NASCAR comes to sailing. The crowd is going to be watching waiting for the next crash. Doubt that we'll have any 10 boat pile ups though. These boats are too unseaworthy, fragile and hard to control to be a viable design for anything but demolition derby racing. The last Cup was BOORING. It was all about who could win the drag race to the next mark with most races over on the first leg.

America's Cup boats have never been about racer/cruisers but at least many of them have seen a life after the race. Look at the recent revival of the 'J' boats and all the 12s doing charter work and racing out of Newport, and the newer mono's out of San Diego. The race shouldn't be about throw away boats.

There has to be a design parameter that will produce fast multi hulls or even monos that won't pearl in the relatively calm conditions of SF Bay yet still fulfill the need for speed. Latitude 38 suggested a trimaran design that is capable of ocean passages yet no slouch for outright speed. http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/lectronicday.lasso?date=2012-10-17#.UZkkhpV945Q That's just one suggestion but feel the America's Cup has got to go in another direction than their present course.