News Archive

America's Cup: New style website opens for fans and media By Richard Gladwell, Auckland, New Zealand , 7:54 AM Sat 2 Jul 2011
A new look America's Cup website has opened as of 1 July 2011 for the 34th America's Cup and supporting events. Under the terms of the current Protocol all teams are required to be hosted on a single America's Cup website, or really a web-portal, to aggregate traffic and make simpler fan and media navigation. ...[more]

Dean's Diary: Extreme 40's in Boston - Dean Barker reports on Day 1 By Dean Barker, Boston, USA , 7:18 AM Sat 2 Jul 2011
Dean Barker, Emirates Team NZ skipper and Director of Kiwi Yachting Consultants Nexus AB, reports from Boston, USA on the Extreme40 series, in which Emirates Team NZ is competing. Sailing with Dean Barker are Adam Beashel (AUS), James Dagg (NZL) and Richard Meacham (NZL). ...[more]

Extreme Sailing Series 2011 Act 4 Boston - Challenging opening day By Extreme Sailing Series, 10:40 AM Fri 1 Jul 2011
2011 Extreme Sailing Series Act 4 at the Fan Pier in Boston proved to be a challenging one as the 11 Extreme 40 teams made their USA debut. Roman Hagara’s Red Bull Extreme Sailing pulled off two race wins in the final two races. Special guest and two-time Velux Five Oceans victor, Brad Van Liew, dropped by to experience his first Extreme 40 ride as guest fifth man. ...[more]

America's Cup: Oracle Racing News - Edition 16 - Latest team outed By Oracle Racing Media, 12:04 AM Wed 29 Jun 2011
Oracle Racing's newsletter for 27 June 2011 covering the announcement of the latest team ...[more]

America's Cup: The View From Spithill's Office By Michelle Slade, Sailblast, San Francisco, CA, USA , 9:40 PM Tue 28 Jun 2011
Jimmy Spithill’s version of getting up and heading to the office is just a little different to most. He starts in the gym about 7.00am, heads home for a shower and breakfast, then hits the ORACLE Racing HQ at San Francisco’s Pier 80 for an operations meeting which sets the team’s agenda for the day. ...[more]

America's Cup: Dean Barker explains the Emirates team NZ campaign By PJ Montgomery, Auckland, New Zealand , 8:28 AM Sun 26 Jun 2011
Emirates Team NZ skipper, Dean Barker spoke with top international yachting commentator, PJ Montgomery on Newstalk ZB to explain the various campaigns that the New Zealand based team are running ahead of the 34th America's Cup. Barker also revealed their target dates for launching the first of the AC72's that the team will build and the impact on their build up with that boat, that they non-sai ...[more]

America's Cup: Jobson calls for stronger nationality rules By PJ Montgomery, Auckland, New Zealand , 7:33 AM Sun 26 Jun 2011
Former America's cup winner, leading media commentator and now President of US Sailing, Gary Jobson, spoke with top international yachting commentator, PJ Montgomery on his views of the current America's Cup. Jobson believed that there would be more interest in the current America's Cup, if there were stronger nationality rules imposed on the teams, which would in turn generate more of a nation ...[more]

America's Cup: Green Comm and RCNV launch challenge of sustainability By Green Comm Racing, 6:24 AM Fri 24 Jun 2011
The Real Club Nautico de Valencia (RCNV) and Green Comm Racing announced the details of their Challenge for the 34th America’s Cup at a press conference Thursday afternoon in Valencia, Spain. The Green Comm Racing team, representing Spain’s RCNV, completes the field of nine teams from eight nations that will be on the starting line in 10 AC 45 catamarans at the first America’s Cup World Series ...[more]

America's Cup: Spanish-Italian Challenger announces in Valencia By Richard Gladwell, 6:59 PM Thu 23 Jun 2011
European media are reporting that Spain’s Real Club Nautica of Valencia and Italy’s Green Comm Racing will jointly challenge for the 2013 America’s Cup, according to an invitation issued for the official announcement. The Spanish-Italian challenge is the eighth challenger and will bring the total fleet to nine. They are the unannounced challenger alluded to at last week's Media Announcement in ...[more]

America's Cup: Oracle Racing News - Edition 15 - Media Reaction By Oracle Racing Media, , 12:11 PM Thu 23 Jun 2011
Oracle Racing's newsletter for 14 June 2011 covering the Media reaction to the America's Cup in San Francisco and more. ...[more]

America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ starts sailing their two boat program By Richard Gladwell, 4:44 AM Thu 23 Jun 2011
There’s a new cat, soon to be two, prowling the Auckland waterfront. From the design board of a highly respected US multihull design partnership, and built by a top Wellington based composites builder, the pair of new black cats are here to stay for a couple of years at least. ...[more]

Images from the Viaduct: Emirates Team NZ is purring By Richard Gladwell, Auckland, NZ , 2:34 AM Thu 23 Jun 2011
This week and early next, Emirates Team NZ will launch their two SL33's - which will be their training boats in the lead up to the 34th America's Cup. On a wet winter's day, Sail-World took a sneak peak at the new catamarans which are just small enough to dodge the Surrogate Rule for the event which prohibits the sailing of catamarans above 10 metres in length. ...[more]

New Nexus nGPS Antenna has improved accuracy and transmission speed. By Sail-World, 1:37 PM Tue 21 Jun 2011
The nGPS Antenna, from Nexus Marine, represents a significant advance: it works on 5Hz updates per second increased from 1 Hz of the old unit and it has 66 acquisition and 22 tracking channels, these features result in reduced start up time, improved accuracy and faster transmission speeds. ...[more]

Fisher's View: San Francisco is perfect for the America’s Cup By Bob Fisher, 10:01 PM Sat 18 Jun 2011
Any underlying fears that the America’s Cup was off course should have been fully allayed after last week’s tests over the proposed course area for the 34th Cup match in 2013. The two Oracle Racing AC-45s, skippered by Russell Coutts and Jimmy Spithill, showed the world that the venue is perfect and that Catamarans will provide all the excitement due from the Cup in the 21st Century. ...[more]

America's Cup: New videos take Cup to the people By Oracle Racing & America's Cup Media, 1:24 PM Sat 18 Jun 2011
Oracle Racing and America's Cup Media have posted three new videos focusing on the Media Events held last week in San Francisco, and clearly aimed outside the wider sailing audience ...[more]

Team Australia down but not out By Peter Baker, 7:42 AM Sat 18 Jun 2011
Team Australia’s entry to the America's Cup 45 World Series has now been delayed but, the team remains high spirited. Despite securing Team support from the local sailing authorities this week, Team Australia was not announced as a contestant by race organizer’s at a press conference in San Francisco. Despite this setback Team Australia are resolved to continue ...[more]

Paperwork hiccup overcome for Australian America’s Cup Challenge By Jeraldine Kennedy, Sail-World.com, 1:57 PM Fri 17 Jun 2011
A dramatic turn of events in the last few days when the list of challengers announced at a press conference in the host city of San Francisco included two teams from France plus representatives from China, Italy, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden and the United States but no Australian Team. ...[more]

America's Cup: AC45's - Redefining the 'Dolly Ride'.. By Kimball Livingston, 11:15 AM Fri 17 Jun 2011
San Francisco based sailing journalist, Kimball Livingstone is a passionate follower of things America's Cup. Seeing the AC45's sailing on San Francisco Bay is a small slice of heaven, and sailing on one is probably as good as it gets.. Here's Kimball's take on his Big Day Out. I have to tell it to you backwards. It went like this . . . ...[more]

America's Cup: Inside Wednesday's Media Conference By Michelle Slade, 11:01 AM Fri 17 Jun 2011
San Francisco based sailing journalist, Michelle Slade, was at the Media Conference held in the San Francisco Ferry Building on Wednesday. It was too difficult for ACEA to put on a phone line for the international media to listen in to proceedings. Here's Michelle's take on the day: ...[more]

America's Cup: Aboard the AC45 - Still pinching myself.. By Michelle Slade, 10:55 AM Fri 17 Jun 2011
It was my turn to clamber aboard the 45, I got a quick introduction to the guys on Coutts 5 - Dirk 'Cheese' de Ridder, Matt Mason, Phillipe Presti, Simon Daubney and Jonno Macbeth - before being shown my spot behind the aft crossbeam. The only instruction: hold onto to the piece of yellow rubber hosing fixed on the crossbeam. And we shot off on a reach ...[more]

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