News Archive

America's Cup: Four teams face-off San Francisco’s AT&T Park By America's Cup Media, 8:29 AM Thu 20 Jun 2013
The first competition for the America’s Cup Summer of Racing was seen by baseball fans today as the four skippers fought good-naturedly over who threw the fastest pitch and who pounded a perfect strike into the mitts of Sergio Romo and Nick Noonan of the San Francisco Giants. ...[more]

Boom causes serious injury - sailor airlifted By Sail-World Cruising, 4:48 AM Tue 18 Jun 2013
Yet another serious head injury has been reported to a sailor off the Isle of Wight this week, caused by a swinging boom in high seas, while her only other crew member was later treated for shock. ...[more]

America's Cup: Artemis Racing's Iain Percy - 'We want to race' By Sail-World, 9:32 AM Mon 17 Jun 2013
Artemis Racing's Sailing Director, Iain Percy, has spoken out for the first time since the team's training accident, on May 9, 2013, which resulted in the death of his fellow double Olympic medalist, and long time friend and crew, Andrew 'Bart' Simpson. Interviewed by Genny Tulloch of America's Cup Uncut, Percy spoke of the loss of his 'best mate' and the impact on the team. ...[more]

America's Cup: Extended play Am-Cam video of Practice Race By John Navas, San Francisco , 5:36 AM Mon 17 Jun 2013
John Navas was shoreside on San Francisco Bay and shot this excellent video of the warm-up and practice racing between Luna Rossa and Emirates Team NZ, on Thursday. The video is 20 minutes long and opens with a foiling gybe from Emirates Team New Zealand, followed by other manoeuvrings from both boats. The racing sequence starts with the first short reach, with Emirates Team New Zealand climbi ...[more]

America's Cup: Artemis Racing's CEO interviewed on team recovery By Sail-World, 12:36 PM Sun 16 Jun 2013
San Francisco TV station, ABC7 News' Mark Matthews interviews Artemis Racing's CEO, Paul Cayard, on the team's attempts to recover from the fatal training incident on May 9, and when they expect to be sailing again. Cayard is also reminded of some comments he made over two years ago, about what could happen in an AC72 incident with the boats sailing at speeds of 40 to 50kts. ...[more]

America's Cup: AC72 Practice Racing - extended Am-Cam video By John Navas, San Francisco, USA , 9:41 PM Fri 14 Jun 2013
The always excellent, John Navas presents more Am-Cam video from San Francisco. On Wednesday June 12, he shot all three AC72's in action and produced two videos. The first of Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa training, and the second video shows one of Oracle Team USA's AC72's in a test session. ...[more]

America's Cup: Challengers have first practice race in San Francisco By www.etnzblog.com, 12:20 PM Fri 14 Jun 2013
Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa have squared off in the first unofficial practice race of the 34th America's Cup Regatta, sailing over the full course. For the first time two AC72’s lined up and raced on the course that will be used for the Louis Vuitton and America’s Cup regattas which start in just over three weeks. See videos from Emirates Team NZ and America's Cup TV ...[more]

America's Cup: Regatta rules issues sent to Int Jury for resolution By Richard Gladwell, 4:10 PM Thu 13 Jun 2013
The impasse in several matters governing the conduct of the America's Cup Regatta, and Louis Vuitton Cup, has been passed to the International Jury to resolve, and potentially make a binding Decision. As a first stage, two members of the International Jury have been assigned to initiate and conduct a Mediation process in an endeavour to identify and resolve as many of the issues as possible. ...[more]

America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ shows off the foiling gybe - Video By John Navas, 12:13 PM Thu 13 Jun 2013
Emirates Team New Zealand have shown the Foiling Gybe in San Francisco Bay. In this video from John Navas, taken bayside in San Francisco, we have the foiling gybe up close. The team has been practicing the maneuver in New Zealand for several months. The foiling gybe is the first maneuver on the video, you can see daylight under both hulls throughout the turn. ...[more]

America's Cup: War of Words erupts over changed Race Schedule By Richard Gladwell, 9:31 AM Tue 11 Jun 2013
Artemis Racing's skipper Paul Cayard has hit back at Emirates Team NZ's MD Grant Dalton's comments made after the Teams Meeting in San Francisco, late last week. A couple of hours Dalton in turn responded. But on a closer examination of the rules it would seem that Artemis Racing may have to go with a decision of the majority of the Challengers or submit to Mediation or a full Jury Hearing ...[more]

America's Cup: Swinging the wing - a crane's eye view - Video By Guilain Grenier, Oracle Team USA, 8:42 PM Mon 10 Jun 2013
Oracle Team USA's crane-man Ron takes us through the view from the top, and what it's like lifting an AC72 wing on a daily basis. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

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. ...[more]

Page 1 of 50

Our Advertisers are committed to our sport, please support them! This site and its contents are © Copyright TetraMedia Pty. Ltd and/or the original author, photographer etc. All Rights Reserved. Photographs are copyright by law. If you wish to use or buy a photograph you must contact the photographer directly (there is a hyperlink in most cases to their website, or do a Google search.) with your request. Please do not contact Sail-World.com as we cannot give permission for use of other photographer’s images. Only if the photographer named on the image is Sail-world.com, Powerboat-world.com, Marinebusiness-world.com or NZBoating-World.com. Contact us . Ph: +61 2 8006 1873 fax: +61 2 8076 0459 or complete our feedback form    Contact us .    View our Privacy Policy.    [Go Home]     [  Banner Advertising Specification]    [Bot Archive ] Customised news feeds -Marine Industry companies, Clubs and Associations have their own customised version of our news feed on their website. Look_here_to_see_examples