April 2013
With only three months until the start of the Louis Vuitton Challenger Series, the team has been busy training and preparing for racing, which begins in San Francisco on July 4th. The team spent the majority of March in the shed modifying our AC72 and turning a standard AC45 into a foiling AC45. We expedited our time to get onto a foiling boat by modifying an AC45 while we wait for our second AC72 which will fully foil.
Publicado el 29/03/2013
This week on America’s Cup Discovered we take a look back on a momentous 2012 on the America’s Cup World Series tour. The AC72s hit the water, and the AC45s thrilled the crowds.
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Historic day at the St. Barths Bucket Regatta
Hanuman, Lionheart, Rainbow, Ranger and Velsheda — will be sailing together for the first time ever in the Caribbean. As well, it will be the first time since the 1930s, considered the J Boats’ Golden Era, so many have converged for a single racing event.
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More misinformation and murky stuff
Coach Rod Davis revisits his blog on the art of “espionage”…..
After my blog on spying on the competition, people have been asking how teams manage to keep secrets when the opposition can approach to within 200 metres because cameras are more than capable of getting in close at that range.
Publicado el 22/03/2013
This week we look back at the once fierce American and Australian America’s Cup rivalry. We meet a man who just can’t leave his fascination and love of the event behind, now Race Director of the 34th America’s Cup, Australian Iain Murray. And we travel to London to the design rooms of Garrard’s, the world’s oldest jewellers, responsible for making the oldest trophy in sport.
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March 23, 2013
Foiling AC45
A big step forward for Artemis Racing as we launched our foiling AC45 onto San Francisco Bay. This is the first step in our foiling training for our second AC72. The modifications from our one design AC45 to our now foiling AC45 took about a month to complete.
Publicado el 22/03/2013
AC UNCUT’s Genny Tulloch catches up with Oracle Team USA skipper James Spithill six months after their AC72 capsize. James talks the psychological benefit of going through the capsize, and how he believes Oracle Team USA is stronger than ever because of it.
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Muy buen video institucional de King Composite que nos muestra su astillero y su gente al trabajo. Tecnología de punta y alta precisión para estos “artesanos del carbono”. En la actualidad, involucrados con la construcción de los AC72 de Artemis Racing, desafiante de la 34 America´s Cup.
No se cuanto se podra aplicar en un 72 pies lo aprendido en un Moth, pero no es casualidad que Loick Peyron este navegando en un barco con foils en estos dias. Artemis Racing dará el paso de “foilear” sus barcos a partir del nuevo AC72 que estaba terminado hace unas semanas y ahora estan modificando. Algo que no estaba en los planes originales de Juan K segun me cuentan.
March 19, 2013
Goodbye, Auckland, and thank you!
After six months of training and racing in the austral summer the Team Luna Rossa leaves Auckland to resume its racing activity in Naples, where it will participate at the last event of the America’s Cup World Series (16 – 21 April) with the two AC 45 catamarans Luna Rossa Piranha and Luna Rossa Swordfish, respectively steered by Chris Draper and Francesco Bruni.
Nada de “dramatico” como pusieron muchas webs ayer. El wing sail del AC72 de ETNZ golpeo el hangar del equipo mientras estaba en proceso de izado para poner sobre el cata y sufrió roturas leves que le permitirán volver a navegar en aproximadamente dos días.
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Trimming the wing = driving a big truck
Glenn Ashby (pictured above with the wing sheet in his hand) describes his job as wing trimmer on the AC72 as a bit like driving a truck.
New AM-Cam video shot at Takapuna Beach on Friday March 8, 2013. Includes previous clips together with new video of the two AC72′s sailing back to their base on the Waitemata Harbour. In this new footage Luna Rossa starts well behind Emirates Team NZ’s AC72 and appears to be sailing higher and faster than the New Zealand Challenger which dominated the other racing on the day
“Buen video y buen momento para comentar un rumor que será noticia seguramente. ETNZ ya no usa el gennaker en las popas arriba de 20 nudos, y ha inventado un sistema para trimar las cajas de orzas con un control de botones desde el cockpit.
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Six months to start of 2013 America’s Cup Finals
MARCH 7, 2013
Six months from today, Race 1 of the 2013 America’s Cup Finals is scheduled to be held on San Francisco Bay.
Entering from one side of the start box will be the defender, ORACLE TEAM USA. The challenger could be Artemis Racing, Emirates Team New Zealand, Luna Rossa Challenge or, perhaps, Team Korea, whichever one emerges from the 30th anniversary Louis Vuitton Cup, the America’s Cup Challenger Series, scheduled for July and August.
