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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: Jake] #262404
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Originally Posted by Jake
I have understood that it is generally better to have the weight centralized.


And low

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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: Mark Schneider] #262405
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Originally Posted by Mark Schneider
Why??

No reason... I think they had to add weight... so.. somebody thought that this was the best place for it... just NOT the approved location for corrector weights. I think it is just the culture of sailing these days... Push the rules... wait for the protest... deal with the consequences.

If given three choices... Cheating, Stupidity, or Sabotage...

I vote stupidity..A culture that agrees.. this is a trivial rule, it won't make a difference in performance. Therefore... Push it.


I don't see a culture here that thinks the rules are meant to be broken. That's cheating, and stupid.




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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: catman] #262408
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I don't see a culture here that thinks the rules are meant to be broken. That's cheating, and stupid.


The culture is... We bend the rules a bit...we don't break them... because we are special!

So, Now... we have to add weight.... Where? epoxy plus lead... or for the last boat... just lead shot... to the king post. OR where the rule tells us... When your special.... you bend the rules... AND GET AWAY WITH IT....

OOOPS!

(I want to know if the youth teams were putting the boats together and the free lead shot fell out of the king post tube with balls everywhere starting the WTF is this about questions.)


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Sail Racing Magazine hints of unconfirmed firing of two AC syndicate CEO's. Oh my!!

more editorial on 'Ballastgate'



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Watch This!



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Gearing up for some RedBull Youth AC action



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Interesting interview. Ellison needs to lay off the Botox.


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That's a cucumber red laser peel with a vitamin B12 hot sand scrub in a superoxengenated hyperbaric chamber. The whole thing is done ON the equator to reduce magnetic interference. I think it looks very natural.


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Um, I don't really know how to say this, John, but I read your reply on my phone without being able to see the left side of the screen (to see who posted it), and and disturbing as it was, I could only think of ONE person who possibly could have written that to such a level of detail, and I was right...

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Originally Posted by John Williams
That's a cucumber red laser peel with a vitamin B12 hot sand scrub in a superoxengenated hyperbaric chamber. The whole thing is done ON the equator to reduce magnetic interference. I think it looks very natural.



hahahah.... the dude's 68. There's no harm in having a few experience wrinkles on your bow.


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I actually saw the LE interview overnight on TV when my two-year-old was keeping me up. He's definitely headed in the direction of Joan Rivers.

More importantly, did he really have to say that no one will get killed on a 45???

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Press conference starts in about an hour.
RE: LV finals


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conference live now


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Racing for the finals starts Saturday.
Be prepared. Only one day is live on YouTube.
Currently, we can watch it live with the APP, but I'm wondering if NBC will try to kill that also.
Broadcast Schedule LV Finals

or here. (click on the North America tab)


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