Does these statements by Oracle's JK bother anybody?

"What particularly impresses you?

JK: Their jibing and their tacking. As you’ve seen, you can gain hundreds of meters in one jibe. They're very consistent out there. Probably we still have a ways to go to catch up to them in that.



Do you really think so?

JK: Yeah, I think so. In some conditions our consistency isn’t quite as good as theirs at the moment. They’ve had the same group of sailors for a long time. We have a big group here. Just recently we’ve gone with more of a racing team and a back-up team, splitting that onto the two boats, so we’re still learning each day when we’re out together. That’s a little bit of a factor. I’m not saying we can’t get there, we still have up to seven more sailing days. Hopefully, we’ll do a few two-boat days also."

With only 7 more sailing days to go, they are still trying to work on their consistency? Meanwhile, ETNZ is working on foiling upwind and down, they perfected their consistency a long time ago!


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