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INEOS Team UK . . . Chimera has increased our design productivity x10

INEOS Team UK and Coderus revolutionise the America’s Cup boat development process with a game-changing new software code-named Chimera

Youth America’s Cup boat on initial sea trials

The first images of the brand new AC9F, Kōtare, foiling on its first ever test sail yesterday in Auckland

Vendée Globe confirms race start date and entry status

Start date of the 9th Vendée Globe is confirmed for 8 November 2020, at 12:02hrs UTC off Sables d’Olonne, France

The Ocean Race to collaborate with natural world global authority

The Ocean Race confirmed that the next edition will start from Alicante, Spain in the autumn of 2021 and finish in Genoa, Italy in summer of 2022

Time is of the Essence

Having already timed the America’s Cup in 2000 and 2003, Omega are back on board in 2021 for the 36th edition in Auckland New Zealand

Cowes Week and Cowes Classics Week regattas cancelled

We may be coming out of lockdown and looking at how we can start sailing again but it has come too late for Cowes Week and Cowes Classics Week

President Kim Andersen’s update on the various World Sailing ‘Townhall Meetings’

Kim Andersen, President of World Sailing, has released his latest Newsletter update on the situation and actions of the international body

French confirm Olympic Sailing Squad for 2021

France confirms Tokyo 2020 sailing selections but retains the possibility to modify the selections if necessary

Voiles de Saint-Tropez present a new regatta format

The organisers of the Voiles de Saint-Tropez intend to maintain what has made these regattas unique to the world for modern and classic boats

American Magic is first AC36 Challenger to head to New Zealand

Defiant, the first AC75 built for New York YC American Magic, departed the team’s winter base at the Port of Pensacola on Wednesday, 27 May, 2020, bound for Auckland, New Zealand

A and B Catamaran Trials at Sheppey in 1967

Original footage of the IYRU A & B Catamaran Trials at the Catamaran YC, on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary in 1967, see video here

American Magic skipper Terry Hutchinson on fairness in the competion

There are five race courses in Auckland for the 36th America’s Cup, and according to Dalts, we need five weeks per race course to maintain the level of fairness in the competion