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The 2021 America’s Cup will begin on Saturday, 6 March, and end on Sunday, 21 March. Get your news updates here.
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America’s Cup: Team New Zealand release foiling video
21 September 2019 | Stuff |
Team New Zealand have expressed their delight at the early performance of their new America’s Cup boat. The 75-foot monohull Te Aihe got up on its foils in its first official sail on Wednesday.
The defenders released a short video on Friday, revealing foiling footage from that test session on Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour.
Read the full article from the Stuff.co.nz here… America’s Cup defenders express their delight
A Year in the Making
A great behind the scenes insight to the creation of “Te Aihe”.
‘The first AC75 to touch the water, is a product of not just Emirates Team New Zealand, but the collective whānau of sponsors, partners and every single person who helped us get to this point. It’s been a long journey, and it’s only just beginning.’
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New York’s Defiant officially named and launched
16 September 2019 | Sail World |
After an estimated 76,000 combined hours of fabrication and finishing work by the production and shore teams of American Magic, the U.S. Challenger’s first AC75 racing boat was officially named and launched on Saturday morning. Named Defiant, the cutting-edge foiling monohull is the first America’s Cup class boat built to represent the New York Yacht Club in over 16 years.
Read the full article from Sail World here… New York’s Defiant Offically named and launched
America’s Cup: Dates and course announced for 2021 America’s Cup in Auckland
01 SEPTEMBER 2019
Racing will take place across the wider Hauraki Gulf, running south along the North Shore beaches around North Head encompassing the inner Waitemata harbour right up to the harbour bridge and downtown Auckland, across the city’s eastern suburbs and out the Tamaki Strait between Waiheke Island and Maraetai.
Read the full article here… Dates and Courses announced for 2021 America’s Cup
Sailing: ‘It’s going to be dangerous’ – A sneak preview into Team New Zealand’s secret America’s Cup weapon
19 JULY 2019 | NZ Herald |
“It’s going to be dangerous.”
Aaron Young is talking about the AC75, Emirates Team New Zealand’s still-secret monohull that will half sail, half fly its way to win, if all goes to plan, the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland harbour come March 2021.
Read the full article from the NZ Herald here… Sailing: ‘It’s going to be dangerous’
DUTCHSAIL CALLS TIME, STARS + STRIPES RE-COMMIT
01 JULY 2019
DutchSail, the late challenger from the Netherlands for the 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada have advised the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron that they are withdrawing from the 36th America’s Cup.
Read the full article here… DUTCHSAIL CALLS TIME, STARS + STRIPES RE-COMMIT
MND New Zealand announced as official charity of Emirates Team NZ
18 JUNE 2019
Emirates Team New Zealand are to partner with MND New Zealand (the Motor Neurone Disease Association of New Zealand) as the official charity of the Team for the 36th America’s Cup.
Read the full article here… OFFICIAL CHARITY OF ETNZ ANNOUNCED