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America’s Cup Defender Emirates Team New Zealand began its two boat testing programme on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour today in ideal 12- 15 knots NE winds. It was the first opportunity the team has had to sail in the past week…
3rd January 2023The organisers of the 37th America’s Cup welcome the Société nautique de Saint-Tropez and their representative team K-Challenge Racing as a challenger for the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona in 2024 and led by Stephane Kandler and Bruno…
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli’s team director summarizes a very positive 18-month period and anticipates goals for 2023. On the eve of the Christmas break, Max Sirena, team director and skipper of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, reviews the America’s Cup campaign…
It has been a very busy lead up to the Christmas break with the America’s Cup teams all at full tilt either on the water or in preparation for what is shaping up to be a very intense New Year….
Multiple classes will have to wait until the last day of racing to decide their winners at Sail Sydney, after wet and windy conditions saw racing delayed or cancelled today on Sydney Harbour. One class that did get racing in…
Auckland – 16th December 2022 Emirates Team New Zealand made a return to Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf today on their newly repaired and rebranded AC40 for its first sail since the nosedive causing bow structure damage just over three weeks ago….
Watch how it was born and who is behind the boat designed and built at the Cagliari base. LUNA ROSSA PRADA PIRELLI TEAM The Luna Rossa team was born in 1997 when Argentine yacht designer German Frers proposed to entrepreneur…
AC37 Event Limited (ACE) have confirmed both the intended race area and the race dates for the America’s Cup Match 2024. The Racing Area for both the Challenger Selection Series and the America’s Cup Match itself have now been agreed…
Being with Benny: Inside the World of Ben Lexcen A Best Seller here in Australia, Being with Benny, by Bob Ross, with a Foreword by John Bertrand, is the story of how Bob Miller, from a shattered childhood in rural…
Auckland – 25th November 2022 Just days ago, Emirates Team New Zealand buried the bow of their AC40 while testing in waves on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, which resulted in damage to the forward sections of the hull and deck structure….
Auckland – 21st November 2022 Emirates Team New Zealand have suffered damage to the bow of their AC40 today after an early start testing on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf in some top end conditions. In recent weeks the Emirates Team New…
They have been building up the excitement all week with teaser shots on social media, but today (Thursday) the veil was lifted out at the INEOS Britannia training base in Palma, Mallorca of the British team’s LEQ12 – its prototype…
Cagliari, October 13th, 2022 – The futuristic Luna Rossa Prototype, that will showcase the team’s return to on-water training, was launched today at 2 pm local time at the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli base. The sailing sessions with this boat…
The creep of water was accompanied by the creep of frustration on Lake Gairdner for Glenn Ashby and the land speed team as near perfect winds blew across the wetted lake surface restricting any sailing again. “Unfortunately, again we’re greeted…
It has the America’s Cup and wider sailing community tuned in and eager to understand its design and performance when considering its core purpose to provide the pathway into the America’s Cup for the next generation of Women and Youth…
The Swiss challenger for the America’s Cup has been putting its AC75 training boat BoatZero – bought from Emirates Team New Zealand earlier this year – through its paces in Barcelona. The learning curve is steep, but the results of…
It has been a week like no other so far in Emirates Team New Zealand’s the wind powered landspeed world record campaign, with Horonuku finally reaching its destination at Lake Gairdner, South Australia. When Glenn Ashby said last week “Let’s…
Clear your diary. Set the date. The countdown has commenced for what promises to be one of the most exciting, innovative and ultimately consequential series of events of the 37th America’s Cup. The Notice of Race for the 2024 Women’s…
In a double announcement by America’s Cup Events Limited (ACE) it is confirmed today that 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…
Not someone that enjoys idle time, it has been an agonising month of waiting for the moving waters of Lake Gairdner to evaporate for Land speed pilot Glenn Ashby. Since early August when he reluctantly declared the Landspeed project as…
Auckland – 21st September 2022 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…
Auckland – 20th September 2022 The exciting new AC40 that will be used to pave the way for women and youth into the America’s Cup has touched the water for the first time in Auckland today with Emirates Team New…
The first AC40 off the production line was unloaded from its ship and transported into the Emirates Team New Zealand base in a typically understated fashion last week. The boat represents a number of things for the Team and the…
Los Angeles: Propagate, a leading developer, producer, and distributor of more than five thousand hours of programming across broadcast, cable, digital and emerging platforms, announced today the September 6 release of its latest film, ‘The Race of the Century’, the…
Auckland – 24th August 2022 As excitement builds around the arrival of the AC40 and the focus on the build at McConaghy boats, Emirates Team New Zealand’s build facility on Auckland’s North Shore has been running at capacity for the…
It has been just four months since Barcelona was announced as the venue for the 37th America’s Cup due to take place in September and October 2024 and as a mark of how seriously the challengers are gearing up for…
Horonuku has arrived safely in Australia, clearing customs this week in Adelaide after its journey via sea from Auckland over the past month or so. As sure as the sun rises each day, Landspeed pilot, Glenn Ashby, was there to…
It has been a huge undertaking in a spirit of collaboration between the Port de Barcelona and AC37 Events Limited (ACE) to both identify the satisfactory required spaces for all of the entered teams and communicate requirements effectively. The Port…
Written by: Simon de Burton With the 37th America’s Cup a mere two years away, a small number of the world’s billionaires are busily pouring vast quantities of cash into building the AC75 monohull racing yachts that will skim across…
With the news that the world’s first AC40 is just weeks away from being shipped to its new base in Auckland, expectation is ramping up for this most exciting of classes. “We didn’t hold back on the design,” was how…
Lake Gairdner: It would come as no surprise that a lake would normally have water in it, but what is surprising is that Lake Gairdner, the usually bone dry salt lake in South Australia, currently has a somewhat inconvenient amount…
The competition for places onboard the Challenger and Defender yachts is extreme, and, in the past, the pathway has been varied. But for 2024, the game has changed, supported magnificently by the confirmed teams, it is aimed at encouraging the…
Auckland, New Zealand: World records are not broken every day, nor are they ever easy to achieve, but when they are, there is usually a stringent process of verification that any attempt must go through. While the recent World record…
When Emirates Team New Zealand arrived in Bermuda in 2017 for the 35th America’s Cup, they spectacularly wrong-footed their rivals when they unveiled a mini peloton of four “cyclors” pumping away on a row of fixed bikes instead of a…
Ever since the winged keel in ’83, the reconnaissance game has been part and parcel of every Cup, with teams using spies armed with long lenses to get an insight into what design direction competitors are heading in and if…
Pensacola, F.L. – The City of Pensacola is excited to welcome New York Yacht Club American Magic back to the Port of Pensacola for training, marking the team’s third winter training on the Gulf Coast.PATRIOT, the team’s AC75 racing yacht,…
Auckland, New Zealand: It has been a few weeks since the last Team New Zealand Project Speed update and in that time things have been coming together well and with speed. As the clock ticks down to any launch time,…
Like building anything, a house, a fence, a car or a boat, considerable thought is given to the materials used for the purpose of the build. It is one of the first considerations when matching objectives with budgets and time….
Much has been made about the increasing crossover into F1 and motorsport for the America’s Cup teams in this 37th America’s Cup cycle, with a lot of focus around aerodynamics and design tools, which remains true in the case of…
Auckland, New Zealand: In the world of the America’s Cup a lot of emphasis is placed on design, innovation and sailing. But one of the unseen challenges for every team is the ongoing battle of production. The high-pressure high stakes,…
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