Could easily be sent to bottom
speedboats have trouble keeping up with one of these yachts when they let her rip.
So what's more likely: SoftBank Japan, a little brother offshoot of Oracle, running into TNZ or Oracle? Mind you, if SoftBank did a hard bank into TNZ, skipper Dean Barker would return to these shores with trepidation.
This is not, I have to emphasise, a column suggesting deliberate cheating by crashing. Yes, we are dealing with win-at-all costs merchants. But they are highly skilled, highly professional, with the standards which go with that. There is some sort of code between those who live on the sea, a respect for life, and awareness of the dangers they face.
But this question just will not go away: if Ainslie had been racing against Oracle that day, would Team Russell Coutts have ended up spending a few days wading through epoxy vapours and carbon dust?
Methinks not.