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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: Team_Cat_Fever] #266289
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They got smashed up pretty badly during LV races in the Med.

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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: Jake] #266291
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they would look just fine with a few dozen hot chicks in bikini's and mixed drinks....
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Those things look like technological turds now, don't they?

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do those things even have a cooler or toilet? Seems the bikini clad babes require those things.


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: waterbug_wpb] #266297
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Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
do those things even have a cooler or toilet? Seems the bikini clad babes require those things.


And you know this, how?


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: Jake] #266301
10/15/13 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake
Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
do those things even have a cooler or toilet? Seems the bikini clad babes require those things.


And you know this, how?


And you DON'T? That fine young thing you tricked into marriage doesn't need those necessities?


Jay

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The ladies I will have on my Americas Cup toy will not worry about jumping in the water to pee.

I have yet to meet a boat that can't carry my (cold) rum.

Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
do those things even have a cooler or toilet? Seems the bikini clad babes require those things.

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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #266309
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Larry kept his 80' ocean racer "Sayonara" in Michigan under inside storage at a marina for 7-10 years. He had it drug back to SF for the AC. Probably cheaper storage cost. This was the boat that scared the dog**** out of him in the Sydney to Hobart race. Wasn't there a book?

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it has been my experience that copious alcohol + bikinis - toilet = whining (especially if water's cold)

but I'm a whiner, too, so it seems to work out


Jay

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Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
Originally Posted by Jake
Originally Posted by waterbug_wpb
do those things even have a cooler or toilet? Seems the bikini clad babes require those things.


And you know this, how?


And you DON'T? That fine young thing you tricked into marriage doesn't need those necessities?


Hasn't set foot on a boat since. I wouldn't know....of course, then again, maybe that's why.


Jake Kohl
Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #266313
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NOBODY likes a cold clam....



hat, coat, door.


I'm boatless.
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i don't know ... these are pretty damn good
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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: jkkartz1] #266317
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Originally Posted by jkkartz1
Larry kept his 80' ocean racer "Sayonara" in Michigan under inside storage at a marina for 7-10 years. He had it drug back to SF for the AC. Probably cheaper storage cost. This was the boat that scared the dog**** out of him in the Sydney to Hobart race. Wasn't there a book?


Yes, there was a book, I have it on my bookshelf. I'll see if I can find it and get back to you with the title, but it was a great read on that SYD-Hobart race, where a big storm (hurricane/typhoon) came through and wiped out most of the fleet, kind of like that Fastnet race years ago.

Chris Dickson was his Skipper on the boat. When things went to sh!t Larry was crying like a baby and wanted off, swore he'd never do another one.

I think they ended up winning the race, but only because at 80', they were the biggest, fastest boat out there and got ahead of the worst part of the storm, where as the smaller, slower boats were crushed, lots of fatalities.

The book title is; The Proving Ground, look for it on Amazon.


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: Timbo] #266334
10/16/13 04:24 PM
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Looking forward to Gary Jobson's presentation on the Cup at Seattle Yacht Club this Sunday. It is a Fundraiser for Boating Programs with emphasis on Young People.
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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #266472
10/25/13 10:44 AM
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I leave for two weeks of flyfishing 7 western states and come back to a cesspool of politics. Wow.

Back on track with this excellent article. And Happy Birthday Jake, win a bullet will ya . . .

Fixing the cavitation. Was this the Holy Grail for the turnaround?

“If Jesus was at the Dogpatch that evening he was pretty quiet.”


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Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #266474
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Mark your calender.
Oracle TEAM U.S.A on World of Adventure Sports!
NBCSN
Saturday, October 26
2 PM ET / 11 AM PT

Here is a video clip.


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Are there any plans for something like an hour-long documentary of the whole event to be made?

Something I can point people to who want to get a quick fix of what it was all about?

Re: AC72 Oracle Team USA Spaceship has landed [Re: P.M.] #266477
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Sir Ben Ainsley attempting to champion a British AC challenge

“There were only four teams in this last event, so there’s a limited pool of sailors and designers. I think there’s a window of about two more weeks before those sailors and designers will get snapped up.”


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Sir Ben answers your questions

"That race was the first time we had shown some good upwind speed and previously that is where we had been weaker than the Kiwis and we actually surprised them a little bit. I don't know if that is necessarily why they had a bad tack and nearly capsized but we got back into them and won that race and for all of us on that boat it was a turning point."


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