Miscellaneous Next America's Cup location

[saxyjt]

As the last event concluded, although Team New Zealand won and are therefore the organizer of the next event, rumors stated that a tender was in preparation to decide where the next event will take place.

This of course did lot please everyone... To present it in a British manner! 😉

Obviously, the proud kiwis can be upset, but it is their own Team New Zealand's management that are leading this act.

Here is an article about the latest rumors on the topic.

That would be great news for English sailors and fans. Personally I am shared between a view that it derails the whole spirit by taking the event away from the winning country that contributed massively in the last event and a selfish view that it would be closer to me and therefore I could come an enjoyed show. But then, the UK tend to be very expensive and the event will most likely pig the prices upwards even further.

It also sounds like buying the home advantage as I'm convinced there is a home advantage. Sailors can't deny it!

I can also understand why the Italians are upset. They fought hard and came close. So seing their main competition take the event home can't be pleasing... The Americans too are upset as they were 'terminated' early, while they were doing really great.

The America's Cup keeps feeding passionate debates. No change there!

 

[Wade Cornell]

The feeling in NZ is that it's team Dalton not team NZ. The government and Auckland City offered 100 million to support it. Dalton huffed and is walking away. I frankly don't care and think it would be good for the cup to be held in Europe as there would be more competitors and likely more interest. It's terribly difficult for the rest of the world to come to NZ and set up shop here. Europe is so much tighter in terms of currency, time zones, distance to home base, etc.

It's all yours...just stump up a sum that Dalton will smile at.

 

[saxyjt]

It's all yours...just stump up a sum that Dalton will smile at.

Each time I hear about him I can't help but think about a friend we nicknamed Dalton, many years before Grant Dalton became a legend. That was in reference to the Daltons:

His chin is not dissimilar to the ones featured by these infamous bandits, or so we perceived back then.

He is now one of the top photographers of sailing, including the AC. Chin up!

I was also nicknamed after one of the Daltons when I started to work, but for a completely different reason. I was always the first to ask when we were going for lunch... 😳

 

[saxyjt]

Hello guys. A few years passed and the next event is almost in progress in Barcelona.

The new boats are simply amazing! I think they are a big step ahead from the first generation of these foiling monohulls.

In my last post from ... almost 3 years, I mentioned Dalton, or someone we nicknamed Dalton. Well, here is a video he shot and posted on U2B that shows 4 of the 6 new AC75s.

Enjoy!

 

[PiccoloPirate]

Southhampton and MIT are two schools for Naval Architecture.
A fun video.
Ciao for now
Fastnet '79. Worth a read.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HkIs5VzXCA