Sir Ben Ainslie and the INEOS Team UK sailors took Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed non-stop around the world, for his first foiling sail
Americas Cup
America’s Cup – Defiant back in the water in Auckland
The New York Yacht Club’s first America’s Cup AC75, Defiant, was craned into Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, on Friday
PRADA Cup Challenger Selection Series NOR published
The race conditions of the PRADA Cup, the Challengers Selection Series to be held in January and February 2021 in Auckland, have now been published
Britannia – The Solent Sessions
The Ineos Team UK AC75, Britannia, has been putting in long, fast days on home waters this week
INEOS Team UK Lead Systems Engineer Andy ‘Animal’ McLean
Meet Ineos team UK Lead Systems Engineer Andrew – Animal – McLean . . . both a highly experienced inshore and offshore racer as well as a qualified mechanical engineer
America’s Cup – The perfect way to end the week . . .
While the America’s Cup injunction sits in the court for a week, which should calm things down nicely, ETNZ continue to clock up the miles on the Waitemata courses
America’s Cup – ETNZ return to High Court
New Zealand America’s Cup Team, ETNZ, returned to the High Court in Auckland on Monday in their battle to prevent a draft audit report on finances for the AC36 event being made public
America’s Cup event managers . . . ‘informants’ or ‘whistleblowers’
As the America’s Cup farrago takes a breather before the injunction court hearing on Monday, the two contractors dismissed by Team New Zealand as informants were widely named
Grant Dalton statement claims highly orchestrated attack
On Friday Team NZ CEO Grant Dalton issued a press release claiming that the New Zealand America’s Cup defender was under a highly orchestrated attack
New Zealand Government stops America’s Cup funding
The New Zealand Government has frozen any further payments to America’s Cup organisers as it investigates claims over the spending of public money
ETNZ statement on NZ$1 million scam
Emirates Team New Zealand issued a press release in response to reports that New Zealand government agencies were looking into possible misuse of public funds and concerns regards safety at the 36th America’s Cup
America’s Cup team defrauded by scammers
Team NZ boss Grant Dalton has admitted that the organisation had been defrauded by scammers, with money being paid into an incorrect Hungarian bank account