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February 15, 2016 By Jack Griffin

AC Village in Dockyard

Bermuda’s project for approximately eight acres of infill in the South Basin at Dockyard is progressing as this January photo showed.

The area in the center of this diagram is the AC Village that will be built on the infill in the South Basin. The colored spaces labelled 1, 2 and 14 are the bases for Artemis Racing, Emirates Team New Zealand and the Youth America’s Cup teams respectively. The race course finish line shown here is about 300 meters from the AC Village. You can see a bigger image and download the full diagram here.

February 15, 2016 By Jack Griffin

ETNZ’s Burling and Tuke continue 49er dominance

Peter Burling and Blair Tuke won the 2016 World Championships in the 49er, which ended yesterday, 14 February, in Clearwater, Florida. They have now won 23 49er regattas in a row, including the last four World Championships. The last time they were “beaten” was at the 2012 London Olympics, where they took the silver medal behind Australians Nathan Outteridge and Iain “Goobs” Jensen, now with Artemis Racing.

Outteridge and Jensen were in second place going into the final, double points medal race in Clearwater, but an OCS (false start) in the medal race dropped them back to sixth place.

Emmett Lazich coaches Outteridge and Jensen, and believes they can win in Rio. It was Lazich who helped plan their buildup to the London Olympics. Burling and Tuke trained together with Outteridge and Jensen under Lazich’s guidance. He knew it would be a risk, possibly helping Burling and Tuke “too much” but the plan worked perfectly in 2012 with gold for the Aussies and silver for the Kiwis in London. Outteridge and Jensen went on to sail for Artemis in San Francisco in 2013 while Burling helmed the winning Kiwi boat in the 2013 Red Bull Youth America’s Cup, with Tuke in the crew. Here’s Lazich in a video interview by Andy Rice during the Worlds last week.

Outteridge clearly has more demands on his time from Artemis than Burling does from ETNZ. He and Jensen should be able to prepare for Rio from May until the Games, in August. Even so, Burling and Tuke are the clear favorites.

We sailing fans get to witness a great rivalry being played out in the America’s Cup and in the Olympics. Let’s keep an eye on this!

February 8, 2016 By Jack Griffin

Team Updates: Artemis Racing

Artemis launched their second development AC45X in San Francisco at the end of January. The boat has since been shipped to Bermuda where the team will begin two boat testing. Artemis calls their test boats “Turbos” – T1 and T2. With the arrival of T2, there will soon be five development AC45X boats on the Great Sound in Bermuda – two each from Oracle and Artemis and one from Team Japan.

Morgan’s Point Base Nears Completion

Artemis should soon be fully operational from their base at Morgan’s Point.

February 8, 2016 By Jack Griffin

Bermuda AC Village at Dockyard

This week’s issue focuses on team updates – team rosters, AC Class yacht development and ACWS campaigns. On the Cup Experience website, you can always get a team overviews and updates here.

We’ll start with what’s happening for all of the teams in Bermuda – here’s a draft of team base locations in the America’s Cup Village at Dockyard. Oracle and SoftBank Team Japan are operating from the bases shown here. Artemis operates from their main base at Morgan’s Point; the base shown here will be used when racing starts in May 2017. Land Rover BAR, Groupama Team France and Emirates Team New Zealand are all operating from bases in their respective countries. They will no doubt be in the bases at Dockyard in early 2017, to launch their race boats and to prepare for the racing in May and June. The landfill for the Public Event Village is nearing completion now. Download this diagram as well as the racing calendars on the America’s Cup Guide page, here.

Download this 1 page overview of the America’s Cup Schedule here.

November 23, 2015 By Jack Griffin

49er Worlds – Gold for Burling/Tuke, Silver for Outteridge/Jensen

Burling and Tuke won the 2015 49er Worlds - San Isidro, Argentine. © Matias Capizzano — Burling and Tuke won the 2015 49er Worlds – San Isidro, Argentina.
© Matias Capizzano

America’s Cup helmsmen and crew faced off again at the 2015 49er World Championships in Argentina. Emirates Team New Zealand’s helmsman Pete Burling and crew Blair Tuke won their 23rd 49er regatta in a row. The last time Burling and Tuke have “lost” a regatta, they picked up the silver medal at London’s 2012 Olympics. At the Olympics the gold medal went to Artemis Racing’s Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen, who took silver at the recent world championships.

What does this mean for the 49er competition at the 2016 Olympics in Rio? Burling and Tuke look like the heavy favorites, with their string of wins. Burling also won the 2015 Moth Worlds, taking that title from Outteridge who had won the previous two Moth Worlds. But a closer look at the scoreline from Argentina shows that the battle could be very close. In the eight qualifying races, Burling and Tuke were dominant, taking first four times but they fared much worse in the Gold Fleet racing. After the first six races races Outteridge and Jensen were in danger of not qualifying and Iain Jensen was battling a stomach flu. They then posted two second place finishes to qualify for the Gold Fleet and had the best scoreline in the second half of the regatta. That said, Burling and Tuke had the gold medal sewn up before the medal race, thanks to their dominance early in the regatta.

Download the complete score sheet here.

Here’s a short report from the event: