America's Cup Blog

We now have the details around the 36th America's Cup protocol and confirmation of the class of boats, nationality rules and challenger series now being the Prada Cup. Specific details of the boat are still to be announced  November 30 for the AC75 class concepts and all details for the AC75 class further released in  March 31, 2018 but at the moment they will 75 foot monohulls with 10-12 crew members.  We will continue to see world series events but no details on locations yet, both challenger and defender will be involved during 2019 to 2020 until the Prada Cup begins then Emirates Team New Zealand will only be able to test with their two boats until the America's Cup race begins March 2021.  The location of the event has not been confirmed as Auckland yet due to infrastructure but is highly likely and added if some sort of natural disasters would happen  the regatta would be moved to Italy,  to give certainties to teams involved of bac...

Louis Vuitton has a long history with the America's Cup and has been the naming sponsor for the challenger series since 1980, this challenger series picks who will fight the defender for the America's Cup final. This is another leak from Italian media along with confirmation that the 36th event will be raced in foiling monohulls and be part of the deal with Luna Rossa being the challenger of record. The challenger series will most likely be renamed the Prada Cup with the winner of that much longer series going on to face Emirates Team New Zealand in the match for the America's Cup. Source: Stuff.co.nz Image:  Carlo Borlenghi