pedaling from Team NZ in radical yacht design

AUCKLAND (Reuters) The canada goose coats on sale decision to use pedal power to work the hydraulics on Team New Zealand America Cup yacht is just another step in the way the country Canada Goose Parka has shaken up the world most prestigious sailing event, team boss Grant Dalton canada goose factory sale has said.

Team New Zealand launched their AC50 foiling canada goose black friday sale catamaran in Auckland uk canada goose outlet on uk canada goose Thursday, with the most obvious talking point the four cycling grinding stations dubbed on each hull.

Manual winch operating grinders have typically used their arms to turn the handles that buy canada goose jacket provide hydraulic pressure to allow the sailors to control the enormous wingsail and dagger boards.

its beginning with Plastic Fantastic in 1987 to the introduction of foils in San Francisco, the team has always reshaped the America Cup and the boat we canada goose clearance are christening today is introducing revolutionary concepts once again, Dalton said at the boat launch.

is a really proud day for canada goose uk outlet the team collectively. The campaign always just gets real when you launch the canada goose uk shop actual boat canada goose store that you hope will be the one to win the America Cup back for New Zealand.

The radical design was first spotted Canada Goose Coats On Sale on Tuesday, creating Canada Goose Jackets a minor media storm in New Zealand and buy canada goose jacket cheap sparking the canada goose uk black friday interest of the other challenging syndicates and holders Oracle Team USA.

Former Team New Zealand helmsman Dean Barker, who now heads Japan challenge, and Oracle James Spithill, however, played down the significance of the design.

Both said their teams had also considered it but discounted the option because the additional power canada goose jacket generated cheap Canada Goose would be negated by the need for the grinders to move quickly, and constantly, across the boats.

Team New Zealand design co ordinator Dan Bernasconi said they had been working on trying to overcome any issues.

we sat down to think about the overall design of this boat three years ago the benefits of cycling opposed canadian goose jacket to regular grinding were obvious, but certainly not without issues and difficulty with functionality, and this is what we have been canadagooseoutlet4online working incredibly hard on overcoming, he said.

Team New Zealand history of radical innovations canada goose coats in the event is Canada Goose sale well known and they were even accused of cheating when they produced a fibreglass, instead of aluminum, boat for the 1987 regatta in Fremantle.

Prior to the last event in 2013, they were also the first syndicate to lift the larger AC 72 catamaran hulls out of the water allowing it to

That revelation, however, was several canada goose clearance sale months before the regatta, allowing other syndicates to modify their boats and canada goose learn how to control them, most notably when Oracle produced a remarkable comeback from 8 1 down to Canada Goose online retain the Cup 9 cheap canada goose uk 8.

The team will spend the next month testing in Auckland before the boat is shipped to Bermuda ahead of the first race in the challengers series Canada Goose Online on Canada Goose Outlet May 26.