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Subscribe now April 6, 2024: The high-tech race boat of the French challenger for the 2024 America's Cup has arrived safely at its Barcelona base after a four-day journey covering 1,400 kilometres on national roads and through small French villages. The Orient Express Racing Team’s 23-metre
Subscribe now Saturday April 6, 2024 | INEOS Britannia’s race boat for the 37th America’s Cup has made the 1,000 mile journey from its UK base in Northamptonshire to Barcelona, Spain. The British Challenger’s AC75 left Turweston Airfield on Tuesday 2 April and travelled by road to
Subscribe now March 29, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain | Last weekend, American Magic reached a significant milestone in its challenge for the 37th America's Cup. The newly constructed AC75 boat, “B3,” successfully completed its journey from the build facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island to the team's base in
Subscribe now The magnificent Port Vell base of Alinghi Red Bull Racing was on Friday night, the hottest ticket in Barcelona for friends, family, sponsors and dignitaries from Spain and around the world for the ‘reveal’ and roll-out of the AC75 that the whole of Switzerland is hoping will bring
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
