The Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta got underway in Barcelona today with all four scheduled races between the six competing teams taking place in near-perfect conditions. Four teams sit on one point after today’s racing but – by way of the…
Helmsmen set the scene at press conference on eve of racing at Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta in Barcelona Under the spotlights in the cooled air of the auditorium at Barcelona’s World Trade Centre, the world’s finest sailors faced the international…
Breakthrough technology will visualize the wind live on screen, allowing fans and commentators to better understand optimum routes and team tactics, and making coverage of the sport more accessible than ever before. Capgemini and the America’s Cup Media today revealed…
By Alinghi Red Bull Racing Tuesday 20th August, Alinghi Red Bull Racing faced a rig failure. Fortunately, due to the quick response from the crew, everyone onboard is safe, and the situation was promptly managed. 1) What happened? We were…
This Thursday in Barcelona, the Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta gets underway with far more questions ahead of the competition than answers. This is the third Preliminary Regatta on the journey to the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup but is the…
Andoo Team Australia hit the waters off Barcelona for some America’s Cup AC40 yacht training time this week and an opportunity to utilise all the knowledge gained from hundreds of hours in the Sydney based simulator and translate to the…
The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is set to be the most accessible in the event’s 173-year history with multiple viewing options: The Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta starts on Thursday 22 August 2024 in Barcelona with the five Challenger teams and…
As the intense focus for Emirates Team New Zealand is on the start of the Preliminary Regatta in two weeks’ time, the injection of the Women’s & Youth sailors has added another element to the teams overall preparations for the…
The Team Australia Challenge America’s Cup 2024 campaign today announces a Naming Rights partnership with Andoo, leading online destination for the entire home and home of feel-good living, to present Andoo Team Australia for the Unicredit Youth and Puig Women’s…
Emirates Team New Zealand and Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei are proud to announce the participation of Te Kawau, a traditional Māori waka (canoe) from Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei that will escort Taihoro and the team out to the America’s Cup race course…
Tash Bryant Joins Athena Pathway! The Athena Pathway Programme have released the following announcement over-night – so I finally get permission to tell you all my latest proud Dad moment! We are thrilled to announce that @tash_bryant will be joining…
For all the teams in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup, arguably one of the key roles is that of the coaches who provide a vital link between the sailors and the rest of the team with an all-encompassing vision…
Undoubtedly one of the most watched teams in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup has been the Challenger of Record, INEOS Britannia who, from the very start, have placed design innovation at the heart of their campaign. It is often…
The Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup is now just one month away from exploding into life with the start of the third and final Preliminary Regatta, starting on Thursday 22nd August 2024 and running through to Sunday 25th August where…
With the stunning trophy from the world-renowned architect and designer Patricia Urquiola now the centrepiece of the Puig Women’s America’s Cup, training for victory has been the focus for all of the teams in June. The British, Americans and Swedish…
As skipper and co-pilot of the Orient Express Racing Team’s AC75, Quentin Delapierre is focussed as the clock ticks down to the start of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Barcelona in 50 days’ time. While his primary objective is getting…
There was a palpable sense of tension rising around the Port Vell throughout June as the business end of the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup gets real. The time for thinking is over, it is all about execution now and…
As the final act of the America’s Cup Trophy Tour, Barcelona’s ‘Summer of Sailing’ was officially presented today with all four trophies that make up the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup presented together for the very first time. The event…
Emirates Team New Zealand are back sailing in Barcelona. Their AC75 ‘Taihoro’, meaning to move swiftly as the sea between both sky and earth, did precisely that off the Barcelona waterfront which will be the racecourse for the Louis Vuitton…
Barcelona, 20 June 2024 – Ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, Alinghi Red Bull Racing was joined by two motorsports icons, 8-time Grand Prix winner Daniel Ricciardo and 8-time MotoGP champion Marc Márquez. Following Max Verstappen’s visit to the…
Alinghi Red Bull Racing suffered a catastrophic failure of their mast today in Barcelona just after 2pm with the afternoon sea-breeze well and truly in, with what the locals call a ‘strong Garbi’ from 210-220 degrees atop a 0.5-0.8 metres,…
For many of the sailors in the UniCredit Youth America’s Cup and the inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup, their first taste of what to expect has been found on the team simulators that are dotted all over the globe. We…
In what has been a week of firsts, and following a series of static and towed tests on Tuesday, Thursday 6 June saw the French racing team get their first taste of flying aboard their 23m AC75 foiling monohull in…
America’s Cup Media: The first full month of new-generation AC75 training, May was a watershed month for all of the teams as they brought their new technology to the forefront of their campaigns and firmly began the debate about who…
The big news frm Barcelona this weekend is the Orient Express Racing Team AC75 reveal! After over 46,000 hours of work put in by the team at Multiplast who worked 6 days a week for 7 months, our AC75 was wheeled out of…
The stunning trophy for the inaugural Puig Women’s America’s Cup, was presented this morning by Puig at the Fundació Joan Miró. The Spanish architect and designer Patricia Urquiola was commissioned to design and shape the trophy that the winning team…
The clock continues to count down to what could be the closest contest in living memory with absolutely no outright favourite and every team very much in the running for the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup. The six main teams…
What a day for New York Yacht Club American Magic who called for all-hands on deck at the base super-early this morning, ahead of rolling out their new AC75 at 5.45am with the first set of slightly asymmetric race foils,…
A great little video here on how the AC75 was born – technicians from Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli talk about the stages and details of construction.
As the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup nears, the intensity ramps up and with four teams revealing their box-fresh AC75s, it’s abundantly clear that different solutions have been found for very similar questions. The design teams have worked feverishly to…
In a stirring ceremony today, Iwi manaaki Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei gifted and blessed the name ‘Taihoro’ on the boat that Emirates Team New Zealand will sail in their defence of the 37th America’s Cup. The launch event took place at…
Watch AC sailors battle out for the first AC sailing regatta. Live streamed on Twitch from Barcelona at 6:20 pm CET AC Sailing, the ultimate regatta simulator built on actual simulation technology used by America’s Cup teams, will be available…
Cork Harbour is lining up a bid for the rights to host the prestigious 2024 America’s Cup yacht race — the oldest sporting trophy in the world that scooped over a billion dollars for the New Zealand economy when the…
Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) and the Government, along with Auckland Council, has concluded exclusive discussions regarding funding for the next America’s Cup (AC37) following ETNZ’s successful defence in Auckland of the…
Bruno Bich, 74, died on May 30, 2021. Son of Marcel Bich, founder of BIC, Bruno devoted́ his entire professional life to the company and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to 2006, and Chairman of the…
“The sense that buying the Cup is a somewhat vulgar expression of opportunism is prevalent in many that I spoke to in Cowes over the weekend – it would be far more welcomed after a hard-won, deserved British victory –…
Team New Zealand veteran Ray Davies is adamant the America’s Cup is well placed to push on from its success at Auckland 2021. Duncan Johnstone reports for Kiwi website Stuff.co.nz that moving the Cup forward is now the intrigue after…
Duncan Johnston writes on the Stuff website that the radical foiling boats used in AC36 will already be retained for the next two Matches, but Ainslie wants more: British yachting star Sir Ben Ainslie wants the current America’s Cup class…
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