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The teams are allowed to bring 11 sailors and shore crew to each AC World Series event. Here are the team lists that have been announced so far for Oman. As mentioned above, Adam Minoprio replaces injured Franck Cammas at helm on Groupama Team France.
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.
Artemis should soon be fully operational from their base at Morgan’s Point.
After some two boat testing in Bermuda in late 2015 Oracle sold their first test boat to SoftBank Team Japan. In the first week of February the two teams sailed together in training. Oracle hopes to launch a third test boat in the week of February 8, weather permitting. That will again give them two boats for testing. Their sailing team is up to 14 members – two full crews plus two spares. While one boat testing, they rotate crew when they switch off the electrical power for the hydraulic pumps. In this video, sailing team manager Tom Slingsby explains that the grinders struggle to provide enough hydraulic pressure to get around the race course.
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.
Groupama Team France
Oracle Team USA
Artemis Racing and Land Rover BAR