State of Artemis? Back to the Drawing Board
As always good video from Artemis, this time on being quite honest and realistic on their performance against Oracle past week. We said here the difference was huge, and many others pointed out on the webcam, Webb twits and other sources.
It is true you don´t know your capabilities until you match against other boat, but Artemis design head went for a concept that failed, and I it has to do more with their competition going farther on the foiling level.
This status quo reinforce the fact on how advanced ETNZ is right now, beyond some saying Oracle being lighter & having the advantage of low aero drag, it is clear that New Zealand nailed the foiling concept on their first try, and been fine tuning since then.
Artemis has a long way to go, but they have lots of talented people, although some left the design camp past months. The good news is Oracle modified their straight L boards copying ETNZ and went flying in an impressive way.
So now Artemis can focus on improving their competition concept, not an easy thing to do at this stage, but feasible as they have the resources. Hope they can get going again quickly to have a good competitive LV Cup.
I don't have a favorite at present but its a bit unfair to say Artemis has failed. All the teams still have a way to go before the real racing begins. If the International Jury had not decided in TNZ's favour about how they interpreted the rules then the teams may have had to go down a different direction. If the wave state is quite rough on the race day then Artemis maybe the favorite! If the conditions are really light they again maybe the favorite so there are many modes and enviromental conditions that changes all the bets at the moment. Plus there is still alot of backroom stuff to come out on race day. Until the LV kicks off proper we won;t really know. Thats the beauty of AC racing! Peter s
It seems you always read excerpts of the posts and reply selectively. All that you wrote I already said many times on weather on Artemis posts.
But here I'm pointing that they have a concept, Non foiling, and that concept failed as they are going to re configure the platform to foil.
They will completely fail if they get busted in their current status quo at the LV.
Paul Cayard is even saying they will not "bury their heads"……………………………………………………………….
I'm surprised you say Oracle copied ETNZ boards. From the latest pictures and videos, it looks to me that the ETNZ latest boards don't have anymore their S shape at the top ( so :straight, or slightly curved on the top ) as Oracle ; and that they significantly reduced their chord length, so they are close to Oracle chord value now. Looks to me that it's more ETNZ copying Oracle, than the reverse …
Ok you are right, and that is why ETNZ is flying smooth since its launch.
And Oracle didn´t modified their straight L foil… That it seems to be one of the keys on their new stable flight among the hundreds mods they made.
Oracle seems to be blasting the bay in full speed, but I still like ETNZ for the whole package.
And if I were team owner/CEO, nothing would made me choose Oracle at this stage, not even speed diffs.
The whole campaing and the Cup pending on a bareaway in +20knots in SF.. is just Kamikaze thinking in Catracing with the consequences we´ve already seen on a Winged 72.