Day 3 Louis Vuitton Semi Finals – Marginal Monday – America’s Cup – 16-9-24
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Really enjoying your coverage and narration. Would be even better if you are able to include videos that show the part of the races that you describe in your long narrations so we don’t listen to 10 mins of narration without any vids. That would not only be more helpful for us but A LOT MORE ENTERTAINING.
90% blah blah blah. Show more sailing
Boring
Still more talk. Show us film.
Too much talk, not enough sailboat racing.
These races are no more entertaining than watching non sailors race their radio controlled boats on a city's park pond.
Planet sail and Matthew are doing an incredible job. Thank you.
Great questions, …. although answers seem to be by ChatGPT
Hopefully the Swiss keep it up.
The American boat, sorry but : i know it has nothing to do with you honest sailors.
Hope the New York Yacht Club, loses for 137 years.
Dennis O'Connor for those of you who remember (brought a cat against a single hull) is the principal cheater in an a desperate attempt to bring the cup back to the US.
You call it America's cup. When it started, the cup was the possession of the winner.
Right now; this is new Zealand's Cup!
It sits in their trophy room for everyone to see and has been there for a few years now.
Never saw it in New Zealand on the news…strange? You all should be prouder….denying the Americans sports wise is good for the world
Shortening the course twice handed the race to Alingi. Should have been a protest against the Race Committee.
A WIN for Allingi by the rules YES. But a failure by the race Committee. No way was that course providing 40 minutes off their wind test for racing. A torrid day for the Americas cup. If this was between Ineos & Lunga Rossa both dead in the water. How can you decide a cup on a result like this ? There are spare days use them. Displacement sailing is a dead duck race. Americas cup got this wrong . Lets hope that trap is not set again. The racing has been thrilling close & at times on the very edge off dangerous. Lets keep that & drop the drudge stuff.
Always like listening to Tom Slingsby in interviews – there's no dissembling or emotionless "professional sportsperson speak", you just get what happened and how he feels about it.
I start neutral on the subject of LR vs AM, but find myself hoping TS et al can pull this back.
Thanks for the great summaries! Please show more footage during the commentary.
Ridiculous sailing in those conditions. Need a realistic minimum wind to sail.
Beautiful interview's! 🕊️ We know dare concentrating bye the fact nobody's shaving 😊 kinda remind's me of Our Lorde's threshing floor ☮️ KIXI'S AM ❤
Both AM and Alinghi won because their opponents touched down in marginal conditions. Whatever it be, at least they managed to avoid a whitewash though the odds are still very much in favour of LR and Britannia.
Twice the umpires scrubbed the penalties on LRPP almost immediately. This has never occurred before and deserves explanation. And the penalties occurred when the boats were together so don’t try the excuse they were 50m ahead so only need to drop 25m
Inte mycket till segling. Fyra cyklister och två rorsman som seglar halva sträckan var. Ingen går ens upp på däck.
Slingsby seems on the edge of tears in that interview. Lots of emotion hiding just below the surface.
I’m a convert. This foil racing waaaaay better than the old 12 metre stuff
Haha Slingsby sounds so much like Jimmy. The cadence, pauses and emphasis all spot on
Nah it wont be a worry
Excellent racing and even better coverage Matt – awesome job!
Excellent racing and even better coverage Matt – awesome job!
Can't understand why LR made such a mistake.
Good news for NZ.
American Magic has been “Sandbagging”!!…I pray!!
Both the races were amazing. Almost mirror images, AM is still in it!!
Why not start the racing earlier?? To take advantage of the earlier wind conditions in Barcelona.
What about two race tracks running concurrently?
i am with tcdosser the to LR penaltys seeed to short really short
The cup is as set up as F1
I hope AM can make a comeback.
Great reporting and content, lots to focus on and get a perspective. GB need to get on with the semi, one day of zero wind light weather shouldn’t rock the boat. Slightly disconcerting not having eye contact though, might be best to look at the camera when presenting this channel.
Why didn’t LR need to drop 75m behind AM when they had a penalty? They seemed only to drop back 35m and the penalty was cleared…
Ahoy from ft Lauderdale… Here to help
Great content. Keep it up!!
Amazing. Love the camera work!