I just finished reading the article in the new Sailing World about BMWO and their new 190' wing. Wow.

The part that struck me though was that they really havn't had time to "shake it down" so to speak. What is the AC Protocol if one boat breaks something major and is unable to get it fixed right away? Does the other team wait until it's fixed or does the broken team forfit the remaining races if they cannot continue "on schedule"?

That wing is huge, did they build two of them in case one breaks? And another thing, even though BMWO is built as a trimaran, to me it looks like they will be sailing it as a cat, on one hull most of the time, since the large center hull has no rudder or daggerboard. So in reality it's like a cat too, with a big center pod. I just hope it stays in one piece until the regatta is over!