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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #262642
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more issues for LR


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FFS can we get some boats that don't break?

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Looks like a lone finisher AGAIN.
Gets old quick.

Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: ThunderMuffin] #262650
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Originally Posted by Undecided
FFS can we get some boats that don't break?


+1000


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what happened this time? I don't have access to watch it.

This makes me nervous that these guys get to work out these bugs before getting to race Oracle...I hope Oracle's maintenance program is top notch....but, errr, didn't they just have a rudder fall off? cry


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some block sheave on the wing control arm exploded. Doubt that they'll be able to fix it in time.

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Originally Posted by Undecided
some block sheave on the wing control arm exploded. Doubt that they'll be able to fix it in time.


It wasn't the one they were messing with after yesterday's race win at the bottom of the wing was it?


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Originally Posted by Jake
Originally Posted by Undecided
some block sheave on the wing control arm exploded. Doubt that they'll be able to fix it in time.


It wasn't the one they were messing with after yesterday's race win at the bottom of the wing was it?


Looks like around the same area.

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Doesn't look like LR will need to worry about fixing it on the water... stupidly low wind limit is kicking in.

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Tune in Wednesday for the next races.
Race 4 scheduled for Wed 21 Aug at 13:10 PDT, then race 5 at 14:10.

Everybody has a day off to fix their $100,000,000 toys.


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They've been showing video clips of what happened when OTUSA-1 hit a buoy. Its amazing to see the difference between ETNZ and OTUSA stopping dead from being up on foils.

Oracle looked a lot less dramatic than ETNZ even with a chain hitting their foils.


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Originally Posted by P.M.
Everybody has a day off to fix their $100,000,000 toys.

not to split hairs but i heard the 72's were $15,000,000 (each)

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Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
IF the rudder comes out of the water, it's going to pitch no matter what the angle was.


I wonder if "blowing the boards" might prove effective if you start heading down the mine shaft.

Not that I would know if you can do this on these monsters, but would retracting the boards when you start the pitchpole have any effect at minimizing the dive? If indeed the foils are what start generating the negative lift...

Or would that just load up the wing all the more?


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Originally Posted by MN3
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Everybody has a day off to fix their $100,000,000 toys.

not to split hairs but i heard the 72's were $15,000,000 (each)

My bad, the $85,000,000 syndicate's monkey wrench technician has a day to fix their $15,000,000 toy


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Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
I wonder if "blowing the boards" might prove effective if you start heading down the mine shaft.

Ya think they had time??


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