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