The Emirates Team New Zealand sailing team got together as a full group for the first time of the AC35 campaign for an intensive week sailing in the exciting foiling Moth yachts. It was also an opportunity to begin the process of planning and plotting the next America’s Cup challenge.
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From a-cat.org
The Class is experiencing a transition where builders are developing to optimize their new foil designs, and sailors are trying to learn new techniques to take advantage of these setups…
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Quadrofoil is an electric hydrofoiling personal watercraft (PWC), which provides the most economically efficient and completely environmentally friendly mode of recreational marine transportation. Due to hydrofoiling and patented steering technology, riding feels like flying onwater and provides an entirely new and thrilling water experience.
The watercraft operates quietly and doesn’t produce any waves or emissions, which makes it suitable for lakes, rivers, seas as well as marine protected areas, where most motor boats and personal watercrafts are prohibited. It has a top speed up to 40 km/h (21 knots) and a range of up to 100 km (54 nautical miles) and can be fully charged in under 2 hours.
From Luna Rossa YouTube Channel
From sailinganarchy.com
As the days grow short, foiling Great Cup 32 sailors grow impatient, and last weekend, both the Hungarian team and the shiny new American team took advantage of autumn breeze to go record-hunting…
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From sailingscuttlebutt.com
The Mornington Peninsula in the Australian State of Victoria will be the setting for the 2015 Moth World Championship on January 9-16, with field littered with Olympic medals and America’s Cup competitors coming to the iconic Sorrento Sailing and Couta Boat Club to sail on the southern stretches of Melbourne’s Port Phillip. – See more at: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2014/10/27/moth-worlds-becoming-mini-americas-cup/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#sthash.I3sBIn4R.dpuf
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Today, Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) took to the water for the first time from their temporary base in Southampton, sailing their foiling AC45. The boat originally raced under BAR colours during the America’s Cup World Series in 2012-13, and has subsequently been modified to fly on hydrofoils. GoPros supplied by Sail Spy
DSS-L 2.0
Dynamic Stability Systems se réjouit de la décision d’IMOCA de ne pas ajouter de restrictions à sa classe. Cela permettra aux six nouveaux IMOCA 60 actuellement en construction, ainsi qu’à la flotte existante d’être pourvus des foils latéraux promus par DSS depuis une décennie. Les foils ont déjà été installés sur des voiliers de performance d’Infiniti à Quant, et ont aussi aidé le maxi Wild Oats XI à sa victoire l’an dernier lors de la course Rolex Sydney Hobart.
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Here a video showing DSS 1.0 application on commercial boats
With so many people asking “what is it like” to sail this boat at this speed, we thought it was time to do a more ‘pure’ edit of our fastest, final incredible run. This run shows Vestas Sailrocket 2 absolutely smashing the outright world speed sailing record and easily becoming the sports first true 60 +knot boat. She averaged 65.45 knots over the 500 meter course and hit a peak speed of 68.33 knots (78+mph, 126 + kmh).
Beware, this contains the actual audio from the helmet of the Australian pilot… and there was swearing.
We had it covered from many angles and all those little cameras cost us a little bit of speed… so we might as well use all the footage that was captured. All the shots here are from the third run of the day and are edited to the actual voice recording of the pilot in real time. The video shows the full sequence of a full run from being released from the support RIB to burning down the 500 meter course in under 15 seconds… and of course the celebration that ensued. Some of the details to look out for are when the leeward side of the boat buries underwater whilst trying to get started and when the big, low speed rudder drops down at speed on the back float (you can see it kick the boat sideways at the start of the high speed section).
This image of Ben Ainslie’s BAR team testing AC45 foils on Southampton Water (?) spotted on Sailing Anarchy today.
Sailweb.co.uk has told that no one was available at BAR HQ to comment.
