According to Pierre-Yves Yourand (Alinghi), "the rules have changed" for the America's Cup
“You guys are the first challenger to come to settle on the 37th Edition website,
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Forourselves
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New mods to Alinghi Boat zero (Te Aihe)
Wolkenzug
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It looks like Alinghi have updated Boat Zero, maybe even added cyclors.
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ALINGHI UNVEIL NEW TECH
Whilst all eyes have been on the launch and first sailing sessions of the Alinghi Red Bull Racing AC40 in recent days, the shore team and designers have been busy making radical modifications to the team’s AC75 BoatZero. Despite electing not to sail today, the team rolled out and launched the...
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It looks like Alinghi have updated Boat Zero, maybe even added cyclors.
ALINGHI UNVEIL NEW TECH
Whilst all eyes have been on the launch and first sailing sessions of the Alinghi Red Bull Racing AC40 in recent days, the shore team and designers have been busy making radical modifications to the team’s AC75 BoatZero. Despite electing not to sail today, the team rolled out and launched the...
buckdouger
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At 3:51 buddy is going pretty hard on a recumbent bike.
Good catch. Maybe the 'recumbent' helps to explain the new cockpit layout?
Sailbydate
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A frustrating Thursday for both Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Alinghi Red Bull Racing as both teams attempted to sail but found conditions conspiring against them. For Alinghi Red Bull Racing, March 2nd is a date etched into the team’s DNA as it marks the moment 20 years ago when Ernesto Bertarelli lifted the America’s Cup having beaten Team New Zealand in Auckland 5-0 in a very one-sided Match that took the Auld Mug back to Europe for the first time since the event’s inception in 1851. The team reportedly celebrated in style at the Alinghi Red Bull Racing base in the evening to mark the occasion.
For the Swiss sailors though, a day that promised much with the first outing of the new deck configuration complete with cyclor station (now confirmed) was not to be. BoatZero was craned in to undergo extensive tests on all the new systems, which had the tech team onboard for some four hours, before eventually the call was made not to sail. The chase boat took the boat out of the harbour for one tow run out and back again to run through systems analysis before calling it a day and craning out.
ChairborneRanger
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it's the AM rudder, they launched PATRIOT with.
Sailbydate
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^ A sweetener for the AC40 build slot deal?
Crossed my mind too. There seems to be some friendliness and willingness to deal, between Alinghi and AM. Maybe Botin is key to it.
Doesn't Alinghi also have an ex AM main foil?
Sailbydate
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It’s the video that every America’s Cup and nascent AC40 team around the world will be poring over, offering a glimpse into the challenge that the world’s greatest sailors are going to face in Barcelona in September and October 2024.
The swell came in today for Alinghi Red Bull Racing aligned with a thermal Garbi afternoon breeze, making the team’s AC40 perform like a bucking bronco at times as the crew worked on co-ordination to try and find the optimum ride height both upwind and down. Ride too low and the bow dug in but fly too high, and the boat was immediately dancing on the knife edge of control. It’s the conundrum that all the teams are going to face and whilst every team has mentioned the swell in Barcelona in recent interviews, for now it’s only Alinghi Red Bull Racing that has the experience at the actual venue. It could be a crucial point of difference when the action starts in earnest.
For the Swiss, the week has been a very positive one. Not only did the team celebrate the 20-year anniversary of their fantastic lifting of the America’s Cup in 2003 but also revealed a heavily updated BoatZero with cyclor stations that has been under the technicians spotlight ahead of sailing at the weekend. Looking back on the Cup winning team of 2003 and the synergies with today’s sailors, Pierre-Yves Jorand, the co-General Manager of Sports and Sailing Operations at Alinghi Red Bull Racing and part of the Swiss ‘family’ back in 2003 was the perfect person to interview and he said: “It's very unilateral. We obviously have a very strong Design Team bringing lots of knowledge from AC36, we have a very experienced Shore Team bringing knowledge and giving expertise and we have a very talented Sailing Team not that much on the America’s Cup side, but on foiling. So, it's very unilateral, every team member is invited to speak up, to share ideas and then it's up to the Head of Department in discussion to make the best of it.”
Kiwing
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^I wish you'd stop using the AI chat bot for your posts.
