All stories for all Sail-World regional websites on the America's Cups and associated regattas from November 2008. Includes the current America's Cup World Series and the next Match, the 34th America's Cup.
America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ - Pushing to develop
By www.etnzblog.com,
6:21 PM Mon 10 Jun 2013
No day is ‘just another day’ sailing the Emirates Team New Zealand AC72. The team of designers, sailors and shore crew are continually pushing the envelope for more speed and what could be the slightest of margins that wins New Zealand the America’s Cup in September. ...
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Gladwell's Line: Claims that Artemis Racing used veto in own interests
By Richard Gladwell, Takapuna, New Zealand ,
6:48 AM Sun 9 Jun 2013
Emirates Team NZ 's Grant Dalton claims that the Challenger of Record, Artemis Racing, used their veto as Challenger of Record, to stymie a proposal for the start of the Louis Vuitton Cup to be delayed until 19 July, and for all teams to participate in a true Round Robin at that juncture. ...
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Gladwell's Line: Summer of Sailing set to become to Summer of Waiting?
By Richard Gladwell, Takapuna, New Zealand ,
6:56 AM Sat 8 Jun 2013
The 34th America's Cup reached a farcical level today, with the release of a revised race schedule, co-incident with an announcement by the Challenger of Record, Artemis Racing (SWE) that they did not expect to be racing until the end of July. ...
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America's Cup: Big cats at play in San Francisco Bay - Video
By John Navas,
1:42 PM Fri 7 Jun 2013
Outstanding high quality eight minute video from John Navas, shot in San Francisco of Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA training.
Video shows tacks and gybes by both boats, plus plenty of straight line foiling - you be the performance analyst!
Contains a lot of close up video of the AC72's sailing and foiling at speed.
Absolutely must see on the biggest screen you can find. ...
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America's Cup: Clouds on the Bay - what to expect in San Francisco
By ETNZblog.com,
10:16 AM Wed 5 Jun 2013
Emirates Team New Zealand's meteorologist Roger ‘Clouds’ Badham, gives an outstanding overview of the course and conditions, to be expected on San Francisco Bay.
San Francisco Bay is one of the most challenging places to sail there is, and that’s just on any normal boat let alone an AC72. ...
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America's Cup: Oracle Team USA AC72's MOB incident no drill - Video
By Richard Gladwell,
9:03 AM Wed 5 Jun 2013
The incident in which America's Cup skipper, Jimmy Spithill, fell off Oracle Team USA's AC72 was not a safety drill.
Video now released by the team shows Spithill returning to take the helm of the AC72 during a gybe, catching hold of the wheel, but missing his footing and falling over the side. ...
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America's Cup: Artemis Racing sailing again in San Francisco
By Richard Gladwell,
8:42 AM Wed 5 Jun 2013
Beleaguered America's Cup Challenger, Artemis Racing is back on the water on San Francisco Bay, after their fatal training incident over three weeks ago.
The team is sailing a foil equipped AC45, restarting their sailing program while their second AC72 is prepared for sailing. ...
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America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ's Dalton updates from San Francisco
By Sailracing Magazine,
8:32 AM Tue 4 Jun 2013
In the latest podcast episode from Sail Racing magazine, editor Justin Chisholm catches up with Emirates Team NZ MD, Grant Dalton who updates on the state of readiness of his squad and explains why he has been impressed by what he has seen of Oracle Team USA's second generation AC72. ...
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America's Cup: Outstanding High Definition Video series of AC72 action
By John Navas,
10:08 PM Mon 3 Jun 2013
Five high definition videos of Am-Cam America's Cup action from San Francisco and each around eight minutes long. Features all the Challengers and Defenders, with excellent camera work, and editing. ...
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America's Cup: Oracle's Spithill retrieved from San Francisco Bay
By Richard Gladwell,
9:52 AM Sun 2 Jun 2013
Oracle Team USA's skipper has been retrieved from San Francisco Bay, after an incident on May 30.
Initially it was rumoured that Spithill and tactician John Kostecki had both gone in the chilly water. However the information was unable to be corroborated ...
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AC72's: Video, Video on the Bay, who was the quickest there, today?
By Sail-World,
8:05 PM Thu 30 May 2013
America's Cup: Some more outstanding Am-Cam video from San Francisco Bay, as Luna Rossa, Emirates Team New Zealand and Oracle Team USA get put through their paces on Tuesday May 28 (local time). ...
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America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ blow through the new wind limits
By Emirates Team NZ and Sail-World,
6:37 PM Thu 30 May 2013
Emirates Team New Zealand completed its fourth day sailing the AC72 on San Francisco Bay today in a wide range of breeze and conditions.
The team ran through some training exercises and a couple laps of the America’s Cup race course in what tactician Ray Davies described as 'near perfect conditions'. ...
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