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For those who may be interested by flying saucers, sailing or just some exciting sporting events, the America's Cup 2021 action is about to start in Auckland, with the first races taking place on the 17th of December, weather permitting.
That's going to be challenging for me as the races starts at 3pm NZT, that is.. oh well easy, just 12 hours earlier here. So I'll have to wake up at 2:45 to make coffee (we're on cafésaxophone here aren't we?) and try to be awake for the action.
According to my sources (the official AC website) it will be possible to follow the races online in the Uk and in France. TV coverage is BBC and Sky in the Uk, Canal+ in France.
We (France) don't have any representatives this time. They didn't perform very well last time and couldn't get founding to participate in this rather amazing adventure.
The boats for this edition are simply mind blowing. The concept was radical and never really tried or tested at such a scale. Keel less 75' monohulls flying on foils!
It works and it is apparently very fast...
The teams are:
Defenders: Team New Zealand
Challengers :
All well founded and packed with very experienced people.
They all built a couple of boats (they can't build more, of the 75' scale) and the second ones look really tuned for the job...
I will post more specific links here for that first phase of the competition.
I think both the Uk and the US are rather serious here, but we can't dismiss the Italians. They did prove in the past that they were very serious sailors and as I sailed on the Mediterranean for years, I can attest to their talents.
That's going to be challenging for me as the races starts at 3pm NZT, that is.. oh well easy, just 12 hours earlier here. So I'll have to wake up at 2:45 to make coffee (we're on cafésaxophone here aren't we?) and try to be awake for the action.
According to my sources (the official AC website) it will be possible to follow the races online in the Uk and in France. TV coverage is BBC and Sky in the Uk, Canal+ in France.
We (France) don't have any representatives this time. They didn't perform very well last time and couldn't get founding to participate in this rather amazing adventure.
The boats for this edition are simply mind blowing. The concept was radical and never really tried or tested at such a scale. Keel less 75' monohulls flying on foils!
It works and it is apparently very fast...
The teams are:
Defenders: Team New Zealand
Challengers :
- American Magic - USA
- Team INEOS - UK
- Team Prada Pirelli - Italy
All well founded and packed with very experienced people.
They all built a couple of boats (they can't build more, of the 75' scale) and the second ones look really tuned for the job...
I will post more specific links here for that first phase of the competition.
I think both the Uk and the US are rather serious here, but we can't dismiss the Italians. They did prove in the past that they were very serious sailors and as I sailed on the Mediterranean for years, I can attest to their talents.