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| Thread ID: 126594 | 2012-09-06 21:48:00 | Team NZ Americas Cup Catamaran ... Flying !! | SP8's (9836) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1299406 | 2012-09-06 21:48:00 | THIS (nz.sports.yahoo.com) is both scary and exciting at the same time ... flying at 40knots ... unbelievable | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1299407 | 2012-09-06 22:16:00 | Good Lord, thats amazing. Seeing the boat raise out of the water is incredible. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1299408 | 2012-09-06 22:22:00 | Yes, but its not the America's cup! Get back to proper yachts once every 4 years on the dot and no more court cases. And make them smaller and cheaper so more countries can take part. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1299409 | 2012-09-06 22:24:00 | How would you even think of going about at that speed. Imagine two of these machines (I can't think of them as boats) racing around a course. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1299410 | 2012-09-06 22:31:00 | Having been a high performance sailor in the past that is awesome but scary, the crash helmets give the clue as to how dangerous it is | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1299411 | 2012-09-06 22:44:00 | 40 knots ... for the landlubbers that's just under 75 kph. Out of a 17 kt (32 kph) breeze, that's amazing. Disaster, though if anything digs in. Water can become pretty hard at that speed! |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1299412 | 2012-09-06 22:50:00 | Wow! That is awesome. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1299413 | 2012-09-06 23:01:00 | Amazing!!! | lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1299414 | 2012-09-06 23:04:00 | It is fantastic! One helluva speed for a yacht. I was surprised, though, how the news people made out that the technolgy was something new. New on a yacht perhaps, although I don't think so. But hyrdofoils have been around for the past 40 years at least. I recall the hydrofoil ferry travelling to Waiheke Island (in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland) in the late 60s. Nothing new at all. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1299415 | 2012-09-06 23:08:00 | Yeah, but not all that surprising, Roscoe. The current crop of "journalists" and "news" people have the retention span of lobotomised prawns. Their "research" seems to be limited to the first few entries of a Google search. | WalOne (4202) | ||
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