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Team Australia in Extreme Sailing Series preparing for America’s Cup

 

Team Australia's Extreme 40 in Singapore    Photo: Lloyd Images
TEAM AUSTRALIA’S EXTREME 40 IN SINGAPORE PHOTO: LLOYD IMAGES

Team Australia, the Challenger of Record for the 35th America’s Cup, will join most of the other Cup teams on the Extreme Sailing Series, gaining experience catamaran racing on tight courses. With no America’s Cup World Series events scheduled before 2015, all the America’s Cup teams except Oracle Team USA and Luna Rossa will race in at least some of the eight events on the Extreme circuit. They had an inauspicious start in the first regatta, coming in last in Singapore and hoping to improve in Oman in March. Seve Jarvin skippers the Extreme 40. At age 27 he has already won five 18 Foot Skiff world championships, just one short of Iain Murray’s record of six. Seve is joined on the Extreme 40 by a rotating all-Australian group:  Ed Smyth, Troy Tindall, Ed Smyth, Sam Newton, Alexandra South and David Gilmour.

 

 

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Team Australia begins training for the 2017 America’s Cup

 

TEAM AUSTRALIA TRAINING WITH ORACLE TEAM USA IN SYDNEY PHOTO: ANDREA FRANCOLINI
TEAM AUSTRALIA TRAINING WITH ORACLE TEAM USA IN SYDNEY PHOTO: ANDREA FRANCOLINI

Team Australia began sailing their AC45 on Sydney Harbor, training with Oracle Team USA. CEO Iain Murray announced that their skipper will be Mat Belcher, gold medalist in the 470 at the 2012 London Olympics. Belcher will be sailing against another Australian gold medalist from London – Tom Slingsby, Laser gold medalist, is helming the OTUSA AC45 in the training races in Sydney. The two teams will train with each other in Sydney through June.

IAIN MURRAY, SANDY OATLEY, BOB OATLEY, MAT BELCHER AND TOM SLINGSBY AT LAUNCH OF AC45. PHOTO: ANDREA FRANCOLINI
IAIN MURRAY, SANDY OATLEY, BOB OATLEY, MAT BELCHER AND TOM SLINGSBY AT LAUNCH OF AC45. PHOTO: ANDREA FRANCOLINI

 

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Australia challenges for the 35th America’s Cup

 

Australia’s Hamilton Island Yacht Club has been accepted at the Challenger of Record for the 35th America’s Cup. Hamilton Island Yacht Club’s Australian team will represent all challengers in dealings with the defender Oracle Team USA of Golden Gate Yacht Club, San Francisco.

GGYC and HIYC expect to have a Protocol governing the 35th America’s Cup, including dates, venue, boats and other details, agreed and published in the first few months of 2014.

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