America's Cup Flying Cats

[warren460]

Will the races be broadcast on the internet like the series in 2013?

[PhiSig1071]

Originally Posted by hsi88

For as high tech as these boats are, why have grinders? Just add some pumps and batteries and be done with it. The winches themselves are all powered. What's the point? To show the need for muscle power? The Kiwis are basically bicycling. Get rid of this position already. Seems a little goofy in this day and age. To me anyway.

The AC72's had pumps and batteries IIRC. The various teams agreed that they were too big and too expensive and it limited the number of entries into the series. They agreed that they would go smaller to bring the cost down to increase competition. So they went with AC50's with grinders/cyclers to generate hydraulic pressure. This might be a bit of an oversimplification but that's my understanding.

[Cotemar]

The Kiwi's have won the America’s Cup.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/s...-team-usa.html
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[gjorgensen]

Given how little wetted surface these boats have when foiling, it's astounding how much faster the Kiwi's were overall. And by faster I mean VMG - Oracle actually had better boat speed all the way around today, but their VMG was worse, much worse off the wind. ETNZ definitely found a winning formula, and then sailed way better on top of it. Congrats to them!

[Cotemar]

This video says it all. It was some Great sailing this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC5Dknfua5U

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[hafa]

I guess this settles the "bike VS grinder" debate.

[Palarran]

That's so awesome. Congratulations to ETNZ and the Kiwi's. Totally stoked me up to get over there for the next race in 4 years. Foiling monohulls would be my guess.

[pathlesschosen]

Great sailing by the Kiwis!