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. - Full report ..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

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 productive two months," noted Terry Hutchin ..read more

The fastest boat always wins the America’s Cup, and with the AC75 Class Rule still in its infancy, the design teams are still navigating how best to exploit the measurement opportunities. With their boat completed, here are comments from the Alinghi Red Bull Racing team: Marcelino Botin, Principal Boat Designer: You spend three years seeing the boat evolve on the computer and then you see it full size, it’s like magic! It’s the result of a lot of work of many different people. It’s the most amazing thing with a boat like this. When the boat launches, you get the feeling of everything that’s in ..read more

After the Alinghi Red Bull Racing had a swanky reveal for their AC75 on Friday, and the Kiwis splashed their new boat for its first sail on Friday, now its the INEOS Britannia, the British Challenger of Record, that pulled back the curtain on their AC75 race boat for the very first time. The week’s end is for boat shows. Code-named RB3, it emerged from the team base in Barcelona on Saturday (April 20) for rig stepping and checking in preparation for her first sail. It was the first time the race boat had been in public view after two-and-a-half years of design, build and fit-out. Up until this ..read more

The 2024 inductees for the America’s Cup Hall of Fame will be Josh Belsky (USA), Bob Fisher (GBR), Kevin Shoebridge (NZL), and Juan Vila (ESP). They will be honored at an induction gala at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona on October 14, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. “This year’s class reflects the America’s Cup’s intent to foster ‘friendly competition between foreign countries’,” noted Selection Committee Chair Steven Tsuchiya. “We’re honoring four individuals—from four different nations—united by their genuine affection for each other and for yachting’s greatest prize.” The America’s Cup Hall of ..read more

Watching sailboat racing is hard. Viewing distance is far and angles are misleading. Short courses off the docks is doable, but full races on a spectator boat is more about socializing. But big events like the America’s Cup or SailGP are eager to attract viewership, though a new study indicates how this has a cost elsewhere. Research led by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland found that noise from large groups of spectator boats was loud and sustained long enough to potentially impact marine mammals, fishes and invertebrate species who rely on their intricate hearing systems for proc ..read more

It’s spring season for the America’s Cup as the boats to compete in the 37th edition come out of the sheds and into the daylight. So far it has been Great Britain, Switzerland, and USA, but the biggest splash is now defender New Zealand. After an intensive 10 month building program, Emirates Team New Zealand’s brand new AC75 had been transported under the cover of darkness from the team’s North Shore build facility to their Wynyard Point base, and then emerged on April 11 in preparation for its launch and commissioning phase in Auckland. “It is always a pretty significant moment for any team ..read more

The Youth and Women’s America’s Cup teams are all deep into their simulator training whilst keeping sharp on the water all around the world in a variety of foiling classes from International Moths and Waszps to 69Fs and GC32 craft. Behind closed doors, competition on the simulators has become white hot with teams challenging each other remotely to races whilst in Badalona, sailors representing Great Britain, USA, and Sweden have moved onsite into their new shed base and apron – sharing knowledge, supporting and upskilling together. It's a busy time and the clock is ticking down now to Septembe ..read more

INEOS Britannia’s race boat for the 37th America’s Cup has made the 1,000 mile journey from its UK base in Northamptonshire to Barcelona, Spain. The British Challenger’s AC75 left Turweston Airfield on April 2 and traveled by road to Portsmouth, where it began its sea crossing on a ferry to Bilbao, Spain. The race boat, known as RB3, was then transported by road to INEOS Britannia’s Barcelona base, arriving on April 6. INEOS Britannia Team Principal and Skipper Sir Ben Ainslie said it was “a relief” to have RB3 arrive in Barcelona. “It’s been a tense few days tracking the route of RB3 from a s ..read more