America's Cup

Emirates Team New Zealand unveiled its second-generation AC75 yesterday, joining the other three America's Cup teams with boats in the water. In just over 100 days, this boat will attempt to defend the Cup for the Kiwis, but there's plenty of racing between now and then, with ...read more

In a year full of drama, the America’s Cup has been matching the news cycle step for step, supplying their own fair share of scandal. After Covid cancellations and a spying controversy, the latest news is that the Challenger of the Record, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli of Italy, has ...read more

Hot on the heels of the UK’s Britannia and the United States’ Patriot, Italy’s new AC75 Luna Rossa, formerly known as Boat 2, was christened in Auckland, New Zealand, this morning. As the moniker suggests, it was Team Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli’s second design. In his christening ...read more

Despite myriad Covid-related challenges faced by 2021’s America’s Cup teams, The New York Yacht Club’s American Magic announced an exciting step forward today; Patriot, their second AC75, has left the shed for the first time since arriving in Auckland. Over a year ago, the ...read more

The AC75 rule crafted for the upcoming 36th America’s Cup was intended to be open to multiple interpretations, and the result has been four very different designs. Coupled with the fact the AC75 is unlike any other boat that has ever come before, the current Cup cycle is fast ...read more