Politecnico of Milan, June 4th 2014, 5:00 pm CET
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Yearly Archives: 2014
June 4th, 2014.
Prada poster campaign. Luna Rossa AC72 literally fly on Milan suburbs
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
From GC32 Class news
The GC32 Class will visit The Foiling Week in Lake Garda in early July, while the next event on the GC32 European Tour is scheduled for July 17-20 at the Land Rover Sailing Cup Kiel in Germany. Stay up to date with all the news at www.facebook.com/GC32Racing.
Read the entire post on the GC32 Class news
from: sail-world.com
The busy agenda of Armin Strom Sailing Team includes other regattas and events: the Geneve-Rolle-Geneve (June 7th), Geneva Lakes’s Bol d’Or Mirabaud (June 14th) and The Foiling Week in Malcesine (Italy, July 10-12)…
Read the entire post on: sail-world.com
From Sailing News TV
Emirates Team New Zealand suffered a nosedive at the third mark rounding, reducing the boatspeed from 40 knots to 13 and flicking two crewmembers, Rob Waddell and Chris Ward, overboard.
the foiling compared to the gliding
From: yachtingmagazine.com
All styles of competitive racing have sparked innovation. NASCAR brought faster and safer cars, the space race put a man on the moon, and the most recent America’s Cup brought us 72-foot, 40-plus-knot foiling sailboats…
Read the entire post on yachtingmagazine.com
How technology won the America’s Cup: this 1 hour IPENZ lecture, hosted by Beca, was presented by two America’s Cup engineers who explained the technology behind the revolutionary AC72 boats and how Oracle made a miraculous comeback from 8-1 to 9-8, clawing back Team New Zealand’s lead to defy the odds and win.
Hear about the lessons learnt from each team in the 2013 America’s Cup series, rated as the best ever by rival Kiwi design engineers Andy Kensington, from Emirates Team New Zealand, and Neil Wilkinson, from Oracle Team US, as they toured the country visiting Whangarei, Tauranga, Dunedin, New Plymouth, Auckland and Napier in this IPENZ Centenary lecture from May 06 to May 22 2014.
From sail-world.com
Foiling in just 8 knots – After six months of intense R&D, the GC32 has been fitted with its Mk2 set of foils and has now joined the twin-hulled elite – like the AC72s of the last America’s Cup – in becoming a fully foiling, airborne, racing catamaran.
Read the entire post on sail-world.com
