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 TNZ and Luna Rossa race in Auckland + Video
By Richard Gladwell,
9:17 PM Sun 5 Feb 2012
Auckland's America's Cup fans got the chance, today, to see what they have missed, with the no-show of an expected event in the America's Cup World Series.
On the inner harbour course, familiar to many as a match racing track, bounded on its southern side by a number of vantage points, spectators got the chance to view at first hand, the two Auckland based America's Cup teams going head to head ...
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America's Cup: Dalton claims expense at root of low challenger numbers
By Sail-World,
7:15 AM Sun 5 Feb 2012
Contrary to claims elsewhere, Emirates Team NZ CEO, Grant Dalton is reported in the Herald on Sunday as saying that expense is the main reason there are so few challengers in the next America's Cup and not the oft-blamed world economy. Earlier in the week, America's Cup organisers were keen to damp down comments by America's Cup Regatta Management's Regatta Director, Iain Murray ...
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America's Cup - Images of Artemis Racing on the water with two AC45s
By Sander van der Borch,
7:40 AM Sat 4 Feb 2012
Artemis Racing began an intense two-boat training session earlier this week in Valencia, following the acquisition of a second AC45 last month. Photographer Sander van der Borch shares with us this gallery of images of Artemis Racing on the water. ...
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America's Cup: Rod Davis: Working with/against the old team
By Rod Davis,
9:37 PM Thu 2 Feb 2012
Emirates Team NZ's coach, Rod Davis describes what it is like working with Luna Rossa and coaching against his old team:
A change is like a holiday. We are back to training for racing, a week off from testing and development work on our SL33s and working through ideas for the new boat. I must say, it is very nice to be back in AC45 mode and doing ' real' coaching again. ...
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America's Cup: Unique compilation of Decisions now available
By Sail-World,
10:56 PM Wed 1 Feb 2012
The America's Cup is the oldest trophy in international sport. There have been thirty-three matches for its possession since 1851, and no challenger was successful until 1983. By 2007 the Cup had only changed hands four times. Disputes around the thirty-third match generated judicial and arbitral decisions that will be influential in all areas of international sporting law. ...
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America's Cup: Plenty of questions surface after Competitors' Forum
By Richard Gladwell,
12:15 PM Tue 31 Jan 2012
Regatta Director Iain Murray revealed after the Competitors Forum that changes were under consideration for the America's Cup including a change to a point for the day system, rather than per race; shorter courses of just 30 minutes; and possibly a place for the AC45's in the America's Cup regatta; plus the physical demands expected of the sailors and how that was shaping racing formats. ...
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America's Cup: Dean Barker outlines race training progress
By Richard Gladwell,
5:06 AM Sat 28 Jan 2012
The two America's Cup teams based in Auckland are expected to do some training on the Hauraki Gulf, this week, and will race against each next weekend.
The two teams Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa, will be competing in their AC45's. ...
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America's Cup: Dalton Amendment put into Protocol
By Richard Gladwell,
12:00 PM Tue 24 Jan 2012
The Code of Conduct for the 34th America's Cup has been included in the revised Protocol for the 34th America's Cup, and is the first time such a clause has been applied in the event.
It is clearly aimed at teams and individuals making comment that is at variance with the 'party line', in an event that has been notorious for the characters of the America's Cup doing just that. ...
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America's Cup: 'We have been fed a fatty diet of spin doctoring'
By Rod Davis,
10:17 PM Mon 23 Jan 2012
Emirates Team NZ's coach Rod Davis muses on the times we live in …..
It has been a bizarre time for the America’s Cup; the war of words and press releases has been nonstop for five years when Oracle questioned Alinghi’s Challenger of Record. Since then we have been fed a fatty diet of spin doctoring.
Some would say 'situation normal for the America’s Cup'. ...
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America's Cup Uncovered: Episode 22 - Peyron and Ainslie interviewed
By ACM,
9:19 AM Sun 22 Jan 2012
This week's Episode 22 catches up with Energy Team's Loick Peyron after he recently smashed the round the world record on Banque Populaire in the Jules Verne Trophy. Next Ben Ainslie announces that he will be joining the America's Cup after the Olympics this summer with his UK team: Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR). ...
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America's Cup: An update from the Big Fella
By Richard Gladwell,
9:57 PM Fri 20 Jan 2012
Getting out of bed at 6.00am to talk on the phone to a bunch of fully wired sailing journalists spread across three continents, probably isn’t the ideal start to a day. So it was no surprise that 'Big Fella', as Iain Murray is known in his native Australia, was talking in short sentences. Murray was back in Sydney, having taken a break from his role as Regatta Director for the 34th America’s Cup
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America's Cup: Grant Dalton updates on the AC72 build progress
By Emirates Team NZ,
11:05 AM Fri 20 Jan 2012
Emirates Team NZ CEO, Grant Dalton, gives this video update on progress with the build of the team's first AC72 from the Cookson Boats facility in Glenfield, Auckland.
The wingsails are being constructed in a special facility within Southern Spars in Avondale, West Auckland. ...
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