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Race days and events

  1. 2pm · Sun 23 May, 12:00am NZ
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  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

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The AC40 Takes Flight!

Straight out of the box, the AC40 has taken its maiden voyage, done her first foiling tack, and just looked fantastic on the waters of Auckland.

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The First Challenge For The Oldest International Sporting Trophy

Almost immediately after that thrilling victory in the late evening gloom of August 22nd 1851, the yacht America was sold to a new owner, a 39 year old Army Captain Lord John de Blaquiere, for the sum of £5,000 and Commodore John C. Stevens returned to New York in September 1851 with the £100 Cup.

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37th America’s Cup: The Appendage Factory

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 past 8 months building all of the foil arms and appendages that will allow the AC40 to fly.

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America’s Cup: Reconning the Recon Unit

Talk to any modern-day America’s Cup sailor and life at 50 knots is exhilarating. Scary at times. They are a breed apart from the average day-sailor or weekend sailboat racer and you are left wondering how their lives will ever be the same again.

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Project Speed: Update from Lake Gairdner

“After visiting Lake Gairdner and Mt Ive Station again last week, I feel that it is timely to send out an update for the wider team, the supporters, and the followers of the Land speed project,” Glenn Ashby.

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Alinghi Red Bull Racing: Christened and Ready to Fly

The Alinghi Red Bull Racing team, one of the most famous syndicates of the modern era in Cup history, today launched its training vessel, the first AC75 ever built that Emirates Team New Zealand used so effectively to work up for the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland.

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Project Speed: Horonuku Has Landed

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 meet the containers loaded with every conceivable item required for an outback World Record Wind Powered Landspeed attempt as well as Horonuku itself.

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AC37 Base Allocation

The stage has been set for the 37th America’s Cup with team bases allocated. Six spaces in total have been allocated, five teams have entered. So who are we waiting for?

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The Spying Game

Spying in the America’s Cup has been far more than a recent phenomenon, documented even as far back to racing in the 19th Century, but for modern teams it has been a significant budget drag with ever more sophisticated technology being deployed to measure, capture and record everything from outright speed through to manoeuvres, sail plans, wing design, onboard control systems and aero packages.

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The Rapid AC40 Begins to Emerge

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 Dan Bernasconi, Chief Designer of Emirates Team New Zealand.

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On Location at 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

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Women’s and Youth America’s Cup Events Formats Announced

The pathway to the very pinnacle of sailing and yachting’s greatest prize is no easy feat. For well over a century, it has been about extraordinary achievement being rewarded with a shot at glory be that through Olympic classes, offshore sailing, multihull, match-racing or One-Design racing disciplines.