Update
It took scow innovator and skipper David Raison more than two years to make a winner out of his first Mini 6.50 round nose. The team at Structures Shipyard are less patient… less than 12 months after it went afloat their advanced new Guillaume Verdier design (nickname ‘not a Pogo 4’), sailed by Tanguy Bouroullec at the time of going to press, comfortably led the first big Mini event of 2020
WE’RE GETTING CLOSER – Jack Griffin As we get closer to seeing racing in Auckland some things are coming into sharper focus while others remain a bit hazy. It would be so nice to be writing about the racing, but for now the most obvious competition has involved the Arbitration Panel, which made a new interpretation of the Deed of Gift. Stars+Stripes, the phantom challenge that refuses to die,
optimistically asked the Arbitration Panel to confirm that they could sail a yacht in the Challenger Selection Series (CSS) that would be ineligible to race in the America’s Cup Match. The answer was no. It appears that Stars+Stripes thought Emirates Team New
Zealand’s Boat 1, Te Aihe, would be available to them. (Now where would they get that idea?). A very literal reading of the rules might have allowed an interpretation that Stars+Stripes did not need a ‘made in the USA’ yacht. The Arbitration Panel previously applied the rules very literally, and to the advantage of Stars+Stripes, when they ruled that entry fees only needed to be paid before racing rather than on the deadlines given in the Protocol. In this case the panel went far outside the four corners of the
Deed of Gift: they expansively interpreted the deed as applying not just to the America’s Cup Match, but to other racing as well. The panel ruled that the Deed of Gift’s ‘constructed in country’ provision applies to all the regattas in the event called the 36th America’s Cup, not just to the Match. Even with that decision, two weeks after the panel ruled, Stars+Stripes was still listed as an active challenger on the America’s Cup website. Nevertheless, it seems there will indeed only be three teams racing in the Challenger Selection Series. New York Yacht Club American Magic was the first of the three
challengers to arrive in Auckland. They shipped their Boat 1, Defiant, to Auckland and obtained the government authorisations they needed to enter New Zealand. After their quarantine period they got right to sailing by mid-August. Their plan called for air-freighting
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their second boat to New Zealand at the end of August. The other two challengers, Ineos Team UK and Prada Pirelli Luna Rossa, will probably move to New Zealand during September and be on the water with their second boats in October. The AC75 Class Rule allowed for modifications to the Foil Cant
System (FCS) until the end of August. Whatever FCS modifications were made happened without the benefit of seeing the AC75s race. Remember that the FCS is supplied by Team New Zealand to all competitors, as called for in the Protocol. The foil arms are also supplied equipment, and were fabricated by Italy’s Persico Marine to a design that was largely Luna Rossa’s responsibility. The Persico website states that the foil arms ‘have been supplied to all teams and are absolutely identical in all respects’. While the teams are developing their yachts the new broadcast
production and umpiring systems will be installed in Auckland. These were developed jointly between two German companies with extensive experience in events including F1 and the Red Bull Air Races. They will no doubt get a shakedown with the teams during training. The global audience will see them in action for the first time in the Auckland America’s Cup World Series in December. We are now seeing ETNZ and American Magic sailing their AC75s
in Auckland. It’s exciting to watch, and things will get more exciting when Ineos and Luna Rossa join them. Then we won’t have too much longer to wait before the racing begins – the first America’s Cup racing since June 2017. It can’t come soon enough!
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JUST GLAD WE ARE HERE! – Terry Hutchinson At my last writing American Magic was in a waiting game. The New Zealand Government was navigating through Covid-19 and the immi- gration policy or exemptions for the country. As we know, on 5 June a border exemption was granted. But at this writing the New Zealand
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