Barcelona, Spain (April 25, 2024) – New York Yacht Club American Magic, Challenger for the 37th America’s Cup, today slid its AC75 race boat, “B3,” outside of the shed as commissioning continues since its arrival on March 25. Previously hidden, it had traveled 3,500 miles from its construction at the build facility in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to its current home in Barcelona. While the team did not release significant images, B3 made its public debut for structural and load testing at the American Magic base. This marked the first unveiling of the race boat after a two-and-a-half-year develop ..read more

It was in 2008 when Anna (Tunnicliffe) Tobias won the last Sailing Gold Medal for the USA, and she has been trying to change that for the past 16 years. She felt good about the chances for Paris 2024, but then had to deal with her national federation initiating distractions. Anna details her journey in this letter to the US Sailing Board of Directors: I want to share my thoughts and experience from the perspective of a seasoned Olympic campaigner. This last month, I finished my fifth and final campaign trying to represent the USA at the Olympics. The final months of the campaign have been over ..read more

America One Racing, as the largest private financial supporter of US sailing athletes campaigning for the Olympic Games, provides this First Quarter Report for 2024: Q1 2024 was always destined to be very important for USA athletes. For the first time in 12 years, the USA held our Olympic Trials on home waters during the months of January and February. The trials were a great success on several fronts. We are certainly proud and excited for the Team that will represent the USA in Paris. Talent retention is important and many of our 2nd and 3rd place finishers are beginning their campaigns towa ..read more

You know times are tough when a picture is now only worth 500 words. Providing wisdom since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, features and dock talk…with a North American focus. For newsletter information: https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/newsletter-read-or-subscribe ..read more

Barcelona, Spain (April 24, 2024) – Each of the six America’s Cup teams have mapped out their training schedule, and for NYYC American Magic this was the final day of their two-boat race training program. Their AC40s will now move to Badalona where the Youth & Women’s teams will be based going forward. Out on the water, the team had a high intensity training day full of very close races, interesting pre-start tactics including the displacement wait until about a minute before the start when both boats pop onto the foils and then fight like banshees for position. “We’ve had a really product ..read more

Evan Aras After a new ownership group for United States SailGP Team made significant personnel changes when they took over the team during Season 4, more changes are coming following the team’s performance in four events. When the new team leadership did not initially retain America’s Cup winning coach Philippe Presti (FRA) who had been with the team since Season 2, they secured two-time U.S Sailing Coach of the Year and multi-world champion Mark Ivey (USA) as the new coach. Mike Buckley, U.S. SailGP Team CEO said at the time, “His ability to lead a team is unparalleled and I’ve long admired ..read more

The 76th Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race will commence on April 26, 2024. The 125nm course from Newport Beach, CA to Ensenada, Mexico has long been a rite of passage for Southern California sailors, with the more recent option of an 88 nm course to San Diego, CA The entry list has 164 boats going the full distance with 20 teams staying north of the international border. The 2023 race saw better-than-expected winds at the start, but dropped overnight, making for very close racing by morning’s light. For 2024, the Windy.com app is suggesting that westerly winds will carry the fleet ..read more

Sailing Hall of Famer Buddy Melges is famous for saying how “instruments are great, but you have to look at the water and present the boat to Mother Nature.” While it is computers that have created the latest batch of America’s Cup AC75s, Mother Nature will get the final vote on which team got it right. Here’s a glimpse of what she’ll be seeing: With four teams revealing their box-fresh AC75s, it’s abundantly clear that different solutions have been found for very similar questions. The design teams have worked feverishly to deliver their best and latest thinking whilst the electronics and mec ..read more

Seahorse magazine hosts a monthly poll to recognize recent achievement, and in May 2024 they matched the offshore talents of Cole Brauer (USA) against Chris Sherlock (GBR). As this is little more than a popularity contest, these polls are often not a fair fight, and pity for Sherlock to be up against the tidal wave that Brauer has been riding. Brauer won, and here are some of the comments submitted by her supporters: “Cole has changed the world for every woman sailor” – Cristy Erazo “An inspiration to women literally around the world” – Rachel Lake “How does she make the hard look so easy ..read more

My apathy is at an all-time whatever. Providing wisdom since 1997, the Curmudgeon’s Observation has been a hallmark of the Scuttlebutt Newsletter which delivers a digest of major sailing news, commentary, opinions, features and dock talk…with a North American focus. For newsletter information: https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/newsletter-read-or-subscribe ..read more