With the modifcations made to the new foil on VESTAS Sailrocket 2 working so well in light winds, the team were keen to see if they would translate to high speeds. VSR2 had constantly been hitting a ‘glass ceiling’ around 52 knots despite the fact that she was designed to do well over 60. This is the day when theory turned into reality and the team got to see speeds they could only dare dream about when they started over 10 years earlier. Peak speed 61.92 knots, average over 500 meters 54.08 knots. This was the teams first sight of a new horizon. The peaks and the averages are expected to climb in the following runs.
Double Olympic medalist and long time US and NZL America’s Cup crew, skipper and coach, Rod Davis, reflects on a typical sailing day
Coach Rod Davis provides some answer to a question he’s often asked – ‘what do you do out there all day?’
When Emirates Team New Zealand goes sailing on the AC72 people might think we just rip around all day up on foils, trying to set a new speed record or outrun our poor, and very faithful, chase boat drivers  … Pictures and more
A number of faces were tired this morning on day five of the Student Yachting World Cup. The Night Race from yesterday was definitively one of the hardest of this edition. That’s one of the reasons why only two races have been completed today, one windward-leeward and one coastal, going around Fort Boyard and near Oléron Island. The ranking at the beginning of the day was very close between Canada, Ireland, Euromed and Italy. With the bad weather forecast, this day of races could be the last one, which intensifies the stress for everybody!
The first windward-leeward race was won by  … Pictures and more
The 2013 Red Bull Youth America’s Cup is set to take place from September 1st-4th and will open with Selection Series Trials in San Francisco in February. With the goal of ensuring the best of the best are on the starting line of the main event, the Selection Series Trials will narrow the field through a rigorous training workshop and regatta, February 9-24, 2013.
‘Prospective teams can enter the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup in three ways,’ explains Iain Murray, the Regatta Director for the 34th America’s Cup. ‘First, they can enter through … More