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38th America's Cup

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Race days and events

  1. 2pm · Sun 23 May, 12:00am NZ
    Up nextLouis Vuitton Cup Stage 1: The Fleet Racing OpenerNaples, Italy
  2. Louis Vuitton Cup Stage 2: The Match Racing GauntletNaples, Italy
  3. Louis Vuitton Cup Stage 3: The Repêchage WeekendNaples, Italy
  4. Louis Vuitton Cup: 38th America’s Cup MatchNaples, Italy

Coverage

Luna Rossa make it 2-0

After my apparent failure of misreading the ‘American’ race dates suggesting race 2 was Saturday NZ time / and the fact the paying job required my attention today, here is

Luna Rossa take Race One

Luna Rossa have taken the 1st win in the Louis Vuitton Semi Finals in San Fran this morning beating Artemis Racing by One minute and 57 seconds. Start Replay: [youtuber

Australian steers ETNZ to 8 points

(Source: ETNZ Blog) Emirates Team New Zealand completed its solo race against Artemis Racing today to collect another point in the Louis Vuitton Cup round robins. The team is at

Artemis – Cleared for take off!

Update 1.40pm NZ 25/7/13:A selection of Images from Artemis Racing’s Facebook page of today’s successful outing / Photos: Sander van der Borch Update 1pm NZ 25/7/13: Artemis Video – she

SPANKED!

Well there you have it folks – Emirates Team New Zealand are through to the Louis Vuitton finals with a lot wondering – will they have any competition? [youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1alRlvP_o’]

Artemis Racing Launches Blue Boat

Source: Artemis Racing / Alameda, CA – July 22, 2013 (Header Image: Sander van der Borch / Artemis Racing) [youtuber youtube=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1WSb3pn1Xk’] Before a crowd of almost 300 members of Artemis

ETNZ Upwind Foiling?

Reports are coming in referring to ETNZ foiling upwind. If they can, have they let the cat out of the bag too early again? can Oracle make this work too?

What’s in a logo?

A logo is an image that we all use to identify a product, event or just something. When looking at the new Louis Vuitton Cup logo this morning, Buoy and

AC: Still a 1 boat race?

Emirates Team New Zealand have beaten Luna Rosa convincingly with a 5minutes, 23 second victory in San Fran today. Looking like a well oiled machine, Barker got the boat up

The Return of the Jedi

This morning (NZ Time) the International Jury ruled in Emirates Team New Zealand’s favor with respect to the Regatta Director’s unilateral changes to the class rule. Keeping the decision short

America’s Cup Update

Well, what a week! Emirates Team New Zealand has notched up two impressive wins, Prada is stuck with rules issues and Artemis have almost got their boat put together. Mean

The rebel alliance re-groups

Grant Dalton spoke earlier with Tony Veitch on Radio Sport. A really insightful interview where Dalton makes sure there is no question about his thoughts on Iain Murray by stressing

The Empire Strikes Back

About a month ago Buoy and I decided not to follow this crazy rudder saga, thinking it was too stupid for words, and a storm in a tea cup. It

Rudder Slanging Match

In the 1980’s the Americas Cup captivated the world, and the sport of sailing was arguably thrown in to the mainstream for the first time. Ask most people who were

Watch the 34th Americas Cup Live

This post refers to the 2013 / 34th America’s Cup. For our LIVEblog for the 35th America’s Cup visit: livesaildie.com/category/americascup UPDATE – 22/8/13 A live video stream of the racing

Luna Rossa Files Protest

Luna Rossa has this morning filed a protest with the international jury against the Regatta Director for “blatantly breaching the rules governing the 34th Americas Cup”. In addition they have

KZ1 de-masted

KZ1 – Sir Micheal Fay’s 1988 ‘Big Boat’ challenge which went down in history as the most one sided Americas Cup match ever, is getting her rig removed for a