12mR World Championship at Yacht Club de Porquerolles Day 4
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- The sun has returned to the harbour in Hyères, which has regained its summer colours in shades of blue on this first day of summer. As for the wind, the Mistral has invaded the playground of the fourteen 12mR boats for the fourth day of the World Championship.
The best era of Americas Cup ✌️
The 12m and the following IACC (in my opinion). After that it got horrible.
@@robertharris7027 The IACC were interesting. But you have to admit that the current America's cup boats are terrific.
They are an achievement of physics and will help boat design for the next decades.
The 12m JI were just about who had the deepest pockets. The IACC were about who had the best lawyers (and most money) to be able to twist the rules and laws.
Currently the sport is far more sportsmanlike. Much younger talent that haven't yet learned how to double cross each other and stab each other in the back yet... LOL.
Did you know that the 1st AC rules were that the contender had to SAIL his boat to the venue !
i.e.: The British (and any others) had to build a yacht that was capable of affronting the Atlantic ocean's storms and sail to the USA BEFORE entering the race..... No bloody wonder the USA kept the cup for so long. Their boats were built as lightweight racers, not ocean going yachts.
@@robertharris7027 I must say I enjoyed the cats as they had sails for light winds aswell. Todays boats or races are super boring. They fly between two bouys and its hard to tell whats upwind or downwind.
Awesome
These yachts are so slow !!! I used to crew on them and think I was the dog's balls.
Extremely heavy and cumbersome.
Used to own and campaign a 6mJI also.
Those are for people who don't know what to do with their money and like wearing expensive clothes and watches sipping champagne at "the clubhouse" ... LOL.
A waste of time and money.
@@Team33Team33 Interesting perspective. I used to sail on the old Twelves; I think they're gorgeous and powerful and the essence and epitome of sailing. Today's Cup boats are -- ? Idiotic, barely sailboats at all inasmuch as this technology is not sailable by your ordinary Joe, and a total disconnect from the sailing public. I don't particularly want to watch "sailors" who have to wear Kevlar helmets and body armor and talk to each other through headsets. And go by at 40 knots. Sailing was never about ultimate speed; that's for wing suits. It's just unwatchable.
Fleet racing lead-bellied money gobblers. Good times