We got off the ferry and to our fantastic AirBnB, and that’s where a couple of us stayed for the next two days, fully concentrating on our new boats. Many beers, rum and small dried sausages have been consumed, but on Sunday we went for a sail…
GBR SailGP Team athletes to cycle 450 miles
Monday
Jul 25
2022
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2022
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Three members of the Great Britain team that will compete in next weekend’s Sail Grand Prix in Plymouth will travel by bicycle to the event in a bid to support SailGP’s commitment to making the event one of the most sustainable races it has ever staged…
SailGP Plymouth – Time for Ainslie to up his game!
Monday
Jul 25
2022
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2022
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Ben Ainslie returns to competitive sailing in British waters at the helm of the Great Britain SailGP Team F50. To date Ainslie has only managed to win one SailGP event in nine event starts…
KiteFoil World Series Gizzeria day 3
Sunday
Jul 24
2022
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Jul 24
2022
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Day 3 of the KiteFoil World Series Gizzeria in Italy was the most interesting yet, with some significant moves on the leaderboard in warm winds of 12 to 16 knots…
MC38 2022 Season Act 5 on Sydney Harbour
Sunday
Jul 24
2022
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Jul 24
2022
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The lottery that is winter sailing in Sydney toyed with the MC38 fleet for act 5 on Sydney Harbour. At the shortened series end, Steven Proud’s Swish held the narrowest margin win over the defending team, Marcus Blackmore’s Hooligan (RPAYC)…
Peterson wins Youth Match Racing title
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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Jul 23
2022
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After being runner-up a year ago, Jeffrey Peterson (USA) and his team of Max Brennan, Scott Mais, and Sammantha Hemans claimed the 2022 Youth Match Racing World Championship title on July 19-23 in Pornichet, France.
“World Champion, those words sound incredible!” noted Petersen. “Looking back, we finished second last year against another American team, on home waters in California, and that was a bitter pill to swallow. So, to win here feels a bit like our redemption.
“We threw everything we had at it. We didn’t get off to a very good start in our competition, but my crew has been really incredible. They’ve given their absolute all and all credit to them. I couldn’t be prouder of them! We’re really happy to have pulled this off for the United States and for our club, and to be able to keep this title in the USA! We’re really stoked and grateful.”
Peterson was third among the 12 teams in the qualifying round robin series, advancing to the Final after wins over Riccardo Sepe (ITA) in the Quarter Finals and Timothée Rossi (FRA) in the Semi Finals. The other finalist, Marius Westerlind (SWE), was no match as Peterson shut him out 3-0…
Details: https://www.matchracingresults.com/2022/youth-world-championship/
mac stack
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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2022
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Chasing Tokyo – British Sailing Team baring all in a feature documentary
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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Jul 23
2022
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CHASING TOKYO tells the story of a group of sailors from the British Sailing Team as they head to one of the most uncertain of Olympic Games . . . as the world – and their sport – changes around them…
mcs
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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2022
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The Chicago Mac race got underway yesterday, with the bigger boys starting today. It is going to be sporty! It should be a nice downwind start. Then sometime between sunset and sunrise shit hits the fan, and we learned a new weather term MCS.
A Mesoscale Convective System is a complex of thunderstorms that becomes organized on a scale larger than the individual thunderstorms and normally persists for several hours or more.
They’ll see somewhere between 25-35 knots as the storms cross the lake…
18ft Skiff Mark Foy European Championship overall
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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Jul 23
2022
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It was an Australian one-two at the Mark Foy European Championship: Lazarus Capital Partners and The Rag & Famish Hotel in the first two overall positions. The best Europeans were the Germans on Black Knight, down to third place overall…
America’s Cup: First AC40 in fit-out – Video
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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Jul 23
2022
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The first AC40 multi-use yacht for America’s Cup 2024 is being fitted out at McConaghy Boats. The video shows the deck/cockpit layout for the first time.
Youth Match Racing World Championship Day 4
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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Jul 23
2022
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On the programme for the fourth day of racing in this Youth Match Racing World Championship was the end of the quarter finals, the semi-finals and the King of the Castle phase, all of which will determine the final overall ranking for the championship…
Marshall wins J/24 World Championship
Saturday
Jul 23
2022
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Jul 23
2022
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Mike Marshall’s American Garage (USA) may have never been in first place overall during races one through nine, but he was after the tenth and final race to claim the title of 2022 J/24 World Champion.
Leading into the final day, four points separated the top four boats, but it was Marshall and crew Dave Hughes, Allan Terhune, Jeffrey Hayden, and Rod Favela posting a 3-2 in 12-14 knots to close the deal in what had been a windy event held July 18-22 in Corpus Christi, TX.
Paul Foerster’s Grand Slam 2 (USA) had won the first three races, and held the lead up to the final race when a tenth place became their demise, dropping them a point behind Marshall for second place.
For Marshall, after scoring an eighth to start their title effort, the Newport, Rhode Island-based skipper stayed in the top five until a Black Flag in Race 7 swallowed their discard. But for the final three races, Marshall’s team regrouped to post the lowest score total…
Golden Globe Race: Dalton pressing on
Thursday
Jul 21
2022
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Jul 21
2022
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Graham Dalton has he advised Sail-World.com that he had now completed the required medical course, and is about to start the qualifying voyage…
J/24 Worlds: For all the marbles
Thursday
Jul 21
2022
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Jul 21
2022
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After four days of racing, only four points separate the top four boats heading into the final day of the 2022 J/24 World Championship being held July 18-22 in Corpus Christi, TX…
Lone American Peter Gibbons-Neff on his Classe Mini campaign
Thursday
Jul 21
2022
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Jul 21
2022
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I checked in with Peter Gibbons-Neff, the lone American sailor on the Class Mini circuit, via email, to learn more about what it’s like to be an American taking on this competitive singlehanded offshore racing circuit…
Drheam Cup line honours for Sam Goodchild
Thursday
Jul 21
2022
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2022
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Sam Goodchild took line honours in the Drheam Cup race in La Trinité sur Mer, south-west Brittany…
hillbillies rule
Thursday
Jul 21
2022
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2022
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These guys won their (cruising division) for the 7th time in a row in last week’s Port Huron to Mackinac race. Thanks to Steve Gilbert…
Drheam Cup Race – Lone sailor rescued from capsized multihull
Thursday
Jul 21
2022
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2022
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Baltimore RNLI were called out to assist a lone sailor whose yacht had capsized 70 miles off the coast of Baltimore, West Cork, Tuesday evening…
18ft Skiff Mark Foy European Championship day 3
Thursday
Jul 21
2022
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Jul 21
2022
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The performance of Lazarus Capital Partners (Ashley-Marshallio-Williams) continues on a glide path, leading by 8 points over the Germans of Black Knight (Von Bayern-Tom and Andy Martin), the only Europeans to hold their own against the Australian team…
International Canoe UK Nationals – Day 2 and making the right decisions
Wednesday
Jul 20
2022
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Jul 20
2022
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Day 2 of the International Canoe UK Nationals at Hayling Island. Gareth Caldwell and Ska’d For Life take a clear lead after winning the third race of the championship…
Europe Class World Championships in Douarnenez
Wednesday
Jul 20
2022
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Jul 20
2022
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Tails from the Rear : As bruises turn from purple to brown to green, here’s a few notes on a truly epic week away; in case you missed it…
Landsailing mayhem in the Mojave
Wednesday
Jul 20
2022
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Jul 20
2022
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Landsailing enthusiasts make the annual trek to Mojave for the America’s Landsailing Cup, and Mike Hanson shares the experience for Sailing World:
A 25-knot wind streaks across Ivanpah Dry Lake on this cold March afternoon in California, dust whipping across the racecourse ahead. I’m having trouble relaxing my breathing. Maybe it’s nerves. Maybe it’s the 30-pound sack of lead duct-taped to my chest for extra weight. I’m about to start my first dirt-sailing race at the 2022 America’s Landsailing Cup, and I’m hoping this extra weight will help keep my Manta TwinJammer—or rather my lawn chair with a sail—on all three wheels.
Thirty of these 105-pound aluminum craft with bench seats crowd the starting line, which is a 100-yard piece of rope stretched perpendicular to the wind from the starboard side of the race-committee trailer. My competitors look like Mad Max dragoons, their identities masked by helmets and ski goggles. Their jeans are caked with dirt, some of them wearing motorcycle armor. While we wait for the previous fleet to finish, there’s a strange pre-start shuffle. Unlike the regimented starts of DN iceboats I’m more familiar with, where half the fleet starts on starboard and the other half on port, land-sailing starts are a free-for-all…
Greatest underdog story in sports
Wednesday
Jul 20
2022
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Jul 20
2022
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Launched in 2021, Netflix brings back the Untold series of sports documentaries in 2022 with four new stories to air:
August 16: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist
August 23: The Rise and Fall of And1
August 30: Operation Flagrant Foul
September 6: Race of the Century
The final show details the 1983 America’s Cup in which New York Yacht Club would finally lose its hold on a trophy which it had successfully defended over a period of 132 years.
Chapman Way, the 35-year-old who co-created the series with his 31-year-old brother Maclain, insists the victory by the Alan Bond-financed Australia II in the best-of-seven yacht race after being 3-1 down “truly is the greatest underdog story in the history of sports”.
It’s a big call, but Maclain backs it up. “It’s almost astounding how much of an advantage the New York Yacht Club had in this race,” he says. “Technologically, the winning streak, the funding, the money is mind-boggling, which is why they won for 132 years.”
John Bertrand, who skippered the Australian boat, was the main conduit through which they chose to tell the story of how “the longest winning streak in the history of sport” was brought to an end…
WASZP Worlds: Kiwis win Men’s and Women’s titles
Tuesday
Jul 19
2022
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Jul 19
2022
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Flying Kiwi’s Sam Street and Elise Beavis have won the Men’s and Women’s World titles at the WASZP World Championships, staged on Lake Garda, Italy…
America’s Cup: No more Spy versus Spy
Tuesday
Jul 19
2022
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Jul 19
2022
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The America’s Cup reconnaissance rules are changing for America’s Cup 2024, to be sailed in Barcelona, Spain in September/October 2024. America’s Cup Media’s Magnus Wheatley tries to explain…
Boris Herrmann’s Team Malizia launches new IMOCA
Tuesday
Jul 19
2022
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Jul 19
2022
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Back on the water – Boris Herrmann’s offshore sailing team launched their new race yacht as scheduled on 19 July, after 18 months of innovative design and construction…
Father-Daughter duo top Mackinac Race
Monday
Jul 18
2022
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Jul 18
2022
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The 98th edition of the Bayview Mackinac Race got underway on July 16, with the 172 entrants either on the 259 nm Cove Island or 204 nm Shore courses on Lake Huron. Each course extends from the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron to Mackinac Island which sits between Michigan’s Upper and Lower peninsulas.
On the shorter course, finishing third overall and winning the doublehanded class was the J/111 nosurprise sailed by 14 year old Merritt Sellers along with her dad Scott. While they belong to St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, the family keeps their boat at Little Traverse Yacht Club (Harbor Springs, MI) where they have a summer home.
“We got ’em at night,” Scott Sellers, 50, told the Detroit Free Press immediately after the race while docking his boat. “I worried they would get us. We went from 2 miles back to 2 miles in front.”
Finishing at 20:57 on July 17, Merritt was exhausted after the race, trying to process the moment, nibbling on Milano mint cookies. The pair had survived on cold pizza and freeze-dried food — pad thai for her and chicken risotto for him. But they were both so happy…
A new approach for Team Maliza
Monday
Jul 18
2022
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Jul 18
2022
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In the fast-growing world of IMOCA sailing, there are all sorts of teams – French, international, large, small, well-funded and not so – but one that stands out right now is the group behind the charismatic German skipper Boris Herrmann…
setting sun
Monday
Jul 18
2022
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2022
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It was always known that the financial support from major Oracle shareholder and founder Larry Ellison was not open-ended and Team Japan becomes the first casualty of that.
The statement released regarding SailGP Team Japan reads as follows:
“After much deliberation and taking into account logistical and commercial considerations, SailGP has made the difficult decision to pause the participation of Japan SailGP Team indefinitely. The league would like to thank Nathan Outteridge and all of the athletes and staff involved in the Team for their outstanding performance in the first two seasons of SailGP and wish them the very best for the future.
Season 3 will continue with nine teams racing for the remainder of the season…
Long Beach shines for West Marine US Open
Monday
Jul 18
2022
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Jul 18
2022
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114 athletes took to the water in the LA 2028 sailing venue this past weekend for the West Marine US Open. Each day, mornings of fog gave way to beautiful ocean breeze, with race committee running a total of 64 races across seven fleets…
International Canoe UK Nationals – Day 1 at Hayling Island
Monday
Jul 18
2022
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2022
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First day of the International Canoe UK Nationals hosted at Hayling island SC finished with Day 1 leader Gareth Caldwell…
Ownership Opportunities on the Sea of Cortez
Monday
Jul 18
2022
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Jul 18
2022
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Meet the worldly Casa Blake, a new ownership opportunity in the heart of the Costa Palmas Marina Village. Come explore this collection of residences on the Sea of Cortez in Cabo. Register to find out more.
Emirates Team NZ designer wins Women’s WASZPs
Sunday
Jul 17
2022
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Jul 17
2022
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Emirates Team New Zealand designer Elise Beavis was crowned Women’s WASZP World Champion at the Waszp International Games in Lake Garda, Italy…
Like no other race in sailing
Sunday
Jul 17
2022
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Jul 17
2022
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Newport, RI (July 17, 2022) – Two hours after her Swan 42 Entropy crossed the finish line and won the 67th running of the historic Queen’s Cup trophy, Patti Young still couldn’t fully believe the results.
“I’m in shock,” said Young, who navigated on the boat while her husband, Paul Hamilton, steered. “This is just as important to me as when I won the Mixter trophy for being the wining navigator in the St. David’s Lighthouse division of the Newport Bermuda Race. I feel this it’s just like that. And this was a team effort. Everybody on the boat contributed.”
Entropy won the race with a corrected time of 2:52:50, just 19 seconds ahead of Victor Wild’s Pac52 Fox, which finished second, and two minutes ahead of Tony Langley’s TP52 Gladiator.
The Queen’s Cup trophy was given to the New York Yacht Club by Queen Elizabeth II and officially presented to the Club by the British Ambassador in November 1953. It’s a perpetual trophy that is raced for annually under the same conditions as the King’s Cup that preceded it and was retired after the passing of King George VI in 1952.
The Queen’s Cup is both one of the most-prized trophies in the New York Yacht Club and one of the most unique competitions in sailing…
SailGP Drop Nathan Outteridge and SailGP Japan Team
Friday
Jul 15
2022
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Jul 15
2022
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SailGP issued a press release Friday announcing the dropping of Nathan Outteridge and the SailGp Japan Team from the circuit…
Project Speed: Waiting is best, patience is s must
Friday
Jul 15
2022
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Jul 15
2022
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With a project as highly contingent on weather and conditions as the Emirates Team New Zealand wind powered Land Speed World Record attempt, constant evaluation and adjustments of plans are essential to the success of the overall objective…
18 starters for the Golden Globe Race 2022
Friday
Jul 15
2022
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Jul 15
2022
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North American entries are rushing across the Atlantic Ocean, while others are expected to make landfall this week in France and the United Kingdom…
World Sailing to again vote on reform
Friday
Jul 15
2022
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Jul 15
2022
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Governance Reform at World Sailing has been under discussion since 2017, and was part of the 2018-2022 strategy presented at the May 2018 Mid-Year Meeting, with the objectives to establish a governance structure within World Sailing that was simple, clear, and transparent to all stakeholders.
It was among the major talking points at the 2019 World Sailing Annual Conference, following a proposal to reform the governance which had been published in May 2019. But when it was put to World Sailing’s Members for approval, it failed to reach the majority of 75% required, reaching only 64.4% in favor so it was not passed.
Revisiting the topic in 2021, 92% of Member National Authorities (MNAs) voted in favor of the Board continuing its work to modernize the governance structure, and now World Sailing has scheduled an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to once again discuss and vote on proposals for Governance Reform. The meeting, which will be virtual and open to representatives of all MNAs, is on July 18, 2022.
The proposed changes to World Sailing’s governance aim to equip the governing body for the sport of sailing globally with accountable, efficient decision-making processes in order to better support sailors, volunteers and MNAs
The proposals require a simple majority of 50%+1 to pass. The purpose is to express support for the concepts that have been developed in extensive debate, particularly over the past seven months. Should the concepts be approved, detailed drafting will be undertaken for amendments to the World Sailing Constitution. These will then be put to the Annual Conference in October 2022 for approval by the requisite 75% majority.
https://www.sailing.org/inside-world-sailing/organisation/governance/governance-reform/
America’s Cup: Upcoming reveal of AC40
Thursday
Jul 14
2022
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Jul 14
2022
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When the AC37 Protocol was released, the authors noted how cost reduction was a key consideration. Among the efforts to achieve that goal was how teams were only permitted to build one new AC75, but a smaller yacht was to be developed by the defender for teams to use for testing, component development, and training.
“We didn’t hold back on the design,” explained Dan Bernasconi, Chief Designer of Emirates Team New Zealand. “We took the IP of Te Rehutai (the Cup winning boat from AC36) and translated it into the best 40-footer we could create.”
Mostly built at the McConaghy factory in China, the first foiling AC40 monohull is just weeks away from being shipped to defender’s base in Auckland for sea trials
“It’s a step on in terms of hull form from the Cup winning design of Te Rehutai,” said Richard Meacham, who has overseen the project. “(The AC40) adheres to all the fundamental rule changes implemented for the AC75s and we’re looking at performance estimates way in excess of our training boat, Te Kahu, or any of the other teams’ test mules that they ran in the lead up to AC36.”
While the AC40s are to be a testing platform for the teams, there are strict parameters and cost reduction measures with stipulation. This includes a maximum of four custom foil wings and four custom flaps, plus ten custom jibs and four mainsails are permitted to be built. Teams will also be allowed to build just one custom mast in addition to the two-piece supplied as standard.
Down below, the auto-pilot controls the ride height only and can be manipulated, holding the wing at a certain set point below the water. If the teams want to change the pitch angle or trim differently for conditions, then there needs to be manual intervention whilst all foil cant operations during the high-speed maneuvers are controlled by direct input from the crew.
“One of the guiding principles of both the AC40 and AC75 projects is that they must be sailed, trimmed and set by the crew,” noted Bernasconi. “Top speeds of the AC40’s will be well into the forty-knot mark plus they will be optimized to fly faster and sooner in light airs – the same as with the AC75s.”
With the first AC40 boat due to be sailing in the next few months and throughout the New Zealand summer, the subsequent AC40s will be rolling off the production line for the main teams in quick succession, the coming months.
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