News Archive

America's Cup: Significant changes for Teams on formats and finance By Richard Gladwell, 3:19 PM Wed 1 Jun 2011
America's Cup organisers have announced significant changes to the structure of the event and its preliminary, the America's Cup World Series. The smaller AC45 design will stay in use for the America's Cup World Series for a longer period, and the cut-over the larger AC72, to be used in the America's Cup itself, has been delayed. ...[more]

America's Cup: Competitors Forum breaks up on a promise By Richard Gladwell, 11:12 AM Tue 31 May 2011
The competitors in the 2013 America's Cup met by teleconference today. Sail-World is informed that the meeting broke up without any decisions being reached. That is somewhat surprising given that there is currently a Protocol in place for the event, a number of teams have purchased AC45's and have active design teams for the AC72 program, and a regatta management and media test event has just b ...[more]

America's Cup: Different players - but the arguments remain the same By Richard Gladwell, 6:47 PM Mon 30 May 2011
Readers will recall at the time of the recent Emirates Team NZ funding announcement that CEO, Grant Dalton advised, in little more than a quick sentence in a 40 minute presentation that one of the tentacles of the NZ Government, NZ Trade and Enterprise would again be one of the principal investors in the 2011-13 America's Cup campaign on the basis of a long-standing contract ...[more]

America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ queries basis of Challenger selection By Richard Gladwell, 9:57 PM Fri 27 May 2011
Emirates Team New Zealand is asking the America’s Cup jury to clarify the method of selecting the Challenger of Record for the 34th America’s Cup. Emirates Team New Zealand managing director Grant Dalton said that with so much public money and sponsorship involved in the New Zealand challenge it was reasonable to seek clarification on how Artemis was selected. ...[more]

America's Cup changes considered as teams reduce By Stuart Alexander, 3:29 PM Fri 27 May 2011
Top international yachting correspondent, Stuart Alexander peers through the fog shrouding the America's Cup and his his perspective in The Independent: Changes to the format of the America’s Cup preliminary events are being considered in San Francisco by the holder, Larry Ellison’s Oracle Racing Team, the sponsoring Golden Gate Yacht Club and the organisation they have set up to arrange regatt ...[more]

Team Australia applies for AC45 Regatta By Sail-World.com, 1:17 PM Thu 26 May 2011
Team Yachting Australia Ltd has lodged an application for an AC45 event with the 34th Americas Cup Event Authority and has received confirmation and advice that the venue dates during January and February 2012 are available for events to be held in Australia during this period. ...[more]

America's Cup: The Great AC45 Picture Show By Gilles Martin-Raget, 9:50 PM Sat 21 May 2011
Top international sailing photographer, Gilles Martin-Raget has compiled this picture show of images, from behind the scenes and on the water, in the recently concluded America's Cup Media Trials. It is very impressive both for the quality of the image and the presentation. ...[more]

Junior Training for the America's Cup + Video By Neil Deverell, Waitangi , 4:36 PM Fri 20 May 2011
Three days ago we ran the story of a new catamaran design aimed at Optimist sailors. In an updated story we present three video clips of the Vudu sailing in the Bay of Islands. Intended for single handed sailing, ideally suited to teenagers who want to have some sailing fun, they can also be sailed by two younger children; or an adult. ...[more]

34th America's Cup: New Challenger of Record appointed By Richard Gladwell, 4:10 AM Wed 18 May 2011
Following the announcement last Thursday by Mascalzone Latino principal Vicenzo Onorato, that he was pulling out of the 34th America's Cup for financial reasons, a new Challenger of Record has been appointed. While Mascalzone Latino, the team of the Challenger of Record, Club Nautico di Roma, had raised some sponsorship it was not sufficient for them to mount a competitive (read 'winning' ) cha ...[more]

America's Cup: Oracle Racing News - Edition 10 - We're Outta here! By Oracle Racing Media, 9:31 PM Tue 17 May 2011
Oracle Racing's newsletter for 17 May 2011 covering the latest entries and America's Cup World Series and more. ...[more]

America's Cup: Onorato sings on Challenger of Record withdrawal By Richard Gladwell, 8:47 AM Mon 16 May 2011
The Valencia based website, www.vsail.info (who are much better translators of Italian than we) are reporting an interview given to an Italian newspaper by Vincenzo Onorato, owner of Mascalzone Latino, who sent an open letter on Thursday, announcing that due to impossibility of finding the adequate funding to mount a competitive campaign, his team was withdrawing from the America’s Cup. ...[more]

America's Cup: Challenger of Record pulls pin in unprecedented move By Richard Gladwell, 9:35 PM Thu 12 May 2011
The Challenger of Record for the 34th America's Cup, Mascalzone Latino has just announced that they will not compete in the 34th America's Cup. No announcement has yet been made by the America's Cup organisers as to what will happen next, in this unprecedented move, which had been tipped for some time. ...[more]

America's Cup: Oracle Racing News - Edition 9 - Media Trials Update By Oracle Racing Media, 10:10 AM Tue 10 May 2011
Oracle Racing's newsletter for 02 May 2011 covering the latest entries and America's Cup World Series and more. ...[more]

America's Cup: First glimpse of new TV package from Media Trials By Richard Gladwell, 11:30 AM Mon 9 May 2011
The first video images from the America's Cup Media Trials have been released, showing clips from the much vaunted enhanced television coverage. A key part of the new offering will be the on-screen virtual lines overlaid to show laylines, which boat ahead and behind and by what margin, and other on-screen information. ...[more]

America's Cup: Over and Out from Auckland By America's Cup Media and Gilles Martin-Raget, 7:37 PM Sun 8 May 2011
With the conclusion of the America's Cup test sessions in Auckland, most teams are in pack-up mode, heading for Europe. The weekend in Auckland has been devoted to dis-assembling the AC45s and their wings, and fitting them into shipping containers for the move from Auckland. Plus Artemis Racing give their thoughts on video on the AC 45 and the lessons learned in Auckland ...[more]

America's Cup: Challengers reduce to 14 teams + Video By Richard Gladwell, 10:14 AM Fri 6 May 2011
34th America's Cup Regatta Director Iain Murray told Sail-World this morning that one of the teams that had lodged a Notice of Challenge with the Defender, Golden Gate Yacht Club had been declined. When the entries were announced at the closing date at the end of March 2011, there were ten named teams, five teams who had asked their details be kept confidential, and two of those were listed as ...[more]

Images of the Waitemata: America's Cup Media Trials - Fleet Racing By Gilles Martin-Raget, 6:24 AM Wed 4 May 2011
Racing resumed yesterday in the America's Cup Media Trials staged on the outer Waitemata Harbour. Fresh winds and rain were the order of the day, and Oracle Racing's Gilles Martin-Raget took these great images of the action: ...[more]

America's Cup: Media Trials get underway but miss nearby tornado By America's Cup Media and Sail-World, 8:36 PM Tue 3 May 2011
Testing continued in Auckland for the second week of the America's Cup Regatta Management and Media Trials under cloudy skies, torrential rain and moderate, if gusty winds - including a nearby tornado. The Race Committee ran fleet races today and for the first time, China Team was a full participant. ...[more]

34th America's Cup and magic buttons By Leighton O'Connor, 10:03 PM Mon 2 May 2011
Last Wednesday, I was invited to a press conference in New Zealand wrapping up the third day of testing the AC45's. Unfortunately, I had to journey down under via a conference call. The kick off time was 4PM their time - midnight my time. I figured what the heck. Conan is all repeats this week and Letterman has been pretty lame lately. ...[more]

America's Cup: The week that Was - Video from the Regatta Trials By Oracle Racing and America's Cup Media, 6:54 PM Sun 1 May 2011
Catch this summary, in video, of the first week of the America's Cup Regatta Management Trials. ...[more]

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