So...
 

I heard the US spent 380 million on the boat, New Zealand 2 something,
and one other boat showed up? Oh, btw, the Oracle captain is from New
Zealand snerk

"Greatest comeback ever", please.... against two other boats??? Americas
cup is a joke, time to hang it up...

So...
 

On 9/26/13 8:20 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:55:11 -0400, skin a cat
wrote:

I heard the US spent 380 million on the boat, New Zealand 2 something,
and one other boat showed up? Oh, btw, the Oracle captain is from New
Zealand snerk

"Greatest comeback ever", please.... against two other boats??? Americas
cup is a joke, time to hang it up...

It is actually time to get back to sailboats and not the space ships
they are sailing now.
It all started with the "winged keel" and just started getting silly
after that.


I loved the looks of the 12-meter sloops.

So...
 

On 9/26/2013 8:20 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:55:11 -0400, skin a cat
wrote:

I heard the US spent 380 million on the boat, New Zealand 2 something,
and one other boat showed up? Oh, btw, the Oracle captain is from New
Zealand snerk

"Greatest comeback ever", please.... against two other boats??? Americas
cup is a joke, time to hang it up...

It is actually time to get back to sailboats and not the space ships
they are sailing now.
It all started with the "winged keel" and just started getting silly
after that.


Just go back to Boats, and have the teams race each other not the
wallets... Same **** that ruined stock cars...

So...
 

wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:25:40 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/26/13 8:20 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:55:11 -0400, skin a cat
wrote:

I heard the US spent 380 million on the boat, New Zealand 2 something,
and one other boat showed up? Oh, btw, the Oracle captain is from New
Zealand snerk

"Greatest comeback ever", please.... against two other boats??? Americas
cup is a joke, time to hang it up...

It is actually time to get back to sailboats and not the space ships
they are sailing now.
It all started with the "winged keel" and just started getting silly
after that.


I loved the looks of the 12-meter sloops.

Larry was on Charley Rose saying he supports the idea of getting some
of the money out of the sport so they can get back to real sailing.
He said that among other things this is becoming far too dangerous.

If they flip a 12 meter boat, they get wet. You can easily get killed
on one of these behemoths if it goes over.

One crewman was killed in practice. I looked at the boats as they were
towed to the yards after practice one day when I was taking the neighbor
kids fishing. Large, very expensive, fragile boats. When the Emerates
boat stuffed a sponson, look at the damage. 50 mph sail boats. The races
had to be cancelled a few times because of too much wind. As we left town
on Sunday, the race was cancelled as the winds were from the wrong
direction. They were lucky to get into he last race, as we have had bad
winds for a few days. And in the bay, they get even worse.