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The Righting Moment Machine: Dissecting Emirates Team New Zealand's AC75 Foil Advantage
The America's Cup is being decided by a 'righting moment machine' that defies traditional sailing logic. Emirates Team New Zealand is using a radical T-foil strategy to shift their center of lift further outboard than ever before. While competitors rely on refined engineering, ETNZ is intentionally piercing the water's surface with their foil tips to unlock a 7.5% speed advantage that might make the competition mathematically impossible to win.
Mar 5, 2021