Hey, any of you guys in San Francisco follow the Americas Cup yacht racing?

[Bob T]

Big day tomorrow anyway at 08.10 & 09.10 our local time as the closing races get underway. 72 ft catamarans' racing at 47knots top speed!! Foil to foil gybes!! So cool.

There's been some pretty exciting racing through the series and Louis Vuitton Cup qualifier series but its all action stations now. Fortunately the boss on the navy base at work is a keen yachtsman so we get to watch the racing live  

Any of you guys following it??

[mrsskip68]

I know that my son, stepfather, and I watch it! I love Cats! (of course on a smaller scale! 18-21's.  Lol!) Check out this pic of my sons bday present . (i hope this loads, as im on my phone)   Lisa

[mrsskip68]

I grew up sailing. Its tough work pulling lines, but totally fun when you pitch a cat on its side and run!

[AKcharger]

Not really

[Bob T]

I grew up sailing. Its tough work pulling lines, but totally fun when you pitch a cat on its side and run!

Cool present, hard to see, is it static mounted display?
Lol, you're pretty far from pulling ropes/sheets out in the desert Lisa  Did your parents have yachts.
I crew on a mates 11m reacher, we have been doing the winter series, fairly cold, yesterdays race got hit by a 35kn squall and driving stinging rain, we finished down the pack a bit. Next weekend is a 45mile round an island in the gulf race, should be fun.

Whew, the Americas Cup was exciting this morning, Team NZ nearly capsized, up on a 45' angle, scary stuff, I dont know how it didnt go over, incredibly lucky not to. If it had've our challenge would have been all over with the cat spread around in a lot of twisted broken bits.
Hoping the race tomorrow moring has a good result. Our boss on base is pretty cool and lets us watch the race as he is a keen yachtie and has done some major crossings ( Easter Island from NZ )  we are ''marine sparkies"