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Emirates Team New Zealand crew - December 20, 2020 - Waitemata Harbour - Americas Cup 36 © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com Calling all Cup Fans - support your favorite team The countdown is on for the start of the Prada Cup and Americas Cup for you to show your support for your team. This Americas Cup will be different for international fans, who thanks to COVID-19 travel restrictions into New Zealand wont be able to attend the regatta, unless they hold, a New Zealand passport a...

Americas Cup 2021: Italian experts claim to have discovered foiling issue with Ineos Team UKs boat 24 Dec, 2020 04:00 AM 3 minutes to read NZ Herald Ailing Americas Cup challenger Ineos Team UK have been handed a potential lifeline from a pair of Italian sailing experts who claim to have discovered the issue with the British boat. Quantum Sails president Vittorio dAlbertas and his colleague Pietro Pinucci, who have become YouTube stars this Americas Cup season, have analysed the foiling problem...

21/12/2020 Team NZ in action last weekend. Credits: Image - Getty; Video - TVNZ Wrestling the Americas Cup away from Team New Zealand is going to be a tall order, according to a couple of rival skippers. On Saturday, the Kiwis won the world series event and were primed to back that up by claiming the Christmas Cup on Sunday, until light winds saw the regatta abandoned before a race was completed. Over the three days, the cup holder lost just once in six races, and looked particularly strong in ...

Prada Americas Cup World Series debriefing, Vendee Globe updates and a farewell to 2020 by David Schmidt 22 Dec 2020 16:00 UTC 22 December 2020 ETNZ and American Magic at the end of Leg 5, Match 4 - Americas Cup World Series - Day 1 - Waitemata Harbour - December 17, 2020 - 36th Americas Cup presented by Prada © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com While the northern hemisphere just passed through its winter solstice and its shortest day of the year, fortunes are decid...

RICKY WILSON/STUFF Emirates Team New Zealand and INEOS Team UK struggled on their hulls as winds dipped below the 6.5 knots limit. The prospect of more official America’s Cup racing or practice before the challenger series starts mid-January has been raised, after light winds forced Sunday’s Christmas Cup to be abandoned. Team New Zealand and INEOS Team UK failed to finish the opening race inside the 45-minute time limit as they struggled off their foils with winds dipping well below the 6....

American Magic lowering the mainsail on PATRIOT after racing was abandoned. © Sailing Energy / American Magic New York Yacht Club American Magic, the U.S. Challenger for the 36th Americas Cup, was unable to complete a planned Prada Christmas Race semifinal match against the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team of Italy on Sunday due to a lack a breeze. No other races were completed, although Emirates Team New Zealand came within a few meters of winning their only attempted race against IN...

“There’s a certain wind range where they are pretty quick … they are able to mode in quite well in 13-14 knots of true wind speed.” American Magic skipper Terry Hutchinson agreed there was a big task in front of the small challenging fleet. Todd Niall/Stuff American Magics Terry Hutchinson on happiness level. “With the defender, it’s a pretty nice package, and they don’t really show any weaknesses,” he said. “Of the three challengers, whoever gets to them is going to have ...

Americas Cup 2021: Very disappointing - Cup prelude fizzles out with weak winds 20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read NZ Herald The highly anticipated prelude to the Americas Cup fizzled out on Sunday, with weak winds the only winner of the days first, and ultimately final, race. The head-to-head Prada Christmas Cup knockout semifinal between Team New Zealand and Ineos Team UK came to an anti-climactic end with a no-result declared after the race exceeded the 45-minute time limit. The wind dr...

Team New Zealand did not get any official racing on Sunday. Photo: Emirates Team New Zealand After the last four days of sailing in Tāmaki Makaurau challengers American Magic and Luna Rossa can toast their design teams who have engineered competitive AC75s, while Team UK will be hoping to unwrap some boat speed this festive season. Mother nature and a struggling opponent robbed Team New Zealand of one last day of meaningful racing on their home waters before the Americas Cup defenders disappe...

Team New Zealand now face 11 weeks on their own. Team New Zealand will head into self-imposed exile pretty comfortable with their position as they eye the defence of the America’s Cup. There will be no complacency though as they face 11 weeks on their own. With the warm-up regatta completed in Auckland, the Kiwi syndicate have learned plenty about themselves and picked up crucial data off their opponents. EMIRATES TEAM NZ Even AC75 class designers Team New Zealand were forced off their foil...