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  4. Louis Vuitton Cup: 38th America’s Cup MatchNaples, Italy

Coverage

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INEOS at the Forefront of Cup Technology and Innovation

One of the questions that comes up time and again around the 37th America’s Cup is: where will the innovation come and what will it be? In Cup after Cup, we see new takes on long-standing theories that modern construction, materials and understanding allow the teams to investigate and it’s becoming a pretty safe bet that INEOS Britannia, the team with technology coursing through their DNA, is goin

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Puig Announced as the Official Naming Partner of the Inaugural Women’s America’s Cup

Puig, a Barcelona-based, global leader in the beauty and fashion industry, is delighted to announce its partnership with the 37th America’s Cup as both a Global Partner and the official naming partner of the inaugural Women’s America’s Cup. This groundbreaking initiative aims to provide female sailors with a platform to showcase their skills and talent in the high-performance foiling AC40s and pro

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INEOS Britannia’s T6 and AC40 Line Up for the First Time

A simply terrific day for INEOS Britannia on Wednesday as the British team, at full strength with Sir Ben Ainslie in town, lined up T6, their LEQ12 prototype, with the team’s AC40 in the first encounter we’ve seen of these similar but oh so very different boats. Speed differences are perhaps better judged by the Mercedes Applied Science team back in Brackley, Northamptonshire, but as a spectator i

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ETNZ’s AC40s Go Head to Head

When a sailor of the stature of Ray ‘Razor’ Davies calls a day ‘Truly Awesome,’ it’s certainly time to sit up and pay attention. A sailor’s sailor, not driven to hyperbole, what Davies was describing was the simply epic sight of two AC40s, at pace, in breeze, going head-to-head. If there’s a better sight in sailing, it would perhaps be two AC75s doing the same, but whilst we wait for the latest ma

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Mozzy Sails: What does Team New Zealand’s new wing tell us?

The latest Emirates Team New Zealand foil wing appears to have a larger area, less curve and has lost the kiwi’s distinctive ‘blended bulb’ which was a feature of their most successful Cup foils. So is this newest foil a step backwards, or a nod to the lighter airs expected during the Barcelona Cup?

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Swiss Foil Commissioning in Barcelona

It was October-like conditions in Barcelona on Thursday with a southeast ‘Xaoloc’ wind and an easterly swell sitting offset to each other producing challenging conditions for a commissioning day of Alinghi Red Bull Racing’s novel Tubercle port foil. The Swiss more than manned-up to the conditions, sending the AC40 (now firmly in LEQ12 mode) over some 50 nautical miles through five hours of solid t

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Emirates Team New Zealand Unveil New Foil

It was the end of February when we last saw Emirates Team New Zealand sailing onboard an AC40 but ahead of the team’s two boats being loaded on to a ship imminently alongside the AC75 ‘Te Rehutai’ for the slow journey up to Barcelona, the team ramped up their programme with both AC40’s out on the Hauraki Gulf.

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Te Rehutai’s Last Day in Auckland

There was very much a feeling of the last day of term in Auckland as Emirates Team New Zealand signed off on their antipodean summer training session before packing up ‘Te Rehutai,’ and loading her on a ship bound for Barcelona in a few months’ time

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INEOS Britannia’s New Curved Starboard Foil

The mood around the INEOS Britannia winter training base in Palma continues its upwards trajectory with an air of performance expectation around the new starboard curved foil that appears very much to have step-changed the on-water performance of ‘T6’ – the British Team’s LEQ12 prototype test platform.

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Foil Mods for ‘America’

NYYC American Magic rolled out yet another upgrade to their starboard foil on Friday on the AC40 in LEQ12 mode out in Pensacola for a brilliant session that saw Lucas Calabrese take the helm for the first time along with Andrew Campbell who also had a turn. Calabrese and Campbell are key Flight Controllers for American Magic and these are valuable days for the team to build in knowledge and experi

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BoatZero Persistence in Barcelona

Michel Karmarec, the French Soling representative at the 1988 Olympic Games, hydro-dynamics specialist and senior naval architect in the Alinghi Red Bull Racing Team offers a unique insight into his world in this fascinating interview post sailing today (Wednesday) in Barcelona.

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Luna Rossa Looking As Strong As Ever

Life at 50 knots is rapidly becoming commonplace for Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli who put in one of the finest sailing sessions of this America’s Cup cycle on Wednesday to firmly lay out their stall as the most compelling of Challengers for the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona.

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From Simulator to Water with Alinghi

On balance, and in the conditions, they did a terrific job with the manoeuvres getting slicker as the evening neared and the very noticeable low flight, particularly upwind, is perhaps a nod to what we are seeing both down in Auckland with Emirates Team New Zealand in their AC75 and in the LEQ12s of Great Britain and Italy.