turn that horrible 'music' down, or better, off! can't hear Richard!

Lousy sound, put some microphones on these guys. Why no screengrabs? What is a this background adding to the experience?

It's an Italian Magic not American Magic that do the trick..

Grande Checco " Siamo italiani .." non dimenticatelo gente , non dimenticatelo mai !!

Sort your audio mix please. We don’t need to hear the music. We’re here to listen to the words.

Drop the soundtrack!

But in the end divine justice struck Ineos and the two time fraudulent judges...what says Ben in the second cross? Ridiculous (at LR in front of them)...yes, like the sentence, you can hear the screeching of the nails on the glass!!!

Nice explanation guys, but why on earth this disturbing music in the background 😳

You did not address the 'fact' (as per the Live TV) that ITA did NOT cross the line early? .... (And that the live rerun omitted the red superimposed red line, what the heck was that ...... )

Next time there will be computers to act as umpires

Thanks for cheap porn music. Next time just make it louder, so we don't need to listen what is umpire saying through his ass.

Too technical for me but seems to me that this « shadow boat » 4 seconds ahead is not very helpful as we can see it shows where the boat would be assuming they would not change speed (quite OK) AND keep exact same direction (????). And here lies the issue, the direction is changing! the « ghost shadow » should be a larger zone showing all the places the boat can be in 4 more seconds including the fact that direction is changing and that it can be modified again (idealy it should be some kind of distribution of probable positions) and then... one might see the possible colision courses (or not) and assess if the possibility of collision had been increased by a boat who should have given way to the over.

Let's forget about the background music and the 100y old mic and about who's supporting which team. Imo this video shows one open issues (at least for me), which I'd love to have some explanations on from the race organization. While GPS accuracy is pretty dang good (2cm???, anyway, with differential GPS etc. 2cm is realistic), how precise is the software that shows the position on the umpires screen and how much delay has this software? I assume, that the software computes all this stuff based on the last n GPS data sets. Even if it considers also some other sensor data, the computation is still based on past data. This means delay. Second question regarding this issue: what is the sample rate for GPS and other sensors, if any involved? The second thought about the content: as AC boats get faster and faster, seems that the decisions tend to be more like "be gentle and don't answer with aggression if your opponent is too aggressive".

Did NZ run out of mics?

That b................................... music is driving me mad, Ill get some rulings from elswhere.

What about analysis of the cancelled double OCS in race 5? The rules specifically say that isn't allowed. Is Richard giving us BS on that call too?

Richard is just sticking to his guns, knowing full well he messed up.

Music sucks. Please stop.

Many thx for making a video about this hot topic! Found the explanation and reasoning weak and not logical. Music in this video did not help to make it a more pleasant experience, sorry. Keep those clips coming

Hawfull sound. Why a background music ? Why ? why ? why ?

Pls don't joke. This is a dumb and dull application of a secondary rule. The main point is that Britannia did a dangerous and desperate move. Jim was just approaching the start moment following his time of distance, turning a bit to be in, well before the dangerous british tack. 30+ knts speed, tacking just in front, and we discuss about 11 degrees of helm. umpires are burochratic landlubbers, or not so clean.

My 2 cents.. 1. a transcript of umpire's words by umpire itself Is mandatory. 2 . the umpires should be on board of and Ac75 in a start practice session to understand the issues in real Life and the distance from simulator experience . A start cannot be rewinded

This interpretation is just crazy. I can head up however I want if I am starboard and that british boat did nothing to place itself out of the way.

PLEASE stop this so called music in the background!

Interesting but struggling to hear past the repetitive music

Thanks for this interesting video. Could you please make another one to explain how the umpires judge the OCS? In this race luna rossa seemed on time from the images and virtual eye. Next time no background music please ;)

I heard an interview with Francesco Bruni on An Italian channel. He did not complain about the decision, but he definitely thinks this type of umpiring changes the dynamics, and that it results in the protection given by Rule 16 being much enhanced with respect to fleet races or even ordinary match racing. This situation was just about fine, LR gave them room to keep clear and they kept clear, no penalty (LR started early but this is another story). However, you can see a situation where the r.o.w boat may not be able to start or had to start early because of this, and this does not seem entirely right.

Wonderful explanation, please more of that. And please don't put background music on the video, it doesn't make it better.

I suppose that's what you call Brexit!

It will be very difficult for Luna Rossa in the final on the 06.03 but they have a chance to win, because Luna Rossa for two months ago and now is not the same.

So you are not allowed to burn time and speed by heading up ?

Kenny is still pissed about this and he's right. Hardly sounds like Richard is arguing with conviction - rather he's sticking to his original story.

What a load of BS, Ineos has no right to push LR off pin start course from port tack position. Next thing we will be taking the colour of the boat into consideration.

I wounder , Did Magic have an issue with its foil drops before the major accident ?

really sucks this scenario! as if the crew and helmsman are sailing with a software predicting four seconds ahead !!! total shift from the reality .... total nerdie craziness!!!!!! by the way: wtf the music on backgr.??? plus the whispering umpire with whistle Ssssss! far out!

Maybe the background music is the same the Umpires are use to listen to during the races, this is why sometime we don't understand their decisions. :)

Doesn’t make sense whatsoever...Prada has right of way and she has the right to enter the gate as she wishes. Horrible precedent, rules shouldn’t have the possibility of being interpreted

soft porno music 80 -90

In few words the boat ahead approx 2 lengths IS ALWAYS RIGHT whatever they do despite starboard or port. Rule 10 made useless... until the first crash. That would be nice if not be really dangerous with these boats. MAH!

Music ruined a great analysis

Ken, well done! This video is really what the sailing world was wanting an answer on! Thanks!

To win the America’s Cup, Lunarossa will have to fight against Team New Zealand and against doubios interpretations of the umpires.

Nice trick: get the umpire to mumble some nonsensical crap masked by irritating 'music' and then claim we got an explanation of how they didn't try and cheat for the Brits. Good one but kind of old in this day and age.

Music .... WHY?

Evil Alphabet inc and all these adds.. Big tech snakes!

We do not need any music for Christ sake👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Such an awesome graceful spectacle

Haha! Agree with the comments about the silly soundtrack. Cutting that down by 50% or more would have been super easy and something to do in the future. Is really a waste and adds nothing to the vid. For the rules this is exactly the same application as the infamous downwind cross. If the ROW boat alters course you must give room for the burdened boat to keep clear. With the software they have it makes the RC call so much easier vs on the water in a chase boat. Nice. Finals should be interesting and hopefully very close. We will all see soon enough.

E' incredibile,anche se LR aveva mura a destra e Ineos a sinistra, il computer ha calcolato che per 4 secondi non ci sarebbe stata collisione e che quindi LR poteva tranquillamente fare la sua traiettoria verso la boa.Voglio vedere chiunque si becca di traverso un 25 metri che va a 30 nodi a non cambiare traiettoria e a non essere influenzato da quella manovra Vorrei vedere a parti invertite cosa sarebbe successo

Let's talk about how Luna Rossa was early because buy eye right on time.

my question is then why could wild oats not use this Ruel to get out of jail like the poms in the Sydney to Hobart

If your having difficulty with the music try turning on subtitles, it's not perfect but being Yankee/Aussie - English it's not too bad. Frankly I hadn't even noticed the music until I read the amazing amount of related comments, I was too engrossed in what they had been saying. There are many comments arguing the point that the umpire has just carefully explained so I suggest watching the video again with subs on. Jimmy you are not allowed to hit the other boat but you are welcome to keep trying if you can catch her, you know who I mean!

Turn off the goddamn annoying music

Luna Rossa did not cross the line earlier, shame on you Umpire. If you check in slow motion,you will see I’m correct.

Not sure I like or agree with this. UK didn’t have rights. Put them selves in this position at high speed, they had the burden to keep clear. ITA was gradually turning up the whole time even before the tack. No proper course before start gun goes so they can aim where they like but suddenly they need to give UK space to keep clear??? It’s a bit like ramming at the line and then at the last minute demanding room to avoid contact. You can’t rule on the ghost view. If you did then UK hit the mark!

Spithill does like to "subtly" move off course into spaces where he can then cry "foul"; maybe this was a case of crying wolf too many times (the umpires had seen/heard it too many times before from him)?

You the man Nate😎

Lose the music.

Great! Now I can only hear the music and not the Lesson.

No radios playing in the classroom!!!

Why, with such a flat voice-audio track, would you make things more difficult by layering on this inane synth-music track? There is no such thing as background music.

The speed of these boats makes the rules warp and become even murkier. There needs to be some invisible shape around the boat that automatically puts you in penalty or some other sort of black and white system.

That music was awful. I watched the race in real time and when this video came up I was really interested to hear from the umpire about the starting line issue. I have no idea what he was saying because the music was louder than the talking so it did no good to turn up the volume. We didn’t need any music for this. What a waste.

This is the second time i've seen these guys blow obvious calls because they are just buried in a computer screen and not looking on the water. On the water 10/10 this is a UK penalty. Might have heard this wrong, but wow. You can port tack at the pin and the windward boat on starboard can't change course even though they are 100% the right of way boat. Unbelievable. So yeah, you heard it here first, tack to port (when you and competitor are on off the wind) and you get right of way! I'd like this clarified again and again because this changes sailing to me.

Please TURN OFF the music.

The audio engineer for this clips and the races just likes to layer noise upon noise!

The music is totally unnecessary and irritating! The audio guy must be high! Couldn't bear to finish the video!

I’m not a fan of this rules interpretation. I guess I just like a more “brass knuckle” type boat racing. If you are locked out at the pin end like Ineos was you should keep clear. You loose, it’s your own fault. How can this be a legal start? I liked the old AC racing. Lock them out and send them off in the general direction of Gilligans island.

could you make this without the music please.

Turn off the music so I can understand the comments!!!

Wasted interview, can it be repeated without the music, a better microphone for the gentleman in the yellow top and if he can match his voice with that of the other gentleman it would help. 30 seconds in, I gave up.

couldn't get thru the whole thing due to horrifically annoying background music

Fascinating and while you can see how yhat plays out in normal course racing there be no way to really know

It would have been much more informational had they showed the screen all the time while things were being discussed.

So different when its one on one. So much mord hovoc can be reaped.

Sadly for yacht racing the rules are ALWAYS "murky" Starboard boat should be able to come up 11 degrees and the port boat should HAVE to get the hell out of the way. It is called racing bunch of mumbo jumbo "interpretation'

This is great. For all the little broadcast / format mistakes, this more than makes up for everything ten times over. Keep up the good work, you all who put this together for us! Make tweaks based on feedback, and you'll get a well-oiled machine going for decades.

whose moronic idea was it to have that music in the background ? fire him.her

What's the point of having the music on??

Thankyou both for the Very Concise explanation for the Starting Procedure , very much appreciated.