"We tend to look downwind to see where the wind is rather than upwind when we are sailing these foiling multihulls" - Ray Davies.
According to Davies, not all of the 11 man ETNZ crew are able to talk back over the radio system, with a selected 'brains trust', set up to transmit. "Everyone can hear what five of us can say on board and then a lot of the guys can talk to each other - people two or three positions away can communicate without comms, but as soon as you start separating people between the two hulls it becomes impossible. "It's actually a balance between too many people being able to communicate and not enough. I am sure all the teams are doing it slightly differently but we have evolved a technique which seems to work for us." Chris Draper said that the Italian Luna Rossa crew had gone a step further to improve the quality of the communication on board by using noise cancelling headsets to filter out the wind noise. "We’ve spent a lot of time working on noise cancelling headsets to basically shut out the wind noise," he said. "We didn’t have that before and we really used to struggle with over 15 knots of wind when we just couldn’t hear one another. "But we’ve addressed that and now we have really good headsets, really good devices that cancel the wind and everybody can hear one another really well even when we are travelling at 40 knots. To be honest the biggest wind noise is when we are going upwind but we managed to make it so everybody understands." In addition to wearing headsets to make himself heard, Luna Rossa tactician Francesco Bruni said the other big difference was being able to
15 Image credit: Chris Cameron/ETNZ
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