America's Cup (boat) pictures

[rbgarr]

These boats just get uglier and uglier. The Italian boat looks like a deep sea submersible if you ask me.

http://valenciasailing.blogspot.com/

[Hwyl]

Come on dave, they're stunning, wouldn't you like to see this in Boothbay.


Edited to say, wouldn't you like to see the nicely downsized picture that SV Laura Ellen posted in number 8, sailing in Boothbay?http://lh4.google.com/_U6Cp5x-Sbr8/Raua5l6W7fI/AAAAAAAAARs/Jo3Jl-QNayc/s1600/tm_A6_18499-AlinghiDubai-50.jpg

[Boatmik]

I was a little confused by the website and by the America's cup.

In the good old days if a boat was called Sceptre or Crusader it had to be British.

If it was called Enterprise, Liberty, Intrepid, Courageous I just knew it had to be American.

If it was called Australia 2 or Southern Cross or Steak and Kidney (which was rhyming slang) ... well.

Or "Canada 2"...

But "BMW Oracle"

Who cares? It is a bit emotionally uninviting.

And I have to read the article to find it has a USA prefix on the sail number.

MIK

[byggeren30]

Yes, they are very ugly... It is not like the woodenboat, so have life and soal...:) I want to build a woodenboat of 48 fot, but i can not find the drawings of the boat... The name of the boat is "Havgassen"...

[peb]

I have to disagree. I like the look of the new America's Cup boats. I would they represent the one type of modern design that look really good. By modern design I do not mean new traditional or character designs.

[rbgarr]

Gareth-

Couldn't see what you posted for some reason. I also am so totally confused by all the 'Acts' business that I've given up on the AC. It's more complicated than March Madness, and I usually wait until the Final Four to watch even that!

I'm guessing the AC final races will come and go and I won't even know it.

[pippo]

Come on, that's Italian design! Now wait to see the torpedoes

The Italian boat looks like a deep sea submersible

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Here is what Hwyl posted:

http://bp1.blogger.com/_U6Cp5x-Sbr8/Raua5l6W7fI/AAAAAAAAARs/Jo3Jl-QNayc/s400/tm_A6_18499-AlinghiDubai-50.jpg

[brian.cunningham]

The reverse bows are interesting. Think they're meant to cheat the rules?

The open transoms with large backstay tensioners are real neat too.

I also like how they fly square top sails w/o fear of them overtwisting like a gaff can.

[Hwyl]

Here is what Hwyl posted:



Thanks Allan

[brian.cunningham]

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFJEjlA4gD8

[Tom Robb]

They're racing machines, not yachts. Beauty has little to do with it beyond the idea that pretty is as pretty does.
We commonly admire the old 12 meter boats. The only one I ever saw up close was really a work boat. NO effort had been made to tart her up. She had a job to do and was expected to do it; if not she'd become scrap.
The new boats undoubtedly are designed to squeeze every possible advantage from their rule. If not, they'll lose and become recycle fodder.

[johnw]

Looks sort of like the 'rater bow' of the 1890s. Maybe one day we'll even see canoe bows like some 5.5 meters had in the 1970s.

I like the long ends, we don't see enough of those. And it's fun to watch them fold up in the middle, sort of like a Bolger design except that they sink.