Posted By: Anonymous
And we think our racing sail are expensive !!!!!! - 04/14/06 04:02 AM
From Scuttlebutt:
IT'S ALL A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
(Forbes writer Thomas Jackson spent a day racing as the 18th man BMW Oracle's USA 76. When it was all over, he challenged Damon Runyon's oft-quoted assertion that watching an America's Cup race "is like watching grass grow." Here are a few excerpts.)
The 25-meter hull is all carbon fiber, molded and baked--like a loaf of bread--in a 90 by 30-foot oven back in Anacortes, Washington. The sails are made from carbon-fiber thread, the $80,000 mainsail containing 13 kilometers of the stuff. The foresails cost a bit less ($30,000 each), but take a bigger beating during races. Each one is retired after just 60 tacks, which breaks down to $500 every time the boat comes about.
I will NEVER consider my Pentex racing sails as expensive again. That just proves and old saying. "You can tell the men form the boys by the price of there toys" !!!!
Doug Snell
Hobie 17
Sunfish
Soon to be Mystere 4.3
www.tcdyc.com
IT'S ALL A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
(Forbes writer Thomas Jackson spent a day racing as the 18th man BMW Oracle's USA 76. When it was all over, he challenged Damon Runyon's oft-quoted assertion that watching an America's Cup race "is like watching grass grow." Here are a few excerpts.)
The 25-meter hull is all carbon fiber, molded and baked--like a loaf of bread--in a 90 by 30-foot oven back in Anacortes, Washington. The sails are made from carbon-fiber thread, the $80,000 mainsail containing 13 kilometers of the stuff. The foresails cost a bit less ($30,000 each), but take a bigger beating during races. Each one is retired after just 60 tacks, which breaks down to $500 every time the boat comes about.
I will NEVER consider my Pentex racing sails as expensive again. That just proves and old saying. "You can tell the men form the boys by the price of there toys" !!!!
Doug Snell
Hobie 17
Sunfish
Soon to be Mystere 4.3
www.tcdyc.com