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WetHog

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TE hinted at a possible 2nd USA team talked about on his webcast today.  Came here to see what it was about. Guess no one watched it.  

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Watched it for that reason among others but details were scarce.  Sounds pretty definite.  TFE said he spent an hour on the phone with a lead person this morning confirming details.  The person apparently gave TFE permission to use his name but TFE did not disclose and said to contact him directly for details.  Made the point that it was an all American team, including all designers and crew.  Did not mention yacht club but confirmed that the new team is different from the one TFE had been mentioning before, a West Coast syndicate that pulled back once the AC75 design was made public.  Will be interesting to see who it really is.  My guess is West Coast tech money (Siebel?) with North backing, no idea on boat designer.  TFE made the odd comment that yacht clubs should be reaching out to him if they wanted to be the partner club for the team, kind of surprised that hasn't already happened.  I suppose could also be Don Wilson and Chicago YC given past interest in hosting the Bermuda cup.

 
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From today's Scuttlebutt interview with Taylor Canfield:

Craig Lewick - "I’m hearing rumors that your aspirations to get involved in the America’s Cup might be coming sooner than later."

Taylor Canfield - "There’s nothing to share at the moment but I’m continuing to look at options to join a syndicate. Hopefully there’ll be some good news to share in the near future."

 
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It’d be a brilliant design, but arrive six months after the Cup. 
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Annapolis 105er said:
Watched it for that reason among others but details were scarce.  Sounds pretty definite.  TFE said he spent an hour on the phone with a lead person this morning confirming details.  The person apparently gave TFE permission to use his name but TFE did not disclose and said to contact him directly for details.  Made the point that it was an all American team, including all designers and crew.  Did not mention yacht club but confirmed that the new team is different from the one TFE had been mentioning before, a West Coast syndicate that pulled back once the AC75 design was made public.  Will be interesting to see who it really is.  My guess is West Coast tech money (Siebel?) with North backing, no idea on boat designer.  TFE made the odd comment that yacht clubs should be reaching out to him if they wanted to be the partner club for the team, kind of surprised that hasn't already happened.  I suppose could also be Don Wilson and Chicago YC given past interest in hosting the Bermuda cup.
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Initial money behind this comes from the owner of Proteus, the Maxi 72. But they are way late to the party.

 
Stingray~

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^ & the first $16,000 is already pledged!
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If Bruce Ayres and his family (hotels, real estate, Newport Beach CA) are also involved then they could be off to a healthy start.

Mike Buckley is cool. Fingers crossed.

 
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Initial money behind this comes from the owner of Proteus, the Maxi 72. But they are way late to the party.
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Fun symbolism, from http://robbreport.com/motors/marine/hard-core-maxi72-yacht-racing-regatta-maxi72-2725724-eg17-2725724/

As the crews awaited the firing of the starting gun, Bella Mente circled around the bow of Proteus, which was skippered by its owner, George Sakellaris (the chairman of Ameresco, an energy-services company headquartered in Massachusetts).

 
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More details here

Group eyes all American effort for 2021 America’s Cup

https://www.sailingillustrated.com/single-post/2018/04/27/AC36-Group-eyes-all-American-effort-for-2021-Americas-Cup
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The all American spin is interesting - a couple of Kiwis in the other team, obviously far to early to say who'll be on the Q-boat, but they push that as a point of difference anyway......

So will they really go all the way 'Nationalistic' then? Sponsors, designers, builders &&&?

 
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Some recent news items are bringing the fleet into focus. So:

  1. ENTZ - defender
  2. LR - COR
  3. BAR - in with new funding at about $150mm
  4. NYYC - in with disclosed funding of about $40mm
  5. (Adelasia di Torres - sure seem to be in but no news of having actually filed paperwork)
  6. (USA21 - confirmed interest in search of funding and a sponsor yacht club)

  • China: Per David Witt's interview posted by @southerncross, Scallywag is out. No word that I am aware of from Dongfeng. No other team has made noise afaik.
  • Australia: out
  • Europe outside of Italy&UK: no entries, but still a few suspects who have not specifically said they are out
  • Rest of World: nothing I'm aware of

That may be the list right there. I would not personally put money on USA21 pulling it together for 2021. Maybe the next. 

 
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Second US challenge for America's Cup gathers pace as talk of three other teams emerges - Stuff NZ

So there is a possible two more in the running?
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Not much to see here.  Move on please!

Four-day old long recitation of what we know about USA-21.

That,  plus a one-liner alluding to "speculation of three other challengers."

Hardly sufficient to justify the headline!

 
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