America’s Cup: Geeks rule the world

Unique to the 37th America’s Cup has been the AC40 boat, essentially a scaled down version of the AC75 boats to be used in the 2024 event. The boat is freshly designed by the Kiwi defender, intended as a cost-saving platform for testing and racing. Here’s an update...

Crash reveals AC40 structural problem

The eagerness of the New Zealanders to technically advance the America’s Cup has gotten derailed again. For the 2021 event, the development of the AC75 parts forced teams to delay their launches, and now the requirement of the AC40 training boat has hit a structural...

Powers join forces for American sailing

America’s Cup challenger American Magic and TP52 race team Quantum Racing are formally joining forces to form a high-performance partnership for the 2023 season. Quantum Racing will evolve and rebrand as ‘Quantum Racing, powered by American Magic’. Building on the...

Powering the Next AC75s

Will it be grinders or cyclors in the next America’s Cup? Good question. And there is no right answer. Report by Justin Chisholm for Sailing World: When Emirates Team New Zealand arrived in Bermuda in 2017 for the 35th America’s Cup, they ­spectacularly wrong-footed...

America’s Cup: British effort retools with new name

With the next America’s Cup to be sailed again in the AC75 foiling monohull, all that remains to be decided is pretty much everything else. With no official entrants, the venue unknown, and the Protocol yet to be released, the audience the event so desperately seeks...