"this challenge withdrew without competing following a period of discussion regarding the future format of the event. For the 2013 America's Cup, Ainslie was recruited as a tactician by Oracle Team USA, as a replacement for John Kostecki during an Oracle practice session on 11 September 2013. On 12 September, the following day, he replaced Kostecki going into race six of the 2013 America's Cup. His Oracle Team USA beat Team New Zealand in the America's Cup decider in San Francisco on 25 September. In January 2012, Ben Ainslie announced the formation of a team to compete in the America's"
"Cup, called Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR). His team competed in the AC45 class of the 2011–13 America's Cup World Series, 2014 Extreme Sailing Series and set a multihull record for the Round the Island Race. The team won the 2015–16 America's Cup World Series and is preparing for the 2017 America's Cup. In February 2017 Ainslie talked about the America's Cup and looked back on his Olympic success, ""It hasn’t all been glory..There have been a few bumps down the road. But yes, I’m not very good at not achieving the goals I set out."" In December 2010, Ainslie finished"
"and is led by Ben Ainslie. There is speculation there could also be entries from Australia and China, and second challengers from Italy and the United States. The New York Yacht Club (NYYC) has entered AC36, under the syndicate name ""American Magic"", with a team led by Terry Hutchinson and Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. In May 2018 it was announced that Dean Barker would helm the boat. ""American Magic"" refers to the first Cup winner, the yacht ""America"" of 1851, and the first defender, NYYC's yacht ""Magic"", who successfully defended in 1870. The America's Cup trophy was held by"
"Franck Cammas' Groupama Sailing Team announced a challenge for the cup. The team had previously won the 2011–12 Volvo Ocean Race as well as the 2013 and 2015 editions of the Little America's Cup. Crew: After winning the 34th America's Cup as tactician for Oracle Team USA, British Sailor and four-time Olympic gold medalist Sir Ben Ainslie announced his own team, Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR), would be challenging for 35th Cup. In June 2015, the team partnered with Land Rover changed their name to Land Rover BAR. Land Rover BAR won the AC45 World Series, and thus started the round"
"announced the formation of a British team to compete in the America's Cup, called Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR). His team competed in the AC45 class for the remaining races of the 2011–13 America's Cup World Series to develop experience and generate interest from sponsors. The team was also known as J.P. Morgan BAR in this early period and competed for the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club. In January 2014 Ainslie began the process of raising £100M to fund the team, as well as development of racing yachts which was projected to take 30% of the budget. The project was initially backed"
"(GBR). Ben Ainslie, ORACLE TEAM USA's tactician at the 2013 America's Cup, expressed serious interest in challenging his former employers with his own team based out of the United Kingdom. In an interview on RadioLIVE on 8 June the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key referred to the new America's Cup rules as ""Mickey Mouse"" and said the government would not help fund a challenge. In a follow-up interview with Grant Dalton the same day, Dalton said that the team's knowledge of the catamaran was far more advanced than at the same stage with the AC72. He announced that Team"
"a competitor. At the beginning of 2005 Ainslie worked in the role of tactician in the New Zealand-based Team New Zealand who were preparing to compete in the challenger selection process to win the right to Challenge for the 32nd America's Cup. In May 2005 Ainslie took the decision to relinquish the role of tactician and focus on improving his match racing skills as helmsman of the 'B' boat used to practise and tune the race boat helmed by Dean Barker. Ainslie figureheaded a British challenge for the Cup alongside Sir Keith Mills the team was named Team Origin. However"
"in first place in the World Match Racing Tour, and is the 2010 ISAF Match Racing Champion. In January 2014, it was announced that Ainslie would compete in the 2014 Extreme Sailing Series as part of his preparation for the America's Cup. The eight-race event will see him compete in a multi-hull boat. Ainslie lives in Lymington, and belongs to the Royal Lymington Yacht Club. He is coached by David Howlett, who raced a Finn dinghy at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He supports Chelsea. In August 2014, Ainslie was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter"
"the boat a name. On January 19, 2003 the Swiss challenger Ernesto Bertarelli’s ""Alinghi"", skippered by Russell Coutts, won the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals by defeating the American challenger, Larry Ellison's ""Oracle"", 5–1, once again eliminating the United States from the America's Cup competition. Racing for the America's Cup began On February 15, 2003. In a stiff breeze, ""Alinghi"" won the first race easily after ""New Zealand"", skippered throughout the series by Dean Barker, withdrew due to multiple gear failures in the rigging and the low cockpit unexpectedly taking onboard large quantities of water. Race 2, on February 16, 2003,"
"Mills had scrapped plans to campaign for the 2013 America's Cup, which came as shock to the team. The decision was based on the rule changes for the America's Cup to the boat specifications that meant the team had no chance of winning. In January 2012, Ben Ainslie announced the foundation of a new team to complete in the 2017 America's Cup, called Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR). Team Origin Events is still involved in running the America's Cup World Series. Management: Boat Crew: In May 2007 TEAMORIGIN announced that they had purchased SUI-75, the training and testing boat used by"
"this time as skipper of ""America II"". When the America's Cup shifted to IACC yachts for the 1992 Cup, Kolius sailed as part of the Italian team, ""Il Moro di Venezia"", with Raul Gardini and Paul Cayard, in which he placed 3rd at the IACC Worlds in 1991. He coached the team to a second place in the 1992 America's Cup. America3 recruited Kolius as a coach for their Cup run in 1995. Then when the Cup traveled to New Zealand for the 2000 event, Kolius put together the Aloha Racing Team. Throughout his sailing career, John has won numerous"
"in what observers described as the most controversial cup match to that point. (The 2010 America's Cup was a direct descendant of the 1988 cup, as it featured two gigantic multi-hull yachts and generated even more legal activity and controversy ). In the wake of the 1988 controversies, the International America's Cup Class (IACC) was introduced, replacing the 12-metre class that had been used since 1958. In 1992, USA-23 of the ""America³"" team, skippered by billionaire Bill Koch and sailing legend Harry “Buddy” Melges, defeated the Italian challenger ""Il Moro ITA-25"", owned by billionaire Raul Gardini's Il Moro di Venezia,"
"Cup was sailed in long AC72 catamarans (craft set by the rules for the 2013 America's Cup). Each yacht employed hydrofoils and a wing sail. The regatta was won 9-8 by Oracle Team USA against the challenger, Emirates Team New Zealand, in fifteen matches because Oracle Team USA had started the regatta with a two-point penalty. Cruising sailors must make trade-offs among volume, useful load, speed, and cost in choosing a boat. Choosing a catamaran offers increased speed at the expense of reduced load per unit of cost. Howard and Doane describe the following tradeoffs between cruising monohulls and catamarans:"
"he joined Team Origin as CEO. He joined Oracle Racing in 2012 as their general manager, overseeing day to day operations at the 2013 and 2017 America's Cups. He was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 2013. Simmer joined Ben Ainslie Racing in late 2017 to prepare for the 2021 America's Cup. Grant Simmer Grant Simmer (born 1957) is an Australian sailor and yacht designer who has competed in multiple America's Cups. He sailed as navigator on ""Australia II"" when it won the 1983 America's Cup. He stayed with Alan Bond's syndicate and was navigator on ""Australia"
"As with other members of the Vanderbilt family, yachting was one of Neily Vanderbilt's favorite pastimes as an escape from a busy life that included a seat on the boards of directors of a number of major American corporations. He was a member of the nine-member syndicate that built the yacht ""Reliance"" for the successful defense of the America's Cup in 1903. He was commodore of the New York Yacht Club from 1906 to 1908. In 1910, he skippered his 65-foot sloop ""Aurora"" to victory in the New York Yacht Club's race for the King Edward VII Cup in Newport,"
"a three-time winner of the America's Cup, was one of the leading sailors of his day. The ""Atlantic"" sailed to victory in record time, establishing trans-Atlantic mono-hull records that stood for 100 years. The AYC's entry, the yacht ""Thistle"", a schooner built in 1901 by New York's Townsend & Dourney, and owned and skippered by Robert E Tod, finished 10th. Tod, a New York investment banker, was the only owner-skipper in the regatta. The Atlantic Yacht Club's Seagate clubhouse burned down in 1933. The club soldiered on for a number of years thereafter, becoming inactive in the 1950s. The club"
"Mischief (yacht) The yacht Mischief was the victorious American defender of the fourth America's Cup race in 1881 against Canadian challenger ""Atalanta"". The centerboard compromise sloop ""Mischief"" was designed by Archibald Cary Smith and built by Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware in 1879 for English owner Joseph Richard Busk of the New York Yacht Club. She was built of iron construction, the second all-metal yacht to be built in the United States. Nicknamed ""The Iron Pot"", ""Mischief"" was the victorious defender of the fourth America's Cup challenge in 1881. She was skippered by Nathanael 'Than' Clock during the race."
"the UK (from Scotland and Wales), Belgium, South Africa, Australia, Uruguay, Argentina, Denmark, Ecuador, and Switzerland. The Alinghi boats for the 2003 challenge, ""SUI-64"" (the race boat) and the ""SUI-75"", were developed specifically for the race by the Alinghi team in close collaboration with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Alinghi also had a test yacht from the 2000 America's cup, ""SUI-59"" (formerly called ""Fast 2000""). Alinghi raced to a 5-0 victory against Team New Zealand on 2 March 2003, winning the America's Cup. They guaranteed themselves a further stake in the history books by becoming the first team since"
"America (yacht) America was a 19th-century racing yacht and first winner of the America's Cup international sailing trophy. On August 22, 1851, ""America"" won the Royal Yacht Squadron's regatta around the Isle of Wight by 18 minutes. The Squadron's ""One Hundred Sovereign Cup"" or ""£100 Cup"", mistakenly known in America as the ""One Hundred Guinea Cup,"" was later renamed after the original winning yacht. A syndicate of New York Yacht Club members, headed by NYYC charter member Commodore John Cox Stevens, with members Edwin A. Stevens, George Schuyler, Hamilton Wilkes, and J. Beekman Finley, would build a yacht to sail"
"by winning the following 8 races and to defend the cup in the longest America's cup match ever. Both skipper James Spithill and team owner Larry Ellison praised Coutts' role in the defense of the oldest trophy in sports history. Coutts was educated at Otago Boys' High School (1975–1979) and is a Life Member of Paremata Boating Club, where he learnt to sail in a P class, and the Ravensbourne Boating Club. /> – 1995 America's Cup / Black Magic (Challenger) / San Diego / Winner (5 to 0) – Skipper & Helmsman Russell Coutts Sir Russell Coutts (born 1"
"in sponsorship of major New Zealand sports teams, probably the most high-profile rugby team in the world, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Union team, have had the support of Steinlager since 1986. Steinlager is also the current presenting sponsor of the United States leg of the IRB Sevens World Series. Steinlager was involved in yacht racing with the maxi-ketch ""Steinlager 2"", which was skippered by Peter Blake, won all six legs of the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Race, and again in 1995 with Team New Zealand with their ""Black Magic"" boat, which won the Americas Cup by beating"
"nearly all-female, America's Cup boat. ""America's"" successor, ""Mighty Mary"", was on her way to the 1995 America's Cup, in the lead of the last race of the Defender Series over ""Stars & Stripes"". But with a commanding lead of nearly 5 minutes, Dave Dellenbaugh (the only man on the otherwise all-female crew) committed a crucial tactical error and ""Stars & Stripes"" skipper Dennis Conner made a series of moves to beat ""Mighty Mary"" to the finish line by scant seconds. After winning the Defender Series, Conner opted to use the third syndicate that year, ""Young America"", to defend the cup,"
"""America"", ""Puritan"", ""Mayflower"", ""Volunteer"", ""Vigilant"", ""Defender"", ""Reliance"", ""Resolute"", ""Enterprise"", ""Rainbow"", ""Ranger"", ""Columbia"" and ""Stars & Stripes"". The 1992 film ""Wind"" is largely about the Americas Cup racing towards the end of the 12-meter era. Although the names have been changed, it is largely about Dennis Conner's 1980s cycle of loss and comeback. America's Cup The America's Cup, affectionately known as the Auld Mug, is a trophy awarded to the winner of the America's Cup match races between two sailing yachts. One yacht, known as the defender, represents the yacht club that currently holds the America's Cup and the second yacht,"
"(via ""America's Cup Management"") changed the America's Cup Rules to prevent any team members from moving between teams until completion of the 2007 America's Cup. Alinghi, as the then current holders of the America's Cup, were fully entitled to change the rule. Nine months later the conflict was ended with a short statement. The sailing team was extended again and was led for the 2007 campaign by Brad Butterworth, Alinghi's tactician and vice-president. Butterworth was highly experienced in America's Cup racing having sailed aboard the winning boat in the three previous competitions. Butterworth's team had many world-class sailors including Peter"
"Louis Vuitton Cup. She performed well until halfway through its match race of 5 March 1995, when it suddenly broke in half in heavy seas and sank within two minutes. She was the first America's Cup contender ever (144 years) to lose a match race by shipwreck. The crew survived, and reverted to their second boat, AUS-31 for the rest of the regatta. They still made the Louis Vuitton Cup final, where they lost to Team New Zealand 5-1. The crew included Adam Beashel, navigator Andrew Cape, Iain Murray, Matt Mitchell, Billy Bates, Mark Richards, Alan Smith, Don McCracken and"
"letters with Gordon Bennett, sportsman and owner of the New York Herald, challenging him to a trans-Atlantic race, prior to competing for the cup on behalf of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. In July 1870 Ashbury raced ""Cambria"" across the Atlantic Ocean from Ireland to New York in challenge against Bennett's yacht, ""Dauntless"". ""Cambria"" won the race by arriving first off Sandy Hook lightship in 23 days 5 hours and 17 minutes; 1 hour 43 minutes ahead of ""Dauntless"". The race for the America's Cup was held on 8 August, with ""Cambria"" facing 14 yachts of the New York Yacht"
"to win, as it should be for such a trophy. Reducing the challenge might make the conquest easier, but gone is the attraction and achievement."" Butterworh was the skipper for the defending team Alinghi in the 2010 America's Cup. His yacht Alinghi 5 lost to the challenging yacht USA 17 by a considerable margin. Most observers stated that USA 17's rigid wing sail had given it a decisive advantage. Butterworth led a campaign on NUMBERS, a 66-foot race boat designed by Alinghi Head of Design Team, Rolf Vrolijk and owned by American Daniel Meyers in 2007 and 2008 that resulted"
"for the Sail America Foundation, and along with Bruce Nelson and David Pedrick brought three new designs to the team, the last of which, Stars & Stripes 87, won the cup back for America. The victory proved short lived, however, as a few months later the team from New Zealand put up a challenge for the America's Cup with the 90-foot yacht ""KZ 1"". Chance was again called upon to aid in the design of the defender, ""Stars & Stripes"" (US 1), a catamaran sailed by Dennis Conner to retain the cup in the 1988 defense. A resident of Lyme,"
"Team Shosholoza Team Shosholoza is a yacht racing team representing Royal Cape Yacht Club of Cape Town, South Africa, competing in the 2007 America's Cup. The name Shosholoza refers to a popular South African song and is used in an attempt to encompass the African spirit of the team. The team's history goes back to when Ian Ainslie taught sailing skills to underprivileged youngsters in the navy village of Simon's Town and Captain Salvatore Sarno asked them to crew his Durban yacht. As the team improved the Captain began to talk about the America's Cup. Soon he had bought RSA"
"races against ""Bengal"". Since competing in the America's Cup ""KZ 7"" has been chartered by a number of sailors, including Bill Koch (Skipper of ""America 3"" 1992 America's Cup winner) and Patrizio Bertelli (Luna Rossa syndicate head), who went on to win World 12-Metre titles on-board Kiwi Magic. Both men were tempted to change the name of the boat but declined due to their respect for the boat's history in the America's Cup and the affection and pride felt for her by all of New Zealand. ""KZ 7"" would go down in history as the boat that brought New Zealand"
"0–5 to a Davidson designed ""Black Magic"" of New Zealand, led by the late Sir Peter Blake. Among the most impressive of Farr's design boats was the 90-foot long KZ-1, the Michael Fay sponsored boat brought forth to challenge the San Diego Yacht Club immediately following their gaining the cup in 1987. The challenge was unusual in that it did not allow the host yacht club the conventional three to four years to prepare for the event, nor did the challenging boat adhere to the 12-metre class design that the America's Cup had been contested in for thirty-five years, nor"
"Heart of America (yacht) Heart of America is a 12-metre class yacht that competed in the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup. The boat was helmed by Buddy Melges and represented the Chicago Yacht Club. The boat finished 8 of 13 in Louis Vuitton Cup, which decides the challenger to the Cup holder. The crew included these members, as well as others. The CEOs of the Heart of America Cup effort included Alan Johnston and William Bentsen. Corporate sponsorship of the drive started with MCI providing $1M US dollars to the campaign. The challenge by a Great Lakes yacht club resulted in"
"hired Russell Coutts, the successful skipper and helmsman of Team New Zealand. Coutts had already won the America's Cup for New Zealand in 1995 and successfully defended for New Zealand in 2000. Along with Coutts came several other important Kiwi sailors, including Team New Zealand tactician Brad Butterworth. Grant Simmer, another America's Cup veteran, joined as managing director and head of design. Bertarelli, the syndicate's president, served as navigator during the racing. Apart from New Zealand, the Alinghi team consisted of members from Germany, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Portugal, Turkey, Ireland,"