hey whats up with new zeland the best team defeated by a country with no sea
did you know that allingi crew is paid; each skipper around $50,000 bucks a month even the grinders and cause they win americas cup every one is paid 1 million my teacher told me
I say more power to them! I am glad they won. It was because of the two Canadians on the team. Plus, most that boat was made up of Foreigners who do not come from the land locked country of Switzerland.
Also, NZL had a rubbish boat: if you spent millions on a boat, would you build a mast that snapped and a kite pole that snapped TWICE? Alinghi made great use of the Louis Vuitton.
Yes...I'd say they won because of Russel Couts the brilliant Allinghi helmsmen. But Will, the TNZ mast was built by Hall Spars, the same makers of Allinghi, Oracle BMW Racing, Prada, One World Challenge, and TDC's mast as well as most of the others if not all. But I would agree with the fact that it was not the greatest boat as we saw them bailing out their boat with 5 gallon buckets during race 1.
hey but the worlds best team thats what i think has been kicked on the ass by allingi who has no sea in his country
its imposible i lost $100 bucks but allingi sailed good very good
They didn't get the benefit of the competitiveness of racing that Alinghi got through the challenger series, so had never really pushed the boat to its limits before.
Originally posted by macwas16 Yes...I'd say they won because of Russel Couts the brilliant Allinghi helmsmen. But Will, the TNZ mast was built by Hall Spars, the same makers of Allinghi, Oracle BMW Racing, Prada, One World Challenge, and TDC's mast as well as most of the others if not all ---snip---
Southern Spars built the spars for:
GBR Challenge
Mascalzone Latino
One World Challenge
Oracle BMW Racing
Team Prada
Stars & Stripes
Team New Zealand
and as another poster correctly pointed out, they build the spars, rigging and fittings to the team's specs, same way that North Sails builds the sails for them.
So, if a sail or rig fails, it's usually traced back to a design spec that was too close to the edge.