America's Cup boats evenly matched
By Alexander Smith from Valencia, Spain.
After years of work perfecting their boat for the America's Cup, Team New Zealand's designer is convinced there is little to choose between NZL92 and holder Alinghi's newer and largely untested SUI100.
But with only two races sailed and each team winning one apiece, it is still too early to say which is the faster craft, Marcelino Botin told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
"Knowing whether you are faster is very difficult... At this stage for us it's still not absolutely clear what the trade off between the boats is," he said at the Kiwi's base in Valencia.
"It's pretty even...they're better at some things and we're better at others. At this stage that's all we know. There's definitely not a big difference between the boats."
Before the best-of-nine series began on Saturday, there was widespread speculation around Port America's Cup that SUI100 was a "rocketship" with a more bulbous bow shape than previous boats that would leave the challenger trailing in its wake. >more
But with only two races sailed and each team winning one apiece, it is still too early to say which is the faster craft, Marcelino Botin told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
"Knowing whether you are faster is very difficult... At this stage for us it's still not absolutely clear what the trade off between the boats is," he said at the Kiwi's base in Valencia.
"It's pretty even...they're better at some things and we're better at others. At this stage that's all we know. There's definitely not a big difference between the boats."
Before the best-of-nine series began on Saturday, there was widespread speculation around Port America's Cup that SUI100 was a "rocketship" with a more bulbous bow shape than previous boats that would leave the challenger trailing in its wake. >more
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