The America’s Cup world has long been fraught with espionage, snooping, and straight-up spying, coupled of course with some good old-fashioned stick chasing. Rod Davis, Emirates Team New Zealand’s coach and a long-time AC spin master, recently came clean about some of the cloak-and-dagger work that he’s been involved with over the years, all in the name of capturing the Auld Mug.
‘Muddy the water enough and it’s hard to pick fact from fiction, as people are inclined to  … Pictures and more
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America’s Cup 2013. Playing catch up after missing the boat in recent months, Artemis Racing now reports – A big step forward as we launched our foiling AC45 onto San Francisco Bay. This is the first step in our foiling training for our second AC72. The modifications from our one design AC45 to our now foiling AC45 took about a month to complete.
Adam May, our foiling expert at Artemis Racing was the project manager for this conversion. ‘We set up a little commando group of guys to get the 45 foiling. Things were kept simple to get foiling as quickly as possible, taking input from the ongoing work on boat two, what we’ve seen in use by other teams, and a healthy dose of ‘just do it’ attitude   … Pictures and more
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Some 38 gifted sailors have been named to the 2013 US Sailing Development Team (USSDT), the pathway team supported by the U.S. Olympic Sailing Program and US Sailing’s Olympic Sailing Committee (OSC). The USSDT was created in 2007 to help young athletes, who have been identified as future Olympic prospects, acquire the skills necessary to launch successful campaigns and compete at the Olympic level.
‘The list of sailors on the 2013 Development Team includes many talented sailors,’ said Josh Adams, Managing Director of U.S. Olympic Sailing (Essex, Mass.). ‘Some are already training hard in Olympic class boats; and others are  … More
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Youth America’s Cup 2013. The American Youth Sailing Force (The Force) greeted twelve international youth teams vying for four spots in September’s main regatta in last month’s trials. With the competitors now selected, The Force gets down to work training on the AC45 this Friday. They know what’s needed to win the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup.
During the international trials, The Force’s yacht management and local skills made them instant  … More
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