Land Rover BAR’s wing trimmer Paul Campbell-James, who also has a great deal of experience helming these new foiling boats, explains how the America’s Cup teams sail their World Series…
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The slingshot – mastering this high-speed racing manoeuvre is not just for the professionals
This particular part of the course, coming into Mark 1 on a reach on an AC45, is always one of the most physically demanding and most dangerous parts of the…
Skip Novak: Big city venues reduce the America’s Cup World Series to a crapshoot
When I read about Ben Ainslie’s frustration in sailing underneath New York City (literally) in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in May, and knowing that Chicago was coming…
Land Rover BAR win at America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth shakes up the series
Today at the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth was tagged ‘Super Sunday’, and it delivered on the promise, with the result hanging on a single point difference in…
Who’s who at the ACWS Portsmouth as crews reshuffle
With the Rio Games just two weeks away, there has been a reshuffle in some of the ACWS crew lists for this weekend’s event in Portsmouth, with some big names…
Ainslie makes Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth the push for new America’s Cup blueprint
As Ben Ainslie races in the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth this weekend he embarks on the on the second crucial chapter of his goal to prove Britain can…
Land Rover BAR capsize during training in Solent
The 45ft foiling cat named ‘T2’ is the team’s latest boat to be launched and is a more powerful and sophisticated version of the AC45f cats that are used in…
Artemis wins Bermuda Americas Cup World Series – crashing to victory
“That last gybe was the event,” said Iain Percy to his team as they crossed the finish line of the third and final race of the day. Artemis Racing had…
Americas Cup World Series – weather refuses to play ball on big day, but is there an alternative?
Once the weather forecast came into view earlier in the week there was always a risk that the first day of racing here in Bermuda was going to be tricky,…
Americas Cup World Series Bermuda – Practice day reveals new lessons for all
As with any practice race there will be those who go home grateful that their results didn’t count while others will wish the day’s action had been for points. Friday…
What it’s really like aboard a foiling Americas Cup boat in the heat of battle?
As we hammered our way downwind, smoking along at thirty-something knots, aside from the deafening noise, the force of the salty water in my face as the windward foil hit…
First impressions of Bermuda, the new home for the America’s Cup
You can Google it, Wikipedia it, or simply read a guide book about Bermuda, but during the last three days it has been the excellent and widely used online rainfall…
Chicago announced as new America’s Cup World Series venue
As momentum for the 35th America’s Cup gathers pace and the ACWS events start to draw in spectators and TV, it was considered by some in the Cup loop to…
Kiwis take overall win in needle match at AC World Series in Gothenburg
When asked how his close friend and skipper of Artemis Racing, Iain Percy would be feeling after his team’s run of poor performance and bad luck, Ben Ainslie took his…
Rocks, rock stars and short legs at Day 1 Americas Cup World Series in Gothenburg
The practice day in Gothenburg had been a hair raising experience for many of the teams as gusty conditions saw several bury their bows and come perilously close to capsize.…
Breezy, nerve wracking conditions for LV Americas Cup World Series in Gothenburg
There is an air of tension around the dockside here in Gothenburg as the six teams prepare for the first of two days racing. The practice races on Friday saw…
How to watch the next Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series in Gothenburg this weekend
If you don’t want to miss the America’s Cup action, there are a number of different ways to follow the high-octane racing in Gothenburg. Yachting World ‘s Matthew Sheahan will…
Ainslie wins Portsmouth America’s Cup World Series event
For the home team to win the first of the AC World Series events for the 35th America’s Cup cycle was a dream result. But Land Rover BAR’s slick crew…
Ainslie delivers dream result for opening day of the 35th America’s Cup cycle. Matthew Sheahan reports
Unlike the practice day on Friday when conditions were fluky, the visibility shocking and the rain biblical, for the opening day of the 35th America’s Cup cycle the sun shone,…
Portsmouth is putting on a brilliant dress rehearsal for ‘bringing the America’s Cup home’
How would it feel if Sir Ben Ainslie were to succeed in his grand ambition to ‘bring the Cup home’? The America’s Cup World Series Portsmouth answered that today. It…