Yes it's very good, you can in-app buy Day 2 of racing video for only $11.

In case case you missed the challenger final series, they are only $6 each.

Agent nods said..
This is free, not HD

Try cricfree.sc/watch/live/35th-americas-cup-2017-live-streaming

It's got some annoying pop ups, just click the little cross boxes and they go away.

do you have to sign up?

Sectorsteve said..

Agent nods said..
This is free, not HD

Try cricfree.sc/watch/live/35th-americas-cup-2017-live-streaming

It's got some annoying pop ups, just click the little cross boxes and they go away.

do you have to sign up?

no totally free....just need to piss off the pop ups....look for little "x" and click off

I thought Artemis being driven by Outteridge had huge potential, not enough time methinks.
Go the kiwis!

Slingsby, Outerridge, Jensen, Ashby, fabulous sailors all. Please leave Spithill over there for the US team.

TMZ just thrashed hired guns Helmsman Spithill Tactician Slingsby and co. in the race 5 just now. Looks like Oracle tried to copy TMZs rudder design since they got beaten last week making Oracle a bit faster.

Despite that TMZ beat Spithill across the start line, Spithill even crossed early, then halfway through race Oracle made a tactical blunder and got forced away from TMZ losing more ground. Oracle also dug a bow in on one tack losing a lot of speed.

the only bas thing out of this is with an aussie crew on usa boat we will have every kiwi saying hoaw they flogged us

Congrats team nz

Some pretty compelling reasons the NZers may stick with the existing format

www.mysailing.com.au/america-s-cup/five-reasons-why-new-zealand-should-stick-with-acc-cats-for-the-36th-america-s-cup-match

Perhaps foiling optis, 2 handed.......

Ringle said..

Chris 249 said..

Trek said..
Hopefully back to real boats.

Cats = real boats.

Whether they should be in the AC is another story, though.

They need to appeal to the Facebook generation.

It'll be more cats and foiling methinks.

I think you are right, thats why they did it. But appealing to the masses to get money and publicity isnt always the right thing.

I was a member of a beautiful sailing club for years. The board decided time to "improve" it and dropped the membership to $5, got in a pro club manager to run it instead of a sailor and advertised to the public. Within a year it was no different to a any other public bar full of drunks who had no idea about sailing. It wasnt a club for sailors any more.

We dont need to modify sailing to appeal to masses, we need the masses to realise how good it is already.

Americas Cup is the same. Pushing a big monohull over the line first takes just as much skill as a cat. (And cat=boat!). The existing race format and the history it carries could have been marketed much better. After all people watch cricket for hours and hours and nothing happens at all

FelixdeCat said..

AshleyM said..
Cats have no place in the America's Cup. I hope they do the decent thing and return to monohulls, preferably big expensive monohulls.

There's always the sydney to hobart if people want to watch a relaxing, polite (slow) gentlemans race.

Cats have every place in the Americas cup I reckon.

The Americas cup is about innovation as much as it is about 2 boats against each other, and the new boats add a new level of excitement to the spectating/racing.

Sailing and promotion shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
All of the top 3 AC boats had Australian skippers yet we didn't have a team and there was zero coverage on TV. We have numerous gold medal winning Olympic sailers yet the public couldn't name one sailor.
Sailing hasn't even maintained its fringe position in Australia's sporting landscape.
I like the foiling cats but as exciting as we think it is the public doesn't. What sporting event broadcast is limited to trophy raising with no footage of the actual sport?
Sailing slower monohulls is even more boring to the public. I'd stick with fast boats and try and get more entries.

America was just the best of several ocean-going schooners in the race in which she won the Cup. For decades after that, the AC boats were pretty much just normal boats from the biggest inshore racing class that was active. They normally used the same rating rules and concepts as the normal club-racing boats, rather than being radically different like the AC50 cats.

There's been three independent studies, in three different countries, that I know of that show that people associate sailing with danger.

I'm a cat sailor/owner/racer as well as a mono sailer but I felt bored by the AC50s. If other people like them that's cool, but they bored lots of people as shown by the poor US TV ratings. Swimming, dogs jumping through hoops and sports like that rated higher. Coutts was trying to excite American young adults, but the sports they want to do are cycling, camping, kayaking, backpacking - nothing extreme like the AC50s. They want to do things they can achieve, not things they can't do or afford like sailing foiling cats.

The AC has often been had a lot of sentiment attached to it. Have you read John Nicholson's account of the last meeting between his father and fellow AC designer Nat Herreshoff? Have you read Francis Herreshoff's letter about British AC skipper Sir Peter Scott, or about Lipton's last challenge?

If you take away all the tradition of the AC, what do you have? It's just an ugly and fairly cheap bit of old tin, and the last event proved that you can't make money out of it like you can with F1.