Thursday 17 January 2013

America's Cup news, Mike Drummond interview part 2

Part 2 of the Mike Drummond interview:

from the following Sail-World article

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Americas-Cup:-Designer-Mike-Drummond-looks-at-foiling-and-pitchpoling/105592

Mike Drummond has been involved in the design side of four winning America's Cup campaigns, starting with then Team New Zealand in 1987-2003, before joining Alinghi in 2007 and latterly was the Design Director for Oracle Racing in the 2010 America's Cup, and the development of the wingsailed 120ft trimaran USA-17.

In this second part of the interview (click here to read Part 1) the issues of foiling and the trade-offs are discussed, along with the factors that led to the pitchpoling of Oracle's USA-17, and what is expected to be seen in the second generation of AC72 catamarans.

read more here

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