Americas Cup Technicalities

Fusing athleticism, teamwork, and technology, the monohulls competing for the 36th, AmericasCup are the fastest in the world. 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 the foils to the Americas Cup and changed the face of toplevel yacht racing forever. Since then the increase in performance for Americas Cup boats has been greater than at any point in the 170year history of the event. Six years later, in 2018, the publication of the AC75 Class rule, marked the beginning of a new sailing era. Nowadays foils are commonplace, but the engineering and sailing techniques needed to get the AC75 to fly are completely different from anything seen before. ,ACWSAuckland, AmericasCup, PradaCup Discover more: