover. Everything was working great until about three-quarters of the way to the top mark when the breeze ramped up and was way too strong for our light air sail. We struggled to get it down but were still able to get squared away and around the weather mark in fourth place.
Our first run of the six-lap course was only average and we dropped five places to start the second weather leg in 9th place. On the next beat we sailed into a really big hole and went the wrong way to lose another place before the weather mark. Two boats got past us on the second run and two more on the final run to leave us 14th.
These weren’t the conditions we expected. We only got an opportunity to gain the benefits from our Chupacabra during the first beat. Of course it’s also our downwind sail and smaller than standard spinnakers but we didn’t trade off much there. We just sailed a really poor race, unfortunately. On the other hand it was pretty encouraging to see several boats who are obvious medal contenders finishing right in front of us at the tail end of the fleet.
The forecast for tomorrow is for a light sea breeze, which is what we’ve been planning for. The schedule has been amended to feature three races, starting at noon.
08/15/08
Hagara from 3rd to 12th on last upwind losing nearly 6 min
ARG from 4th (1.22 down) to finish 1st by nearly 2 min.
GBR looses 8.37 min in one lap
Would have to be very frustrating out there
1st race is over.
ARG 1st, FRA 2nd, CAN 3rd!
USA was in 11th on the last lap...but ended up 12th. Must have been another crap shoot out there, big shifts and velocity changes. GBR was in 1st for 4 marks, then ended up 8th at the line.
Mike.
We're all in the same boat coverage wise tonight!
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As you all may already know mark roundings almost live.
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Cheers Ben
Gotta feel for Leigh and Will, 1st to 8th in one leg shows it’s a lottery.
Wow breaking news from Qingdao. It seems in Race 3 PU changed the course. But he did it after the first 2 boats had rounded the mark. Then they pulled the mark and 3rd onwards went around a different mark.
That doesn't sound like a PU move.
No, but it sounds like a bone-head mark boat move.
I wonder what
Boogie! Boogie!
means in Mandarin? (and vice-versa)
Was this at the last upwind mark. ARG is protesting with AUS as witness. ESP sailed around AUS, ARG and ITA on the last downwind.
Last top mark - AUS first, followed by ARG, ITA then ESP.
Finish - ESP, ARG, AUS, ITA
Good for PU he has put in a request for redress for the ARG guys. Shows that when he makes a mistake he is big enough to stand up.
Redress granted to ARG. ARG to be given equal points to 1st place. All other scores to remain the same, no boat to be scored in 2nd place.
ARG and ESP now have 2 bullets each, putting them both in the box seat when a drop come into play.
Since the three requests for redress concerned the same incident, Protest 50, 51, and 52 were heard together. In Race 3, the Race Committee shortened the second windward leg at the end of the first run from 0.9 to 0.7 NM and changed the heading from 120 tot 130 degrees. A course change was signaled at the bottom mark showing 130 degrees and a minus sign. ARG was leading the race and on the layline to the original mark 1 40-50 m ahead of ESP, with ESP slightly to leeward, when the new windward mark was dropped 0.2 NM lower than, and 10 degrees to the right of, Mark 1. AUS was 300 m behind ARG. AUS was slightly above the layline to the new mark. AUS passed the new mark 1 first followed by ESP and ARG, who were both flying spinnakers. ESP finished 1st, ARG 2nd and AUS 3rd. CAN lost one place on the 2nd upwind leg. GER was in 12th position around every mark.
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I think PU might have had a little private chat with his weather mark team this evening.
Game on, today is going to be a fresh one. Shame they will not have cameras out on the course as the Big T's come alive.
It is going to be wind today? So far Quingdao have been all it was expected to be..
Yep: http:/