With just three months to go to the opening event in the 36th America's Cup presented by Prada – the AC World Series regatta in Cagliari, Sardinia on April 23 - 26 – AC expert Matt Sheahan from PlanetSail sits down with with Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team Co-design Coordinator Dr.
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America’s Cup: No wrong answers?
With four AC75s now successfully launched and actively foiling, this story on the America's Cup website asks: What have we learned about the outcomes of the various design strategies chosen by each of the teams for their first-generation boats? One thing seems clear – that there is more than one way
America’s Cup: British and Italian teams launch their first AC75s
America’s Cup: Luna Rossa Challenge reveals test boat
America’s Cup: Stars + Stripes refute withdrawal rumours
Stars + Stripes Team USA – the California-based challenger for the America’s Cup, led by Taylor Canfield and Mike Buckley – have issued a statement quashing rumours rumbling around the New Zealand mainstream media that the team was about to withdraw its challenge for the 2021 Cup. The team’s press release
America’s Cup: Malta Altus Challenge in doubt after arbitration spat
The chances of the first ever Maltese America’s Cup challenge continuing are in doubt today according to a press release from the event’s organisers – the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand and the Challenger of Record Luna Rossa Challenge. The short release announced the publication of the America’s Cup arbitration panel’s
America’s Cup: Late Challengers issues resolved after talks
Face-to-face talks between the America's Cup Challenger of Record Luna Rosa and the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand have resolved the disputes over the validity of the three most recent challenges for the 36th edition of the ancient competition scheduled for 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand. A statement issued by America's
Panerai signs with Luna Rossa for 36th America’s Cup
No self-respecting America’s Cup campaign is complete without a high-end watch manufacturer as one of its sponsors and nobody knows that better than the official Challenger of record for the 36th America’s Cup Luna Rossa who have just announced a partnership with fellow Italians Panerai. As part of the agreement which
Elbow injury rules Spithill out of Rolex Sydney Hobart Race
Jimmy Spithill has been ruled out of taking part in the 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race after damaging an elbow tendon while training in Sydney, Australia this week for the Boxing Day race aboard the 100-foot supermaxi Comanche. With double America’s Cup winner Spithill’s primary focus being on his role with
