America's Cup Blog

Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa teams have spent the last four months putting together the AC75 concept design to push the  boundaries of the sport and could potentially have a boat that will be more exciting and faster than the AC50.   The AC75 combines extremely high-performance sailing and great match racing with the safety of a boat that can right itself in the event of a capsize. The ground-breaking concept is achieved through the use of twin canting T-foils, ballasted to provide righting-moment when sailing, and roll stability at low speed. Source: Emirates Team New Zealand

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...