Showcasing the tradition of the event, the majestic titans of the 1930s will return to the America’s Cup after 80 years. J Class yachts will compete in the J Class regatta, scheduled for June 2017.
Last week saw Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) test the waters of the America’s Cup’s recently announced location of Bermuda. The team’s objective for the training camp was to get acclimated with the conditions on the race course area and to work on improving its foiling skills.
Bermuda was announced as the home for the 2017 America’s Cup at a press conference in New York on Tuesday, December 2, 2014. The second edition of the Red Bull Youth America’s Cup was also confirmed during the press conference.
Bermuda will play a host to the America’s Cup World Series in 2015. This is the first stage of competition in the 35th America’s Cup and is set to kick off next summer.
Photos of the breath-taking 162m mega yacht ECLIPSE in Bermuda. This voluminous vessel was built by Blohm & Voss to a design by Hermidas Atabeyki in 2009.
The island of Bermuda and San Diego in California have been shortlisted as potential venues for the 35th America’s Cup. The final host city will be announced before the end of this year.
This year’s Newport Bermuda Race has been marked by a great victory of Doyle sailing yacht Shockwave. Head of Design at Doyle Sails NZ sailed on board the yacht for the race, together with tactician Robbie Doyle.
This year’s 49th Newport Bermuda Race saw sailing yacht Shockwave claim Line Honours, followed by luxury yacht Bella Mente and Caol Ila yacht, respectively.
The overall winner of the World Cup Blue Marlin Championship has become the recently delivered 77-foot motor yacht Blank Check by Jarrett Bay.
Carina a 48-foot sloop designed by McCurdy & Rhodes, she won on corrected time under the Offshore Racing Rule by the very large margin of 3 hours, 35 minutes over Gregory B. Manning’s Sarah (Warwick, RI). In third place, seven minutes behind Sarah, was Belle Aurore, a Cal 40 owned by R. Douglas Jurrius (Easton, MD).
As expected because of her 100-feet length overall, Speedboat continues to lead the 183-boat fleet in the Newport Bermuda Race. At 14:35 EDT she was 125 nautical miles from Bermuda sailing at 13 knots.
It was a sight that can be found only in Newport. Sailors of every vintage – the tall, tanned, Fabio-looking crews of the carbon maxis, and the Topsider-wearing men and women with the requisite polo shirts – lined the street in front of the marquee at the Jane Pickens Theater for the Bermuda Race skippers meeting. Old friends were shaking hands, not having seen each other since the 2008 race. Wide-eyed newcomers were eagerly poking their heads inside the historic building in the heart of Washington Square.