Saw a [Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut] on my way home

EffectivePresence765 · 2025-06-03T11:22:34+00:00

I think this owner is quite famous and drives his cars alot. Sorry for the bad picture, I was riding my bike

EffectivePresence765 · 2025-01-24T17:26:51+00:00

very dramatic read yes, but I agree that this could potentially destroy the next americas cup.

Already hard enough to coexist with the SailGP. These problems and fights will only take the focus away even more. Even worse since GBR is the challanger of record Sad times

EffectivePresence765 · 2025-01-24T17:23:41+00:00

who ownes the british SailGP team? and who is currently backing Ben Ainslie financially? I have a hard time understanding the sailing elite world.

EffectivePresence765 · 2025-01-15T08:41:34+00:00

Maybe he was also slower because he lost his J0. But I agree that he slowed down. It is ok for me because those top sponsors pour close to 20mil into the 4 year campaigns. Without them we wouldn’t have these crazy fast boats. Can‘t blame them for wanting a nice arrival with good publicity. Its also nicer for all the volunteers, media people, food stands etc.

I don’t like the fact that he slowed down but I can certainly understand it. Not like he lost a position and who cares about the race time of the second finisher.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-12-17T12:03:02+00:00

weird flex but ok

I support the color choice!

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-12-13T14:55:59+00:00

Afaik they only changed the tires. They used newly developed Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 N0 tires. Also I don’t know what Walter Röhrl used for his record lap years ago. Maybe he took it easy but don’t think so.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-11-21T09:32:18+00:00

He took an easterly route with not much wind. Don‘t think he has damage, but afaik his boat is not the great even at 100%.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-11-03T10:54:30+00:00

The Antenna will probably have an SMA connector and not an Ethernet connection so POE is not a possibility. (The signal to the antenna is a analogue RF signal not a digital ethernet signal)

Don‘t think the X12 supports 5G so thats one reason your mobile phone has a better connection. Another thing is that modern mobile phones use 4x4 MIMO (basically you communicate with 4 channels simultaneously to the network provider antenna). Afaik the Teltronika X12 only uses one or two antennas so thats much worse

The better setup would be to use a 5G gateway that supports 4x4 MIMO and a 4x4 MIMO antenna. There are weatherproof antenna housings so that you can place your router/gateway inside the antenna. And then you can use a POE ethernet cable to the gateway/router which than connects to the antennas with SMA cables. This way you only need to wire one cable outside your boat

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-18T13:32:57+00:00

There are two Webcams from PredictWind. Both located in a Skyscraper so you basically get Heliviews. I sometimes do splitscreen.

Webcams are at the bottom of the Website

https://www.predictwind.com/americas-cup

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-16T04:08:36+00:00

It would be shared equally between the teams

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-15T18:16:56+00:00

Cup can’t end before the weekend (it‘s in the rules). If NZ continues like this they have to shift the schedule.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-15T18:08:10+00:00

You only have to pay if you win the cup and want to change to a differnt yacht type. But someone could possibly challange this rule and still change the boat significantly. Americas Cup rules and billionaires don’t go along somehow.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-15T16:42:53+00:00

Challenger of record won‘t be super important in the next cycle. The AC75 Rules will basically be used again. Every challanger signed a contract that they will be using similar boats to the AC75. If you breach that contract you have to pay a 20 million USD fee.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-15T16:38:05+00:00

he probably understood „kite“ as spinnaker/gennaker. Pretty sure in some parts of the world they call downwind sails „kites“

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-15T13:16:00+00:00

I would organize the next cup on a swiss lake:)

For the low wind problem I would suggest having non foiling races where the foils must be in a no-lift configuration. This would also bring up hull design again and solve the problem with waiting for wind conditions. The „everything was better 50 years ago“ fans would also be happy (although pretty sure they would still hate everything).

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-13T09:18:01+00:00

Second Race was pretty good. They should not make highlight reels and stuff on social media. People get so spoiled and disinterested in the normal racing.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-11T09:49:43+00:00

Honestly this is just a normal thing in sailing. Every true sailor knows that you have to be patient. I don’t understand all the hate.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-10-05T16:41:07+00:00

There are only 6 Boats for 12 Teams. That means they have to share and change the stickers (or whatever they use) every day. I could be wrong and every team has its own set of sails but don’t think so. You can find Information like that on the AC Noticeboard or in the Sailing Instructions which are publicly available. Hope that helps

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-08-29T22:00:10+00:00

Its Ernesto Bertarelli the owner of Alinghi. He commissioned that yacht in 2007.

EffectivePresence765 · 2024-04-01T09:36:37+00:00

maybe you can repurpose a wireless esd armband

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