La Roche-Posay AC75 Day 21: laps and pre-start drills off Naples

The latest America's Cup Recon video takes us to Day 21 of La Roche-Posay Racing Team's AC75 programme in Naples, with Quentin Delapierre and Diego Botín sharing the helm duties. It's a long session, and a good look at how a team works on the parts of the game that decide AC38 starts.

Worth watching for the pre-start drills in particular: two runs around the chase boat, focused on approaches and timing to the line, along with windward-leeward laps on the J3 in a light southerly.

La Roche-Posay Racing Team | AC38 Recon | Highlights | AC75 Day 21, 11 Nov 2026

A long session of laps and pre-start drills south-east of Nisida, with Quentin Delapierre and Diego Botín on the helm.

La Roche-Posay Racing Team out on the AC75 in Naples on Wednesday 11 November 2026. After a tow out from Nisida, the team sailed windward-leeward laps on the J3, then ran two pre-start drills around the chase boat focused on approaches and timing to the line. A few more laps and a run of gybes on the way back in rounded off more than three hours of sailing.

Conditions: S 7 kn, gusts 9, easing to 4–5 kn | 1 m southerly swell with a small chop | overcast and humid

Reporter/Driver: Mathieu Cadei Photo/Video: Pierre Bouras

LRPRT Sailing Day 21

Recon footage from the 38th America's Cup Joint Reconnaissance Programme.

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