America's Cup!

America's Cup racing starts today in Bermuda with the Louis Vuitton World Series, for Oracle Team USA and the five other contenders who had enough money to participate in a Cup campaign this go around! The Cup is being contested this year in 15-meter (about 45 ft.) foiling catamarans, reputedly as fast or faster than the 72-ft. cats used in the last America's Cup in 2013.

{link to super-cool America's Cup catamaran used to be here!}

We got to get us one of these!!! With computer-controlled hydraulic rigid wings, lifting canting daggerboard foils, fin rudders, and carbon fiber and titanium everything, these boats are so freaky fast and generate so much apparent wind forward that they never experience downwind point of sail. Sailing purists say these things are more aircraft than sailboat.

Here's a guide to the TV coverage for the sailing, on NBC Sports Network...
https://www.americascup.com/en/where-to-watch.html

Enjoy and dream!