From our office in Auckland we got to watch the massive AC72's trialling in the harbour before shipping off to SF last year. They're unnaturally fast, skimming along much faster than the wind. Amazing machines.
That is amazing and I'm jealous you got to see them in person. I wonder how long it will be before all smaller dinghy races will start to be foiling - I'm picturing a collegiate dinghy team race on foils and it would be awesome to watch.
As a side note, I'm extremely happy that today my two loves, technology and sailing, have come together in a wonderful turn of events.
Ahhh, I'm so jealous! I watched every race of the final series of the AC last year, but you couldn't really get a sense of the speed of the boats from the broadcast - there weren't enough shots of the boats taken from a static point of view, and even when there were such shots, you couldn't really get a feel for how far away the boats were - in particular the AC72 is so much bigger than most cats that people that watch a lot of sailing can find them fooled by the scale!
