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I meant limited conditions
In Response To: What do you mean by controlled conditions Larry? 
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() Maybe "controlled" conditions was a poor choice of words. I suspect that boat is so heavily instrumented they knew what was coming, and that they were just overpowered, with no hope of correcting.
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- By now most have seen the ORACLE crosing the Line of Death.
- Some needs to be prepared to ease the main
- As Spithill put it, you have to find your limits.
- Yup -- they stuffed the bows
- That's such a staggering design flaw.
- Optimized for controlled conditions
- What do you mean by controlled conditions Larry?
- I meant limited conditions
- What do you mean by controlled conditions Larry?
- Optimized for controlled conditions
- That started out as about 90 degrees true and moved to "close hauled", they then headed-off -- but it doesn't look deep?
- That's such a staggering design flaw.
