Defiant looks awesome. They stated in a video that the boat foiled in her first 90 minutes of being on the water. The video shows her turning at speed and looking very steady proving they are doing many things right. I'm a huge fan of Americas Cup cause it pushes the possibilities of sailing, keeps designers and builders busy, and is very entertaining. Foiling has been around a while but recent developments have produced foils that work at low speeds like standup paddle boards and even surfboards. The other night I watched an hour long documentary of Larry Ellison winning the cup back from the Swiss several years before the foiling catamarans. I also watched a video of a guy in Truro, England (Poldark area) building fifty foot Pilot Cutters in wood and training young people to be builders. BTW, my boat takes her name from an Americas Cup defender of 1920, Resolute. She was short on the waterline with a bigger than normal sailplan and struggled but kept the cup. She was gaff rigged with three headsails and designed by Nat Herreshoff who designed and raced the first catamaran and designed the first fin keel w bulb. If he were alive today, I'm sure he would be testing all the cutting edge materials and designing foils.
The new AC boats will be 75 feet long, foiling monohulls, no keel, no centerboards, the foils are attached to arms that rotate the windward foil up to act as a counterweight. Eleven man crews. New Zealand is defending against America, England and Italy, so there will be four boats. The races are in 2021 so they have two years to practice and improve the designs. Chuck Scheaffer, Resolute 1990 C&C 34R, Pasadena, Md > On September 17, 2019 at 5:11 PM Charlie Nelson via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > I am not a big fan of the foiling AC boats of any length. > > However, I love the name of the US entry, Defiant. Win or lose, she > carries a great name like many of the old sailing ships of the seafaring > nations of the world. > > Charlie Nelson > S/V Water Phantom > 1995 C&C 36XL/kcb > > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > Get the new AOL app:http://mail.mobile.aol.com > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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