AC36 is over.

   And sailing becomes so much more accessible. I wonder what the viewing figures were.

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iGRF Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6490	Post Options Post Reply Quote iGRF Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 21 at 12:39pm
	And sailing becomes so much more accessible. I wonder what the viewing figures were.
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Chris_H Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Far too distracted from work Joined: 13 May 20 Online Status: Offline Posts: 231	Post Options Post Reply Quote Chris_H Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 17 Mar 21 at 11:44am
	Well, it's over. I have been up at 3am every day of the AC finals to watch the online racing live. And this morning was the last. Now I can get some normal sleep. In the end, the right team won, however much I was rooting for LR to win (selfishly becaue I would want the next AC in Europe - though rumours abound on that topic ....) Overall impression is that the boats surpassed everyones expectations and produced some amazing racing. Race 9 was superb and showed off match racing CAN still happen in these F1-type boats. Could some things have been better? Yes, of course. The expected sronger winds never materialised for the AC finals, and so some of the racing became predicatable once the start had happened. Whatever type of boat sailed, it would have been the same. I enjoyed following all the campaigns, the boats, the teams, the people and the spectacle that is the AC. It is strongly rumoured that the next AC will use the AC75's again and it will be interesting to see how a AC75-V2 version will perform after the lessons learned from this series. I have no time for the curmudgeons who want to go back to lead mines - go do it - there are plenty of leadmine series for you to watch through your rose tinted specs trying to remember an era that never, in reality, existed in any case. We move on, F1 cars move on, AC boats move on. Bring on AC37. :-) (and more Mozzy insight ;-) )