America’s Cup shenanigans
A bit of to and fro with the Cup teams over-night with a statement from Alinghi triggering responses from Athena, American Magic and ETNZ. I guess it is all to be expected but the one positive to take from this,…
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SailGP announces star-studded ownership group
New ownership for the Italian SailGP team, following the strategic acquisition by Muse Sport consortium, led by Assia Grazioli Venier, Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo and CEO Jimmy Spithill Host of renowned names in sport & entertainment – including Hollywood icon, Anne Hathaway – brought together…
Prime Minister Meloni welcomes the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup
The magnificent setting of the Casino del Bel Respiro, commissioned by Pope Innocent X in 1644, in the grounds of Villa Pamphilj, was the outstanding and historic setting for the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi, on behalf of…
Statement from ETNZ in response to Athena Racing and American Magic
The Defender has been working closely and positively with all teams on moving the America’s Cup to a new collaborative Partnership and structure to strengthen the future of the America’s Cup for the benefit of the event and all current…
Italy to host the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup in the city of Naples in 2027
The Government of Italy, in conjunction with Team New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, are pleased to announce Italy as the Host Country and Naples as the Host City for the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup to…
ETNZ announces core team members
The America’s Cup always ends on the water, but it always begins with a meeting of minds. This week the Emirates Team New Zealand core sailing team began plotting the strategy to defending the America’s Cup again in 2027. Meet…
Alinghi Red Bull Racing withdraws from America’s Cup
As planning begins for the 38th America’s Cup, expected in 2027, a second major challenger is stepping aside. Alinghi Red Bull Racing has confirmed they will not compete in the next cycle and have started an “orderly wind-down” of their…
Emirates Team New Zealand and Peter Burling part ways
Emirates Team New Zealand and Peter Burling have today confirmed that they have agreed to part ways ahead of the 38th America’s Cup. Discussions by the team management and Burling have been ongoing since Barcelona, however an agreement was not…
INEOS Britannia announces withdrawal from 38th America’s Cup
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has abandoned plans to challenge for the next America’s Cup. An announcement on the INEO website reads: INEOS Britannia announces that it has withdrawn its intention to challenge for the next America’s Cup. The decision has been…
America’s Cup in Barcelona generated a positive economic impact of €1.034 Billion Euros
The University of Barcelona and the Barcelona Capital Nàutica Foundation (FBCN) today released the outcome of their exhaustive post event economic impact study which revealed over €1 billion positive economic GDP return that the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup created…
Royal Yacht Squadron aligns with Ainslie’s Athena Racing
Although there does not appear to be any official announcement as yet, The Royal Yacht Squadron’s website has just been updated to reflect Athena Racing as their representative for the next America’s Cup. Observers are unsure as to where this…
INEOS boss Jim Ratcliffe announces AC38 British Challenge without Ben Ainslie
Article by Cup Insider Shockwaves are reverberating around the America’s Cup community after the announcement today by INEOS – two time backer of Sir Ben Ainslie’s British America’s Cup challenges – that the company has parted ways with the four…
Andoo Team Australia Update
Andoo Team Australia 2024 wraps-up with thanks to all supporters. The Andoo Team Australia Challenge campaign for 2024 UniCredit Youth and Puig Women’s America’s Cup has wrapped up, marking a memorable chapter in Australia’s return to the most prestigious competition…
Defender and Challenger of Record paving the way for the 38th America’s Cup
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) and Emirates Team New Zealand are pleased to confirm that the RNZYS has accepted a Notice of Challenge for the 38th America’s Cup (AC38) from the Royal Yacht Squadron Limited, represented by INEOS…
What We Learned from the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup
Here’s an interesting little breakdown from the team over at the 49er and Nacra 17 organisation on the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup. It points out some interesting facts and observations. You may not agree with all their observations, but…
Looking to the future by building on the success of Barcelona
Emirates Team New Zealand have completed one of the most successful America’s Cup campaigns in history. For the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand having won the America’s Cup three times in a row, it now presents an unprecedented opportunity for…
Ineos Britannia – A brilliant campaign for the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup
The most successful British Challenge in over 90 years ended in defeat in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match after a spirited series against the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, that was closer and more hard-fought than the 7-2…
Emirates Team New Zealand make history to win the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup
Emirates Team New Zealand concluded a historic chapter, winning the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup after an epic final showdown in Barcelona against the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia, in a single race that ebbed and flowed from the outset…
173 Years In The Making
When Sir Ben Ainslie and INEOS Brittania burst through the Louis Vuitton Cup final and into the America’s Cup Match for the first time in 60-years it was a momentous moment for British sailing. Whether the Challengers of Record manage…
ETNZ brilliance takes the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup to match point at 6-2
It was a fired-up, proficient and efficient Emirates Team New Zealand that raced the hardest to interpret wind direction here in Barcelona and took two clean races off the fast-charging Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia who left very little out…
Ineos Britannia fight back with 2 race wins on 4th day of Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match
A warm and humid day in Barcelona yielded southerly thermal breezes of 7-11 knots for two absorbing races in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match that saw INEOS Britannia, the Challenger of Record, take back-to-back victories to move the…
Kevin Shoebridge admitted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame
Emirates Team New Zealand COO Kevin Shoebridge, fondly known as ‘Shoeb’ was inducted into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame at the Induction Gala dinner in Barcelona’s Maritime Museum last night. Shoebridge was admitted alongside Juan Villa, Josh Belsky, and…
Tense and tight racing as ETNZ take 4th win in Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match
In a closely fought race that rewarded the most marginal of gains Emirates Team New Zealand took one more point in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match this afternoon in Barcelona with a fourth consecutive victory over INEOS Britannia…
Start box drama as Emirates Team New Zealand extend to 3-0 in Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match
There was ruthless execution on display in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match as Emirates Team New Zealand extended their advantage to 3-0 after forcing a penalty on the Challenger of Record INEOS Britannia in the pre-start period of…
ETNZ score two opening wins at the start of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match
There was a special feeling in the Port Vell, Barcelona this afternoon as Emirates Team New Zealand and INEOS Britannia docked-out of a packed waterway and despite the drizzle, crowds thronged around the harbour as packed pleasure-craft honked horns to…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli win inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup
In the full glare of the world’s media spotlight, in a race sandwiched between the opening two races of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match, Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli beat Britain’s Athena Pathway to win the inaugural Puig…
Andoo Team Australia Update
Women’s America’s Cup Match Race TODAY (Saturday) Andoo Team Australia has been out cheering on the Puig Women’s America’s teams as they continue to race into the history books for the first ever Puig Women’s America’s Cup. Challenging conditions have…
Athena Pathway and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli move forward to the Final Match of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup
With the racing schedule condensed after yesterday’s postponements, it was another difficult day for the Race Committee at the Puig Women’s America’s Cup who had to remain patient as light airs thwarted their efforts to complete the Group A America’s…
Rainbow score their first race win but Svea lead J Class Barcelona Regatta into final day
When the too gentle and shifting breeze died away during the second race of the day, Rainbow were denied a probable double victory, but the newest team to J Class racing were nonetheless pleased to have put their first race…
Alinghi Red Bull Racing fly on to the podium in the Puig Women’s America’s Cup
Dreams were both realised and shattered at the Puig Women’s America’s Cup when what was billed today as the final showdown between the America’s Cup representative teams yielded just one light air race and meant the competition will continue tomorrow….
Swedes top invited teams group and qualify for Puig Women’s America’s Cup semi-finals
The mountain of Montjuïc and its eponymous ‘Castell’ that loom over the city of Barcelona helped dictate the conditions on the third day of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup, after overnight storms gave way to a westerly Atlantic airflow that…
Andoo Team Australia bows out of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup
The Women’s squad for Andoo Team Australia bowed out of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup qualifying series in a tightly fought for fourth place today in Barcelona. In a day of fluky weather that saw a resurgent Artemis Swedish Team…
Smiles, delight and brilliant racing define day two of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup
It was a day of pure grit and determination, punctuated by smiles and whoops of unbridled delight from the race winners, as the Group B Invited Teams of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup got four fascinating races completed on a…
Andoo Team Australia Update – Day 1
Andoo Team Australia finish in top three in first qualifying race day In a day of literal ups and downs Australia survived and shone to achieve a crucial third place on the overall rankings of the six B Group teams…
The Red Moon shines on at the end of a determined Italian campaign
To the disappointment of the passionate Italian sailing fans in Barcelona, back home and around the world, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli – one of the most detailed and well-planned campaigns of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup – exits the…
Ineos Britannia defeats Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli 7-4 to win the Louis Vuitton Cup
Inches and hard yards were fought for in Barcelona today in a classic final race at the Louis Vuitton Cup, and when the dust settled from the on-water fireworks, it was INEOS Britannia that emerged as the top Challenger and…
Talent abounds at the inaugural PUIG Women’s America’s Cup
Excitement has been building in Barcelona for what is expected to be the closest of regattas with the inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup attracting the world’s greatest women sailors for the first ever staging of this all-female America’s Cup. Today…
Two Race wins see Ineos Britannia take 6-4 lead in Louis Vuitton Cup Final
Momentum in sport can be an infuriatingly sparse commodity, but once it begins it can become an unstoppable force. Today in Barcelona as the tense duel continued between INEOS Britannia and Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli it was the British who…
From their bedrooms to the open seas: E-series winners compete in never-seen-before ‘gamer vs sailor’ race
Barcelona, 2nd October 2024 The America’s Cup e-Series culminated today in a groundbreaking event that blurred the lines between the virtual and real worlds of sailing. eSailingCentral (Liam Dimock, New Zealand, 14) and Booshify (Robbie Wooldridge, New Zealand, 19), the top two…
Andoo Team Australia Update
2 October – Update Australia’s women lift into practice racing mode with stiff competition After three practice days in Barcelona on the Puig Women’s America’s Cup AC40’s, the Andoo Team Australia women finally got the chance to line up head…
