AC34, Louis Vuitton Cup Semifinal: Artemis vs Luna Rossa Match #3 Replay
Best race overall for Artemis with only 1 min behind and foiling gybes but Luna Rossa had their own best too. Not a single error for the Italians that even won the start for the first time on Draper’s aggressive move.
Hurts the soul how close Artemis crew was to get things sorted out on their hybrid last minute creation after all they’ve been through.
If AR owner Torbjörn Törnqvist, wants to keep campaigning for the future Americas Cup, he’d better take good care of the entire remaining Artemis Team, what they have achieved and in this tremendous special context is beyond belief.
Meanwhile Oracle withdraws from past AC45s events and the Kiwis are not happy at all. This is not good news for OR, more after the intention of forcing new rules by Regatta Director.
Today at 1:15pm Race 4 of this LV Semi Final. Race 3 Highlights here, replay below.
More wind and a ‘Miracle’ will get Artemis a new chance to continue their incredible improvement.
Never say Never….
The Artemis sailing team has surely done a remarkable job. While their design team …………. dudes what the peep where you thinking ???? and I´m not only referring to the foiling stuff…. I'm thinking about the centre pod for cranking (if I remember right) . Im thinking the tornado joke, the first wing, the lack of appendages for reducing windage, the accident we don´t really want to talk about nor remember.
The team also has a remarkable owner, make sure you thank him as few people have this kind of patience with mistakes as this.
Don´t understand the benefit of putting weights to the kingpost (maybe someone can inform me), unless the boats needed more weights to measure in, then of-course its not good . Also has it been done during racing or later for the foiling tests etc ??? Other than that having Kiwis shouting foul seams to be biz as normal.
All the best,
As I understand, more weight up front improves upwind performance (pointing) in AC45. Even a very small advantage adds up over time of a race series. I do not believe this could be an an accident and it is a serious issue. I would like to believe Coutts and Spithill didn't know about it, but I don't see how that is possible. The worst outcome would be if they pin this on some hand that did the actual fabrication work. No one would risk being fired and acting rogue to modify a boat without the knowledge of the skipper. I don't buy it and I thought Lance was clean, so I am wanting to give the benifit of the doubt by nature. In this case, it seems impossible and that is a shame!