Not all the teams are here, no one is sailing their 75-foot Cup boat and this isn’t where the 38th America’s Cup will be contested. So why is the first Preliminary event in the Sardinian town of Cagliari so important?
GB1 sailor Ben Cornish raced the last America’s Cup Match as a cyclor aboard the British AC75. This weekend he’s in the port driving seat in the GB1 AC40 at the first preliminary regatta of AC38 in Cagliari, Italy. I found out more about this remarkable transition over coffee in Cagliari.
American match racer Chris Poole may have failed with his campaign to challenge for the 38th America’s Cup, but the American skipper is far from having given up and has now refocused his efforts on AC39. I caught up with him to find out what happens next.
Australia is back in the America's Cup. 43 years after Australia II ended America's 132-year grip on the Cup, Tom Slingsby, Glenn Ashby, and Grant Simmer are building a new Cup team – and they are not here to make up the numbers. Here's a deep dive into the detail of what has been announced.
Being last to enter an America’s Cup cycle is never a good look, but the Australian entry could be different. PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan considers the possibility.
It’s been sailing’s worst kept secret for the past several months, but it has now been formally confirmed that Australia is returning to the America’s Cup for the first time in 26 years.
Another piece of the 38th America’s cup jigsaw puzzle slotted into place today, with the announcement by American Racing Challenger Team USA that double Olympic gold medalist Giles Scott had been retained as the syndicate’s sailing director for AC38.
Swiss Olympic sailor Nathalie Brugger is back with Alinghi for AC38 – this time aiming for a place on the AC75 race crew. I spoke to her about closing the performance gap, breaking into the Cup’s inner circle, and embracing the challenge head on.
I check-in with Tudor Team Alinghi’s director for technical and sailing, New Zealand America’s Cup veteran Dave Endean – the man in charge of making sure that in AC38 the Swiss syndicate improves on its somewhat lacklustre performance in the last Cup in Barcelona.
British Olympic gold medallist Paul Goodison – a three-time America’s Cup competitor and a triple International Moth world champion - is the new skipper of the Swiss Tudor Team Alinghi challenge for AC38. I sat down with Goodison in Barcelona to get the inside track on his appointment.