Luna Rossa is expected to be installed as the new Challenger of Record in early August.

Looks like NZ has lodged a challenge!

more here

Good stuff.
AC62 Upwind Performance: To foil or not to foil… (part 1)

Do you Wally?

more on Wallying

Found the old boat on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/90-USED-RAC...S_Action_Figures&hash=item3ce5bf7d50

that is made even lamer by the fact the poster thought it won the Transpac.

edit: and couldn't even spell Transpac.

You clearly didn't make it to the part about dilithium crystals compounds and Romulans.

And you can have it delivered by Labor Day!

Good against Klingons and Romulans, but what about the Borg?

And I'd like to see "Economy shipping" Bubble-wrap that bi*ch!

Weird. AC website confirms entries but doesn't say who they are.

AMERICA'S CUP LINE-UP TAKES SHAPE

more on it and the expected teams here from Gladwell

"The Protocol does allow the Golden Gate Yacht Club to accept additional late entries at their discretion."

AC62 Upwind Performance (part 2): Foiling – when and where?

Terry Hutchinson says danger is being ignored

"I had a massive falling out with the owner of the team and the CEO about the safety of our yacht so they decided to terminate me. Ten weeks after my argument with the owner about the safety of the Artemis boat, the boat capsized in the San Francisco bay and one of the sailors was killed. It was a known thing that the boat was not safe. "

Full interview here

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Ouch. I'm not sure I agree with everything he has to say.

would that totally open the door to litigation?

I doubt it...it sounds more like he's talking in generalities about the overall boat concept. If, however, he was stating that the beam repair that seems to have lead to the failure of the Artemis boat that resulted in Bart's death was not adequate, then perhaps it would. However, I'm not sure how Hutchinson would have known enough about the repair and repair science that he could had an objection that specific.

I don't agree with most of what he had to say. Hard to believe that someone that young could be so stuck on the old format and boats.

It's disgusting that he would use Bart's death as a way to vindicate himself.

Mike

I wonder if you can just pick it up and not pay the shipping?

Totally agree. Didn't see where he said to bring it back to a monohull format just that the boats are dangerous.

AC is about the one percenters playing puppet master, he's dead on with that statement. Once upon a time they had the stones to drive the freaking thing. Again the AC gets more cred that it deserves.

Really? How many times did he have to say it was better with the 2007 (and older) boats/format. He also seems to have forgotten that nationalism effectively disappeared long before that when they allowed sailors to change/add passports to switch teams.

I do agree that the owners should drive the boats, although I don't know if we have easily identified owners on all boats in some of the syndicates.

Mike