Dan
The America's Cup has lots of rules . The boats have a certain spec , they
race every 4 years in the previous winners country etc . There is a seldom
used clause in the rules that allows somebody to challenge the champ in the
middle of the 4 year cycle and the boats don't need to meet the normal 7
meter rules . In what ever year that was a New Zealander named Michael Fay
challenged Dennis O'Connor . The bigger a sail boat is the faster it is so
Fay built one bigger than normal but a catamaran is faster than a single
hull so that's what O'Connor built and walked away on every race .
O'Connor's catamaran was only raced once but that's true of all America's
Cup boats .
John
> There was a piece on 60 Minutes last year about some rich guy who built an
> America's Cup contender using the same principles. His boat had dual hulls
> and
> a sail(?) like the subject. It was so fast in testing that it was deemed
> illegal before racing. I think the cost was in excess of $22M.
>
> DW
>
> --- On Thu, 4/2/09, bobbyhotrods@comcast.net <bobbyhotrods@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> From: bobbyhotrods@comcast.net <bobbyhotrods@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] New LSR
> To: "Kirkwood" <saltfever@comcast.net>
> Cc: "land-speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 12:34 PM
>
> I noted the same. I think it would pitch-pole if it was so rigged.
> No heeling to spill air either. BJ in Beantown, (traded the ocean for the
> garage)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kirkwood" <saltfever@comcast.net>
> To: "land-speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2009 3:14:39 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [Land-speed] New LSR
>
> It appears that the outrigger is on the UPWIND side. You can see this by
> the
> upward bending in the strut, leaning of the vertical wing, and the dust
> blowing down-wind. Why isn't it on the down-wind side? To offset blow-over
> forces you have to add a lot of weight as wells as build in down-force
> (with
> the corresponding DRAG) on the strut. If he was heading in the other
> direction the strut could be built with less drag and ballast?
> Interesting!
> -Elon
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