With the prospect of a weekend influenced by sea breezes, Matt Sheahan takes to the air to see what they look like from the skies around Auckland. Plus, why turning an AC75 and turning a plane are the same...but different.
With the prospect of a weekend influenced by sea breezes, Matt Sheahan takes to the air to see what they look like from the skies around Auckland. Plus, why turning an AC75 and turning a plane are the same...but different.
As always the RYA Dinghy and Watersports show was buzzing with boats, banter and bargains but this year also marked a big change with the move to its new venue in Farnborough...
Emirates Team New Zealand's AC75 yacht is a righting moment machine...
If the racing in these new AC75s has taught us anything, it's that relative penalties are not working. The America's Cup rules are broken.
In this Pirelli Instagram story we get a tiny glimpse into the mystery tech below the deck of Luna Rossa...
A measurement system to stop oversized sail with the use of leech hollows has be turned on its head to produce tiny batwing mainsails...
The America's Cup Class rules aren't all they first appear...
Luna Rossa are deserved champions of the Prada Cup...
“The AC75s are super impressive and challenging to sail. But a catamaran platform would be oh so much more practical”
Never has mainsheet trimming been quite so complex as it now is on an AC75...
America's Cup mainsail systems. Boom or boomless? Where are the hydraulics, what's a double skin and why have deck sweepers?
Luna Rossa are faster below 8 knot, even with INEOS from 10-15 knot and there is evidence INEOS have a straight line advantage above that. However....
Some calamities in the pre-start for INEOS Team UK, but they actually had good (better even?) speed upwind....