During an official ceremony held last evening in the ACWS San Francisco Race Village at Marina Green, the 11 skippers leading crews at ACWS San Francisco were introduced.
Fans of the 34th America’s Cup can now enjoy the new AC mobile application America’s Cup, which includes all the fresh news, as well as the newly launched website and the Digital Boathouse, which is a multimedia studio situated in the AC Race Village.
The highly anticipated America’s Cup World Series in San Francisco starts tomorrow. There will be 11 competing yachts and 55 sailors coming from 12 countries.
Wednesday 22 August will see the official start of the ACWS San Francisco, however its Race Village at Marina Green opens tomorrow, able to host 1,200 people.
The health care during the 34th America’s Cup in San Francisco will be enhanced by Kaiser Permanente, one of the best health care organizations in the USA.
Giants Enterprises, a subsidiary of the San Francisco Giants, will assist in the promotion and ticketing of all sanctioned America’s Cup public viewing locations beginning with the ACWS in San Francisco on 21 August. The company provides a unique possibility to watch this popular race from an exclusive ticketed viewing area – The Deck, offering unforgettable view.
The 2013 America’s Cup program in San Francisco offers up to 55 days of racing, including the Louis Vuitton Cup, America’s Cup Finals and Red Bull Youth America’s Cup. Four challengers entered in Louis Vuitton Cup. The first competing in the 2012-13 AC World Series in San Francisco will run from August 21 to 26, attended by 11 crews.
The organisers of the 2012-13 AC World Series have unveiled the format of competition for the upcoming season, with each race kicking off on Wednesday, with a gran finale on Sunday.
The 12-story tall wingsail, along with hull crossbeams for the first of two AC72 yachts of the ORACLE TEAM USA, racing in the 34th America’s Cup have been successfully delivered to San Francisco yesterday.
ORACLE Racing will kick off its 2013 training program at Marsden Point in Northland, New Zealand. This location has been selected thanks to being situated quite close to Core Builders Composites in Warkworth, the company which constructs plenty of the key components for ORACLE Racing’s two AC72 wingsail catamaran yachts.
Some of the crew racing in the Clipper 11-12 Round the World Yacht Race have been laid low by sea sickness after the first night at sea. It can happen to new joiners and hardened round the worlders alike but soon passes. Since their departure from San Francisco Bay two distinct sets of tactics have opened up with New York hugging the Californian coast line while the other nine teams head offshore.
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet left for San Francisco Bay for the start line. The world´s longest race (40,000 miles), there is a 5,500 mile leg ahead, from California on the US West Coast to New York on the East Coast via the Panama Canal.