ETNZ hit the Hauraki Gulf again
Just two weeks after Emirates Team New Zealand wound up their last day sailiing Barcelona, they are back out on the water testing on their AC40 on the familiar waters of the Hauraki Gulf again. It has been a rapid…
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The America’s Cup is coming to the Red Sea
The countdown is on for the second Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup with the Red Sea city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia getting ready to host the world’s finest foiling sailors all eager to sail in the pristine…
ETNZ has wound up Te Rehutai’s scheduled sailing and testing program
A moment of reflection for the team as all focus starts turning towards ‘boat three’ which is currently in construction in New Zealand and will be used to defend the America’s Cup in Barcelona in just under one year’s time….
Team Australia Challenge – The Squads
Following on from the announcement last week on the squad selection for the Team Australia Challenge here’s a little bio on each of the sailors. Finn Alexander – NSW Finn competes in the ILCA class and is currently 9th on…
Louis Vuitton becomes the Title Partner of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup
Louis Vuitton is delighted to announce its return to the America’s Cup as the Title Partner of this 37th edition, thus renewing its promise of a legendary journey. An inexhaustible source of inspiration, the sea has always been where the…
Australia’s new America’s Cup campaign announces 17 sailors for squad
A squad of 17 of Australia’s top performing sailing women and youth athletes have been revealed by Team Australia Challenge Patron John Bertrand AO to spearhead the nations return to the America’s Cup in the Youth and Puig Women’s Regattas…
The one year countdown to the America’s Cup Match begins
The America’s Cup teams vying to win the 37th edition of the oldest continually contested trophy in international sports may have vast resources but the one commodity they can’t buy is time. And the clock is ticking. The countdown has…
Youth and PUIG Women’s America’s Cup teams among first to get training on ETNZ developed AC40 simulator
With no less than twelve teams entered for the Youth and Puig Women’s America’s Cup competitions in Barcelona in 2024, AC40 training has begun for the fast-coming next generation of foiling talent. As teams start to form around the world,…
NYYC American Magic win in Vilanova i La Geltrú
Having come into the final day of the first Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup here in Vilanova i La Geltrú sitting in fifth place, it was an outside bet at best that NYYC American Magic could climb the…
Nail biting opening day full of surprises
The first day of the Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup was a day of mixed fortunes, drama, desperation, nail-biting excitement, exquisite light-airs technique and tension untold with a new name on the podium and brilliance shining through. The…
Kiwis dominate on practice day in Vilanova i La Geltrú
After the hype and speculation dockside, ultimately it was form that shone through as Emirates Team New Zealand put on a dominant masterclass to win all three of the Practice Races in style. The tone for the day was set…
Emirates Team New Zealand prepare for first Racing of 37th America’s Cup
Emirates Team New Zealand are gearing up for the first Preliminary Regatta of the 37th America’s Cup, to be contested later this week in Vilanova i La Geltrú. It marks the first occasion of competitive racing since the team successfully…
Team Australia Challenge – Selection Camp
Team Australia Challenge is the official entry for the Youth and Women’s regattas in the 37th America’s Cup, Barcelona 2024. Since announcing the national entry in April 2023 and opening applications from sailing athletes around Australia we have had an…
Women’s Foiling Gold Cup – Lake Garda
Team Australia Challenge was able to gain a highly valuable entry in the inaugural Women’s Foiling Gold Cup in Lake Garda on the 69F mono hull at the end of August, enabling 5 female athletes who were currently in European…
How the teams are looking ahead of the first preliminary regatta in Vilanova i La Geltrú
So, what do we know now? The pre-event practice racing that has been held in Barcelona ahead of the first Preliminary Regatta in Vilanova i La Geltrú from the 14-17 September 2023, has given us an early look into the…
1 week to go – the America’s Cup comes to Vilanova i La Geltrú
The first Preliminary Regatta on the road to the 37th America’s Cup begins in the beautiful Catalan port of Vilanova i La Geltrú from the 14-17th September 2023 and promises to be one of the most hotly contested regattas anywhere…
America’s Cup brings Hydrogen Technology & E-sports partnership with Generalitat De Catalunya
31st August 2023 Barcelona, Spain America’s Cup today announced a new technological partnership with ACCIÓ, the public agency for the competitiveness of Catalan enterprise which is part of the Ministry of Business and Labour of the Generalitat of Catalonia. The…
J Class to hold 2024 World Championships in Barcelona in 2024
No history of the America’s Cup is complete without mention of the J Class, the magnificent sloops that competed for the trophy in three editions between 1930 and 1937. Their grace and beauty reflected a time where a booming global…
2023 America’s Cup Hall of Fame Induction
Bill Lynn, President of the Herreshoff Marine Museum and the America’s Cup Hall of Fame, and Steve Tsuchiya, America’s Cup Hall of Fame Selection Committee Chair, invite you to join them for the 2023 America’s Cup Hall of Fame Induction…
France become the sixth team to sail in the 37th America’s Cup
The Orient Express Racing Team base at the western end of the Port Vell became an operational sailing base today with the maiden sail of their beautiful, new AC40 replete with its eye-catching blue and gold livery to match the…
12 Metre yachts re-unite in 2024 for the 17th Regata Puig Vela Classica Barcelona
They are undoubtedly some of the most graceful yachts ever to sail in the America’s Cup and for 29 years between 1958 and 1987 they provided some of the most intriguing battles that the oldest competition in international sports has…
12 Metre World Championship: A Live-Action History Lesson
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, USA (July 24, 2023) – The year 2023 marks exactly 40 years since the U.S. lost the America’s Cup to Australia on the world stage of Newport, R.I. That moment in sports history might not have gotten…
ETNZ waste no time getting out sailing on the waters off Barcelona
Barcelona – Friday 14th July 2023 Emirates Team New Zealand, the Defenders of the America’s Cup, wasted no time getting ‘Te Rehutai’ out sailing on the waters off Barcelona on Friday, a day earlier than scheduled thanks to a favourable…
Athena Foiling Pathway
Hattie Rogers, the 2022 SailGP X WASZP Champion, was one of Athena’s first recruits, and it is hoped that the Athena Foiling Pathway will create further success stories like Hattie’s, inspiring more young sailors to take up the sport and…
Barcelona welcomes Luna Rossa
The crystal waters off the Barcelona beachfront became a busy place today as Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli conducted their first sailing session at the 37th America’s Cup venue in their stylish one design AC40 joining both NYYC American Magic and…
AC40 – Designed To Travel
The AC40 has been making waves with its performance on the water, but its design is just as impressive on the all-important logistical side of things also. In recent days, Emirates Team New Zealand have been preparing and packing their…
Youth and Women’s AC – Artemis are back
Teams, selection trials and outline programmes for participation in the Youth and PUIG Women’s America’s Cups are starting to come together with organisers, sponsors and supporters recognising these pathway events as crucial to the future of the sport at the…
AC40s shaping AC37 for ETNZ
Auckland – 27th June 2023 With Emirates Team New Zealand’s latest AC40 testing, development and race training block in Auckland now wrapped up, the team are heading north to quickly settle into their Barcelona base and roll Te Rehutai out…
Barcelona welcomes NYYC American Magic
Representing the prestigious New York Yacht Club, the NYYC American Magic Team today became the second team to sail at the 37th America’s Cup venue with the successful launch of their new AC40 that was delivered ahead of the arrival…
Forty years of Azzurra
Celebrations took place yesterday at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda to mark the 40th anniversary of the first Italian challenge for the America’s Cup Porto Cervo, 19th June 2023. It was 18th June 1983 when Azzurra took part in her…
Barcelona Bound
Auckland – 13th June 2023 While Emirates Team New Zealand’s AC40’s have been maximising their time on the water pre start training and development testing on Auckland’s harbour, the shore crew have been operating at equal intensity on top of…
Alinghi Red Bull Racing switches to match racing mode with two AC40s
Barcelona, 6 June 2023 – The Swiss challenger for the America’s Cup kicked-off its match racing training in Barcelona today on the 37th America’s Cup race course just a few days after christening its second AC40 one design. The team…
Takapuna pre-start testing
If Pete Burling and Nathan Outteridge thought they were going to have it easy sailing the LEQ12 AC40 against the one-design AC40, they were sorely mistaken. Josh Junior and Leonard Takahashi absolutely took the fight to the established AC75 helms…
Alinghi Red Bull Racing christens second AC40
The Swiss challenger for the 37th America’s Cup has received its second AC40 foiling boat and, following a christening ceremony attended by the Barcelona team, it headed out to the America’s Cup race course for a test sail. This one-design…
Emirates Team NZ to purchase 10 Elliott 7’s for RNZYS programmes
Emirates Team New Zealand is directly investing in the future of New Zealand’s world class sailing talent by purchasing a renewed fleet of ten Elliott 7’s yachts for the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s Mastercard Youth Training Programme (YTP) and…
Sailing at “Full Volume” – A rare ride on the AC75 ‘TE REHUTAI’
A first hand account by Magnus Wheatley The opportunity for a non-professional sailor to ride aboard an AC75 is, undoubtedly, a once-in-a-lifetime experience and something so scarce in sailing to be almost unfathomable. So tight are the America’s Cup testing…
Applications for Australia’s Womens and Youth America’s Cup closing May 31
With the Team Australia Challenge (TAC) confirmed to race in the Youth and Women’s America’s Cup in Barcelona 2024, local organisers have been receiving expressions of interest from around the country online – with the application period due to close…
What’s happening in the America’s Cup – April recap
It has been a big month both on and off the water in this 37th America’s Cup cycle with all the teams stepping up their training and testing programmes ahead of their move to their Barcelona bases, which are springing…
Youth & Women’s America’s Cup line-up
The line-up for the Youth & Women’s America’s Cup has been completed with the announcement that teams from Germany, Sweden and Australia will be joining the established six official entrants for the America’s Cup representing New Zealand, Great Britain, Italy,…
Team Australia secures entry for combined Women’s and Youth America’s Cup Challenge
Australia has been confirmed by the organisers of the 37th America’s Cup as one of the 12 national Youth and Women’s America’s Cup teams in Barcelona 2024 scoring entry for a youth team (under 25) alongside the history making first…
