Footage from Day 1 of the Nat’s in Weymouth…. the windy day… You’ll see just how hard these boats are to sail in a blow, and also just how hard the boat itself works to keep itself foiling..

Yea I get how the moths and other dinghies work to keep the ride height.

But there’s no wand on an AC as arent they prohibited? They were the last few iterations so the cats were trimmed manually?

But the moth is a lightweight dinghy, so the helm is using their weight to balance the heel of the boat (and to an extent the trim with the help of the rudder and gearing in the wand).

From what Ive seen the foils on the AC75 looked solid in the pics as they were on the cats, so Im guessing the whole arm must be rotated to adjust the AOA as the boat accelerates and to controll ride height, and in/out to adjust the heel, not just flipped during tacks/gybes? Just hypothesising and wondering if anyone had any more solid ideas on the controll systems.

Go Brittania.

Some more analysis of Britannia, aka ‘the Bat Boat’.

https://www.sail-world.com/news/222778/Americas-Cup-Analysis-of-INEOS-Team-UK-AC75

Well… she sails!!

https://youtu.be/1meAfII4_TY

By ‘eck.

Did you hear the sound that the kiwi boat is making?

Brit boat looks so weird…. but cool under sail.

Moar speed…

Neat post MOAB

Oh dear, having the whackiest and fastest boat doesn’t help when you hit a container/whale ☹️
Thompson/Hugo Boss out of the race to Brasil with keel only being held on by the ram.

Boss is on its way home from the TJV having hit a submerged object.

Yay! Another retirement…

🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Bugger

It seems they’ve had to let the keel fall to the bottom…

Alex Thomson Racing Update: Transat Jacques Vabre

Hope they can get safely to dry land to get the boat fixed.

Scary stuff.
That’s got be be like sailing a washing up bowl in waves now…