Nice YouTube digest of the 34th America's Cup

Spithill joins Fox and Friends (video included)

wow.,...........that was f'in awesome. I hope you guys have subwoofers on your computers.

Thanks again Phillip for all the great links! You've made following this awesome series effortless.

Dave

Screw that nonsense. My home theatre decoded DTS 5.1 Surround Sound from that video using the Chromecast. As Lynyrd Skynyrd said "TURN IT UP!"

This is worth another look.

This slide show is Outstanding

Thanks Dave, and everyone else who has shouted out here. I've also received many compliments by emails, text, PM, and phone calls, where everybody expressed the same theme. This thread was their one stop shop for all things AC.

It was just brought to my attention, that this thread has received more views than any other (sailing related) thread in catsailor.com history. Good Times with a great topic. Thanks all.

Here are the numbers behind the event:

• 190 countries broadcast and viewed the America’s Cup on television
• America’s Cup broadcast in news bulletins globally 15,000 times
• Over 320,000 downloads of the America’s Cup app making it into the top 20 most download free sports app in the USA
• Over 1 million visitors to the official public sites in San Francisco at America’s Cup Park and America’s Cup Village. Hundreds of thousands more viewed the racing from the city front
• Nearly 10,000 hospitality guests
• Over 5 million unique visitors to AmericasCup.com in September and over 45-million page views during the Summer of Racing (July 1 to September 26)
• 24.8 million views of videos on YouTube
• Over 100 million minutes of videos viewed in the past month
• 575 accredited media, from 32 countries
• A 19 show America’s Cup Concert Series
• Over 25% of the population of New Zealand watched the racing broadcast live during the America’s Cup Finals
• 750 volunteers donated 50,000 hours of their time
• 1.2 million fans on social media
• 21,000 members on the Crew Fan Club
• Over 1,000 local business contracted for the event
• 17,000 pounds of trash removed from the Bay shoreline by the volunteers of the Healthy Ocean Project

Here are the FIRST for this event.

• First time racing has been held off the city front rather than offshore
• First time racing downtown in a major world city
• First time – 50 mph – Foiling!
• First time there has been an America’s Cup Concert Series

The numbers speak for themselves. Larry got it right!

This is simply awesome... I've watched it 5 times this morning already:
<doh ninja'd by Philip>

With all of those numbers, I ran into a few folks at the very high end of our sport who didn't watch any of it. Sad, really.

Mike

I agree - Philip's attention to detail keeping everything up to date regarding all things AC34 have been great! Certainly one stop shopping here!

Kudos to you and greatly appreciated!

I've got to admit - based on the LV series and the mechanical issues we saw with various breakdowns, I was pleasantly surprised to see how reliable these boats were throughout the competition.

Considering the relative lack of racing for Oracle leading into the event, the boat held up well minus the one wing skin puncture/tear. They had zero margin to deal with a mechanical failure - particularly after playing their postponement card so early. I think Barker made reference to it in one of the recent interviews Philip posted.....

I doubt they'd tell us, but I'm sure there were more issues and repairs than we know about. Still, I agree that they held up remarkably well, and I think had even fewer wing skin issues than the 45s.

Mike

look like ole DogZilla is getting relocated to Oracle HQ. Probably sans wing :P

what are we looking at there?

Tough to see with the forums resizing the pic, but there are three hard points installed on the lake that look proportionally like the distance between the hulls on DoGzilla.

Better there than the current resting place: the tarmac of the San Fran OTUSA base. Although, that may have been inspirational for the team leading up to this year's regatta and win...

Mike

if they took the film off the wing and left the skeleton with the ability to rotate, that would keep it from causing too much problem, eh? Aside from lightning...

How long do you think something would survive in the elements that was purpose built for one race and a very light air race at that?