Head-On POV Of Te Rehutai | 5th Apr 2023 | Ep. 307

Location: Takapuna, Auckland, NZ
Wind at time of filming: 7-10kts N (left to right on screen)

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So this is probably my most epic moment of filming in this new campaign. From a videography perspective, its rare that the boat comes straight for you… I’m always set up on the shore and its always a bit of a calculated guess as to where the boat will pass the closest and when. The funny thing is, I chose today to pull out my old video camera from the previous AC to film the team further out. It served me well for the last cup because of its enormous zoom (which the new camera doesn’t have)… but no 4k, which is why I upgraded. And while ETNZ did start their training out on the horizon, they began to get closer, and closer, and closer, until they filled the camera screen coming directly head-on. So in the end, I didn’t need the big zoom, but it was awesome to finally catch them from this perspective anyway… its just not 4K 😐

Still pretty cool though… there are two head-on upwind runs towards the camera… the second time is more extreme.

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Here’s an extract from the official Recon team, as reported on www.americascup.com

With the afternoon clocking on, a further rotation saw Performance Engineer Elise Beavis and Hydraulics specialist Scott Barnes jump onboard for the ride of their lives back to the harbour with the team hitting some 45 knots in a wind that barely troubled the wind gauge above 10 knots. Awesome blast.

After sailing, a stoked Scott Barnes talked to the recon team specifically about his area of hydraulics and speaking about the pump system he said: “It’s a one design component for all the teams, the pump for the cyclors, so all the teams will have the same kit…we have got a different setup of cylinders on the boat because now the boats don’t have runners, you’re moving different displacements around, but you know it’s all the same sort of principle…There are different displacements you can choose…there’s a huge range that you can cater for your own design. (Higher volume lower pressure and vice versa – as noted by the recon team). The rule is 600 BAR in the sailing circuit, which is quite high as a maximum so all the teams will be pushing that I guess…there’s a class accumulator which is titanium and yeah that’s pushing the boundaries too.”

Onboard today:

Helms: Nathan Outteridge / Pete Burling

Trimmers: Andy Maloney / Blair Tuke

Power Group: Simon van Velthooven / Marius van der Pol / Louis Sinclair / Louis Crosby / Hamish Bond / Marcus Hansen / Sam Meech

Notes: Elise Beavis and Scott Barnes guested onboard.

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Hey I’m Justin Mitchell. I capture America’s Cup training footage, among other things with foils, in Auckland, NZ. I’m based in Narrow Neck on the North Shore. I also take professional images when I’m not filming. If it has foils you’ll probably see me on shore somewhere looking for that perfect shot!

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