Team Australia in their orma 60 Trimaran just knocked off 12 hours from the Sydney to Hobart record. 12 hours! 29 hours to get there. It seems like cats and Tri's are smoking records all over the world and just look at the AC72's on youtube.......
There must be something going on with the proliferation of multi's, whether people are buying them just to get their partners onto the water with them?? or something else....? a change is defineatly happening
Does this have to do with picking the conditions. The race record is for a race starting on a particular day and the conditions are serendipity. Did the tri wait for the best downwind conditions?
They didn't break the Syd - Hob "Race" record, they broke the World Sailing Speed Council record for the fastest time between Sydney heads and Hobart. WOIX still holds the "Race" record but Team Australia is the fastest vessel over that defined course.
I have no problems comparing multi's and mono's for records. It's been happening for 60 years now. The fastest time has always been open to any sailing craft. Once there's been more claims on the record then sub divisions (mono's v multi, length divisions etc) will come into play...
TA has never been given the opportunity to have a shot at the race record because multi's are not allowed in the race so to say that they could pick their day is a bit of bull****. Yes they could and they did to set a record good on them. They also showed that multi's can do the passage so maybe should be given a shot at the race.
I highly doubt whethe WOIX will ante up and pick their weather window to see what that can do though
I'd like to see TA 'shadow' the SH fleet.
Give the rest a few hours head start, then go.
Have a tracker onboard, and just follow out the heads and work their way through the fleet, low key, and obviously not having any reliance or using any of the CYC resources.
A casual post christmas sail down the coast, dropping into Hobart.
Yeah cause mono's never turn over. There are plenty of big ocean racing cats or tri's that do bigger races than S2H
Ah the Mono faithfull or "Leaners" will allways uphold the pictures of capsized cats to prop up a very weak argument, Lets not forget the images of Tony Bullimore and Raphael Dinelli on sinking capsized mono's with keels long departed in that Volvo race several years ago.
Hey you guy's they race around the world and across the Atlantic at huge speeds without failure these days.
Why race a slow boat?
would you race a HQ holden when there are SS Commodores available?
Wild oats is now changing her name to Mild Oats!
forgetting about the (predicatable) mono vs. multi thing for a minute, anyone been watching the weekly AC roundup on C31?
If you can get past the American accents constantly repeating Aye See 72's all the time, there's been some good footage, and behind the scenes.
When Oracle went T*t's up, one of the teams hit the local pool and practiced jumping in fully kitted from the highest dive platform they could find, just so they knew what it like following a 72 capsize. It puts their actual beam into perspective.
They also carry on their belt a small oxygen canister good for around 3 breaths, incase of being tangled underwater.
On tonight about 10.30 from memory (can't be sure, the PVR just records it)
As for TA, I know what I'd choose to take in the next S2H: one of the smallest, slowest and oldest boats in the fleet, or the 60ft tri?
