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No tiene, ...no tiene...

In the world of multihulls, length is redundant because you can come up with a 40ft hydrofoiler that goes as fast as a 90ft because when you base your hydrodynamics on hydrofoils, length becomes irrelevant. It would be interesting to see a venue, although I doubt it will happen, where winds are never more than 8 knots and then one team appears with a 90ft multihull while the other comes with a 35-40ft hydrofoiler crewed by two people that takes off with 5 knots of wind. There is nothing you can do in that case. I can also argue that during prestart even a Tornado can infringe a series of penalties on a 90ft trimaran.

Alinghi could for example decide that racing takes place in Valencia at 10am when you are guaranteed to have 2-3 knots of wind or go to Tarifa in southern Spain where you have a minimum of 25 knots every day. You have to keep that in mind because it doesn’t mean at all BMW Oracle will win the races in case they win the lawsuit. Alinghi still has a huge advantage under all scenarios.

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