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  1. America's Cup Superyacht Regatta

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  2. America's Cup yachts: Then and now

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  3. Oracle's New America's Cup 2017 Yacht Is Faster and Fiercer Than Ever

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  4. America's Cup: American Magic AC75 flies on first test sail

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  5. Vigilant

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  6. America’s Cup boats: How they work and why they're unique

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  1. 37th America's Cup

    Reset. Don't show me again. The Louis Vuitton 37th America's Cup taking place between 22nd August and 27th October 2024 in Barcelona.

  2. 2021 America's Cup

    2021 America's Cup. The 36th America's Cup in March 2021 was the latest staging of the America's Cup yacht race. It was contested on the inner Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, New Zealand, between the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and Circolo della Vela Sicilia of Italy. The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's boat was Te Rehutai owned and sailed ...

  3. America's Cup

    The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. [1] [2] [3] America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one from the yacht club that currently holds the trophy (known as the defender) and the other from the yacht club that is challenging for the cup (the challenger).The winner is awarded the America's Cup ...

  4. America's Cup boats: 8 facts about the AC75 and why they're unique

    2 A storm onboard the AC75. Related to the speeds the boats are sailing through the water, particularly upwind, is the wind speeds the sailors will feel on deck. When sailing, the forward motion ...

  5. Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta

    Race 5 Recap of the Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta. Alinghi Red Bull Racing vs NYYC American Magic.SUBSCRIBE to the official America's Cup channel: https:...

  6. Louis Vuitton 37th America'S Cup Barcelona

    The New York Yacht Club, one of the most prestigious clubs in the world, held the trophy for 132 years before losing it in 1983 to Australia. ... Alinghi Red Bull Racing, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, NYYC American Magic and Orient Express Racing Team. The holders of the America's Cup are Emirates Team New Zealand representing the Royal New ...

  7. America's Cup

    America's Cup, one of the oldest and best-known trophies in international sailing yacht competition. It was first offered as the Hundred Guinea Cup on August 20, 1851, by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain for a race around the Isle of Wight. The cup was won by the America, a 100-foot (30-metre) schooner from New York City, and ...

  8. The America's Cup: Everything you need to know about the sailing

    It is a winner-takes-all format. The America's Cup is famously a race in which, as Queen Victoria was informed during the first contest in 1851, "there is no second.". The America's Cup is a magnet for the world's most talented sailors, including BOAT columnist Sir Ben Ainslie. Image courtesy of Tom Jamieson.

  9. THE BOATS: AC75, AC40 & LEQ12

    It was August 2012 when the sailing world was turned upside down by a 72-foot catamaran flying in the Hauraki Gulf. Emirates Team New Zealand had brought foils to the America's Cup, changing the face of top-level yacht racing forever. Six years later, in 2018, the publication of the AC75 Class Rule marked the beginning of a new sailing era.

  10. America's Cup: Schedule and how to follow the racing

    As was the case for the final of the Prada Cup, the America's Cup will be won by the first boat to reach seven wins. Racing is scheduled to run mostly on weekends and in some cases in the week ...

  11. 36th America's Cup: Different Design Approaches

    The design rule for the 36th America's Cup is the most audacious yet: a 75ft foiling monohull that will race mostly in flight at four times true wind speed, up to 50 knots. It's more an airplane than a boat; more a story of aerodynamics than hydrodynamics. That is the defining feature of the AC75. Since September, three challengers—Luna ...

  12. USA confirms entry in 37th America's Cup

    Newport, RI (January 26, 2022) - The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron formally accepted the New York Yacht Club American Magic's challenge for the 37th America's Cup to be held in 2024 ...

  13. History of America's Cup Races

    BMW ORACLE Racing became the first American team to win the America's Cup since 1992 when America3 defeated Il Moro de Venezia off San Diego. San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club become the 28th American defender of the America's Cup. Russell Coutts, CEO of BMW ORACLE Racing, has now won the America's Cup four times, twice with his ...

  14. 6 famous America's Cup yachts

    The famous America's cup yacht America changed hands - and names - a few times after the first historic race, and then wound up in the American Civil War as a Union ship. She stayed in the military as a training ship for the Navy until 1873, when she was sold to a former Civil War General for $5,000 (about $98,000 today).

  15. America's Cup: The rising cost of sailing's ultimate prize

    America made its name later that summer when it joined 15 yachts for the Royal Yacht Squadron's race around the Isle of Wight. The prize was a trophy costing just £100, but such was America's reputation after its convincing win that the syndicate sold the boat for $25,000 — about $5,000 more than they'd paid for it.. Since then, countless sums have been spent on attempts to win the ...

  16. Pensacola's American Magic yacht racing team competes in America ...

    American Magic is one of several teams who will be showing off their new AC75 racing yachts for the very first time. The yacht racing team has established permanent roots in Pensacola, as they ...

  17. U.S. wins first America's Cup

    The first race for the trophy, renamed the America's Cup, was not held until August 1870, when the British ship Cambria competed against 14 American yachts in Lower New York Bay. The Cambria ...

  18. New York Yacht Club American Magic

    22 Aug 2024. NYYC American Magic's first race of the Louis Vuitton Preliminary Regatta today saw the American team face off against the British 37th America's Cup Challenger of Record INEOS Britannia in the third heat of the opening day of the four-day event. The race got underway on time at 1523 in a 12-knot south-westerly breeze, which ...

  19. These 9 Yacht Charters Bring America's Cup Races up Close

    Image Credit: Edmiston Edmiston is offering charters aboard the 212-foot Resilience during the America's Cup. The ISA-built superyacht, designed by Enrico Gobbi, features a mosaic-tiled pool ...

  20. WITR

    While the deadline for submitting an online Entry Form is 1800 on Saturday, July 22, 2023, early entry is encouraged as we are limited to 8 teams. The weekend long event has been a fantastic success with opportunities for intense competition and camaraderie; and American Yacht Club is committed to fair racing on the water and fun on land.

  21. Palermo-Montecarlo line honours and record for Black Jack; maxi prize

    One of the windiest and most competitive Palermo-Montecarlo races concluded for the maxi yachts today with Remon Vos' 100ft Black Jack claiming line honours and setting a new race record. Finishing 43 minutes and 11 seconds later, after a tight race, Bryon Ehrhart's 88ft Lucky (the former Rambler 88) won the Maxi Class under IRC corrected time.

  22. J Class World Championship returns to America's Cup 2024

    The J Class are set to reunite for the 37th America's Cup as organisers invite the fleet to race in a J Class World Championship in Barcelona between 7-11 October, 2024. Comprised of three refitted original yachts and six new yachts built to original hull lines from the 1930s, there are currently nine J Class yachts active worldwide.

  23. What to Know About the Sunken Sicily Yacht's Passengers, Including Mike

    Instead, it turned into a disaster after the yacht, a 180-foot boat called the Bayesian, sank off the coast of Sicily in a violent storm. Of the 22 people aboard, 15 were rescued and seven others ...

  24. Canadian/American Family Moving to Ek

    Answer 1 of 10: Hi!! We are a Canadian/American family who will be living in EK part time for the next 2 years !! We have a 4.5 year old and an 11 month old!! I am nervous because it is very hard to find any English friendly information, I've been looking...

  25. Yekaterinburg

    Yekaterinburg is situated 1,036 miles (1,667 km) east of Moscow. Near the village of Shartash, which was founded in 1672 by members of the Russian sect of Old Believers, an ironworks was established in 1721 and a fortress in 1722. In 1723 the new settlement was named Yekaterinburg in honor of Catherine I, the wife of Peter I the Great.

  26. Yekaterinburg: Factories, Ural Sights, Yeltsin and The Where Nicholas

    It is best known to Americans as the place where the last Tsar and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918 and near where American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Gary Powers, was shot down in 1960. Peter the Great recognized the importance of the iron and copper-rich Urals region for Imperial Russia's industrial and military development.

  27. Yekaterinburg

    Yekaterinburg [a] is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia.The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, [14] up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural ...