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Preparing Team France’s AC45 for AC World Series

Team France acquired an AC45 from Oracle Team USA. They have now added the one design foiling package and plan to be on the starting line at the first AC World Series event in Portsmouth, England in July. Franck Cammas’s long-time sponsor Groupama are funding Cammas for this year’s AC45 racing, but they will not continue the sponsorship through the America’s Cup. Team France continues to look for sponsors.

America's Cup Team France's One Design AC45 with Groupama branding. Photo: Team France
America’s Cup Team France’s One Design AC45 with Groupama branding. Photo: Team France

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Emirates Team New Zealand’s Burling and Tuke Take Another 49er Title

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have won another important 49er regatta, this time the ISAF World Cup event in Hyères, France in April. This is the eighteenth 49er event in a row that they have won since taking silver at the 2012 Olympics.  London gold medal winners Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen of Artemis finished second in Hyères. Burling was named helmsman for Team New Zealand in March, replacing Dean Barker.

America's Cup Peter Burling and Blair Tuke won the 49er event at the ISAF World Cup event in March.
America’s Cup Peter Burling and Blair Tuke won the 49er event at the ISAF World Cup event in March.

ETNZ’s AC45 Underway to Europe. Development Boat is the Next Project.

Emirates Team New Zealand has shipped their one design foiling AC45 to Portsmouth for the first AC World Series event, which will be held 23-25 July 2015. Previously ETNZ had announced that they would soon start work on their development AC45x, converting a boat they acquired from Team Australia.

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Ben Ainslie Racing Added a Sailing Coach and a CEO

Sailing coach Rob Wilson joined BAR in March and worked with them during their second sailing session in Bermuda, in their Flying Phantom two man foiling catamarans. Wilson is an Olympic Tornado sailor and has coached Extreme Sailing Series teams. He is focused on developing the team’s playbook for racing on Bermuda’s Great Sound, where the short, tight course will require lots of crisp manoeuvers.

America's Cup Rob Wilson, BAR's sailing coach with the team in Bermuda in March. Photo: BAR
America’s Cup Rob Wilson, BAR’s sailing coach with the team in Bermuda in March. Photo: BAR
America's Cup New CEO Martin Whitmarsh on the team's AC45x "T1" on the Solent in April. Whitmarsh is well known from his former role as principal of the F1 team McLaren where he was CEO of Mclaren Group. Photo: BAR
America’s Cup New CEO Martin Whitmarsh on the team’s AC45x “T1” on the Solent in April. Whitmarsh is well known from his former role as principal of the F1 team McLaren where he was CEO of Mclaren Group. Photo: BAR

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Oracle: Getting Ready to Sail their AC45x in Bermuda

Oracle has performed the traditional Bermudian roof wetting ceremony with a bottle of Gosling’s Rum – the main ingredient in a Dark’n’Stormy.

America's Cup The two Grants - Grant Gibbons, Bermuda Minister of Economic Development and Grant Simmer, Oracle Team USA General Manager - perform the roof wetting ceremony at the team's new base in Dockyard. Photo: JP Roujas
America’s Cup The two Grants – Grant Gibbons, Bermuda Minister of Economic Development and Grant Simmer, Oracle Team USA General Manager – perform the roof wetting ceremony at the team’s new base in Dockyard. Photo: JP Roujas

While the Dark’n’Stormy’s were popular, the main attraction at the ceremony was the team’s AC45x “Sport,” apparently on schedule to sail on May 1st.

America's Cup Oracle's AC45x in their new base in Bermuda
America’s Cup Oracle’s AC45x in their new base in Bermuda
America's Cup Oracle's AC45x - scheduled to be sailing on May 1st on Bermuda's Great Sound
America’s Cup Oracle’s AC45x – scheduled to be sailing on May 1st on Bermuda’s Great Sound
America's Cup Oracle sailors Kyle Langford, Graeme Spence, Joey Newton, Andrew Campbell and Rome Kirby have all been out on the Great Sound in the team's two man Flying Phantom foiling catamarans. Photo: Warren Jones.
America’s Cup Oracle sailors Kyle Langford, Graeme Spence, Joey Newton, Andrew Campbell and Rome Kirby have all been out on the Great Sound in the team’s two man Flying Phantom foiling catamarans. Photo: Warren Jones.