[Rhodes22-list] Americas Cup

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Mary Lou, Yes they had rigged second sheet prior to cutting. I may have done
a poor job describing. Prior to cutting it looked like they tried to tack in
hopes of freeing sheet.The spinnaker was dragged across the foredeck.  It
seemed like it took several minutes to sort things out. The foredeck guy
getting tossed was pretty cool. How they managed to win that race is nothing
short of amazing. Working from home has advantages....I don't really care
who wins but I hope todays race has as much action. It should be starting
soon!

Wally

On 6/26/07, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
>
> Wally,
> I agree it was a great race but I think they cut the jib sheet (after
> rigging another sheet) so they could tack. As fouled as it was
> (spinnaker cloth and jib sheet entangled through the block), they
> couldn't tack without cutting the sheet. In fact they had to cut it
> in two places when they did come about. And even then it was still
> fouled in the new leeward block although they were able to tack out
> of that one before it became the mess it was on port tack. It's
> amazing to me that they were still in it all after such a screw-up.
>
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
>
>
>
> At 02:41 PM 6/26/2007, you wrote:
> >Anyone watch the America's Cup race today? Awesome.....NZ had some big
> screw
> >ups and there were many passes. I wouldn't mention results in case anyone
> is
> >watching replay later today. At NZ approached the leeward mark they
> messed
> >up the spinnaker drop. First just  prior to dropping the spinnaker the NZ
> >fore deck guy was tossed overboard and somehow hung on to a line (not
> sure
> >which one) and was suspended just above water line. He pulled him self
> back
> >aboard. He actually never hit the water! So then they have a problem with
> >Spinnaker  down haul and the fore deck crew had to grab the sail and pull
> >down. Well it was a huge mess and the sail starting going over the side.
> At
> >one point it looked like half the crew was messing with the spinnaker.
> The
> >sheets and sail were fouled in what looked  the leeward jib block. The
> >spinnaker could not be stowed below decks and they were working hard to
> free
> >spinnaker sheets. So picture the jib set for upwind beat and somehow part
> of
> >the spinnaker and spinnaker lines became snarled in jib block. Anyway NZ
> >tacked with the fouled spinnaker and sheets all over the foredeck. They
> >could not free the spinnaker sheets and eventually had to tack again and
> >they finally cut spinnaker sheets to free the sail.
> >
> >Wally
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