TNZ will produce the foil arms and rudders at their build facility on Auckland’s North Shore. The two-piece mast will be built by Southern Spars in Avondale, Auckland.
It’s not clear how many AC40s will be built and how fast McConaghy can turn them out. The Protocol requires each AC37 competitor to buy one, with a price tag estimated at US$1.85 million. Additional AC40s may be acquired by teams that are not AC37 competitors but wish to have a women’s or youth team. The Women’s and Youth America’s Cup events will be raced in AC40s in their one-design configuration. The defender and each of the challengers are required to field both a women’s and a youth team. Additional women’s and youth teams will be accepted. Two series of fleet races will be run for each of the women’s and men’s events, with the top two teams facing off in a one-race final for the women and a one-race final for the youth teams. The women’s final will be run on a Match race day.
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KEEP MOVING – Terry Hutchinson
The past month has been a memorable one. TP52 World Champion - ship in Cascais aboard the Quantum Racing and New York Yacht Club Race Week aboard Bella Mente. Both events sponsored by Rolex who as always are amazing supporters of yachting. Cascais, Portugal late June is most known for strong north westerly breezes that run down the coast into Lisbon. Often the race com- mittee will put the racecourse in a spot offshore that starts the fleet in 22kt TWS and by the top mark you are in 25-27 TWS! It is cham- pagne sailing at its best and the TP52 loves it! But… the 2022 version fell into the category of ‘it is never normally like this’. Light westerly regime as the high pressure that is dominant over Spain had moved north creating this lighter air flow. Tricky current, streaks of pressure and a highly competitive fleet made the event ‘difficult’. Aboard Quantum Racing it was a battle for consistency. Very early on the fleet knew that the event was not ‘typical’ Cascais and for Quantum Racing our focus became low-density starting where
we could be consistent and use our upwind boat speed. Strategist Lucas Calabrese was giving great advice on where he saw the streaks of pressure and for the first two days of racing the scorecard went 2,2,2,3. The 2,3 on day two was a bit annoying as our top mark deltas were 1,2; but what makes our winter changes so good upwind has us pay a little back downwind in the light conditions. This coupled with the fact that our tuning partner Vayu is a rocket- ship in the light conditions, with her lower-drag 2015 hull form and, you guessed it, for the first six races of the event we would battle with our friends on Vayu downwind… not an easy task! Platoon and Alegre both started strong with Alegre winning two of the first four races but battling for consistency in race 2 and race 4. Platoon was as always solid.
The second half of the event was a continued battle for consis- tency. Each day Quantum Racing would exit the course with a 2pt or once a 3pt lead but never comfortable. It was not until day 5 that ‘traditional’ Cascais appeared for the fleet… and with it a small sense of relief onboard. The winter work was set up specifically for this condition and I would say that Quantum Racing shined. A solid upwind aero package and an improved hydrodynamic package had the boat on fire.
We did execute two sub-standard starts... to Platoon’s perfect starts, but our speed carried us to the lead in race 1 with Platoon placing fourth. Thus giving us a 6pt buffer going into the final race. Another… sub-standard start aboard Quantum Racing had us tangling with Platoon up the first beat but able to eek our nose out in front by the top mark. From there it was a matter of staying between Platoon and the finish to secure Quantum Racing’s seventh TP52 World Championship since 2008.
Of note bowman Greg Gendell is the only team member to have raced in every championship win: congrats, Foxy, well deserved! Another point to note was this was Doug DeVos’s first win aboard the boat and on the helm. As our leader on and off the water the vibe Doug gives the team is beyond words. A true competitor as a football player in college, Doug brings that same mentality to the boat. It was the sweetest of wins considering all that Doug has done for the team and for the class.
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