{"id":78921,"date":"2024-08-20T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=78921"},"modified":"2024-08-20T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T18:07:16","slug":"the-marvelous-ac75s-on-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/racing\/the-marvelous-ac75s-on-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marvelous AC75s On Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Alinghi Red Bull Racing\u2019s BoatOne, the first AC75 to be launched for the 37th America\u2019s Cup, is an aerodynamic beauty. INEOS Britannia\u2019s RB3 has the most pronounced bustle and skeg combination. American Magic\u2019s Patriot is noted for its sleek and rounded profile, as well as its inboard crew pods. Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Emirates Team New Zealand share many similarities.<\/span>\n America’s Cup Recon<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

April began with new-boat reveals that highlight the innovations of the second-generation AC75s for the Louis Vuitton 37th America\u2019s Cup<\/a>. While similar in size and scale, no one boat is alike.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alinghi Red Bull Racing, of the Swiss camp, was first to show its AC75, BoatOne<\/em>, in a theatric soiree, giving observers and other teams a peek at the boat\u2019s design traits. Its straight and narrow bow profile transitions to a long and tapered bustle that goes all the way to the stern. The walls of BoatOne<\/em>\u2019s tall crew pods stop sharply before the transom section, leaving what amounts to a long overhang to accommodate the internal rudder elements. Bumps sculpted into the foredeck are said to redirect wind flow into the jib and down the middle of the boat for aerodynamic gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America\u2019s Cup defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, was next to reveal, with a soft launch, followed by a foiling session the following day. With a naming ceremony that came a week later, the Kiwis\u2019 AC75, Taihoro<\/em>, was blessed for action, and they went straight into sailing in Auckland. Unlike the high cockpit walls of Alinghi\u2019s BoatOne<\/em>, however, those of Taihoro<\/em> taper down toward to the \u00adtransom scoop, which houses the mainsheet traveler system in a trench, and the rudder assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day in Cagliari, the Italians of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli rolled out their metallic silver AC75, a menacing-looking design that has its pronounced curves and a significant bustle which rises toward the stern. The boat\u2019s tall cockpits produce a deep trench through the middle of the boat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

INEOS Britannia was fourth from behind the curtain with a boat dubbed RB3<\/em>. It\u2019s different enough from Alinghi\u2019s and ETNZ\u2019s AC75s to be dangerous. The plumb bow starts sharp and maintains a steep deadrise before flaring out to a flatter bottom. A pronounced \u00adbustle tapers off near the stern and transitions to a thin skeg that ends short of the rudder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York YC\u2019s American Magic revealed its boat, Patriot<\/em>, in early May, blessing it and going sailing on the same day. It\u2019s certainly a different look, summarized by the team\u2019s design coordinator, Scott Ferguson. \u201cWe followed our own design path with Patriot<\/em> as we pushed the limits of the AC75 rule while tailoring for the Barcelona venue,\u201d he says. \u201cOur overall philosophy is minimalistic, as we\u2019ve tried to squeeze down our volumes to the base minimum while still fitting the crew and systems into the boat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the French Orient Express Racing Team pulling from Team New Zealand\u2019s design package, there\u2019s an expectation that its \u00adplatform will not be too far off the defender when it comes to light soon enough. It had not yet been launched at press time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of crew-pod assignments, cyclors have now taken the back seats, mostly concealed and out of the airstream, while \u00adtrimmers and helmsmen take the front seats for a better view of the action. American Magic went to the extreme, positioning three pods inboard, two well aft in the boat, with cyclors on recumbent bikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the ultimate yacht design challenge, these new-generation AC75s must be fast in the water and in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":78922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Dave Reed","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"ad_targeting":"","alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":"","sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[159],"tags":[2862,170,2857,171,387,2945,1507,177,178],"class_list":["post-78921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-alinghi-red-bull-racing","tag-americas-cup","tag-americas-cup-37","tag-american-magic","tag-emirates-team-new-zealand","tag-ineos-britannia","tag-luna-rossa-prada-pirelli","tag-racing","tag-sailboat-racing"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}