Photos Carlo Borlenghi/Alinghi.
Alinghi Cat Flying
Testing at three times the speed of the wind.
Alinghi’s dramatic launch by heliocopter.,
Alinghi, the Defender of the 33rd pushed the envelope as much as we scaled up. It’s a highly fine-tuned and
America’s Cup, unveiled its 90ft would like, this boat is really a base engineered boat that’s light. It’s a piece
catamaran in Villeneuve, Switzerland. for further development and over the of art. Alinghi 5 has evolved from the
This multihull represents a culmination coming weeks we will collect as much Swiss sailing boats, like the 41ft ‘Le
of Swiss multihull heritage and is the information as we can and cross check Black’. The basic engineering concept
first step in Alinghi’s development it with the predictions, this will help has come from ‘Le Black’ but everything
process towards the 33rd America’s Cup us assess what level we are at and else has come from the Alinghi design
in February 2010. The boat was then then to optimize from there. We have team, starting from a completely blank
launched by helicopter on Lake Geneva several opportunities and possibilities sheet of paper, with no preconceived
to begin the process of ‘debugging’ and to change the concept but first we need multihull ideas. We started designing
sailing for the first time. a solid base to do our studies from.” it and building it and we’ve done a lot
Rolf Vrolijk, chief designer: Murray Jones, strategist and of sailing and testing on ‘Le Black’ and
“People who see the boat for the first design team responsible for mast and the Décision 35s so we’ve incorporated
time seem surprised at how light and rig programme: “This multihull is some of the ideas we’ve picked up
fragile it looks, that is really their first nothing like you’ve ever seen before sailing these boats.
impression… For the moment we have in a big boat. It’s like a small boat but
http://www.alinghi.com/en/
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