The Evolution of America’s Cup Yacht Design: The Move from Mono to Multi-Hull

[@whynot64928]

Would be nice to have this updated to 2024

[@whatdoiknowsmith]

Great lecture, It was amazing to watch in the 80's, especially when the Aussies first took the cup from America. Dennis Conners was the first to lose the cup for America, but he didn't have much of a chance up against Bondy and Ben Lexan's keel design. Ahh that Aussie ingenuity. Being about Ten years old I was very impressed by the effort of the sailors and designers to take the edge and win.

[@8788luigi]

I read an old book about the history of Americas cup. They were given a 100pound throphy because they did not want o give the real Victoria's cup. So when the British wants to recover the challenge, The American team requires that challengers must sail their boats to the US to challenge. Next they ruled that all challengers must race amongst themselves and who ever wins will face the American team. They evan required that only open sea yatching club can compete.etc..ect..Mr Lipton challened the Cup 4 times to no avail.

[@markbartlett3274]

Now that they taught the sail boats to fly sail racing will never be the same.

[@BeKindToBirds]

No definitely not. Displacement boats are the old school but they had a brilliant run of thousands of years and I really think they'll keep sailing and developing them. The science is the same in a lot of ways so I hope that everyone benefits from the rising tide of a new cutting edge.

[@nateshew3770]

funny how the leg thing came up

[@dynamicsolution8166]

The winning streak statistic is not entirely true... an American baseball team has won every World Series since 1903, 116 year streak!

[@gungabow]

1851 to 1983 is 132 years. So another 13 to wait to break that number

[@thomascooley2749]

It's funny to me how f1 or nascar or government bealive every one wants restrictions lol There will allways be someone who is willing to spend more money and work the system no matter what rules you put in place