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The World Match Racing Tour card skippers 2021
The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) today announced the six skippers awarded WMRT Tour Cards for the 2021 championship season. Defending match racing world champion Taylor Canfield (USA) leads the line-up alongside six-time world champion Ian Williams (GBR), two-time world champion Phil Robertson (NZL), Eric Monnin (SUI) and first-time tour card skippers Nick Egnot-Johnson (NZL) and Maxime Mesnil (FRA).
The WMRT Tour Cards award skippers with invitations to the world-championship level events on the 2021 WMRT schedule including the Tour’s long standing events – Marstrand Match Cup (SWE), Bermuda Gold Cup BDA), and Long Beach Congressional Cup (USA).
History of the Americaâs Cup
The oldest trophy in all of sport is more than a token of victory in an international yacht race. Itâs about dedication, perseverance, and most of all, engineering the fastest boat of the fleet.
Todayâs Americaâs Cup Match dates back to 1851, when members of the New York Yacht Club sent a sleek, 101-foot schooner across the Atlantic, entered and won the Royal Yacht Squadronâs 53-mile race around the Isle of Wight. The schoonerâs name: America. Its owners returned to New York with bragging rights and an ornate silver ewer called the Hundred Guinea Cup, which was soon renamed for the winning vessel.
Now that the Auld Mug is back in New Zealand and the 36th America’s Cup is well underway, we thought it high time we outlined the rules to know, explored the new technology and underlined the key races to help keep everyone’s heads above water. We’ll be dusting off our red socks when Emirates Team New Zealand finally takes to the harbour… will you?
What you need to know
First and foremost, the 36th America’s Cup will be a little different from the last few. In many ways, it will mark a return to more traditional notions of the sport (and sportsmanship in general) with the Kiwi hosts positioning themselves as arbiters of the spirit of the America’s Cup. Some might see this as a reaction to the innovation-at-any-cost approach taken by American software mogul, Larry Ellison, who set the agenda of the two previous events. (His ‘modern’ ideas made the America’s Cup feel more about deep pockets than sailing prowess.)