Sail-World’s Swiss correspondent gives his impressions of the America’s Cup Defender, Alinghi 5, launched just last week in le Bouveret:
Alinghi 5 has been out sailing four days now and although the wind hardly ever reach above 10 knots, we have a pretty good idea on the boat itself and how things work in its actual configuration, but please remember the Alinghi PR people have said: ‘This is the first step in our development process towards defending the America’ Cup next year’.
Let’s review the boat starting with a few design comments.
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