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Old 06-13-2023, 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by rsmurano View Post
I went to see the finals of the Americas Cup a few years ago in San Francisco to watch the Oracle boat beat New Zealand. The new boats are much faster and from what I hear much more technical to man than the older boats. When we cruise to St Thomas in the Caribbean, we take the excursion that mans 2 or 3 of the older Americas cup sailboats to race against each other. They take 11 or 12 people and assign them a certain task for the duration of the race. There are 2 or 3 experts on each boat calling out commands for each of us to do.
What fun! We had a small sailboat up north and would do Race Week with friends on Lake Erie.