Subscribe now Emirates Team New Zealand’s Women and Youth sailors have begun their on water training onboard the one design AC40 ‘Te Kākahi’ in fresh conditions on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour this week in preparation for the Puig Women’s America’s Cup and Unicredit Youth America’s Cup
Hydraulics is one such area, so much so, that when Emirates Team New Zealand’s new race boat is launched next month, there will be very little of the department's work on display to the public or reconnaissance cameras.
Subscribe now With Emirates Team New Zealand last sailing their AC75 Te Rehutai in Barcelona at the tail end of 2024, the ‘cyclors’ have been embarking on a significantly focused training block over the summer, under the watchful eye of team trainer Kim Simperingham. It is a block that has
Subscribe now The names of the youth and women's teams taking part respectively in the UniCredit Youth America's Cup (September 17 - 26) and the Puig Women's America's Cup (October 5 - 13), have been announced today from the Cagliari headquarters of
INEOS Britannia, Britain’s challenger for the 37th America’s Cup, has suffered damage to one of their one-design supplied AC40 training boats, Athena, after a fire onboard. The two British one-design AC40s (Athena & Sienna) had left the dock early for a two-boat race-training day and towed to the
Subscribe now The UniCredit Youth America’s Cup will take place from 17th – 26th September in Barcelona and is open to young people aged between 18 and 25. Racing can be watched from the beach and the entire Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is free for spectators to attend.
Subscribe now Avid followers of the America’s Cup shared reconnaissance programme videos and photos may have noticed most if not all of the teams in this latest cycle using onboard LiDAR units while training and testing. LiDAR – the acronym stands for ‘Light Detection and Ranging’ is a technology that
Subscribe now BARCELONA & LONDON, Feb. 5, 2024. — Hannah Mills OBE and Sir Ben Ainslie have today announced the Athena Pathway squad of sailors that, entered through Challenging Club the Royal Yacht Squadron, will seek to make history by winning the inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup and retaining
Subscribe now After some well-earned downtime over the Christmas and New Year holiday period five of the six teams who will contest the 37th America’s Cup have been back in action over recent weeks at locations in Spain, Italy, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia. I say five rather than
Subscribe now An official notice to competitors issued jointly today by the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, and the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia, sets out the entire AC37 Barcelona Racing Schedule. Preliminary Regatta 3 First up will be the third and final Preliminary Regatta for this 37th America’s
Subscribe now Amazingly, it is the year of the America’s Cup again already. 2024 is upon us, and for Emirates Team New Zealand it comes with a familiar mix of excitement and intensity. The clock is ticking louder suddenly, as the team hit the ground running with its first
Subscribe now Ben Ainslie, skipper and CEO of the British America’s Cup Challenger of Record INEOS Britannia and the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team, has stepped down as helmsman of the UK SailGP team to focus his attention on the America’s Cup. Replacing Ainslie as helmsman on the
Subscribe now Emirates Team New Zealand has named its respective Youth and Women’s America’s Cup crews – revealing a world class and exciting line up of the best of New Zealand sailing talent. The two teams will represent the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Emirates Team New Zealand
Subscribe now In the run down to Christmas, it has been a hive of activity as usual for Emirates Team New Zealand, not least of which has been the turn of some of New Zealand’s top female sailors to integrate with the team and stake their respective claims for
Subscribe now CaixaBank has become Sail Team BCN’s official sponsor, the Spanish team participating in the Youth & Puig Women’s America’s Cup. CaixaBank’s Chairman, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, and Guillermo Altadill, Team Principal of Sail Team BCN, announced the agreement in Barcelona today. CaixaBank’s goal is
During the 37th America’s Cup preliminary regatta in Jeddah I managed to grab a short interview with Emirates Team New Zealand and America’s Cup Event CEO Grant Dalton. Our meeting took place prior to racing on the final day and Dalton’s busy schedule at the event meant
