[Alberg30] Does anyone have the phone...

[John Birch]

Hey Oracle dropped 2 keels - Alinghi broke a mast - Stars & Stripes sank and
kaput poles n' sails galore for all.
NZ didn't push hard enough before the series to find the weak spots - big
boo boo as we all know.

Clearly the class scantling rules need a look at otherwise the technological
trickledown benefits to the average sailor are zip, nada, if the object is
only to make really fast boats that self-destruct and that being hopefully
just after they cross the finish line in the last winning race. Wait, what
am I saying .... that is the object !!! ; )

So my question is where do they put all the land fill ....? ; )

Still, loved the series - what a way to pass the winter - but I think I'll
keep my Alberg.

Cheers,

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Terrell" <DTERRELL at message.nmc.edu>
To: <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Does anyone have the phone...


> I think it was Southern Spars - an NZ company. They have a  good
> reputation, and surely say they build to specifications.
>
> >>> sail_505 at hotmail.com 03/03/03 01:47PM >>>
> number for the company that made the spars for NZL for the recent AC
> races?
>
> Race 1 - boom failure
> Race 4 - mast failure
> Race 5 - spinnaker pole failure
>
> I want to make sure I don't buy any of their crap.
>
> Let's see...out of 5 races there were failures in 3 of the races.
> That's a
> 60% failure rate....they could get jobs in the US as weather
> forecasters!
>
>
> Mike Lehman
> "Gilleleje" #505


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