Oh christ.

However shall we save ourselves from ourselves if not the media were not there to do it for us?

CORRECTION.
This will NOT be broadcast today on 60 minutes but on the series "60 Minutes Sports", this Wednesday, June 5 at 9 p.m. on SHOWTIME.
Showtime schedule here.

The Artemis Racing team, with Nathan Outteridge at the helm, has returned to practice on San Francisco Bay.

The team took to the water in its AC45 catamaran early in the afternoon on Tuesday.
"A good day to get back out on San Francisco Bay in our foiling AC45," the team tweeted.

Artemis Racing hadn't sailed in nearly a month, following a May 9th training accident in the first of its two AC72 catamarans

How wild would it have been to watch the AC45's if they foiled? That would add a whole element of coolness.

Sweet! That wing really sweeps the deck. Hard to tell but looks like Oracle rakes the wing mast more than the others.

Spithill goes MOB. Here's the video.

Never realized the course is only 3 legs. 1 upwind and 2 downwind. Few passing lanes, more of a drag race.

Roger 'Clouds' Badham talks about the course here.

Anybody know how to edit a youtube video? Mark 1:24 to 1:27 (3 seconds) would make a great GIF avatar.

Tonight's teaser.

The grinders are just running pumps for the hydraulics? So are they just watching a gauge waiting for the pressure to drop off, then pump it back up?

First, read this.

Bundy's quote:
Everyone is grinding, the boat is so physical and because everything is happening so fast as well, everyone just clicks in and grinds it in. Nobody is really just dedicated to one role. All the grinders can switch into everyone's winch so they can switch back and forth. So for a hoist or something they can all just click in and grind. Source and good read!

Artemis' Cayard:
“We have 38 hydraulic cylinders. We want to avoid running hydraulic piping to each of them, because that would be heavy, so we have electrovalves embedded in the wing to actuate the hydraulics. But if you had two wires, positive and negative, running to each electrovalve, your wing would look like a PG&E substation, and that’s heavy too, so we use a CAN-bus [controlled area network] with far fewer wires. Still, it’s incredibly complex.

“We wind up with lot of hydraulics,” Cayard says, “and the America’s Cup rules don’t allow stored power, so two of our eleven guys—we think, two—will be grinding a primary winch all the race long. Not to trim, but to maintain pressure in the hydraulic tank so that any time someone wants to open a hydraulic valve to trim the wing, there will be pressure to make that happen.”

ETNZ's Rod Davis:
"There are eight grinding pedestals, 30 buttons to change linkage to drive different winches (twice as many as the old boats because you have two hulls to sail from), 190kg boards to go up and down, hydraulics that make an big jet aircraft look like a kids toy - and the boat is 46ft wide"

Interesting take on Oracle 17

Artemis Racing Responds to Grant Dalton

You can see alot of camber in the wing in the first of these two videos. (3:35 and 4:15)

Boat 1 gets back on the water.

Your new avatar is almost as entertaining as your old one.

Sweet
More pictures here

Here's something to enjoy with your cup of joe. Mark the calender, less than 3 weeks until the Louis Vuitton Cup.