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Sail Team BCN announce CaixaBank partnership

Sail Team BCN announce CaixaBank partnership

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

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15 minutes with Grant Dalton

15 minutes with Grant Dalton

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

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Kiwis excel as Italian young guns impress

Kiwis excel as Italian young guns impress

Subscribe now Aside from the race committee – who managed to put three races on the board on what was reputedly the lightest wind day of the three-day event – it is the America’s Cup holders Emirates Team New Zealand who will be the happiest group in Jeddah tonight, having chalked

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Postcard from Jeddah...

Postcard from Jeddah...

I’m writing this update from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia where the six international teams contesting the 37th America’s Cup have been preparing since Monday aboard their one-design AC40s for the second preliminary regatta of this Cup cycle. Banks of industrial grade air conditioning units are keeping the spectacular

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Emirates Team New Zealand ready to race on the Red Sea

Emirates Team New Zealand ready to race on the Red Sea

Emirates Team New Zealand is set up and ready to race in Jeddah for the America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta presented by NEOM after a rip-roaring introduction to racing on the Red Sea with 13-15 knots from the NW which saw the fleet of AC40’s light up during an

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Emirates Team New Zealand trials aspiring youth team candidates

Emirates Team New Zealand trials aspiring youth team candidates

It has been a week under the spotlight for the next generation of potential Emirates Team New Zealand sailors at the team base in Auckland. The group of eight Youth Emirates Team New Zealand hopefuls undertook a busy four day schedule embarking on a steep learning curve encompassing the technical

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AC40 wins World Sailing 2023 Boat of the Year award

AC40 wins World Sailing 2023 Boat of the Year award

Subscribe now The AC40 burst onto the sailing scene in late 2022, hot off the easels of the Emirates Team New Zealand Design Office and the Defender's significant investment in creating a class that will be the foundation to a pathway for Youth and Women into the America’

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Emirates Team New Zealand back in action on home waters

Emirates Team New Zealand back in action on home waters

Subscribe now It has been a rapid turn around for the America’s Cup Defender to migrate south and get testing a range of new equipment in the two week window before heading to the second Preliminary Regatta in Jeddah later this month. “These things don’t just happen,” explained

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Alinghi Red Bull Racing AC40s first to take flight in Jeddah

Subscribe now With the arrival of Alinghi Red Bull Racing into their Jeddah base on the Obhur Creek, followed by their first sailing on Sunday November 5, the countdown to the second Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup has well and truly begun. Sailing the AC40s on the

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