Oracle Racing, AC33 behind the scenes images
Thanks to Thibault Laudren for reminding me on this one. Again, leave all the legal bs behind and the amount of work BOR and Alinghi did in a few months is just unbelievable, if you analyze that both boats didn´t fall apart while racing, that only was a huge achievement taking account of the limited testing time.
The frontline guys must be really grateful for the technical and logistics crews, working 24×7 to meet some extreme short time frame goals. If making beachcats is sometimes really hard work, can´t imagine the level of stress of these projects…wait, just take a good look to the final part and you’ll have a glance of it.
Hat Off to all of them-
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16