From americascup.com
http://youtu.be/rv6fLsz7Mk4
In synthesis:
- A new boat: 62 feet winged cats sailed by 8 crew
- America’s Cup World Series: 2 years (2015 and 2016) with at least 6 events per year raced by the (old) AC45 cats
- America’s Cup Qualifiers series in 2017 will be raced with the new AC62 class cat
- America’s Cup Challenger Playoffs for the top four challenger teams to emerge from the Qualifiers
- The America’s Cup Match, featuring the defender, ORACLE TEAM USA against the top challenger. The first team to win 7 points will win the America’s Cup
- A crew nationality rule requiring at least 25% of the AC62 crew to be nationals of the country of their challenge
Full detail here
