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Show news No pressure
No matter which way I looked at it, linking these things was just bound to add to it
Posted on 10 Sep 2023
The Man in the Tower
We speak to SailGP's Chief Umpire
Posted on 28 Nov 2022
The real game changer
Getting the big cats foiling was one thing, SailGP is quite another...
Posted on 21 Mar 2022
The Only Way Is Up!
After the year we've all been through we're all hoping this to be true
Posted on 4 Jan 2021
Fear of flying
Two other crucial Fs that apparently need their own article
Posted on 31 Aug 2020
Changing how we do things
Thinking up new ways to compete within Covid-19 regulations
Posted on 20 Jul 2020
Relive AC34 in San Francisco! Race 19 full replay
The winner-take-all final race from 2013
Posted on 14 Jul 2020
Relive AC34 in San Francisco! Race 17 & 18 replay
First contact between boats as ETNZ get caught high
Posted on 11 Jul 2020
Relive AC34 in San Francisco! Race 16 full replay
Five wins in a row for ORACLE TEAM USA
Posted on 9 Jul 2020
Relive AC34 in San Francisco! Race 14 full replay
A true battle of the tacticians
Posted on 7 Jul 2020
Relive AC34 in San Francisco! Race 13 full replay
The must-watch race includes a very close port-starboard incident
Posted on 3 Jul 2020
Relive AC34 in San Francisco! Race 12 full replay
Emirates Team New Zealand on match point
Posted on 1 Jul 2020
Relive AC34 in San Francisco!
Full replays of Races 1 to 11
Posted on 30 Jun 2020
Planet Sail Episode 4
Exclusive interview with double America's Cup winner Ernesto Bertarelli
Posted on 24 Jun 2020
Podcast: An extraordinary 10 years of sailing
Andy Rice, Mark Jardine and James Boyd discuss the sailing decade
Posted on 21 Dec 2019
America's Cup: Favourite Moments - PJ Montgomery
Join leading America's Cup commentator PJ Montgomery for his favourite moment from 12 America's Cups
Posted on 6 Aug 2019
Up close and personal with Jimmy Spithill
America's Cup winner on triumph, disaster and a bond with Prince Harry
Posted on 26 Sep 2018
ORACLE TEAM USA's AC72 on display
New America's Cup exhibition at The Mariners' Museum
Posted on 19 Apr 2017
Crewsaver's partnership with Artemis Racing
Hannah Burywood talks at the Southampton Boat Show
Posted on 12 Sep 2015
San Francisco officially out of the running
For hosting the 35th America's Cup
Posted on 12 Jun 2014
Anhedral-angle rudder foils
Finbar Anderson discusses their advantages
Posted on 14 Mar 2014
Laureus Interview with Jimmy Spithill
Nominated for Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award
Posted on 7 Mar 2014
ORACLE TEAM USA design team
Powered by homegrown talent
Posted on 7 Feb 2014
Spithill looks for '3-peat'
With ORACLE TEAM USA
Posted on 4 Feb 2014
Luna Rossa moves to new base
Team install in Cagliari ahead of 35th America's Cup
Posted on 16 Jan 2014
Sam Newton - the best in both worlds
America's Cup and 18ft Skiff sailor
Posted on 15 Jan 2014
City of San Francisco proposes venue sites
For the 35th America's Cup
Posted on 24 Dec 2013
Team France for the 35th America's Cup
Presented by Cammas, Desjoyeaux and de Kersauson
Posted on 12 Dec 2013
Forging ahead on the 35th America's Cup
Deciding on timing, location, format and type of boat
Posted on 8 Nov 2013
Recycling composites in an ACC yacht
ORACLE TEAM USA & Boeing collaborate
Posted on 15 Oct 2013
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Oracle Team USA v Emirates Team New Zealand. America's Cup Day 4, San Francisco. Oracle Team USA before the start of race 6
© Richard Gladwell Sail-World.com
Craig Mitchell in the Umpire RIB during the 34th America's Cup Match
© ACEA / Ricardo Pinto
Craig Mitchell in the Umpire RIB during the 34th America's Cup Match
© ACEA / Ricardo Pinto
AC72 America's Cup racing in San Francisco
© Christophe Favreau
Christophe gets in close to the action at the JJs
© Christophe Favreau
New Zealand partially lifted on her L-Foils and sailing on the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand
© Swan Images / www.sail-world.com
AC72 - New Zealand fully lifted on her L-Foils and sailing on the Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand
© Swan Images
America's Cup - Day 1, Emirates Team NZ sailing on Leg 3 of Race 2, with the trademarked stylised Silver Fern licenced by the NZ Trade and Industry
© Richard Gladwell/Sail-World.com/nz
Bob Fisher and David Schmidt raising a glass together at the 34th America's Cup
© Stuart Alexander
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli - Round Robin 2 - Hauraki Gulf - January 17, 2021 - Auckland - 36th America's Cup
© Richard Gladwell - Sail-World.com / nz
Although the Kiwis weren't the first at foiling, their focused approach quickly made it a technique that was perfect for the America's Cup, as for the first time sailing suddenly became televisual
© Richard Gladwell
The 2013 America's Cup wind limit varied between 19.9 and 24.5kts in San Francisco dictated by the theoretical tidal flow in a University model of San Francisco Bay
© Richard Gladwell Sail-World.com
The 34th America's Cup was sailed in winds that varied from 19.9Kts to 25.4kts under a controversial wind limit system
© Richard Gladwell Sail-World.com
Emirates Team New Zealand testing the AC72 on the Hauraki Gulf, with a larger Code Zero than the AC75
© Chris Cameron / ETNZ
Emirates Team New Zealand has near capsize - September 14, 2013
© Youtube
The turning point of the 34th America's Cup - Jimmy Spithill steps back aboard OTUSA after the decision is made to replace tactician John Kostecki with Ben Ainslie and then decline to race in the second race of Day 3
© Richard Gladwell Sail-World.com
The `Foiling Dance` in the AC75 is expected to be similar to the routines and race mechanics the crews had to learn in the AC72
© Richard Gladwell
America's Cup - for the first time since the 2013 America's Cup sail designers will be involved in developing mainsails, jobs and Code Zeroes
© Richard Gladwell
Despite being a shorter boat the AC72 have taller rigs than the AC75
© Richard Gladwell Sail-World.com
Christine Belanger - San Francisco 2013
© Chris Cameron
Luna Rossa lanuch their spectacular AC72 in Auckland in 2013
© Richard Gladwell
In better times - Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa have a practice race in the AC72's off Takapuna Beach ahead of the 2013 America's Cup
© Richard Gladwell
Luna Rossa launch their spectaculrly styled AC72 in 2013
© Richard Gladwell
Christine Belanger presents the Louis Vuitton Trophy in 2013 to Emirates Team NZ
© Emirates Team NZ
Luna Rossa attempting to raise and locate their wingsail on an AC72
© Gilles Martin-Raget
Joe Spooner (second from right) waits between races on the crucial Day 3 of the 2013 America's Cup
© Richard Gladwell Sail-World.com
Side slipping wingsailed catamarans out of the Viaduct Harbour was even trickier than in Bermuda
© Richard Gladwell
When Emirates Team NZ had a base in the Viaduct Harbour they created a lot of visitor interest, and bought the America's Cup mana to the area which left with them
© Richard Gladwell
The land used for team bases in 2000 and 2003 has gone for apartments offices and hotels
© Richard Gladwell
Originally known as the Lighter Basin, the Viaduct Harbour was constructed by Viaduct Holdings/Tramco using land purchased from the Auckland Harbour Board in the 1990's
© Richard Gladwell
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