Banque Populaire 9 First Flight footage by Manu Duclos / Easy Ride
Seeing the efforts of TNZ to serve the Monohull flying fantasy, and comparing what the French designers, builders & sailors are doing puts the new Americas Cup design efforts to a second level or performance, like a B Class. AC50s were top notch along these foiling Tris. TNZ/Prada concept hard to accept, better go with current IMOCA 60s Foilers solutions.
Great shots on this video sent & filmed by Manu Duclos / Easy Ride Videos www.easyridevideos.com . Previous post on BP IX maiden flight here . Specs & foil images here.
Offiical BP Site www.voile.banquepopulaire.fr/
Scotti used his Nikita
Teo di Battista , 3° of Classic using Exploder Ad3 2016 version instead Scheurer .
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
...Report was sent by an F18 Sailor, if you want Hobies reported send your own, we'll publish as usual. Cheers.
Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.