I'm hoping BOTH teams are sandbagging a little, and we'll see the "gloves come off" in a week.

Once ENTZ found out they could run rings around the other challengers, I suspect they backed off the bleeding edge:
(1) to preserve the boat,
(2) to focus on boathandling and transitions
(3) to keep a little in reserve in case OTUSA is hiding something

If ENTZ and LR (or Artemis) were closer in performance, I'd think there might have been more aggressive pre-start jockeying and boat-boat tactics.

What's a shame (besides the fact I'm not a billionaire) is that ENTZ can't take the ITA and SWE boats/teams and practice with them a few more days before the finals... I guess they'll just be left with 2-boat sailing.

What would be even cooler (if the boats were closer matched) would be to see some sort of fleet-race when this is done. Of course, that may be the ultimate death-match with boats all over the course and closing speeds approaching 90 mph...


Jay