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The Catalonian port of Vilanova i la Geltrú, has today been announced as the Host Venue for the first Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup to take place in September this year. Cup Insider is a reader-supported publication. To support us please consider becoming a free or paid
British Challenger of Record INEOS Britannia has suffered a setback to its campaign for the 37th America’s Cup on Wednesday after capsizing their T6 LEQ12 test boat during a fast and furious testing session in winds gusting to 18 knots on Palma Bay. The team – on its 24th day
The 37th America’s Cup received a surprise new year boost with the surprise news today that French team K-Challenge Racing representing the Société nautique de Saint-Tropez yacht club have been confirmed as the event’s fifth challenger. Cup Insider is a reader-supported publication. To support us please consider becoming
Subscribe now The Racing Area for both the Challenger Selection Series and the 37th America’s Cup Match have now been agreed with Barcelona’s Capitán Marítimo and are set to the south of the City along Barcelona’s beachfront, affording the perfect natural viewing gallery right along the coastline
Subscribe now Emirates Team New Zealand have reacted quickly to come up with a solution for the structural failure to the bow of their AC40 sustained four days ago when the boat nosedived at high speed while testing in waves on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. The crash resulted in severe
Subscribe now America’s Cup holders Emirates Team New Zealand have badly damaged the bow of their AC40 LEQ12 during a high speed nosedive wipeout during testing in strong winds out on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. The New Zealand AC40 had recently been taken out of its one design
Subscribe now The British America’s Cup team, INEOS Britannia, todAy launched their first test boat for the 37th America’s Cup code-named T6, designed and built-in collaboration with Mercedes-AMG F1 Applied Science, a division of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas PETRONAS F1 Team. The 40-foot test boat will play a vital
Subscribe now Following on the heels of the Swiss squad Alinghi Red Bull Racing in Barcelona, Spain, US outfit NYYC American Magic in Pensacola, Florida, and the Cup holders Emirates Team New Zealand in Auckland, the Italian syndicate yesterday went sailing in Cagliari, Sardinia aboard their wildly painted 40-foot LEQ12
Subscribe now Although, happily, the American Magic base had been safely out of reach of the devastation caused when Hurricane Ian cut a swathe through South Florida recently, on the day of our interview an imminent line of thunderstorms had meant the postponement of the team’s first actual sailing
Subscribe now The Notice of Race for the 2024 Women’s America’s Cup and Youth America’s Cup has been posted and firm plans can now be laid by prospective teams from around the world to compete in Barcelona in 2024. The rapidly re-vamping Port Olímpic, a short and
Subscribe now Iain Murray has been appointed as Independent Regatta Director for the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona alongside Richard Slater who continues in the role as Chief Umpire, positions they both occupied for the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland. Murray’s role will see him take charge
Subscribe now It was up up and away on a very successful maiden sail for Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC40 on the familiar waters of the ‘back paddock’ between Auckland’s Waiheke Island and Howick Beachlands. After a long tow out behind the team’s hydrogen powered chase boat
Subscribe now When the British America’s Cup syndicate INEOS Britannia signed off on the Protocol for AC37 they made certain that, in addition to the obligatory purchase of an AC40, the Cup rules allowed the teams the option of building their own scaled down development boats. In official America’
Subscribe now The first of the America’s Cup’s AC40 one-design foiling monohulls has been out on the water for the first time in Auckland today as Emirates Team New Zealand continued its detailed commissioning process with some controlled tow testing to check the boat’s sensors, foil trim
Subscribe now America’s Cup holders Emirates Team New Zealand have taken delivery in Auckland of the first of the new one-design AC40 class foiling monohull yachts that will be used for the preliminary regattas of the 37th America’s Cup, as well as for the Youth and Women’s
Subscribe now Alinghi Red Bull Racing’s first sailing day aboard their AC36-generation AC75 training boat and development boat in Barcelona, Spain on the final day of August this year was always going to be a milestone moment for the revamped Swiss America’s Cup syndicate. As it turns out
