ORACLE TEAM USA - Fun on Foils
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Hear from the ORACLE TEAM USA crew what it's like to fly their AC72 "17" on foils, sometimes at speeds of over 40 knots, and experience the sensational acceleration from onboard.
[© Amory Ross / ORACLE TEAM USA]
Unbeliveable! Thank you Alexander Graham Bell. It has taken over 100 years but your hydrofoil work is showing some amazing progress.
OMG! Oracle has already won! AMAZING! I am sooooo excited, this is supreme sailing... extremely emotional and powerful and beautiful! WoW! There is nothing like the America's Cup to make my heart race! ...I Love Russel Couts... and with Jimmy Spithill... heavenly sailing match!
I've one a bit of sailing, but this is something else! What Fun!!! Resounding flight! With Aloha, Tess Cartwright
Having sailed catamarans since the early 80's in the San Francisco Bay, it is so exciting to see this sport capture hearts of sailors and non-sailors alike....
Simply breathtaking! Can't wait to see you guys in action.
UNREAL... Just absolutely amazing how fast she is... Rock On team!!
it's like flying on water, must be an awesome feeling to sail like that!!!!
My favorite sailing video.
I live in the Bay Area and it is just awesome having these boats ripping around the Bay.
Can't wait for the trials to start . . .
This boat is spectacular!
Sweet. "Team USA" with Australian, New Zealand and South African accents. Go Southern Hemisphere!
I've been windsurfing at fairly fast speeds.
This is a whole new level.. I wish I could try this.
At these speeds, we may have to make the course longer, or put a few chicanes in just to keep it competitive and finish times long enough for people to tune in, settle down with their favorite brew and actually see a tack before it's over. This is like watching short track speed akating. WOW!
Great video on how these boats work
Done a lot of SF bay sailing. Never like this! Amazing!
Magnifique ! Extraordinaire ...je suis fascinée par la performance de l"'ORACLE TEAM USA" it really flies !!!! congratulations to you all...Thanks to François Gabart qui m'a fait découvrir et aimer la voile avec le Vendee Globe.
The Islander Association of sailers salutes the AC crews from all countries and we will have our own version of the Islander International Invitational Regatta in honor of sailing ! Viva Italia, Capt. Bob, Bella Luna
Great video, no quick flash scenes, thanks. This is awesome!!
Great video! Great cat! Great team!
Oracle are now starting to look good
The music is "stage of dynamite" by Lewars Sims, found on Killer Tracks. Thanks Amory Ross for beeing awesome and answering to my e-mail!
Thanks for the Alexander Graham Bell info, I truly did not know that! Hey look out I learned something!
Apparently, for the actual America's Cup, the course is supposed to race all around SF from where the AC Series raced around to near the Bay Bridge. So a long course with hopefully lots of tacking and foiling!
I love sailing - - this is totally awesome!!!
Looking much more stable! Let's keep the America's Cup in America!
a thing of beauty.
When hydrofoils make it to the mainstream of Sailing, they better start testing and licensing. Can you imagine the Once a Month Warrior who berths next to you, sailing his scaled down 25' Hydrofoil Catamaran down the Estuary for drinks and appetizers at Jack London Square?
Look out brother!
To optimise the shape of the sails, generally the main sail. Every change in wind speed, direction, the direction and heel of the boat will have an optimun tension to shape the sail. Generally in light winds you want a lot of curve, in high winds a tighter curve for less drag.
Good-bye tacking duels, hello drag racing! Awesome.
My mind has been blown.
So smooth. Great video.
INCREDIBLE!!!!
They are in fact using two different boards. I was lucky enough to be able to tour the ORACLE Team USA base with a local yacht club and the port board is a unibody L foil fin shape. The starboard board is actually a recycled board from the trimaran USA 17 with an interchangeable foil fin. The current starboard foil fin is canted as you can see from the video whereas the port foil fin is at a right angle to the board.
Awesome! Great video!
Buaaaaaaaaaa, dan ganas de llorar al comparar...
Actually, Alexander Graham Bells work on hydrofoils culminated in a hydrofoil doing 50 MPH in 1913 and by 1919 his HD-4 hit over 70MPH on the Bras d'Or Lake.
Check the spray when they hit the yachts wake in front of them. They are getting more stable, still have boat 2 and another wing to come, can only get faster and more stable.
That is so awesome!!
Kiwi's are waiting and ready Mr Spithill...hopefully for New Zealand's sake :)
That's surreal and wonderful:) I mean, from an engineering standpoint, I get it. But from an experiential standpoint, I am amused by it the same way I'm amused by using a cell phone when I think about it: yay physics, and yay application! I would agree with the man: I hope that thing doesn't fail!
That boat is one of the sexiest things I have ever seen...
WOOT! Having sailed our 16ft Hobie Cat in the Bay, got say this looks like a total RUSH!
If they need volume it's not to carry anything, it's to counter torque of the mast that make them pitchpole. They spared no expense, that's for sure, but it doesn't mean that they are right. If you look at boats like Sodebo, Banque populaire (that is cruising at 38kt) or maybe BOR90 (which won against alinghi which was very close to the AC72 in style) they all have volume at the front in order not to pitchpole at avery wave.
I agree with you about catamarans and foils, not about AC72's.
Awesome!
Amazing.
SF Bay isnt exactly a "flat mill pond" as you put it but I agree I would be a bit nervous taking one out into some heavy swells!
This song can be found on Killertracks, its on the Rock Positiva Album #3, song #11
Song: Stage of Dynamite - Michael Sims & Derek Lewars
NOTE: #17 only foils "high & clean" while on starboard tack, with the port hull foil in the water. The up-tilting foil on the starboard hull does not generate enough lift. After watching #17 for 3 weeks, I think this is deliberate. By foiling only on starboard, the Oracle team is keeping the "good foil" in the water all the time. This hides the design of the working foil from ETNZ and other competitors. In the meantime, enjoy Oracle's "starboard tack only" foiling. The speeds are incredible.
It's probably a Cineflex camera system mounted to one of the RIBs.
waiting for summer!!
It is San Fransisco bay, which is notorious for bad currents and cross waves.
Great Video :)
It's mostly likely a song from a royalty free music bed. It's hard to find those type of songs because they are not mainstream.
"Flat Mill Pond?" this San Francisco Bay Brother, and its a boat breaker. Regularly 25kts of wind throughout Summer, with 2' to 3' chop depending on tides. That's another thing we got lots of, Tide. Relief along the Shore, except for when there isn't. Will these Hydrofoils get the boats above the tide enough that it isn't a major concern?
Yeah, it's not the Ocean, no big swells or 20' waves, but SF Bay is tougher than most Ocean I've seen. It's gonna be screamin' boatbusters out there.
looks like waterworld is getting closer
Amazing!
awesome.
LOVE it!!!!!!! I need to put my Hobie Cat on Foils. LOL
What? without the foils as catamarans go they are as optimized as they come!! they shouldn't have more volume at the front, there's nothing there to carry? now with the foils they are even better!. Considering it's the Americas cup that alone tells you they spared no expense. Catamarans are already the most effective of sail boats, that together with the wing sail is a record breaking combination. Since this is only a taste of what we'll see in the final I think we're in for a real treat then!
good reply. i figured the port foil was their good one. you never get to see it. the starboard one looks like the one made from the old trimaran daggerboard. they still don't look as stable as the kiwis though.
oh WOW. it's a sci-fi movieee... but in incorporated in real life :D
this is one of these things when you have to see it to believe it.
SICK!!!!!!!!
Funny thing about that salt water, it made team China and pretty much all the other teams speak with foreign accents too.
I propose they call the team Oracle Racing ANZAC (Australia New Zealand Americas Cup) team.
@Gee Mack -- SF Bay isn't exactly a mill pond. The vid was clearly shot on a fairly calm day, but even so there is always some chop. No swell to speak of though, and it would be interesting to see how the boat performs at sea. Not sure that's really in the cards though, these AC boars are designed for inshore racing only, right?
totally cool
Jouissif !
It does have wings... That's how it sails
Actually I think I do, I'm graduated in engineering a father that is a boat designer and sailed cat hard (25-30 knots of wind, dubble trapeze , etc) for 6 years on hobbie 16 (aka the pitchpoll king).
It's not because all cats are likely to pitchpoll that they have to. Those boats are million $ machines and the fact they are pitchpolling like a H16 is shocking to me. Oh, and yeah, you can't win a race when you are pitchpolled, and you won't push your boat to the limit for this reason.
Lindo barco.
Notice all the footage is on starboard tack. I have yet to see it fly on port tack. i do believe the dagger boards are different .
I think the "weird" motion you are seeing the stabilization the video went through in post production. No way you can film on water and have video be so smooth. Its a very simple process, but it can make the video look a little odd at times.
Darrell Peck, Rob Coots, Charles H , Erik Too Tall May 4 & 5 Finn shoot-out Saint Francis YC Zellerbacks.
More airplane than boat O_O ... but holy crap does it scream awesome :D
Actually, 2 out of 3 of the crew in this video had Aussie accents. I couldn't tell with the last guy, but he somewhat sounded Aussie.
Might aswell get a plane and race that in the boat race
I realize i might sound dumb but something is off about this video. The shots where the boat hovers the camera has a weird motion, where you see just one side of the boat hovering, thats real because i know they do that. The guys in the vid i think comment on how it lifts on ONE side, and the maker of the vid edited to seem like they are talking about how the boat hovers. Is this that animation project that made that hawk steal a baby last year ??
whats the name of the song?
I just looked this up on Wikipedia and apparently on the 9th of may a crew member was killed while practicing for the cup. Damn.
Stage of Dynamite, by Derek Lewars and Michael Sims.
Okay on flat mill ponds but let's see how it handles something like the Sydney to Hobart on a rough trot. Let's hope they get it right.
Sound track is awesome as well. Where is this from ?
Cool
I believe these things prove that someday
we will be able to FOLD Space and visit other universes
if one can travel on a WIND powered vehicle
FASTER than the Wind
then why Not Light ???
Okay so Dr. Quest had figured this whole hydrofoil thing out in the 1960's. What took so long?
wow, that's fucking amazing.
How where the off-board shots filmed because that shits smooth!
Siiiiiick!
Actually Slightly More Kiwis than Aussies.
If you add up the nationalities from Team Oracles Web page, and oportion partial nationalities you get 7.33 Kiwis, 6.833 Aussies, 2.5 Yanks, 2 Dutch, 1 Brit, 1 Antiguan, 1 Italian, 1 French, 1 Canadian, and 1/3 of an Irishman :-)
Pretty sure the multi million dollar boat with a pro crew will do just fine.
40 knots!
The boat is out of the water on purpose to reduce drag?
Why do they have Oracle when USA the country itself doesn't care about the america's cup
Question, do you have to have wind of 40 knots + for the vessel to go at a speed of 40 knots?
"Team USA"
>Australians
Ok, Oracle.
Gee, for all those millions you would think they would spring for a few electric winches.
Perhaps a nice ipad app to run the thing from somewhere dry!!!
This is a race cat. Regulations, regulations, regulations. It's a good thing though, some people still can sail without electronics taking over the job.
Interested in this too...
Why do those people constantly have to wind that winch? What function does that winch have?
How do you 'duck' a starboard tack boat at 40 kts? wow! Out to the layline in 14 seconds...
awesome!
what is the soundtrack?
Derek Lewars/Michael Sims "Stage of Dynamite"