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Rule writing starts for the new America’s Cup Class yacht

Friday, January 01, 2010

Rating rules experts in the US and UK are requested to develop rules for a multihull and monohull

VALENCIA, Spain (28 June 2010) – Rating rule authorities in America and Britain have been commissioned to draft the rules for the next generation of class of America’s Cup yacht.

In asking US SAILING and the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Seahorse Rating affiliate to write the rules, BMW ORACLE Racing and Golden Gate Yacht Club, winner of the 33rd America’s Cup last February, has ensured the process is neutral and independent.

“We’ve always said that the new design will be for the America’s Cup community. The result with be a ‘non-partisan yacht’ rather than a ‘defender’s yacht’,” said Ian Burns, Design Coordinator for BMW ORACLE Racing. “A great deal of input was sought from the America’s Cup community and the concept briefs given to the rule writers reflect that feedback.”

In a twin-track process, US SAILING will author a multihull rule and the RORC’s Seahorse Rating a monohull rule.

“It would be premature to rule either a monohull or multihull in and the other out at this stage,” commented Russell Coutts, CEO of BMW ORACLE Racing. “Which type of boat is best for racing and media impact is one of many evaluations we will be testing over the coming months.”

The choice between monohull and multihull will be made after the conclusion of these trials.

In response to feedback from potential teams, the original concepts for both types have been scaled back from 26m (82 feet) LOA to 22m (72 feet) for tangible cost reduction. The monohull boat will feature a fixed keel.

To ensure fairness, all teams will simultaneously receive updates and information from the authors with regards to progress.

The briefs to the rule authors outline parameters for both types of boat to give base-line dimensions.

This ‘box rule’ method should ensure boats designed by different teams are similar in style to guarantee the close racing the America’s Cup thrives on. Otherwise, the instructions to the rule writers are deliberately open to afford the writers full creative freedom.

Seahorse Rating has asked Nick Nicholson and James Dadd, with their wide experience of previous America’s Cup class designs, to lead the monohull development.

The multihull rule is under the purview of multihull designer Pete Melvin and US SAILNG.

Other cost-cutting measures include limitations on the number of hulls, masts, appendages and sails a team can build. And the reduced crew size, targeted at 13 members, will mean fewer personnel.

“These boats are all about similar performance throughout the wind range,” said Burns. “Unique configurations are the expensive part of the America’s Cup. We don’t want a light-air boat taking on a heavy-air boat. The rule should ensure close racing while being able to sail in a wide range of conditions.”

Rule writing is the seventh stage in an exhaustive process. The objective is to publish the new America’s Cup Class Rule by the end of September.

America’s Cup Design Rule Process (since 1 March 2010):

• Step 1: Dialogue and discussions with stakeholders
• Step 2: Initial Concepts created for monohull and multihull by non-aligned experts (Bruce Nelson and Peter Melvin)
• Step 3: Design conference (held 18 May 2010) for ‘who’s who of yacht design’ in Valencia
• Step 4: On-line follow-up survey for conference attendees
• Step 5: Aggregating feedback
• Step 6: Concept brief prepared
• Step 7: Rule writing commissioned from US SAILING and Seahorse Rating
• Step 8: Choice of monohull or multihull based on July trials in Valencia
• Step 9: Rule finalization
• Step 10: New America’s Cup Class rule published

Article source: http://www.americascup.com/news/rule-writing-starts-for-the-new-america-s-cup-class-yacht_8

Thursday, January 13th 2011, 13:00 GMT

Words: Stuart Alexander

Another day at the office means a trip from the hotel which is home, to the Abu Dhabi International Marine Sports Club for Ian Walker, the man who is spearheading Abu Dhabi’s latest major sporting initiative.

Upstairs, the circular office is reminiscent of a harbour master’s building, with a view over the marina and the bay.

On the ground is a workshop container, mercifully now fitted with air conditioning, and a sail loft marquee, fitted with the appropriate sewing machinery.

The area, which may be used by the other teams when they visit the stopover in January 2012 to house their containers and lift the boats out, leads to a pontoon dedicated to berthing the training boat, the former ABN AMRO TWO.

Once the holder of the world record for miles sailed in 24 hours, and still the pride of its designer, Juan Kouyoumdjian, it has been reliveried in royal blue.

The ground floor clubhouse has a conservatory-like extension at the water’s edge. It is a popular spot, especially for young families, with a surprising number of the mums or young ladies taking time for a meeting with friends also puffing contentedly on the hubble- bubble or hookah water-cooled pipes prepared by the staff.

Picking up the contemplative mood, Ian Walker knows that his latest campaign is well on track. With Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, Ian has been able to make some important crew appointments, the design of the new yacht is roaring ahead at Farr Yacht Design in Annapolis – “we have asked Farr to pack into three months what could take up to a year” – the boat will be built at a first class facility in Italy, and it will incorporate the latest in mast and rig design.

Walker is upbeat. “I think the race is cool, you’re really achieving something. I enjoyed the last one, the soul of the race infected me quite a lot,” he says. Having won two Olympic silver medals, in the 470 in 1996 and the Star in 2000, and then being the skipper of Britain’s last tilt at the America’s Cup, Ian Walker has seen most of the peaks in the world of sailboat racing.

“In the Volvo Ocean Race everyone has their story, from the front of the fleet to the back. It extends beyond the sailing community and appeals to the non-sailing public, which makes the whole thing stack up a lot more,” he says.

It is also something he wants to win. The path, he says, ended up in Abu Dhabi. Not that he is in any way talking down the last race when he skippered Green Dragon’s Chinese-Irish collaboration. “I think we did a good job last time and achieved more return for a given investment than some of the better-funded teams. It was tough, but it was worth doing.”

This time it is different and that starts with being able to build a no-compromise boat. Jason Carrington – “one of the world’s top yacht builders” – will oversee everything at the Persico facility in Italy, the same one that built the Prada America’s Cup boats. And he will have alongside him New Zealander Mark Somerville, who built the Oracle tri-maran which won the America’s Cup in February 2010 in Valencia.

Persico is a “hugely impressive”, large industrial tooling company and the decision to build the boat from a female mould will, says Walker, greatly improve the accuracy of the boat and will build in a lot of detail. “We expect to achieve a tolerance of plus or minus half a millimetre,” says Walker.

What is new is that, as well as using rigging from the Valencia-based Future Fibres, the mast will be built by Future Masts, with Persico making a significant financial investment in the new company.

Which leads to a worry. Not about the boat, not about the mast and rig, but the sails they will carry. “This race is almost certainly going to be all about the sails,” says Walker. “Sails are a massive, massive issue.”

As part of the bid to cut costs, teams are restricted to building 15 sails for training and 17 for the race. “There is a real problem for everybody in producing just 17 sails to get you round the world,” says Walker. “No-one is going to want to get to China or New Zealand and find they have only three left.

“We are all assessing how the new 3Di sails will work out, we know that the Kevlar and aramid sails can suffer bad degradation from ‘gassing’, and it would be a difficult gamble to rely on ‘Cuben Fibre’, however reliable they have been for some of the round the world multihulls.”

The way in which the crew is selected is proving slightly easier, but also has its complications.

One key appointment is of Jules Salter as navigator. One of the watch captains will be New Zealander Craig Satterthwaite, while Justin Slattery will be on the bow and Simon Fisher, SiFi, has joined the sailing team possibly the race team, as a crew who can also back up Salter, having been navigator on Telefónica Blue last time. That means he also has experience of racing a Farr-designed Open 70.

As for the other five, it is one of the stated aims to have some Emirati representation on board. Applications from over 80 people are being sifted, a short list will be tested, and two will be chosen to go on expensive training sails. Walker chose a Chinese media crewman last time and it greatly enhanced the interest in China.

There is also a requirement for three under-30s, Walker wants to have at least two more fast helmsmen in the armoury, and the team may need to be able to call on people who are fully qualified to take over in case of injury or where specialist skills are needed to suit particular legs.

Carrington will manage the shore team, many of whom will progress from building the boat to maintaining it.

“For the first time, I feel that we have had time and that we don’t have to run at a million miles an hour every day to get where we need to be,” says Walker, adding: “And I really like living here.”

“Stooping to Conquer” appeared in Issue 36 of the Life at the Extreme magazine.

 

 

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Designers focus on new America’s Cup Class

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

A significant step was taken towards creating the next America’s Cup boat when 19 designers met in Valencia. Central to the deliberations was whether to develop a monohull or a multihull for the 34th America’s Cup.

A significant step was taken towards creating the next America’s Cup boat when 19 designers met in Valencia.

Central to the deliberations was whether to develop a monohull or a multihull for the 34^th America’s Cup.

The conference was held at the home base of BMW ORACLE Racing during its successful 33^rd America’s Cup campaign.

“The teams want a new boat; the fans deserve one too,” commented Russell Coutts, four time winner of the America’s Cup.

“It will not be a ‘defender’s boat’.  It will be the product of genuine discussion and dialogue,” Coutts added.

The Valencia meetings were chaired by BMW ORACLE Racing’s design coordinator, Ian Burns.

Around the table was a ‘who’s who’ of yacht design: 10 nationalities were represented, with winning records in every level rating class from Quarter Tonners to TP52s as well as the Volvo Ocean Race, Jules Verne Trophy, classic races such as the Fastnet and Sydney-Hobart and, the America’s Cup.

Structural and performance experts also attended as did those with experience of creating rules for the ACC, Whitbread 60 and Volvo 70 classes.

Two different multihulls (20m and 25m LOA) were discussed as was one monohull (up to 27m LOA).

The new concepts were conceived by eminent designers Bruce Nelson and Morelli/Melvin, creators of previous America’s Cup winning yachts.

Besides their expertise, Nelson and Morelli/Melvin were chosen because they are unaligned with either BMW ORACLE Racing or the Challenger of Record, Club Nautico di Roma/Mascalzone Latino.

High performance is fundamental to all three concepts. The monohull proposal will give significantly faster speeds upwind and downwind compared to boats used in 2007.

“The America’s Cup is the pinnacle of our sport, so the boats should be physically demanding to race well and produce fast, competitive racing to engage new fans,” said Burns.

Requirements for all three concepts are:

• fast, dynamic and close racing
• high levels of athleticism required to race the boats to their optimum
• advanced, efficient and cost-effective technologies
• logistical efficiency to facilitate transport to a regular series of regattas
• distinctive to the America’s Cup
• versatility, enabling racing in any venue in winds from 5-35 knots

Versatility is seen as essential to minimise disruption to racing.

“Delays and postponements kill interest,” commented Coutts. “America’s Cup boats shouldn’t be the last to start racing and the first to quit whilst other classes are still racing. They also need to be designed from the outset to unleash the full potential of television.”

Television specialists will provide expertise and advice before the rule is written so that media requirements are incorporated at the outset.

The World Sailing Teams Association has been asked if it would manage the rule drafting. Non-aligned experts will be used to ensure fairness to all teams.

The rule-writers will report back to all teams equally and frequently. And teams will have the chance to review the new rule before it is finalised.

Publication of the new class rule will be no later than 30^th September.

Article source: http://www.americascup.com/news/designers-focus-on-new-america-s-cup-class_13

34th America’s Cup video talent competition launched today

Monday, June 28, 2010

Generation Y is invited to help change the production of sailing’s pinnacle event

VALENCIA, Spain (28 June 2010) – Do you have what it takes to supercharge the media production of the America’s Cup?

So asks a video posted today on the official 34^th America’s Cup web site, www.americascup.com, that launches the America’s Cup Video Production Competition.

Transforming the video output in a way that excites and engages the biggest ever audience is a primary goal for the 34^th America’s Cup. Fresh thinking for video production is being sought from Generation Y.

The America’s Cup Video Production Competition is open to anyone so long as they’re between the ages of 18 and 28 years of age.

All that is required is a clip of any length that illustrates production techniques and exciting, new perspectives that could boost coverage of the 34^th America’s Cup.

“Transforming television is the single-most important change we can make to this magnificent competition,” said Russell Coutts, CEO of BMW ORACLE Racing, winners of the 33^rd America’s Cup.

Ambition is the main requirement for entry. Naturally, content must be original and 100-percent rights-cleared.

Clips may be of any sport or activity and any combination of camerawork, editing and production. The 28-year age limit is in place with a view to blending new talent with the best and most-experienced specialists in sports broadcasting.

“We’re looking to the next generation to help bring the screen alive,” Coutts said. “We expect this competition to open our eyes to some creative concepts that will increase the event’s appeal to younger audiences.”

A panel of extreme sports and social media leaders will review the videos. Producers of the most interesting videos posted by 12 July 2010 will be flown to Valencia, Spain, to participate in the 34^th America’s Cup Media Race Evaluation Trials slated for the end of July.

The ultimate competition winner, to be announced at the end of September, will get to choose from prizes that include a top of the range Apple MacBook Pro, installed with the latest video editing software, to a high-end, HD camera.

Other finalists will receive BMW ORACLE Racing official team gear. The competition video and details, including terms, timing and prizes, can be viewed on the official 34^th America’s Cup Web site at www.americascup.com/videocompetition.

Contestants are invited to enter the competition by posting their video at http://acvideocompetition.magnify.net

Article source: http://www.americascup.com/news/34th-america-s-cup-video-talent-competition-launched-today_15

Year, new fast boat and fair Protocol rules will be unveiled September 13th

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Organizers for the 34th America’s Cup plan to host a press conference on September 13th, in Valencia, to reveal three of the four cornerstones of the next competition…

Organizers for the 34th America’s Cup plan on September 13 to host a press conference in Valencia to reveal three of the four cornerstones of the next competition:

• The year in which it will be held
• The new Class of Boat for the competition
• The competition rules (The Protocol)

 

The objective for the 34th America’s Cup has been to create the fairest-ever competition, sustainable to teams and their partners with transformed racing to attract the widest possible audience for an event planned for either 2013 or 2014.

A new, dynamic and exciting class of boat will be revealed. The year of the 34th America’s Cup Match will also be confirmed.

Negotiations over the host city venue – the fourth cornerstone – continue, but organizers are confident of making an announcement ahead of the December 31 objective.

The Protocol is now finalized and will be formally signed by the defending Golden Gate Yacht Club and the Challenger of Record, Club Nautico di Roma, in a live-streamed ceremony on the official America’s Cup web site www.AmericasCup.com.

WHAT: 34th America’s Cup Press Conference

WHY: 34th America’s Cup year, Protocol and new class of boat announced

WHEN: September 13, 2010

TIME: 1300 CET

WHERE: BMW ORACLE Racing Team Base, Port America’s Cup, Valencia, Spain

WHO: Russell Coutts (CEO BMW ORACLE Racing Team) Vincenzo Onorato (syndicate head of Challenger of Record, Mascalzone Latino)

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34esima America’s Cup – Le regole da svelare, Anno, una nuova barca veloce ed un Protocollo imparziale

Gli organizzatori della 34° America’s Cup hanno indetto, per il giorno 13 settembre c.a., una conferenza stampa per annunciare i 3 dei 4 punti fondamentali della prossima edizione:

• Anno dell’evento
• La nuova barca
• Il Protocollo

 

L’obiettivo per la 34° America’s Cup è quello di creare la miglior competizione di sempre, sostenibile dai team e dai loro partner con un nuovo format di regate che richiami l’attenzione di un vasto pubblico per un evento che si disputerà nel 2013 o nel 2014.

Sarà annunciata una classe nuova, dinamica e spettacolare.

Sarà anche ufficializzato l’anno in cui si disputerà il match della 34° America’s Cup.

Continuano le negoziazioni riguardo la città ospitante – quarto punto fondamentale – e siamo fiduciosi di poterla annunciare prima del 31 Dicembre 2010.

Il Protocollo è stato formalizzato e verrà ufficialmente firmato dal Defender, il Golden Gate Yacht Club, e dal Challenger of Record, il Club Nautico di Roma, in una diretta streaming sul sito ufficiale dell’America’s Cup www.AmericasCup.com.

COSA: conferenza stampa 34° America’s Cup

PERCHE: annuncio dell’Anno, del Protocollo e della nuova Classe della 34° America’s Cup

QUANDO: 13 settembre 2010

ORARIO: 13.00 CET

DOVE: Base BMW ORACLE Racing, Porto America’s Cup, Valencia, Spagna

CHI: Russell Coutts (CEO BMW ORACLE Racing Team); Vincenzo Onorato (Presidente di Mascalzone Latino, Challenger of Record)

Article source: http://www.americascup.com/news/year-new-fast-boat-and-fair-protocol-rules-will-be-unveiled-september-13th_29

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Friday, Dec 3rd 2010, 09:00 GMT

In reduction than one year, a city of Alicante will open a Race Village to a open to horde a start of a 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race, and over a subsequent few months we will demeanour during any of a cities that will horde a Volvo Ocean Race fleet. We start a series with a QA eventuality on a impact of a foe on a city of Alicante, with Vice President of a Generalitat Valenciana, Gerardo Camps.

The Volvo Ocean Race starts subsequent year from Alicante on a easterly seashore of Spain with a opening of a foe encampment on Oct 14th, 2011. This outlines a commencement of a three-week festival that includes a In-Port Race and Pro-Am Race on a weekend of 29-30 October, a Legends Regatta in a initial week of November, and concludes with a start of Leg 1 to Cape Town on Saturday 5 November, 2011.

Alicante is a 4th many populated range in all of Spain. The range is famous for a prolonged beaches and comfortable Mediterranean meridian as good as for a recorded architectural history. The city’s landscape combines a sea and a mountains, with a story of a Iberian Peninsula. A 9th century palace dating behind to a Muslim Occupation overlooks over a city and Mediterranean Sea.

The start of a 2008-09 foe from a city was a outrageous boost for a region, and Vice President Gerardo Camps discusses a certain effects of hosting a tellurian sporting event.

The Volvo Ocean Race will be formed in Alicante for a subsequent 3 editions. How do we consider this city and a segment of Valencia will advantage from a race, both in a brief tenure and in a prolonged term?

In a final edition, it was already proven that a depart of an ubiquitous regatta with such far-reaching range as a Volvo Ocean Race from Alicante, benefited a adults of Alicante and a whole Region; it manifested that a Region of Valencia is a segment that is able of organising tellurian events successfully; and it promoted a city from Sep 2008 all via Jun 2009, a date when a swift finally arrived in Saint Petersburg.

The mercantile impact of a eventuality stood during over 80 million Euros. The fact that Alicante has been selected as a Headquarters of a foe organization and that it will horde a depart of a 2011, 2014 and 2017 editions will naturally boost a certain effects for a citizens.

How do we consider a Volvo Ocean Race will assistance a economies of Alicante and a Generalitat Valenciana?

As with other events that a Council of a Generalitat Valenciana (Consell) supports and stimulates, a Volvo Ocean Race has turn an mercantile engine that embraces several sectors: tourism, catering trade, transport, infrastructures and industry.

The good projects and events run by a Council of a Generalitat Valenciana (Consell), have perceived some-more than 64.3 million visits given they were set up, generating an mercantile impact of approximately 9,100 million Euros and have done probable a origination and display of 268,000 accumulative employments in a Region of Valencia.

And with courtesy to a Volvo Ocean Race, a growth of a eventuality does not need any output for a Treasury, interjection to a participating sponsors that have been captivated by a taxation exemption. The mercantile and amicable profitability of this jubilee is unquestionable.

You have to remember that during a start of a 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race, 1,500 approach and surreptitious jobs were created, a hotel nights in a city increasing 15%, partial of a port’s masquerade was remodelled, and docks 10, 12, 14 and a Old Maritime Station were accommodated. All of this led, as we pronounced before, to an mercantile impact of 80 million Euros.

Apart from hosting a start of a Volvo Ocean Race, Alicante is also a domicile of a organization and that means, as a President of a Generalitat pronounced final Jul during a coronation of a permanent offices, that an ubiquitous association has come to a Region of Valencia to put down roots and beget resources and opportunities.

How will a GVA use a Volvo Ocean Race to foster a region?

The Generalitat Valenciana is wakeful that tourism is one of a large mercantile activities in a region, and in this way, a Volvo Ocean Race is a miracle that assures an glorious picture campaign. The jubilee of a foe purebred roughly 2,000 million accumulative viewers and most one million people visited Alicante during a 23 days of a Race Village.

Also, a Region of Valencia was benefaction in opposite stopovers on a track like China, USA and Sweden, interjection to a module Start Region, in that it had a possess slot. This meant that a diffused picture of a Region of Valencia was not usually related to tourism, though it was also noticed as an ideal place to settle companies and businesses.

What did we consider of a Alicante In-Port Race as a approach for a internal open to perspective a racing adult tighten and personal?

The In-port Race is a pretentious thought so that a open can see a Volvo Open 70s philharmonic from land. Once a foe has started, for apparent reasons, we can usually get images by a television; and that’s because a In-port foe is a good eventuality to move a eventuality closer to a assembly and foster a city of Alicante. Spending a day on a beach, while examination a toughest sailing boats on a universe contest on a horizon, is but a doubt a payoff for anybody from Alicante or visiting a city.

What did we consider of a new Volvo Ocean Race domicile in a Port of Alicante, when we strictly non-stop it progressing this summer?

The Old Maritime Station has been remade into a difficult domicile from where a foe can be tracked in any partial of a sea and where a journalists, sailors, fans, guest and of march a staff, can be accommodated. Having this infrastructure, hosting 3 starts of a Volvo Ocean Race and being selected as a domicile of a organisation, minister to creation Alicante a world’s collateral of sailing.

The Volvo Ocean Race, a teams and horde cities concerned have lifted jointly over 210 million Euros in this mercantile climate. How do we consider this will assistance a form of a foe and a city of Alicante?

We’re going by a national and ubiquitous mercantile crisis, and in these times, receiving financing and private sponsors is complicated. But a Council of a Generalitat Valenciana (Consell) achieved it in a final edition, and is already looking to find sponsors that will again pledge there will be no cost. The fact that a whole plan has collected such an volume of income is a pointer that a Volvo Ocean Race is a ideal height for social, economic, touristic and foe promotion.

There will be an interactive museum subsequent to a foe domicile in Alicante. How do we consider this will assistance a internal economy and excite a internal public?

Alicante will have one of a few museums in a universe that are dedicated exclusively to transoceanic sailing, with a hallmark of a mythological competition. Apart from all a mercantile and amicable benefits, we would like a Volvo Ocean Race to have an educational and informative aspect. In this sense, a Interactive Museum, recognised and designed for fans, propagandize groups, families and ubiquitous public, contributes in a creation of a Volvo Ocean Race as a tellurian project.

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